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Academy Award for Best Director

Category of film award

Category of film award

FieldValue
nameAcademy Award for Best Director
imageSean Baker at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (cropped).jpg
captionThe 2025 recipient: Sean Baker
awarded_forExcellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement
presenterAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
countryUnited States
year(for films released during the [1927](1927-in-film)/[1928](1928-in-film) film season)
holder_labelMost recent winner
holderSean Baker, *Anora* ([2024](97th-academy-awards))
most_awardsJohn Ford (4)
most_nominationsWilliam Wyler (12)
website

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with the award being split into "Dramatic" and "Comedy" categories; Frank Borzage and Lewis Milestone won for 7th Heaven and Two Arabian Knights, respectively. However, these categories were merged for all subsequent ceremonies. Nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the directors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the academy.

For the first eleven years of the Academy Awards, directors were allowed to be nominated for multiple films in the same year. However, after the nomination of Michael Curtiz for two films, Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters, at the 11th Academy Awards, the rules were revised so that an individual could only be nominated for one film at each ceremony. That rule has since been amended, although the only director who has received multiple nominations in the same year was Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000, winning the award for the latter.

The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 91 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 70 won the award. The award has been criticised in recent years for failing to recognise female directors. Of the 260 individual directors nominated in the history of the award, only 9 have been women, with only 2 women having been nominated more than once (compared to 101 men), and only 3 of the 76 individual winners have been women.

Since its inception, the award has been given to 74 different directors or directing teams. As of the 97th Academy Awards ceremony, American filmmaker Sean Baker is the most recent winner in this category for his work on Anora.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County, California; the ceremonies are always held the following year. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31. For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

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1920s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[1927](1927-in-film)/[28](1928-in-film)
[(1st)](1st-academy-awards)[1928](1928-in-film)/[29](1929-in-film)
[(2nd)](2nd-academy-awards)
**(Dramatic Picture)*****[7th Heaven](7th-heaven-1927-film)***
(Dramatic Picture)*Sorrell and Son*
(Dramatic Picture)**
**(Comedy Picture)*****Two Arabian Knights***
(Comedy Picture)*Speedy*
(Comedy Picture)*The Circus*
**********
*Madame X*
*In Old Arizona*
*Drag*
*Weary River*
**

1930s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[1929](1929-in-film)/[30](1930-in-film)
[(3rd)](3rd-academy-awards)[1930](1930-in-film)/[31](1931-in-film)
[(4th)](4th-academy-awards)[1931](1931-in-film)/[32](1932-in-film)
[(5th)](5th-academy-awards)[1932](1932-in-film)/[33](1933-in-film)
[(6th)](6th-academy-awards)[1934](1934-in-film)
[(7th)](7th-academy-awards)[1935](1935-in-film)
[(8th)](8th-academy-awards)[1936](1936-in-film)
[(9th)](9th-academy-awards)[1937](1937-in-film)
[(10th)](10th-academy-awards)[1938](1938-in-film)
[(11th)](11th-academy-awards)[1939](1939-in-film)
[(12th)](12th-academy-awards)
*******All Quiet on the Western Front***
*Anna Christie*
*Romance*
**
**
*Hallelujah!*
*******Skippy***
**
**
*Cimarron*
*Morocco*
*******Bad Girl***
**
*Shanghai Express*
*******Cavalcade***
*Lady for a Day*
*Little Women*
*******It Happened One Night***
*One Night of Love*
**
**********
**
*Mutiny on the Bounty*
(Write-in)*Captain Blood*
*******Mr. Deeds Goes to Town***
*My Man Godfrey*
**
*San Francisco*
*Dodsworth*
**********
**
**
*Stage Door*
**
*******You Can't Take It with You***
*Angels with Dirty Faces*
*Four Daughters*
*Boys Town*
**
*******Gone with the Wind***
*Mr. Smith Goes to Washington*
*Stagecoach*
*Goodbye, Mr. Chips*
*Wuthering Heights*

1940s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[1940](1940-in-film)
[(13th)](13th-academy-awards)[1941](1941-in-film)
[(14th)](14th-academy-awards)[1942](1942-in-film)
[(15th)](15th-academy-awards)[1943](1943-in-film)
[(16th)](16th-academy-awards)[1944](1944-in-film)
[(17th)](17th-academy-awards)[1945](1945-in-film)
[(18th)](18th-academy-awards)[1946](1946-in-film)
[(19th)](19th-academy-awards)[1947](1947-in-film)
[(20th)](20th-academy-awards)[1948](1948-in-film)
[(21st)](21st-academy-awards)[1949](1949-in-film)
[(22nd)](22nd-academy-awards)
**********
**
*Rebecca*
*Kitty Foyle*
**
*******How Green Was My Valley***
*Here Comes Mr. Jordan*
*Sergeant York*
*Citizen Kane*
**
*******Mrs. Miniver***
*Yankee Doodle Dandy*
*Wake Island*
*Random Harvest*
*Kings Row*
*******Casablanca***
**
**
*Heaven Can Wait*
**
*******Going My Way***
*Lifeboat*
*Wilson*
*Laura*
*Double Indemnity*
**********
*National Velvet*
*Spellbound*
**
**
**********
**
*It's a Wonderful Life*
*Brief Encounter*
**
*******Gentleman's Agreement***
*Crossfire*
*Great Expectations*
********
*Johnny Belinda*
*Hamlet*
********
*All the King's Men*
*Battleground*

1950s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[1950](1950-in-film)
[(23rd)](23rd-academy-awards)[1951](1951-in-film)
[(24th)](24th-academy-awards)[1952](1952-in-film)
[(25th)](25th-academy-awards)[1953](1953-in-film)
[(26th)](26th-academy-awards)[1954](1954-in-film)
[(27th)](27th-academy-awards)[1955](1955-in-film)
[(28th)](28th-academy-awards)[1956](1956-in-film)
[(29th)](29th-academy-awards)[1957](1957-in-film)
[(30th)](30th-academy-awards)[1958](1958-in-film)
[(31st)](31st-academy-awards)[1959](1959-in-film)
[(32nd)](32nd-academy-awards)
*******All About Eve***
*Born Yesterday*
*Sunset Boulevard*
********
*Detective Story*
********
*Moulin Rouge*
*[5 Fingers](5-fingers)*
*High Noon*
*******From Here to Eternity***
*Shane*
*Lili*
*Stalag 17*
*Roman Holiday*
*******On the Waterfront***
*Rear Window*
*Sabrina*
*******Marty***
*East of Eden*
*Summertime*
*Picnic*
*Bad Day at Black Rock*
*******Giant***
*Around the World in 80 Days*
*War and Peace*
*Friendly Persuasion*
********
*Sayonara*
*[12 Angry Men](12-angry-men-1957-film)*
*Peyton Place*
*Witness for the Prosecution*
*******Gigi***
*Cat on a Hot Tin Roof*
*I Want to Live!*
*******Ben-Hur***
*Room at the Top*
*Some Like It Hot*

