Oscar for beste regi

Oscar for beste regi
Academy Award for Best Director
Utdeler		Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Innstiftet		1929
Land		USA
Frekvens		Årlig
Nettsted		oscar.go.com/nominees/directing

Oscar for beste regi (engelsk: Academy Award for Best Director) er en filmpris som utdeles ved den årlige Oscarseremonien til en regissør valgt av medlemmene i Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Vinneren velges ut blant fem nominerte kandidater. I listen nedenfor er vinneren i uthevet skrift og under følger de som var nominert. Alle bortsett fra 21 av de 78 Oscar for beste regi, har gått til en film som har vunnet Oscar for beste film. Prisen blir utdelt året etter det som er oppgitt i listen.

John Ford har vunnet flest Oscar for beste regi – 4, etterfulgt av Frank Capra og William Wyler med 3 priser hver. Wyler har flest nominasjoner – 12. Robert Altman, Clarence Brown, Alfred Hitchcock og King Vidor deler plassen for flest nominasjoner uten å vinne, med fem nominasjoner hver.

Tre regissører har mottatt flere priser på rad: John Ford for Vredens druer fra 1940 og Grøn er min barndoms dal fra 1941, Joseph L. Mankiewicz Min mann eller din fra 1949 og Alt om Eva fra 1950, og Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman fra 2014 og The Revenant fra 2015.

Ingen afrikansk-amerikanere har noensinne vunnet Oscar for beste regi, og kun to har noensinne blitt nominert: John Singleton for Boyz n the Hood fra 1991 og Lee Daniels for Precious fra 2009.

Ang Lee er den eneste asiat som har vunnet, for Brokeback Mountain fra 2005. Andre asiatiske nominerte er Hiroshi Teshigahara for Kvinnen i sanden, Akira Kurosawa for Ran og M. Night Shyamalan for Den sjette sansen.

Kathryn Bigelow, med The Hurt Locker fra 2009, er den eneste kvinnen som noensinne har vunnet Oscar for beste regi. Andre kvinnelige nominerte er Lina Wertmüller for Syv skjønnheter fra 1976, Jane Campion for Piano fra 1993, Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation fra 2003 og Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird fra 2017.

• 2017
  • Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
  • Jordan Peele – Get Out
  • Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
  • Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
  • Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water

• 2016 – Damien Chazelle – La La Land
  • Denis Villeneuve – Arrival
  • Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge
  • Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea
  • Barry Jenkins – Moonlight

• 2015 – Alejandro González Iñárritu – The Revenant
  • Lenny Abrahamson – Room
  • Thomas McCarthy – Spotlight
  • Adam McKay – The Big Short
  • George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road

• 2014 – Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman
  • Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Richard Linklater – Boyhood
  • Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher
  • Morten Tyldum – The Imitation Game

• 2013 – Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
  • David O. Russell – American Hustle
  • Alexander Payne – Nebraska
  • Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
  • Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

• 2012 – Ang Lee – Historien om Pi (Life of Pi)
  • Michael Haneke – Amour
  • David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook – Kjærlighetens galskap (Silver Linings Playbook)
  • Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
  • Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

• 2011 – Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
  • Woody Allen – Midnight in Paris
  • Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
  • Alexander Payne – The Descendants
  • Martin Scorsese – Hugo

• 2010 – Tom Hooper – Kongens tale (The King's Speech)
  • Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
  • David O. Russell – The Fighter
  • David Fincher – The Social Network
  • Joel og Ethan Coen – True Grit – et ekte mannfolk (True Grit)

• 2009 Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
  • James Cameron – Avatar
  • Lee Daniels – Precious
  • Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
  • Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

• 2008 Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire – Han som hadde svar på alt
  • David Fincher – Den fantastiske historien om Benjamin Button, (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
  • Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
  • Gus Van Sant – Milk
  • Stephen Daldry – The Reader

• 2007 Joel og Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
  • Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
  • Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton
  • Jason Reitman – Juno
  • Julian Schnabel – Dykkerklokken og sommerfuglen, (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon)

• 2006 Martin Scorsese – The Departed
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu – Babel
  • Clint Eastwood – Brev fra Iwo Jima, (Letters From Iwo Jima)
  • Stephen Frears – The Queen
  • Paul Greengrass – United 93

• 2005 Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
  • Bennett Miller – Capote
  • Paul Haggis – Crash
  • George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck
  • Steven Spielberg – München, (Munich)

• 2004 Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
  • Martin Scorsese – The Aviator
  • Taylor Hackford – Ray
  • Alexander Payne – Sideways
  • Mike Leigh – Vera Drakes hemmelighet, (Vera Drake)

• 2003 Peter Jackson – Ringenes Herre – Atter en Konge, (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
  • Fernando Meirelles – City of God, (Cidade de Deus)
  • Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation
  • Peter Weir – Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  • Clint Eastwood – Mystic River

• 2002 Roman Polanski – The Pianist
  • Rob Marshall – Chicago
  • Martin Scorsese – Gangs of New York
  • Pedro Almodóvar – Snakk til henne, (Hable con ella)
  • Stephen Daldry – The Hours

