Research in Progress (March 30, 2021)
Oscar Directors by Last Name, A to Z (Winners in Bold)
In 92 Years, 1927-2020, there have been:
Oscar Winners: 70
Oscar Nominees: 169
Total Number: 239
John Ford: Only filmmaker to win 4 Best Director Oscars
AFI Salute to William Wyler, CBS, 1976
William Wyler: Most Respected Director (12 nominations, 2 wins)
A (12 directors)
Lenny Abrahamson
Woody Allen
Pedro Almodovar
Robert Altman
Michael Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson
Wes Anderson
Michelangelo Antonioni
Darren Aronofsky
Hal Ashby
Richard Attenborough
John G. Avildsen
B (20 Directors)
Hector Babenco
Lionel Barrymore
Warren Beatty
Harry Beaumont
Roberto Benigni
Robert Benton
Bruce Beresford
Ingmar Bergman
Bernardo Bertolucci
Kathryn Bigelow
Peter Bogdanovich
Bong Joon-ho
John Boorman
Frank Borzage
Kenneth Branagh
Herbert Brenon
Martin Brest
James L. Brooks
Richard Brooks
Clarence Brown
C (23 Directors)
Michael Cacoyannis
James Cameron
Jane Campion
Frank Capra
Jack Cardiff
John Cassavetes
Peter Cattaneo
Charles Chaplin
Damien Chazelle
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari, 2020
Michael Cimino
Jack Clayton
George Clooney
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
Sofia Coppola
Kevin Costner
Michael Crichton
Alfonso Cuaron
George Cukor
Irving Cummins
Michael Curtiz
D (8 Directors)
Stephen Daldry
Lee Daniels
Jules Dassin
Guillermo del Toro
Cecil B. DeMille
Jonathan Demme
William Dieterle
Edward Dmytryk
E (2 Directors)
Clint Eastwood
Atom Egoyan
F (13 Directors)
John Farrow
Federico Fellini
Emerald Fennell, Woman, Promising Young Woman, 2020
Mike Figgis
David Fincher
Victor Fleming
John Ford
Milos Forman
Marc Forster
Bob Fosse
Sidney Franklin
Stephen Frears
William Friedkin
G (7 Directors)
Costa-Gavras
Greta Gerwig
Pietro Germi
Mel Gibson
Peter Glenville
Tony Gilroy
Paul Greengrass
H (17 Directors)
Taylor Hackford
Paul Haggis
Alexander Hall
Lasse Hallstrom
Michael Haneke
Curtis Hanson
Anthony Harvey
Henry Hathaway
Howard Hawks
Scott Hicks
George Roy Hill
Arthur Hiller
Alfred Hitchcock
Tom Hooper
Ron Howard
Hugh Hudson
John Huston
I (1 Director)
James Ivory
J (6 Directors)
Peter Jackson
Roland Jaffe
Barry Jenkins
Norman Jewison
Spike Jonze
Neil Jordan
K (7 Directors)
Elia Kazan
Krzysztof Kiewslowski
Henry King
Henry Koster
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
L (21 Directors)
Gregory La Cava
Walter Lang
Yorgos Lanthimos
David Lean
Ang Lee
Spike Lee
Mike Leigh
Calude Lelouch
Robert Z. Leonard
Mervyn LeRoy
Barry Levinson
Richard Linklater
Anatole Litvak
Frank Lloyd
Joshua Logan
Kenneth Lonergan
Ernst Lubitsch
George Lucas
Sidney Lumet
David Lynch
Adrian Lyne
M (20 Directors)
Leo McCarey
Tom McCarthy
Adam McKay
Steve McQueen
John Madden
Louis Malle
Terrence Malick
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Delbert Mann
Michael Mann
Rob Marshall
Sam Mendes
Fernando Mereilles
Lewis Milestone
Benneth Miller
George Miller
Anthony Minghella
Vincente Minnelli
Eduardo Molinaro
Robert Mulligan
N (4 Directors)
Jean Negulesco
Mike Nichols
Christopher Nolan
Chris Noonan
O (1 Director)
Laurence Olivier
P (13 Directors)
Alan J. Pakula
Alan Parker
Pawell Pawlikovski
Alexander Payne
Jordan Peele
Arthur Penn
Frank Perry
Wolfgang Peterson
Phillips, Todd (Joker)
Roman Polanski
Sydney Pollack
Gillo Pontecorvo
Otto Preminger
R (17 Directors)
Michael Radford
Robert Redford
Carol Reed
Jason Reitman
Jean Renoir
Tony Richardson
Martin Ritt
Jerome Robbins
Tim Robbins
Mark Robson
Herbert Ross
Robert Rossen
Wesley Ruggles
David O. Russell
Richard Rush
Ken Russell
Mark Rydell
S (20 Directors)
Franklin J. Schaffner
Victor Schertzinger
John Schlesinger
Julian Schnabel
Barbet Schroeder
Martin Scorsese
Julian Schnabel
Ridley Scott
George Seaton
M. Night Shyamalan
Jim Sheridan
John Singleton
Robert Siodmak
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Spielberg
Josef von Sternberg
George Stevens
Robert Stevenson
Oliver Stone
John Sturges
T (7 Directors)
Quentin Tarantino
Norman Taurog
Hiroshi Teshigahra
J. Lee Thompson
Jan Troell
Francois Truffaut
Morten Tyldun
V (5 Directors)
W.S. Van Dyke
Gus Van Sant
King Vidor
Dennis Villeneuve
Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, Another Round, 2020
W (10 Directors)
Charles Walters
Peter Weir
Orson Welles
William A. Wellman
Lina Wertmuller
Ted Wilde
Billy Wilder
Robert Wise
Sam Wood
William Wyler
Y (1 Director)
Peter Yates
Z (5 Directors)
Franco Zeffirelli
Benh Zeitlin
Robert Zemeckis
Chloe Zhao, Woman, Nomadland, 2020
Fred Zinnemann
