Entertainment quiz
Best Director Oscar winners since 1990
Thirty seven ceremonies, 32 winners. Type a name once and it fills every year they won; the film appears beside it. A surname is enough.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 37 answers
- Limit
- 7:00
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 37
- Time limit
- 7:00
- Order
- Any order
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- Type an answer; it files itself the moment it matches.
- One answer can fill several slots.
- Give up at any time to see what you missed.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Name every Best Director winner since the 1990 ceremony.
| Ceremony | Best Director | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Not found yet | |
| 1991 | Not found yet | |
| 1992 | Not found yet | |
| 1993 | Not found yet | |
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| 2006 | Not found yet | |
| 2007 | Not found yet | |
| 2008 | Not found yet |
| Ceremony | Best Director | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Not found yet | |
| 2010 | Not found yet | |
| 2011 | Not found yet | |
| 2012 | Not found yet | |
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| 2026 | Not found yet |
About this quiz
The Academy Award for Directing, usually called Best Director, goes to the director or directing team of one film. Each ceremony honours films released in the previous year.
- Five directors won twice in this period: Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
- Iñárritu won in consecutive years, for Birdman and The Revenant.
- Two wins were shared by a pair: Joel and Ethan Coen in 2008, and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert in 2023.
- Paul Thomas Anderson won for One Battle after Another at the 98th Academy Awards in March 2026.
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