Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first. The films below are listed with their production year, so for example the Oscar awarded in 2000 went to the Best Supporting Actor in 1999. In the majority of years, this award has gone to the director of the eventual winner for Best Picture, although in recent years this trend has weakened.

1920s

• 1927/1928 Frank Borzage - Seventh Heaven
• Herbert Brenon - Sorrell and Son
• King Vidor - The Crowd

In the first year only a separate award was given for Comedy Direction

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• 1927/1928 Lewis Milestone Two Arabian Knights
• Charles Chaplin - The Circus
• Ted Wilde - Speedy (movie)
• 1928/1929 Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady, Weary River and Drag
• Lionel Barrymore - Madame X
• Harry Beaumont - Broadway Melody
• Irving Cummings - In Old Arizona
• Ernst Lubitsch - The Patriot
• 1929/1930 Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front
• Clarence Brown - Anna Christie
• Clarence Brown - Romance
• Robert Z. Leonard - The Divorcée
• Ernst Lubitsch - The Love Parade
• King Vidor - Hallelujah