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.

1930s

• 1930/1931 Norman Taurog - Skippy
• Clarence Brown - A Free Soul
• Lewis Milestone - The Front Page
• Wesley Ruggles - Cimarron
• Josef von Sternberg - Morocco
• 1931/1932 Frank Borzage - Bad Girl
• King Vidor - The Champ
• Josef von Sternberg - Shanghai Express
• 1932/1933 Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade
• Frank Capra - Lady for a Day
• George Cukor - Little Women
• 1934 Frank Capra - It Happened One Night
• Victor Schertzinger - One Night of Love
• W. S. Van Dyke - The Thin Man
• 1935 John Ford - The Informer
• Henry Hathaway - Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• Frank Lloyd - Mutiny on the Bounty
• 1936 Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Gregory La Cava - My Man Godfrey
• Robert Z. Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld
• Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke - San Francisco
• William Wyler - Dodsworth
• 1937 Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
• William Dieterle - The Life of Emile Zola
• Sidney Franklin - The Good Earth
• Gregory La Cava - Stage Door
• William Wellman - A Star Is Born
• 1938 Frank Capra - You Can't Take It with You
• Michael Curtiz - Angels With Dirty Faces
• Michael Curtiz - Four Daughters
• Norman Taurog - Boys Town
• King Vidor - The Citadel
• 1939 Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind
• Frank Capra - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• John Ford - Stagecoach
• Sam Wood - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• William Wyler - Wuthering Heights