1960s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[1960](1960-in-film)
[(33rd)](33rd-academy-awards)[1961](1961-in-film)
[(34th)](34th-academy-awards)[1962](1962-in-film)
[(35th)](35th-academy-awards)[1963](1963-in-film)
[(36th)](36th-academy-awards)[1964](1964-in-film)
[(37th)](37th-academy-awards)[1965](1965-in-film)
[(38th)](38th-academy-awards)[1966](1966-in-film)
[(39th)](39th-academy-awards)[1967](1967-in-film)
[(40th)](40th-academy-awards)[1968](1968-in-film)
[(41st)](41st-academy-awards)[1969](1969-in-film)
[(42nd)](42nd-academy-awards)
********
*Sons and Lovers*
*Never on Sunday*
*Psycho*
** & *****West Side Story***
*La Dolce Vita*
*Judgment at Nuremberg*
*******Lawrence of Arabia***
*Divorce Italian Style*
*To Kill a Mockingbird*
*David and Lisa*
*******Tom Jones***
*[8½](81-2)*
*America America*
*Hud*
*******My Fair Lady***
*Zorba the Greek*
*Becket*
*Dr. Strangelove*
*Mary Poppins*
********
*Doctor Zhivago*
*Darling*
********
*Blowup*
*Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*
********
*In Cold Blood*
*In the Heat of the Night*
*Guess Who's Coming to Dinner*
*Bonnie and Clyde*
*******Oliver!***
*[2001: A Space Odyssey](2001-a-space-odyssey)*
*Romeo and Juliet*
*******Midnight Cowboy***
*Z*
*Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid*
*Alice's Restaurant*
*They Shoot Horses, Don't They?*

1970s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[1970](1970-in-film)
[(43rd)](43rd-academy-awards)[1971](1971-in-film)
[(44th)](44th-academy-awards)[1972](1972-in-film)
[(45th)](45th-academy-awards)[1973](1973-in-film)
[(46th)](46th-academy-awards)[1974](1974-in-film)
[(47th)](47th-academy-awards)[1975](1975-in-film)
[(48th)](48th-academy-awards)[1976](1976-in-film)
[(49th)](49th-academy-awards)[1977](1977-in-film)
[(50th)](50th-academy-awards)[1978](1978-in-film)
[(51st)](51st-academy-awards)[1979](1979-in-film)
[(52nd)](52nd-academy-awards)
*******Patton***
*M*A*S*H*
*Fellini Satyricon*
*Love Story*
*Women in Love*
********
*Fiddler on the Roof*
*Sunday Bloody Sunday*
*******Cabaret***
*Deliverance*
*Sleuth*
********
*Cries and Whispers*
*Last Tango in Paris*
*American Graffiti*
********
*Lenny*
*Chinatown*
*Day for Night*
*******One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest***
*Nashville*
*Amarcord*
*Barry Lyndon*
*Dog Day Afternoon*
*******Rocky***
*Face to Face*
*Network*
*All the President's Men*
*Seven Beauties*
*******Annie Hall***
*Star Wars*
*Close Encounters of the Third Kind*
*Julia*
********
*Interiors*
*Coming Home*
&*Heaven Can Wait*
*Midnight Express*
*******Kramer vs. Kramer***
*Apocalypse Now*
*All That Jazz*
*La Cage aux Folles*
*Breaking Away*

1980s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[1980](1980-in-film)
[(53rd)](53rd-academy-awards)[1981](1981-in-film)
[(54th)](54th-academy-awards)[1982](1982-in-film)
[(55th)](55th-academy-awards)[1983](1983-in-film)
[(56th)](56th-academy-awards)[1984](1984-in-film)
[(57th)](57th-academy-awards)[1985](1985-in-film)
[(58th)](58th-academy-awards)[1986](1986-in-film)
[(59th)](59th-academy-awards)[1987](1987-in-film)
[(60th)](60th-academy-awards)[1988](1988-in-film)
[(61st)](61st-academy-awards)[1989](1989-in-film)
[(62nd)](62nd-academy-awards)
*******Ordinary People***
*Tess*
*Raging Bull*
*******Reds***
*Chariots of Fire*
*Atlantic City*
*On Golden Pond*
*Raiders of the Lost Ark*
*******Gandhi***
*Das Boot*
*Tootsie*
*E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*
*******Terms of Endearment***
*Tender Mercies*
*Fanny and Alexander*
*Silkwood*
*******Amadeus***
*Broadway Danny Rose*
*Places in the Heart*
*******Out of Africa***
*Kiss of the Spider Woman*
*Prizzi's Honor*
*Ran*
*Witness*
*******Platoon***
*Hannah and Her Sisters*
*Blue Velvet*
********
*Hope and Glory*
*My Life as a Dog*
*Moonstruck*
*Fatal Attraction*
*******Rain Man***
*Working Girl*
*Mississippi Burning*
*******Born on the Fourth of July***
*Crimes and Misdemeanors*
*Henry V*
*My Left Foot*
*Dead Poets Society*

