Oscar Winners (1927—present)

Note: The names of many categories have changed over the years. When the category had a different name at the time the Oscar was given, that name may appear in square brackets at the end of the listing. These notations are for reference only and may not be complete.

Best Picture

  • 2023: Oppenheimer — Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan
  • 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once — Jonathan Wang, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
  • 2021: CODA — Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Patrick Wachsberger
  • 2020: Nomadland — Frances McDormand, Dan Janvey, Peter Spears, Chloé Zhao, Mollye Asher
  • 2019: Parasite — Kwak Sin-ae, Bong Joon-ho
  • 2018: Green Book — Jim Burke, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Currie
  • 2017: The Shape of Water — J. Miles Dale, Guillermo del Toro
  • 2016: Moonlight — Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski
  • 2015: Spotlight — Steve Golin, Blye Pagon Faust, Michael Sugar, Nicole Rocklin
  • 2014: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) — John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole, Alejandro G. Iñárritu
  • 2013: 12 Years a Slave — Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Anthony Katagas
  • 2012: Argo — Ben Affleck, Grant Heslov, George Clooney
  • 2011: The Artist — Thomas Langmann
  • 2010: The King's Speech — Gareth Unwin, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman
  • 2009: The Hurt Locker — Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Kathryn Bigelow, Greg Shapiro
  • 2008: Slumdog Millionaire — Christian Colson
  • 2007: No Country for Old Men — Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Scott Rudin
  • 2006: The Departed — Graham King
  • 2005: Crash — Cathy Schulman, Paul Haggis
  • 2004: Million Dollar Baby — Albert S. Ruddy, Clint Eastwood, Tom Rosenberg
  • 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh
  • 2002: Chicago — Martin Richards
  • 2001: A Beautiful Mind — Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
  • 2000: Gladiator — Douglas Wick, Branko Lustig, David Franzoni
  • 1999: American Beauty — Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
  • 1998: Shakespeare in Love — David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman
  • 1997: Titanic — Jon Landau, James Cameron
  • 1996: The English Patient — Saul Zaentz
  • 1995: Braveheart — Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr.
  • 1994: Forrest Gump — Steve Starkey, Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch
  • 1993: Schindler's List — Steven Spielberg, Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen
  • 1992: Unforgiven — Clint Eastwood
  • 1991: The Silence of the Lambs — Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
  • 1990: Dances With Wolves — Kevin Costner, Jim Wilson
  • 1989: Driving Miss Daisy — Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
  • 1988: Rain Man — Mark Johnson
  • 1987: The Last Emperor — Jeremy Thomas
  • 1986: Platoon — Arnold Kopelson
  • 1985: Out of Africa — Sydney Pollack
  • 1984: Amadeus — Saul Zaentz
  • 1983: Terms of Endearment — James L. Brooks
  • 1982: Gandhi — Richard Attenborough
  • 1981: Chariots of Fire — David Puttnam
  • 1980: Ordinary People — Ronald L. Schwary
  • 1979: Kramer vs. Kramer — Stanley R. Jaffe
  • 1978: The Deer Hunter — Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall, Barry Spikings
  • 1977: Annie Hall — Charles H. Joffe
  • 1976: Rocky — Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff
  • 1975: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest — Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
  • 1974: The Godfather Part II — Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson
  • 1973: The Sting — Julia Phillips, Tony Bill, Michael Phillips
  • 1972: The Godfather — Albert S. Ruddy
  • 1971: The French Connection — Philip D'Antoni
  • 1970: Patton — Frank McCarthy
  • 1969: Midnight Cowboy — Jerome Hellman
  • 1968: Oliver! — John Woolf
  • 1967: In the Heat of the Night — Walter Mirisch
  • 1966: A Man for All Seasons — Fred Zinnemann
  • 1965: The Sound of Music — Robert Wise
  • 1964: My Fair Lady — Jack L. Warner
  • 1963: Tom Jones — Tony Richardson
  • 1962: Lawrence of Arabia — Sam Spiegel
  • 1961: West Side Story — Robert Wise [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1960: The Apartment — Billy Wilder [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1959: Ben-Hur — Sam Zimbalist [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1958: Gigi — Arthur Freed [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai — Sam Spiegel [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1956: Around the World in 80 Days — Michael Todd [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1955: Marty — Harold Hecht [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1954: On the Waterfront — Sam Spiegel [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1953: From Here to Eternity — Buddy Adler [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1952: The Greatest Show on Earth — Cecil B. DeMille [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1951: An American in Paris — Arthur Freed [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1950: All about Eve — 20th Century-Fox [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1949: All the King's Men — Robert Rossen Productions [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1948: Hamlet — J. Arthur Rank-Two Cities Films [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1947: Gentleman's Agreement — 20th Century-Fox [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives — Samuel Goldwyn Productions [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1945: The Lost Weekend — Paramount [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1944: Going My Way — Paramount [Best Motion Picture]
  • 1943: Casablanca — Warner Bros. [Outstanding Motion Picture]
  • 1942: Mrs. Miniver — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [Outstanding Motion Picture]
  • 1941: How Green Was My Valley — 20th Century-Fox [Outstanding Motion Picture]
  • 1940: Rebecca — Selznick International Pictures [Outstanding Production]
  • 1939: Gone with the Wind — Selznick International Pictures [Outstanding Production]
  • 1938: You Can't Take It with You — Columbia [Outstanding Production]
  • 1937: The Life of Emile Zola — Warner Bros. [Outstanding Production]
  • 1936: The Great Ziegfeld — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [Outstanding Production]
  • 1935: Mutiny on the Bounty — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [Outstanding Production]
  • 1934: It Happened One Night — Columbia [Outstanding Production]
  • 1932/33: Cavalcade — Fox [Outstanding Production]
  • 1931/32: Grand Hotel — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [Outstanding Production]
  • 1930/31: Cimarron — RKO Radio [Outstanding Production]
  • 1929/30: All Quiet on the Western Front — Universal [Outstanding Picture]
  • 1928/29: The Broadway Melody — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [Outstanding Picture]
  • 1927/28: Wings — Paramount Famous Lasky [Outstanding Picture]
  • 1927/28: Sunrise — Fox [Unique and Artistic Picture]

