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My Preferential Rankings of The Best Director Winners Aug '07: I have seen 76 of the 80 winners, a ratio of 95%. Aug '07: Most recent addition: Norman Taurog (1931) For the Ages 1943 Michael Curtiz, Casablanca 1946 William Wyler, The Best Years of Our Lives 1977 Woody Allen, Annie Hall 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve 1934 Frank Capra, It Happened One Night 1972 Bob Fosse, Cabaret 1930 Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front 1997 James Cameron, Titanic 1961 Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise, West Side Story 1954 Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront 1928 Frank Borzage, 7th Heaven  Fantastic 1937 Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth 1993 Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List 1974 Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II 1940 John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath 2004 Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby 1939 Victor Fleming, Gone with the Wind 2006 Martin Scorsese, The Departed 2002 Roman Polanski, The Pianist 1936 Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 2003 Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 1991 Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs 1978 Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter 1999 Sam Mendes, American Beauty Fetching 1953 Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity 1962 David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia 1941 John Ford, How Green Was My Valley 1965 Robert Wise, The Sound of Music 1948 John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1996 Anthony Minghella, The English Patient 1998 Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan 1932 Frank Borzage, Bad Girl 1992 Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven 1986 Oliver Stone, Platoon Fair 1990 Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves 1966 Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons 1931 Norman Taurog, Skippy 1971 William Friedkin, The French Connection 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor 1983 James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment 1963 Tony Richardson, Tom Jones 1975 Miloš Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1969 John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy 1984 Miloš Forman, Amadeus 1960 Billy Wilder, The Apartment 1942 William Wyler, Mrs. Miniver 1958 Vincente Minnelli, Gigi Feh 1979 Robert Benton, Kramer vs. Kramer 1980 Robert Redford, Ordinary People 1995 Mel Gibson, Braveheart 1955 Delbert Mann, Marty 1968 Carol Reed, Oliver! 1976 John G. Avildsen, Rocky 1945 Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend 1959 William Wyler, Ben-Hur 1989 Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July 1938 Frank Capra, You Can't Take It With You Flotsam 1964 George Cukor, My Fair Lady 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner, Patton 2001 Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind 1947 Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement 1933 Frank Lloyd, Cavalcade 1994 Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump 1973 George Roy Hill, The Sting 1988 Barry Levinson, Rain Man 1944 Leo McCarey, Going My Way 1985 Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa Unreliable — I Need a Second Look (In Chronological Order) 1935 John Ford, The Informer 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives 1951 George Stevens, A Place in the Sun 1957 David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai 1967 Mike Nichols, The Graduate 1981 Warren Beatty, Reds 2000 Steven Soderbergh, Traffic Unseen (In Chronological Order) 1928 Lewis Milestone, Two Arabian Knights (in the discontinued category of Comedy Direction) 1929 Frank Lloyd, The Divine Lady 1952 John Ford, The Quiet Man 1982 Richard Attenborough, Gandhi |
The Best of the Rest: My Favorites of the Losing Nominees Aug '07: I have seen 319 of the 390 nominees, a ratio of 82%. Aug '07: Most recent addition: W.Beatty & B.Henry (1978) 1920s 1928 Ted Wilde, Speedy (Comedy Direction) 1929 Lionel Barrymore, Madame X 1929 Frank Lloyd, Weary River 1930s 1930 Ernst Lubitsch, The Love Parade 1930 King Vidor, Hallelujah! 1931 Josef von Sternberg, Morocco 1932 Josef von Sternberg, Shanghai Express 1934 W.S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man 1935 Frank Lloyd, Mutiny on the Bounty 1936 William Wyler, Dodsworth 1937 Gregory La Cava, Stage Door 1939 Frank Capra, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 John Ford, Stagecoach 1940s 1940 George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story 1940 Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca 1940 William Wyler, The Letter 1941 Orson Welles, Citizen Kane 1942 John Farrow, Wake Island 1942 Mervyn LeRoy, Random Harvest 1943 George Stevens, The More the Merrier 1944 Otto Preminger, Laura 1944 Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity 1946 David Lean, Brief Encounter 1949 Robert Rossen, All the King's Men 1950s 1950 Carol Reed, The Third Man 1950 Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard 1951 Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire 1952 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Five Fingers 1953 George Stevens, Shane 1954 Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window 1959 Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot 1960s 1960 Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho 1961 Federico Fellini, La Dolce vita 1962 Arthur Penn, The Miracle Worker 1963 Federico Fellini, 8½ 1963 Martin Ritt, Hud 1964 Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove... 1964 Robert Stevenson, Mary Poppins 1965 Hiroshi Teshigahara, Woman in the Dunes 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up 1966 Mike Nichols, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1967 Richard Brooks, In Cold Blood 1967 Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde 1968 Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers 1969 Costa-Gavras, Z 1969 Sydney Pollack, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 1970s 1970 Ken Russell, Women in Love 1971 Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange 1972 Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather 1973 Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers 1973 Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris 1973 William Friedkin, The Exorcist 1974 John Cassavetes, A Woman Under the Influence 1974 Roman Polanski, Chinatown 1975 Robert Altman, Nashville 1975 Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon 1975 Sidney Lumet, Dog Day Afternoon 1976 Sidney Lumet, Network 1976 Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men 1976 Lina Wertmüller, Seven Beauties 1977 George Lucas, Star Wars 1979 Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now 1980s 1980 David Lynch, The Elephant Man 1980 Richard Rush, The Stunt Man 1980 Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull 1981 Louis Malle, Atlantic City 1981 Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark 1982 Sidney Lumet, The Verdict 1982 Sydney Pollack, Tootsie 1982 Steven Spielberg, E.T.–the Extra-Terrestrial 1983 Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander 1985 Hector Babenco, Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985 Akira Kurosawa, Ran 1986 Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 David Lynch, Blue Velvet 1987 Adrian Lyne, Fatal Attraction 1988 Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda 1989 Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors 1990s 1990 Barbet Schroeder, Reversal of Fortune 1990 Martin Scorsese, GoodFellas 1991 Ridley Scott, Thelma & Louise 1991 John Singleton, Boyz N the Hood 1991 Oliver Stone, JFK 1992 Robert Altman, The Player 1992 James Ivory, Howards End 1992 Neil Jordan, The Crying Game 1993 Robert Altman, Short Cuts 1993 Jane Campion, The Piano 1993 James Ivory, The Remains of the Day 1994 Woody Allen, Bullets over Broadway 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski, Three Colors: Red 1994 Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction 1995 Mike Figgis, Leaving Las Vegas 1995 Chris Noonan, Babe 1995 Tim Robbins, Dead Man Walking 1996 Joel Coen, Fargo 1996 Mike Leigh, Secrets & Lies 1997 Atom Egoyan, The Sweet Hereafter 1997 Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential 1998 Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line 1998 Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan 1998 Peter Weir, The Truman Show 1999 Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich 1999 Michael Mann, The Insider 2000s 2000 Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Steven Soderbergh, Erin Brockovich 2001 Robert Altman, Gosford Park 2001 Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 David Lynch, Mulholland Drive 2002 Pedro Almodóvar, Talk to Her 2003 Peter Weir, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2004 Mike Leigh, Vera Drake 2004 Alexander Payne, Sideways 2005 Bennett Miller, Capote 2005 Steven Spielberg, Munich 2006 Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima 2006 Paul Greengrass, United 98 |