1990s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[1990](1990-in-film)
[(63rd)](63rd-academy-awards)[1991](1991-in-film)
[(64th)](64th-academy-awards)[1992](1992-in-film)
[(65th)](65th-academy-awards)[1993](1993-in-film)
[(66th)](66th-academy-awards)[1994](1994-in-film)
[(67th)](67th-academy-awards)[1995](1995-in-film)
[(68th)](68th-academy-awards)[1996](1996-in-film)
[(69th)](69th-academy-awards)[1997](1997-in-film)
[(70th)](70th-academy-awards)[1998](1998-in-film)
[(71st)](71st-academy-awards)[1999](1999-in-film)
[(72nd)](72nd-academy-awards)
*******Dances With Wolves***
*Reversal of Fortune*
*Goodfellas*
********
*Bugsy*
*Thelma & Louise*
*Boyz n the Hood*
*JFK*
*******Unforgiven***
*Scent of a Woman*
*Howards End*
*******Schindler's List***
*Short Cuts*
*In the Name of the Father*
*******Forrest Gump***
*Bullets Over Broadway*
*Three Colours: Red*
*Quiz Show*
*Pulp Fiction*
*******Braveheart***
*Leaving Las Vegas*
*Babe*
*Il Postino: The Postman*
*Dead Man Walking*
********
*Fargo*
*Shine*
*Secrets & Lies*
*******Titanic***
*L.A. Confidential*
*Good Will Hunting*
*******Saving Private Ryan***
*Life Is Beautiful*
*Shakespeare in Love*
*******American Beauty***
*Being John Malkovich*

2000s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[2000](2000-in-film)
[(73rd)](73rd-academy-awards)[2001](2001-in-film)
[(74th)](74th-academy-awards)[2002](2002-in-film)
[(75th)](75th-academy-awards)[2003](2003-in-film)
[(76th)](76th-academy-awards)[2004](2004-in-film)
[(77th)](77th-academy-awards)[2005](2005-in-film)
[(78th)](78th-academy-awards)[2006](2006-in-film)
[(79th)](79th-academy-awards)[2007](2007-in-film)
[(80th)](80th-academy-awards)[2008](2008-in-film)
[(81st)](81st-academy-awards)[2009](2009-in-film)
[(82nd)](82nd-academy-awards)
*******Traffic***
*Billy Elliot*
*Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*
*Gladiator*
*Erin Brockovich*
********
*Gosford Park*
*Mulholland Drive*
*Black Hawk Down*
********
*Talk to Her*
*Chicago*
*Gangs of New York*
********
*Lost in Translation*
*Mystic River*
*City of God*
*Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World*
*******Million Dollar Baby***
*Ray*
*Vera Drake*
*Sideways*
*******Brokeback Mountain***
*Good Night, and Good Luck*
*Crash*
*Capote*
*Munich*
********
*Letters from Iwo Jima*
*United 93*
*Babel*
*******No Country for Old Men***
*There Will Be Blood*
*Michael Clayton*
*Juno*
*******Slumdog Millionaire***
*Frost/Nixon*
*Milk*
********
*Avatar*
*Precious*
*Up in the Air*
*Inglourious Basterds*