Best Animated Feature

  • 2023: The Boy and the Heron — Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki
  • 2022: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio — Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley, Guillermo del Toro
  • 2021: Encanto — Byron Howard, Clark Spencer, Jared Bush, Yvett Merino
  • 2020: Soul — Pete Docter, Dana Murray
  • 2019: Toy Story 4 — Jonas Rivera, Josh Cooley, Mark Nielsen
  • 2018: Spider-Man:Into the Spider-verse — Rodney Rothman, Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
  • 2017: Coco — Lee Unkrich, Darla K. Anderson
  • 2016: Boy and the World — Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Clark Spencer
  • 2016: Zootopia — Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Clark Spencer
  • 2015: Inside Out — Pete Docter, Jonas Rivera
  • 2014: Big Hero 6 — Chris Williams, Roy Conli, Don Hall
  • 2013: Frozen — Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho
  • 2012: Brave — Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews
  • 2011: Rango — Gore Verbinski
  • 2010: Toy Story 3 — Lee Unkrich
  • 2009: Up — Pete Docter
  • 2008: WALL-E — Andrew Stanton
  • 2007: Ratatouille — Brad Bird
  • 2006: Happy Feet — George Miller
  • 2005: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — Nick Park, Steve Box
  • 2004: The Incredibles — Brad Bird
  • 2003: Finding Nemo — Andrew Stanton
  • 2002: Spirited Away — Hayao Miyazaki
  • 2001: Shrek — Aron Warner

Best International Feature Film

Note: These are the competitive award winners only. From 1947—1955, Honorary Oscars were periodically awarded to foreign language films.

