September 17, 2020
Oscar Directors: Winner and Nominees, 1927-Present
Age of First Film, Age of First Nomination, Gap between First Film and First Nomination (in Years)
A (12 directors)
Abrahamson, Lenny, 38, 50, 12
Allen, Woody, 34, 42, 8
Almodovar, Pedro (Spanish), 31, 53, 22
Altman, Robert, 32, 45, 13
Anderson, Michael (UK), 29, 36, 7
Anderson, Paul Thomas, 26, 37, 11
Anderson, Wes, 26, 45, 19
Antonioni, Michelangelo (Italian for English-speaking film), 38, 54, 16
Aronofsky, Darren, 29, 41, 12
Ashby, Hal, 41, 47, 6
Attenborough, Richard (UK), 46, 59, 13
Avildsen, John G., 35, 44, 9
B (21 directors)
Babenco, Hector (Brazil for English-speaking)
Barrymore, Lionel
Beatty, Warren
Beaumont, Harry
Benigni, Roberto (Italian for Italian)
Benton Robert
Beresford, Bruce
Bergman, Ingmar (Swedish for Swedish)
Bertolucci, Bernardo (Italian for English)
Bigelow, Kathryn
Bogdanovich, Peter
Bong, Joon-ho, Korean (Korean for Korean)
Boorman, John, UK.
Borzage, Frank
Branagh, Kenneth, UK
Brenon, Herbert
Brest, Martin
Brooks, James L.
Brooks, Richard
Brown, Clarence
Bush, Richard
C (22 directors)
Cacoyannis, Michael, Greek for English
Cameron, James
Campion, Jane, Australian
Capra, Frank
Cardiff, Jack, UK
Cassavetes, John
Cattaneo, Peter, UK
Chaplin, Charles
Chazelle, Damien
Cimino, Michael
Clayton, Jack, UK
Clooney, George
Coen, Ethan
Coen, Joel
Coppola, Francis Ford
Coppola, Sofia
Costner, Kevin
Crichton, Charles
Cuaron, Alfonso, Mexican for English
Cukor, George
Cummings, Irving
Curtiz, Michael
D (8)
Daldry, Stephen, UK
Daniels, Lee
Dassin, Jules, US for Greek
Del Toro, Guillermo, Mexican for English
DeMille, Cecil B.
Demme, Jonathan
Dieterle, William
Dmytryk, Edward
E (2 directors)
Eastwood, Clint
Egoyan, Atom, Canadian
F (12 directors)
Farrow, John
Fellini, Federico, Italian for Italian
Figgis, Mike, UK
Fincher, David
Fleming, Victor
Ford, John
Forman, Milos, Czech
Forster, Marc
Fosse, Bob
Franklin, Sidney
Frears, Stephen, UK
Friedkin, William
G (7 directors)
Gavras-Costa, Greek for French
Germi, Pietro, Italian for Italian
Gerwig, Greta, woman
Gibson, Mel, Australian
Gilroy, Tony
Glenville, Peter, UK
Greengrass, Paul, Irish
H (17)
Hackford, Taylor
Haggis, Paul
Hall, Alexander
Hallstrom, Lasse
Haneke, Michael
Hanson, Curtis
Harvey, Anthony
Hathaway, Henry
Hawks, Howard
Hicks, Scott
Hill, George Roy
Hiller, Arthur
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hooper, Tom
Howard, Ron
Hudson, Hugh
Huston, John
I (1)
Ivory, James
J (6)
Jackson, Peter
Jaffe, Roland
Jenkins, Barry
Jewison, Norman
Jonze, Spike
Jordan, Neil
K (7)
Kazan, Elia
Kieslowski, Krzystor
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
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
Peterssen, Wolfgang
Phillips, Todd
Polanski, Roman
Pollack, Sydney
Pontecorvio, Gillo
Preminger, Otto
R (16)
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
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, Quentim
Taurog, Norman
Teshigahara, Hiroshi
Thompson, Lee J.
Troell, Jan
Truffaut, Francois
Tyldun, Morten
U
V (4)
Van Dyke, W. S.
Van Sant, Gus
Vidor, King
Villeneuve, Denis
W (10)
Walters, Charles
Weir, Peter
Welles, Orson
Wellman, William A.
Wertmueller, Lina
Wilde, Ted
Wilder, Billy
Wise, Robert
Wood, Sam
Wyler, William
Y
Yates, Peter
Z (4)
Zeffirelli, Franco
Zeitlin, Benh
Zemeckis, Robert
Zinnemann, Fred