2010s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[2010](2010-in-film)
[(83rd)](83rd-academy-awards)[2011](2011-in-film)
[(84th)](84th-academy-awards)[2012](2012-in-film)
[(85th)](85th-academy-awards)[2013](2013-in-film)
[(86th)](86th-academy-awards)[2014](2014-in-film)
[(87th)](87th-academy-awards)[2015](2015-in-film)
[(88th)](88th-academy-awards)[2016](2016-in-film)
[(89th)](89th-academy-awards)[2017](2017-in-film)
[(90th)](90th-academy-awards)[2018](2018-in-film)
[(91st)](91st-academy-awards)[2019](2019-in-film)
[(92nd)](92nd-academy-awards)
********
*Black Swan*
*True Grit*
********
*Midnight in Paris*
*Hugo*
*******Life of Pi***
*Amour*
*Silver Linings Playbook*
*Lincoln*
*Beasts of the Southern Wild*
*******Gravity***
*[12 Years a Slave](12-years-a-slave-film)*
*Nebraska*
*American Hustle*
*******Birdman***
*Boyhood*
*Foxcatcher*
*******The Revenant***
*Room*
*Spotlight*
*Mad Max: Fury Road*
*******La La Land***
*Hacksaw Ridge*
*Moonlight*
*Manchester by the Sea*
*Arrival*
*******The Shape of Water***
*Phantom Thread*
*Lady Bird*
*Dunkirk*
*Get Out*
*******Roma***
*The Favourite*
*BlacKkKlansman*
*Vice*
*Cold War*
*******Parasite***
*[1917](1917-2019-film)*
*Joker*
*The Irishman*
*Once Upon a Time in Hollywood*

2020s

YearDirector(s)FilmRef.[2020/21](2020-in-film)
[(93rd)](93rd-academy-awards)[2021](2021-in-film)
[(94th)](94th-academy-awards)[2022](2022-in-film)
[(95th)](95th-academy-awards)[2023](2023-in-film)
[(96th)](96th-academy-awards)[2024](2024-in-film)
[(97th)](97th-academy-awards)[2025](2025-in-film)
[(98th)](98th-academy-awards)
********
*Minari*
*Promising Young Woman*
*Mank*
********
*Licorice Pizza*
*Belfast*
*Drive My Car*
*West Side Story*
********
Todd Field*Tár*
Martin McDonagh*The Banshees of Inisherin*
Ruben Östlund*Triangle of Sadness*
Steven Spielberg*The Fabelmans*
********
Jonathan Glazer*The Zone of Interest*
Yorgos Lanthimos*Poor Things*
Martin Scorsese*Killers of the Flower Moon*
Justine Triet*Anatomy of a Fall*
**Sean Baker*****Anora***
Jacques Audiard*Emilia Pérez*
Brady Corbet*The Brutalist*
Coralie Fargeat*The Substance*
James Mangold*A Complete Unknown*
Paul Thomas Anderson*One Battle After Another*
Ryan Coogler*Sinners*
Josh Safdie*Marty Supreme*
Joachim Trier*Sentimental Value*
Chloé Zhao*Hamnet*

Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple wins

WinsDirector
John Ford
3Frank Capra
William Wyler
2Frank Borzage
Alfonso Cuarón
Clint Eastwood
Miloš Forman
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Elia Kazan
David Lean
Ang Lee
Frank Lloyd
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Leo McCarey
Lewis Milestone
Steven Spielberg
George Stevens
Oliver Stone
Billy Wilder
Robert Wise
Fred Zinnemann

Three or more nominations

NominationsDirector
12William Wyler
10Martin Scorsese
9Steven Spielberg
8Billy Wilder
7Woody Allen
David Lean
Fred Zinnemann
6Frank Capra
5Robert Altman
Clarence Brown
George Cukor
John Ford
Alfred Hitchcock
John Huston
Elia Kazan
George Stevens
King Vidor
4Paul Thomas Anderson
Francis Ford Coppola
Michael Curtiz
Clint Eastwood
Federico Fellini
Stanley Kubrick
Frank Lloyd
Sidney Lumet
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Mike Nichols
Peter Weir
3
Ingmar Bergman
Richard Brooks
Joel Coen
Stephen Daldry
David Fincher
Miloš Forman
Bob Fosse
Alejandro González Iñárritu
James Ivory
Norman Jewison
Stanley Kramer
Ang Lee
Ernst Lubitsch
David Lynch
Leo McCarey
Lewis Milestone
Alexander Payne
Arthur Penn
Roman Polanski
Sydney Pollack
Carol Reed
David O. Russell
John Schlesinger
Ridley Scott
Oliver Stone
Quentin Tarantino
William A. Wellman
Robert Wise
Sam Wood