  • 2023: The Zone of Interest — United Kingdom
  • 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front — Germany
  • 2021: Drive My Car — Japan
  • 2020: Another Round — Denmark
  • 2019: Parasite — South Korea
  • 2018: Roma — Mexico [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2017: A Fantastic Woman — Chile [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2016: The Salesman — Iran [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2015: Son of Saul — Hungary [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2014: Ida — Poland [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2013: The Great Beauty — Italy [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2012: Amour — Austria [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2011: A Separation — Iran [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2010: In a Better World — Denmark [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2009: The Secret in Their Eyes — Argentina [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2008: Departures — Japan [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2007: The Counterfeiters — Austria [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2006: The Lives of Others — Germany [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2005: Tsotsi — South Africa [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2004: The Sea Inside — Spain [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2003: The Barbarian Invasions — Canada [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2002: Nowhere in Africa — Germany [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2001: No Man's Land — Bosnia & Herzegovina [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Taiwan [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1999: All about My Mother — Spain [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1998: Life Is Beautiful — Italy [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1997: Character — The Netherlands [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1996: Kolya — Czech Republic [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1995: Antonia's Line — The Netherlands [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1994: Burnt by the Sun — Russia [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1993: Belle Epoque — Spain [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1992: Indochine — France [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1991: Mediterraneo — Italy [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1990: Journey of Hope — Switzerland [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1989: Cinema Paradiso — Italy [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1988: Pelle the Conqueror — Denmark [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1987: Babette's Feast — Denmark [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1986: The Assault — The Netherlands [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1985: The Official Story — Argentina [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1984: Dangerous Moves — Switzerland [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1983: Fanny & Alexander — Sweden [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1982: Volver a Empezar ('To Begin Again') — Spain [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1981: Mephisto — Hungary [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1980: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1979: The Tin Drum — Federal Republic of Germany [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1978: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs — France [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1977: Madame Rosa — France [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1976: Black and White in Color — Ivory Coast [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1975: Dersu Uzala — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1974: Amarcord — Italy [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1973: Day for Night — France [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1972: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie — France [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1971: The Garden of the Finzi Continis — Italy [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1970: Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion — Italy [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1969: Z — Algeria [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1968: War and Peace — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1967: Closely Watched Trains — Czechoslovakia [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1966: A Man and a Woman — France [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1965: The Shop on Main Street — Czechoslovakia [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1964: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Italy [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1963: Federico Fellini's 8-1/2 — Italy [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1962: Sundays and Cybele — France [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1961: Through a Glass Darkly — Sweden [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1960: The Virgin Spring — Sweden [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1959: Black Orpheus — France [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1958: My Uncle — France [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1957: The Nights of Cabiria — Italy [Best Foreign Language Film]
  • 1956: La Strada — Carlo Ponti, Italy, Dino De Laurentiis [Best Foreign Language Film]

