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.

1990s

• 1990 Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
• Francis Ford Coppola - '
• Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
• Stephen Frears - The Grifters
• Barbet Schroeder - Reversal of Fortune
• 1991 Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
• John Singleton - Boyz N the Hood
• Barry Levinson - Bugsy
• Oliver Stone - JFK
• Ridley Scott - Thelma and Louise
• 1992 Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
• Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
• James Ivory - Howards End
• Robert Altman - The Player
• Martin Brest - Scent of a Woman
• 1993 Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
• Jim Sheridan - In the Name of the Father
• Jane Campion - The Piano
• James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
• Robert Altman - Short Cuts
• 1994 Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
• Woody Allen - Bullets Over Broadway
• Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
• Robert Redford - Quiz Show
• Krzysztof Kie?lowski - ' a.k.a. '
• 1995 Mel Gibson - Braveheart
• Chris Noonan - Babe
• Tim Robbins - Dead Man Walking
• Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas
• Michael Radford - Il Postino a.k.a. The Postman
• 1996 Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
• Milos Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
• Joel Coen - Fargo
• Mike Leigh - Secrets and Lies
• Scott Hicks - Shine
• 1997 James Cameron - Titanic
• Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty
• Gus Van Sant - Good Will Hunting
• Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
• Atom Egoyan - The Sweet Hereafter
• 1998 Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
• John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
• Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
• Peter Weir - The Truman Show
• Roberto Benigni - La Vita è Bella a.k.a. Life Is Beautiful
• 1999 Sam Mendes - American Beauty
• Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich
• Lasse Hallström - The Cider House Rules
• Michael Mann - The Insider
• M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense