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The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. The expression of approval is given, along with an Oscar Statuette and a chance for the director to speak, at an annual Academy Awards ceremony. All but twenty-one of the seventy-eight Oscars for best director were for films that also won the award for best picture. The Academy has selected one director from five nominees each year for the past seven decades to receive the honor. For the first few Academy Awards ceremonies, starting in 1927, the ceremony honored the best films released in a year-long period between August of one year and August of the following year.

While the award is considered a good way to sum up the most successful and talented American film directors, several revered directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, John Cassavetes, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock never won the award. Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman, who have each been nominated for best director five times, are considered to be among the greatest living American directors without Oscars. John Ford is the only director with 4 Best Director Oscars, followed by Frank Capra and William Wyler with 3 Best Director Academy Awards.

List of Awards and Nominees

Each Academy Award ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Academy Award for Directing and the film associated with the award. Indented and following the winner of each award are the other nominees for best director.

1920s

In the first year only a separate award was given for Comedy Direction

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

See also

Academy Awards | Best Director Academy Award winners

جائزة أفضل مخرج سينمائي في مهرجان الأوسكار | Oskar za najboljeg redatelja | Oscar for bedste instruktør | Oscar/Beste Regie | Oscar a la mejor dirección | Zuzendari onenaren Oscar Saria | Oscar du meilleur réalisateur | Oscar za najboljeg redatelja | Sutradara Terbaik (Oscar) | Oscar al miglior regista | Oscar-díj a legjobb rendezőnek | Academy Award voor Beste Regisseur | アカデミー監督賞 | Lista de filmes premiados com o Oscar de melhor cineasta | Parhaan ohjauksen Oscar-palkinto | 奥斯卡最佳导演奖

 

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