Best Documentary Feature

  • 2023: 20 Days In Mariupol — Michelle Mizner, Mstyslav Chernov, Raney Aronson-Rath
  • 2022: Navalny — Shane Boris, Melanie Miller, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Daniel Roher
  • 2021: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) — David Dinerstein, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent
  • 2020: My Octopus Teacher — Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, Craig Foster
  • 2019: American Factory — Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert, Steven Bognar
  • 2018: Free Solo — Shannon Dill, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes
  • 2017: Icarus — Bryan Fogel, Dan Cogan
  • 2016: O.J.: Made in America — Ezra Edelman, Caroline Waterlow
  • 2015: Amy — Asif Kapadia, James Gay-Rees
  • 2014: CitizenFour — Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky
  • 2013: 20 Feet from Stardom — Caitrin Rogers, Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen
  • 2012: Searching for Sugar Man — Simon Chinn, Malik Bendjelloul
  • 2011: Undefeated — TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay, Rich Middlemas
  • 2010: Inside Job — Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
  • 2009: The Cove — Fisher Stevens, Louie Psihoyos
  • 2008: Man on Wire — James Marsh, Simon Chinn
  • 2007: Taxi to the Dark Side — Alex Gibney, Eva Orner
  • 2006: An Inconvenient Truth — Davis Guggenheim
  • 2005: March of the Penguins — Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau
  • 2004: Born into Brothels — Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
  • 2003: The Fog of War — Errol Morris, Michael Williams
  • 2002: Bowling for Columbine — Michael Moore, Michael Donovan
  • 2001: Murder on a Sunday Morning — Denis Poncet, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
  • 2000: Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport — Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer
  • 1999: One Day in September — Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
  • 1998: The Last Days — James Moll, Ken Lipper
  • 1997: The Long Way Home — Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank
  • 1996: When We Were Kings — Leon Gast, David Sonenberg
  • 1995: Anne Frank Remembered — Jon Blair
  • 1994: Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision — Terry Sanders, Freida Lee Mock
  • 1993: I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School — Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond
  • 1992: The Panama Deception — Barbara Trent, David Kasper
  • 1991: In the Shadow of the Stars — Allie Light, Irving Saraf
  • 1990: American Dream — Arthur Cohn, Barbara Kopple
  • 1989: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt — Robert Epstein, Bill Couturié
  • 1988: Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie — Marcel Ophuls
  • 1987: The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table — Aviva Slesin
  • 1986: Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got — Brigitte Berman
  • 1986: Down and Out in America — Joseph Feury, Milton Justice
  • 1985: Broken Rainbow — Maria Florio, Victoria Mudd
  • 1984: The Times of Harvey Milk — Robert Epstein, Richard Schmiechen
  • 1983: He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' — Emile Ardolino
  • 1982: Just Another Missing Kid — John Zaritsky
  • 1981: Genocide — Arnold Schwartzman, Rabbi Marvin Hier
  • 1980: From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China — Murray Lerner
  • 1979: Best Boy — Ira Wohl
  • 1978: Scared Straight! — Arnold Shapiro
  • 1977: Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? — John Korty, Dan McCann, Warren L. Lockhart
  • 1976: Harlan County, U.S.A. — Barbara Kopple
  • 1975: The Man Who Skied down Everest — Dale Hartleben, F. R. Crawley, James Hager
  • 1974: Hearts and Minds — Peter Davis, Bert Schneider
  • 1973: The Great American Cowboy — Kieth Merrill
  • 1972: Marjoe — Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan
  • 1971: The Hellstrom Chronicle — Walon Green
  • 1970: Woodstock — Bob Maurice
  • 1969: Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life — Bernard Chevry
  • 1968: Journey into Self — Bill McGaw
  • 1967: The Anderson Platoon — Pierre Schoendoerffer
  • 1966: The War Game — Peter Watkins
  • 1965: The Eleanor Roosevelt Story — Sidney Glazier
  • 1964: Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun — Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  • 1963: Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World — Robert Hughes
  • 1962: Black Fox — Louis Clyde Stoumen
  • 1961: Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath) — Arthur Cohn, Rene Lafuite
  • 1960: The Horse with the Flying Tail — Larry Lansburgh
  • 1959: Serengeti Shall Not Die — Bernhard Grzimek
  • 1958: White Wilderness — Ben Sharpsteen
  • 1957: Albert Schweitzer — Jerome Hill
  • 1956: The Silent World — Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  • 1955: Helen Keller in Her Story — Nancy Hamilton
  • 1954: The Vanishing Prairie — Walt Disney
  • 1953: The Living Desert — Walt Disney
  • 1952: The Sea around Us — Irwin Allen
  • 1951: Kon-Tiki — Olle Nordemar
  • 1950: The Titan: Story of Michelangelo — Robert Snyder
  • 1949: Daybreak in Udi — Crown Film Unit
  • 1948: The Secret Land — Orville O. Dull
  • 1947: Design for Death — Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard O. Fleischer
  • 1945: The True Glory — The Governments of Great Britain, the United States of America
  • 1944: The Fighting Lady — United States Navy
  • 1943: Desert Victory — British Ministry of Information
  • 1942: The Battle of Midway — United States Navy [Best Documentary]
  • 1942: Kokoda Front Line! — Australian News & Information Bureau [Best Documentary]
  • 1942: Moscow Strikes Back — Artkino [Best Documentary]
  • 1942: Prelude to War — United States Army Special Services [Best Documentary]