Age superlatives

Main article: List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees#Best Director

RecordDirectorFilmAgeRef.
Oldest winnerClint Eastwood*Million Dollar Baby*74 years, 272 daystitle=Oldest/Youngest Directing Nominees and Winnersurl=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics/indexStats.htmlaccess-date=November 19, 2015publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciencesurl-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090301005626/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/help/helpMain.jsp?helpContentURL=statistics%2FindexStats.htmlarchive-date=March 1, 2009}}
Oldest nomineeMartin Scorsese*Killers of the Flower Moon*81 years, 67 days
Youngest winnerDamien Chazelle*La La Land*32 years, 38 days
Youngest nomineeJohn Singleton*Boyz n the Hood*24 years, 44 days

Records

  • John Ford has received the most awards in this category, with four. Frank Capra and William Wyler won three each.
    • Wyler has the most nominations, with 12—including a record four years in a row. Martin Scorsese is currently second, with 10 nominations.
    • Clarence Brown has the most nominations without a win (6). Alfred Hitchcock and King Vidor each received 5 nominations without a win.
  • Four directors have won twice for films that did not win Best Picture: Frank Borzage, George Stevens, Ang Lee, and Alfonso Cuarón.
    • Of John Ford's four wins, the only film which also won Best Picture was How Green Was My Valley (1941).
    • Ford (1940–1941), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949–1950), and Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014–2015) are the only directors to have won the award in two consecutive years.
    • Francis Ford Coppola is the only director to be nominated for each film of a trilogy, The Godfather trilogy, winning for the second film.
  • Four directing teams have been nominated together (a total of five times, winning on three occasions): Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961, winners); Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978); Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007, winners) and True Grit (2010); and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022, winners).
    • The Coen Brothers are the only siblings to have won the award.
  • Six directors won the award for their feature film debut: Delbert Mann for Marty (1955), Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Robert Redford for Ordinary People (1980), James L. Brooks for Terms of Endearment (1983), Kevin Costner for Dances With Wolves (1990), and Sam Mendes for American Beauty (1999).
    • Robbins is the only director to have won for his only career directing credit.
  • Lina Wertmüller was the first woman nominated in the category, for Seven Beauties (1976).
    • Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the award, for The Hurt Locker (2009).
    • Chloé Zhao is the first woman of color to win the award, for Nomadland (2020). She became the second woman nominated twice for the award for Hamnet (2025).
    • Jane Campion is the first woman to be nominated twice for the award: The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021)—winning for the latter.
  • John Singleton is the first Black (and youngest) nominee for Boyz n the Hood (1991).
    • Steve McQueen is the first Black nominee to direct a Best Picture winner, for 12 Years a Slave. Barry Jenkins subsequently did the same three years later, with Moonlight (2016).
  • David Lean was the first non-American to win—and twice, for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962). This did not recur for five decades with any other non-American directors, until Ang Lee, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu each won twice themselves.
    • Lee was the first Asian director to win the award, for Brokeback Mountain (2005). He won again for Life of Pi (2012).
    • Cuarón was the first Mexican (and Latin American) director to win the award, for Gravity (2013). He won again for Roma (2018).
  • No married or ex-married couple have won the award for the same film, though James Cameron (1997's Titanic) and Kathryn Bigelow (2008's The Hurt Locker) were the first (and so far, only) ex-married couple to both win the award.

Notes

References

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