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Best Director Winners Quiz
Every director to win the Academy Award for Best Director, each shown with the film they won for.
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| Year & Film | Director |
|---|---|
| 1993 · Schindler's List | — |
| 2006 · The Departed | — |
| 1974 · The Godfather Part II | — |
| 1997 · Titanic | — |
| 2023 · Oppenheimer | — |
| 1992 · Unforgiven | — |
| 2003 · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | — |
| 2019 · Parasite | — |
| 2017 · The Shape of Water | — |
| 2009 · The Hurt Locker | — |
| 2016 · La La Land | — |
| 2018 · Roma | — |
| 1995 · Braveheart | — |
| 1990 · Dances with Wolves | — |
| 2001 · A Beautiful Mind | — |
| 2008 · Slumdog Millionaire | — |
| 1986 · Platoon | — |
| 2012 · Life of Pi | — |
| 1999 · American Beauty | — |
| 2002 · The Pianist | — |
| 2014 · Birdman | — |
| 2020 · Nomadland | — |
| 2024 · Anora | — |
| 1994 · Forrest Gump | — |
| 1975 · One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | — |
| 1977 · Annie Hall | — |
| 1981 · Reds | — |
| 1982 · Gandhi | — |
| 1985 · Out of Africa | — |
| 1988 · Rain Man | — |
| 1991 · The Silence of the Lambs | — |
| 1996 · The English Patient | — |
| 2010 · The King's Speech | — |
| 2011 · The Artist | — |
| 2021 · The Power of the Dog | — |
| 1945 · The Lost Weekend | — |
| 1941 · How Green Was My Valley | — |
| 1934 · It Happened One Night | — |
| 1957 · The Bridge on the River Kwai | — |
| 1964 · My Fair Lady | — |
| 1965 · The Sound of Music | — |
| 1942 · Mrs. Miniver | — |
| 1947 · Gentleman's Agreement | — |
| 1948 · The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | — |
| 1967 · The Graduate | — |
| 1929 · All Quiet on the Western Front | — |
| 1930 · Skippy | — |
| 1931 · Bad Girl | — |
| 1933 · Cavalcade | — |
| 1939 · Gone with the Wind | — |
| 1943 · Casablanca | — |
| 1944 · Going My Way | — |
| 1950 · All About Eve | — |
| 1953 · From Here to Eternity | — |
| 1955 · Marty | — |
| 1956 · Giant | — |
| 1958 · Gigi | — |
| 1961 · West Side Story | — |
| 1963 · Tom Jones | — |
| 1968 · Oliver! | — |
| 1969 · Midnight Cowboy | — |
| 1970 · Patton | — |
| 1971 · The French Connection | — |
| 1972 · Cabaret | — |
| 1973 · The Sting | — |
| 1976 · Rocky | — |
| 1978 · The Deer Hunter | — |
| 1979 · Kramer vs. Kramer | — |
| 1980 · Ordinary People | — |
| 1983 · Terms of Endearment | — |
| 1987 · The Last Emperor | — |
| 2000 · Traffic | — |
| 2007 · No Country for Old Men | — |
| 2022 · Everything Everywhere All at Once | — |
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Every director to win the Academy Award for Best Director, each shown with the film they won for. Name the winners, answer real trivia about the films and the filmmakers, match each director to their Oscar-winning picture, and drag a span of famous winners into the order they first won.
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