Best Director

  • 2023: Oppenheimer — Christopher Nolan
  • 2022: Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
  • 2021: The Power of the Dog — Jane Campion
  • 2020: Nomadland — Chloé Zhao
  • 2019: Parasite — Bong Joon-ho
  • 2018: Roma — Alfonso Cuarón
  • 2017: The Shape of Water — Guillermo del Toro
  • 2016: La La Land — Damien Chazelle
  • 2015: The Revenant — Alejandro G. Iñárritu
  • 2014: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) — Alejandro G. Iñárritu
  • 2013: Gravity — Alfonso Cuarón
  • 2012: Life of Pi — Ang Lee
  • 2011: The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius
  • 2010: The King's Speech — Tom Hooper
  • 2009: The Hurt Locker — Kathryn Bigelow
  • 2008: Slumdog Millionaire — Danny Boyle
  • 2007: No Country for Old Men — Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
  • 2006: The Departed — Martin Scorsese
  • 2005: Brokeback Mountain — Ang Lee
  • 2004: Million Dollar Baby — Clint Eastwood
  • 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — Peter Jackson
  • 2002: The Pianist — Roman Polanski
  • 2001: A Beautiful Mind — Ron Howard
  • 2000: Traffic — Steven Soderbergh
  • 1999: American Beauty — Sam Mendes
  • 1998: Saving Private Ryan — Steven Spielberg
  • 1997: Titanic — James Cameron
  • 1996: The English Patient — Anthony Minghella
  • 1995: Braveheart — Mel Gibson
  • 1994: Forrest Gump — Robert Zemeckis
  • 1993: Schindler's List — Steven Spielberg
  • 1992: Unforgiven — Clint Eastwood
  • 1991: The Silence of the Lambs — Jonathan Demme
  • 1990: Dances With Wolves — Kevin Costner
  • 1989: Born on the Fourth of July — Oliver Stone
  • 1988: Rain Man — Barry Levinson
  • 1987: The Last Emperor — Bernardo Bertolucci
  • 1986: Platoon — Oliver Stone
  • 1985: Out of Africa — Sydney Pollack
  • 1984: Amadeus — Milos Forman
  • 1983: Terms of Endearment — James L. Brooks
  • 1982: Gandhi — Richard Attenborough
  • 1981: Reds — Warren Beatty
  • 1980: Ordinary People — Robert Redford
  • 1979: Kramer vs. Kramer — Robert Benton
  • 1978: The Deer Hunter — Michael Cimino
  • 1977: Annie Hall — Woody Allen
  • 1976: Rocky — John G. Avildsen
  • 1975: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest — Milos Forman
  • 1974: The Godfather Part II — Francis Ford Coppola
  • 1973: The Sting — George Roy Hill
  • 1972: Cabaret — Bob Fosse
  • 1971: The French Connection — William Friedkin
  • 1970: Patton — Franklin J. Schaffner
  • 1969: Midnight Cowboy — John Schlesinger
  • 1968: Oliver! — Carol Reed
  • 1967: The Graduate — Mike Nichols
  • 1966: A Man for All Seasons — Fred Zinnemann
  • 1965: The Sound of Music — Robert Wise
  • 1964: My Fair Lady — George Cukor
  • 1963: Tom Jones — Tony Richardson
  • 1962: Lawrence of Arabia — David Lean
  • 1961: West Side Story — Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
  • 1960: The Apartment — Billy Wilder
  • 1959: Ben-Hur — William Wyler
  • 1958: Gigi — Vincente Minnelli
  • 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai — David Lean
  • 1956: Giant — George Stevens
  • 1955: Marty — Delbert Mann
  • 1954: On the Waterfront — Elia Kazan
  • 1953: From Here to Eternity — Fred Zinnemann
  • 1952: The Quiet Man — John Ford
  • 1951: A Place in the Sun — George Stevens
  • 1950: All about Eve — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • 1949: A Letter to Three Wives — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre — John Huston
  • 1947: Gentleman's Agreement — Elia Kazan
  • 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives — William Wyler
  • 1945: The Lost Weekend — Billy Wilder
  • 1944: Going My Way — Leo McCarey
  • 1943: Casablanca — Michael Curtiz
  • 1942: Mrs. Miniver — William Wyler
  • 1941: How Green Was My Valley — John Ford
  • 1940: The Grapes of Wrath — John Ford
  • 1939: Gone with the Wind — Victor Fleming
  • 1938: You Can't Take It with You — Frank Capra
  • 1937: The Awful Truth — Leo McCarey
  • 1937: In Old Chicago — Robert Webb [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1937: A Damsel in Distress — Hermes Pan [Best Dance Direction]
  • 1936: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town — Frank Capra
  • 1936: The Charge of the Light Brigade — Jack Sullivan [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1936: The Great Ziegfeld — Seymour Felix [Best Dance Direction]
  • 1935: The Informer — John Ford
  • 1935: The Lives of a Bengal Lancer — Paul Wing, Clem Beauchamp [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1935: Broadway Melody of 1936 — Dave Gould [Best Dance Direction]
  • 1934: It Happened One Night — Frank Capra
  • 1934: Viva Villa! — John Waters [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1932/33: Cavalcade — Frank Lloyd
  • 1932/33: ***Not awarded for a specific film*** — William Tummel [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1932/33: ***Not awarded for a specific film*** — Charles Dorian [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1932/33: ***Not awarded for a specific film*** — Charles Barton [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1932/33: ***Not awarded for a specific film*** — Dewey Starkey [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1932/33: ***Not awarded for a specific film*** — Fred Fox [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1932/33: ***Not awarded for a specific film*** — Scott Beal [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1932/33: ***Not awarded for a specific film*** — Gordon Hollingshead [Best Assistant Direction]
  • 1931/32: Bad Girl — Frank Borzage
  • 1930/31: Skippy — Norman Taurog
  • 1929/30: All Quiet on the Western Front — Lewis Milestone
  • 1928/29: The Divine Lady — Frank Lloyd
  • 1927/28: 7th Heaven — Frank Borzage
  • 1927/28: Two Arabian Knights — Lewis Milestone