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.

1970s

• 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
• Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
• Federico Fellini - Satyricon
• Arthur Hiller - Love Story
• Ken Russell - Women in Love
• 1971 William Friedkin - The French Connection
• Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
• Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof
• Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
• John Schlesinger - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
• 1972 Bob Fosse - Cabaret
• John Boorman - Deliverance
• Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Sleuth
• Jan Troell - The Emigrants
• 1973 George Roy Hill - The Sting
• Ingmar Bergman - Cries and Whispers
• Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris
• William Friedkin - The Exorcist
• George Lucas - American Graffiti
• 1974 Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
• John Cassavetes - A Woman Under the Influence
• Bob Fosse - Lenny
• Roman Polanski - Chinatown
• François Truffaut - La Nuit américaine
• 1975 Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Robert Altman - Nashville
• Federico Fellini - Amarcord
• Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
• Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon
• 1976 John G. Avildsen - Rocky
• Ingmar Bergman - Face to Face
• Sidney Lumet - Network
• Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
• Lina Wertmüller - Seven Beauties
• 1977 Woody Allen - Annie Hall
• George Lucas - Star Wars
• Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
• Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Fred Zinnemann - Julia
• 1978 Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
• Woody Allen - Interiors
• Hal Ashby - Coming Home
• Warren Beatty, Buck Henry - Heaven Can Wait
• Alan Parker - Midnight Express
• 1979 Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
• Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
• Bob Fosse - All That Jazz
• Edouard Molinaro - La Cage aux Folles
• Peter Yates - Breaking Away