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.

1960s

• 1960 Billy Wilder - The Apartment
• Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
• Jules Dassin - Never on Sunday
• Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
• Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners
• 1961 Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
• Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita
• Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
• Robert Rossen - The Hustler
• J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone
• 1962 David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
• Pietro Germi - Divorce - Italian Style
• Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird
• Arthur Penn - The Miracle Worker
• Frank Perry - David and Lisa
• 1963 Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
• Federico Fellini - 8½
• Elia Kazan - America, America
• Otto Preminger - The Cardinal
• Martin Ritt - Hud
• 1964 George Cukor - My Fair Lady
• Michael Cacoyannis - Zorba the Greek
• Peter Glenville - Becket
• Stanley Kubrick - '
• Robert Stevenson - Mary Poppins
• 1965 Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
• David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
• John Schlesinger - Darling
• Hiroshi Teshigahara - Woman in the Dunes
• William Wyler - The Collector
• 1966 Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
• Michelangelo Antonioni - Blow-Up
• Richard Brooks - The Professionals
• Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman
• Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• 1967 Mike Nichols - The Graduate
• Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
• Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
• Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde
• 1968 Carol Reed - Oliver!
• Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
• Stanley Kubrick - '
• Gillo Pontecorvo - The Battle of Algiers
• Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
• 1969 John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
• Costa-Gavras - Z
• George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Arthur Penn - Alice's Restaurant
• Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?