1 Oscar Directors: A to Z (Winners and Nominees)–Career Longevity, Output, Genres. Specialty

Research in Progress (Nov 26, 2021)

Including Chloe Zhao, 2021 (Nomadland)

Oscar Directors:

Winners: 70

Nominees: 171

Total: 241

A: 12

B: 20

C: 23 (includes Chung)

D:  8

E:  2

F: 13 (includes Fennell)

G:  7

H: 18

I:    2

J:  6

K:  7

L: 21

M: 20

N:   4

O:   1

P:  13

Q:

R: 17

S: 19

T:  7

U:

V: 5 (Vinterberg)

W: 10

X

Y:  1

Z:  5 (includes Zhao)

Total: 241

Winners: 70

Nominees: 171

A (12 directors)

Abrahamson, Lenny:

Allen, Woody

Almodovar, Pedro (Spanish, for Spanish film)

Altman, Robert

Anderson, Michael

Anderson, Paul Thomas

Anderson, Wes

Antonioni, Michelangelo (Italian for English-speaking film)

Aronofsky, Darren

Ashby, Hal

Attenborough, Richard

Avildsen, John G.

 

B (20 Directors)

Babenco, Hector

Barrymore, Lionel

Beatty, Warren

Beaumont, Harry

Benigni, Roberto

Benton Robert

Beresford, Bruce

Bergman, Ingmar

Bertolucci, Bernardo

Bigelow, Kathryn

Bogdanovich, Peter

Bong, Joon-ho, Korean

Boorman, John

Borzage, Frank

Branagh, Kenneth

Brenon, Herbert

Brest, Martin

Brooks, James L.

Brooks, Richard

Brown, Clarence

 

C (23 directors)

Cacoyannis, Michael

Cameron, James

Campion, Jane

Capra, Frank

Cardiff, Jack

Cassavetes, John

Cattaneo, Peter

Chaplin, Charles

Chazelle, Damien

Chung, Lee Isaac (Minari)

Cimino, Michael

Clayton, Jack

Clooney, George

Coen, Ethan

Coen, Joel

Coppola, Francis Ford

Coppola, Sofia

Costner, Kevin

Crichton, Michael

Cuaron, Alfonso

Cukor, George

Cummings, Irving

Curtiz, Michael

 

D (8 directors)

Daldry, Stephen

Daniels, Lee

Dassin, Jules

Del Toro, Guillermo

DeMille, Cecil B.

Demme, Jonathan

Dieterle, William

Dmytryk, Edward

E (2)

Eastwood, Clint

Egoyan, Atom

 

F (13)

Farrow, John

Fellini, Federico (Italian, for Italian movies)

Fennell, Emerald (Promising Young Woman)

Figgis, Mike

Fincher, David

Fleming, Victor

Ford, John

Forman, Milos

Forster, Marc

Fosse, Bob

Franklin, Sidney

Frears, Stephen

Friedkin, William

 

G (7)

Gavras-Costa

Germi, Pietro

Gerwig, Greta

Gibson, Mel

Gilroy, Tony

Glenville, Peter

Greengrass, Paul

 

H (18)

Hackford, Taylor

Haggis, Paul

Hall, Alexander

Hallstrom, Lasse

Haneke, Michael

Hanson, Curtis

Harvey, Anthony

Hathaway, Henry

Hawks, Howard

Henry, Buck

Hicks, Scott

Hill, George Roy

Hiller, Arthur

Hitchcock, Alfred

Hooper, Tom

Howard, Ron

Hudson, Hugh

Huston, John

 

I (2)

Inarritu. Alejandro G.

Ivory, James

 

J (6)

Jackson, Peter

Jaffe, Roland

Jenkins, Barry

Jewison, Norman

Jonze, Spike

Jordan, Neil

 

K (7)

Kazan, Elia

Kieslowski, Krzystof

King, Henry

Koster, Henry

Kramer, Stanley

Kubrick, Stanley

Kurosawa, Akira

 

L (21)

La Cava, Gregory

Lang, Walter

Lanthymos, Yorgos

Lean, David

Lee, Spike

Lee, Ang

Leigh, Mike

Lelouch, Claude

Leonard, Robert Z.

LeRoy, Mervyn

Levinson, Barry

Linklater, Richard

Litvak, Anatole

Lloyd, Frank

Logan, Joshua

Lonergan, Kenneth

Lubitsch, Ernst

Lucas, George

Lumet, Sidney

Lynch, David

Lyne, Adrian

 

M (20)

McCarey, Leo

McCarthy, Tom

McKay, Adam

McQueen, Steve

Madden, John

Malick, Terrence

Malle, Louis

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Mann, Delbert

Mann, Michael

Marshall, Rob

Mendes, Sam

Mereilles, Fernando (Brazilian for Brazilian film)

Milestone, Lewis

Miller, Bennett

Miller, George

Minghella, Anthony

Minnelli, Vincente

Molinaro, Eduard

Mulligan, Robert

 

N (4)

Negulesco, Jean

Nichols, Mike

Nolan, Christopher

Noonan, Chris

O (1)

Olivier, Laurence

 

P (13)

Pakula, Alan J.

Parker, Alan

Paulikowski, Pawell

Payne, Alexander

Peele, Jordan

Penn, Arthur

Perry, Frank

Petersen, Wolfgang

Phillips, Todd

Polanski, Roman

Pollack, Sydney

Pontecorvio, Gillo

Preminger, Otto

 

R (17)

Radford, Michael

Redford, Robert

Reed, Carol

Reitman, Jason

Renoir, Jean

Richardson, Tony

Ritt, Martin

Robbins, Jerome

Robbins, Tim

Robson, Mark

Ross, Herbert

Rossen, Robert

Ruggles, Wesley

Rush, Richard

Russell, Ken

Russell, David O.

Rydell, Mark

 

S (19)

Schafflner, Franklin

Schertzinger, Victor

Schlesinger, John

Schnabel, Julian

Schroeder, Barbet

Scorsese, Martin

Scott, Ridley

Seaton, George

Sheridan, Jim

Shyamalan, M. Night

Singleton, John

Siodmak, Robert

Soderbergh, Steven

Spielberg, Steven

Sternberg, Josef von

Stevens, George

Stevenson, Robert

Stone, Oliver

Sturges, John

 

T (7)

Tarantino, Quentin

Taurog, Norman

Teshigahara, Hiroshi

Thompson, Lee J.

Troell, Jan

Truffaut, Francois

Tyldun, Morten

 

U

 

V (5)

Van Dyke, W. S.

Van Sant, Gus

Vidor, King

Villeneuve, Denis

Vinterberg, Thomas (Another Round)

 

W (10)

Walters, Charles

Weir, Peter

Welles, Orson

Wellman, William A.

Wertmueller, Lina

Wilde, Ted

Wilder, Billy

Wise, Robert

Wood, Sam

Wyler, William

 

Y (1)

Yates, Peter

 

Z (5)

Zeffirelli, Franco

Zeitlin, Benh

Zemeckis, Robert

Zhao, Chloe (Nomadland)

Zinnemann, Fred