Entertainment quiz
Best Director Oscar winners, 1929 to 1989
63 awards from 1929 to 1989, won by 44 people. Each row shows the ceremony and the winning film. Type a name once and it fills every year they won; a surname is enough.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 63 answers
- Limit
- 10:30
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 63
- Time limit
- 10:30
- 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, 1929 to 1989.
| Ceremony | Film | Best Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Two Arabian Knights | Not found yet |
| 1929 | 7th Heaven | Not found yet |
| 1930 | The Divine Lady | Not found yet |
| 1931 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Not found yet |
| 1932 | Skippy | Not found yet |
| 1933 | Bad Girl | Not found yet |
| 1934 | Cavalcade | Not found yet |
| 1935 | It Happened One Night | Not found yet |
| 1936 | The Informer | Not found yet |
| 1937 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Not found yet |
| 1938 | The Awful Truth | Not found yet |
| 1939 | You Can't Take It with You | Not found yet |
| 1940 | Gone with the Wind | Not found yet |
| 1941 | The Grapes of Wrath | Not found yet |
| 1942 | How Green Was My Valley | Not found yet |
| 1943 | Mrs. Miniver | Not found yet |
| 1944 | Casablanca | Not found yet |
| 1945 | Going My Way | Not found yet |
| 1946 | The Lost Weekend | Not found yet |
| 1947 | The Best Years of Our Lives | Not found yet |
| 1948 | Gentleman's Agreement | Not found yet |
| 1949 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Not found yet |
| 1950 | A Letter to Three Wives | Not found yet |
| 1951 | All about Eve | Not found yet |
| 1952 | A Place in the Sun | Not found yet |
| 1953 | The Quiet Man | Not found yet |
| 1954 | From Here to Eternity | Not found yet |
| 1955 | On the Waterfront | Not found yet |
| 1956 | Marty | Not found yet |
| 1957 | Giant | Not found yet |
| 1958 | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Not found yet |
| 1959 | Gigi | Not found yet |
| Ceremony | Film | Best Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Ben-Hur | Not found yet |
| 1961 | The Apartment | Not found yet |
| 1962 (1 of 2) | West Side Story | Not found yet |
| 1962 (2 of 2) | West Side Story | Not found yet |
| 1963 | Lawrence of Arabia | Not found yet |
| 1964 | Tom Jones | Not found yet |
| 1965 | My Fair Lady | Not found yet |
| 1966 | The Sound of Music | Not found yet |
| 1967 | A Man for All Seasons | Not found yet |
| 1968 | The Graduate | Not found yet |
| 1969 | Oliver! | Not found yet |
| 1970 | Midnight Cowboy | Not found yet |
| 1971 | Patton | Not found yet |
| 1972 | The French Connection | Not found yet |
| 1973 | Cabaret | Not found yet |
| 1974 | The Sting | Not found yet |
| 1975 | The Godfather Part II | Not found yet |
| 1976 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | Not found yet |
| 1977 | Rocky | Not found yet |
| 1978 | Annie Hall | Not found yet |
| 1979 | The Deer Hunter | Not found yet |
| 1980 | Kramer vs. Kramer | Not found yet |
| 1981 | Ordinary People | Not found yet |
| 1982 | Reds | Not found yet |
| 1983 | Gandhi | Not found yet |
| 1984 | Terms of Endearment | Not found yet |
| 1985 | Amadeus | Not found yet |
| 1986 | Out of Africa | Not found yet |
| 1987 | Platoon | Not found yet |
| 1988 | The Last Emperor | Not found yet |
| 1989 | Rain Man | Not found yet |
About this quiz
The Academy Award for Director is given at each ceremony for work in a film of the year before. This list runs from the 1929 ceremony to 1989.
- 15 people won more than once in this period; John Ford leads with 4 wins.
- 1929 and 1962 each have more than one row: the award was shared, tied or given twice that year, and every winner gets a row.
- A surname alone is enough for every row.
- Years are ceremony years: each ceremony honours films of the year before.
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