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Also Known As Best Director • Best Directing • Oscar for best director
Notable Honorees Steven Spielberg • Woody Allen • Martin Scorsese • Vincente Minnelli • John Huston • Frank Capra • Michael Curtiz • William Wyler • Billy Wilder • Clint Eastwood • George Stevens • George Cukor • Mike Nichols • Frank Borzage • Fred Zinnemann • Elia Kazan • Robert Wise • Joseph L. Mankiewicz • John Schlesinger • Sydney Pollack • Leo McCarey • John Ford • Bob Fosse • Lewis Milestone • Steven Soderbergh • Delbert Mann • Oliver Stone • Robert Benton • Victor Fleming • Sam Mendes • George Roy Hill • Jerome Robbins • Miloš Forman • Robert Redford • Kevin Costner • Roman Polanski • Christopher Nolan • David Lean • Franklin J. Schaffner • Ron Howard • William Friedkin • Warren Beatty • James Cameron • Alejandro González Iñárritu • Danny Boyle • Ang Lee • Jonathan Demme • Mel Gibson • Chloé Zhao • Peter Jackson • Alfonso Cuarón • Guillermo del Toro • Damien Chazelle • Carol Reed • Robert Zemeckis • Bernardo Bertolucci • John G. Avildsen • Tony Richardson • Richard Attenborough • Jane Campion • Barry Levinson • James L. Brooks • Ethan Coen • Joel Coen

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