• 2001 Ron Howard – Et vakkert sinn, (A Beautiful Mind)
  • Ridley Scott – Black Hawk Down
  • Robert Altman – Gosford Park
  • Peter Jackson – Ringenes Herre: Ringens brorskap, (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)
  • David Lynch – Mulholland Drive

• 2000 Steven Soderbergh – Traffic
  • Stephen Daldry – Billy Elliot
  • Steven Soderbergh – Erin Brockovich
  • Ridley Scott – Gladiatoren, (Gladiator)
  • Ang Lee – Snikende tiger, skjult drage, (Wo hu cang long)(Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

• 1999 Sam Mendes – American Beauty
  • Spike Jonze – Being John Malkovich
  • Lasse Hallström – Siderhusreglene, (The Cider House Rules)
  • Michael Mann – The Insider
  • M. Night Shyamalan – Den sjette sansen, (The Sixth Sense)

• 1998 Steven Spielberg – Redd menig Ryan, (Saving Private Ryan)
  • John Madden – Shakespeare in Love
  • Terrence Malick – Den tynne røde linjen, (The Thin Red Line)
  • Peter Weir – The Truman Show
  • Roberto Benigni – Livet er herlig, (La Vita è Bella)

• 1997 James Cameron – Titanic
  • Peter Cattaneo – I blanke messingen, (The Full Monty)
  • Gus Van Sant – Den enestående Will Hunting, (Good Will Hunting)
  • Curtis Hanson – L.A. Confidential, (L.A. Confidential)
  • Atom Egoyan – Den søte ettertid, (The Sweet Hereafter)

• 1996 Anthony Minghella – Den engelske pasienten, (The English Patient)
  • Miloš Forman – Larry Flynt – skandalenes mann, (The People vs. Larry Flynt)
  • Joel Coen – Fargo
  • Mike Leigh – Hemmeligheter og løgner, (Secrets & Lies)
  • Scott Hicks – Shine

• 1995 Mel Gibson – Braveheart
  • Chris Noonan – Heldiggrisen Babe, (Babe)
  • Tim Robbins – Dead Man Walking, (Dead Man Walking)
  • Mike Figgis – Adjø Las Vegas, (Leaving Las Vegas)
  • Michael Radford – Postmannen, (Il Postino)

• 1994 Robert Zemeckis – Forrest Gump
  • Woody Allen – Kuler over Broadway, (Bullets Over Broadway)
  • Quentin Tarantino – Pulp Fiction
  • Robert Redford – Quiz Show
  • Krzysztof Kieślowski – Rød, (Trois Couleurs: Rouge)

• 1993 Steven Spielberg – Schindlers liste, (Schindler's List)
  • Jim Sheridan – I fars navn, (In the Name of the Father)
  • Jane Campion – Piano, (The Piano)
  • James Ivory – Resten av dagen, (The Remains of the Day)
  • Robert Altman – Short Cuts

• 1992 Clint Eastwood – Nådeløse menn, (Unforgiven)
  • Neil Jordan – Fryktens spill, (The Crying Game)
  • James Ivory – Tilbake til Howard's End, (Howards End)
  • Robert Altman – The Player
  • Martin Brest – Duften av kvinne, (Scent of a Woman)

• 1991 Jonathan Demme – Nattsvermeren, (The Silence of the Lambs)
  • John Singleton – Boyz N the Hood
  • Barry Levinson – Bugsy
  • Oliver Stone – J.F.K. – saken fortsetter, (JFK)
  • Ridley Scott – Thelma & Louise

• 1990 Kevin Costner – Danser med ulver, (Dances with Wolves)
  • Francis Ford Coppola – Gudfaren 3, (The Godfather, Part III)
  • Martin Scorsese – Mafiabrødre, (Goodfellas)
  • Stephen Frears – The Grifters – Fikserne, (Grifters)
  • Barbet Schroeder – Von Bulow – skandalen, (Reversal of Fortune)

• 1989 Oliver Stone – Født 4. juli, (Born on the Fourth of July)
  • Woody Allen – Mord og andre misforståelser, (Crimes and Misdemeanors)
  • Peter Weir – Dead Poets Society
  • Kenneth Branagh – Henrik V, (Henry V)
  • Jim Sheridan – Min venstre fot, (My Left Foot)

• 1988 Barry Levinson – Rain Man
  • Charles Crichton – En fisk ved navn Wanda, (A Fish Called Wanda)
  • Martin Scorsese – Jesu siste fristelse
  • Alan Parker – Mississippi i flammer, (Mississippi Burning)
  • Mike Nichols – Working Girl

• 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci – Den siste keiseren, (The Last Emperor)
  • John Boorman – Vår ære og vår makt, (Hope and Glory)
  • Lasse Hallström – Mitt liv som hund
  • Norman Jewison – Forhekset av månen, (Moonstruck)
  • Adrian Lyne – Farlig begjær, (Fatal Attraction)

• 1986 Oliver Stone – Platoon
  • Woody Allen – Hannah og henne søstre, (Hannah and Her Sisters)
  • James Ivory – Et rom med utsikt, (A Room with a View)
  • Roland Joffé – The Mission
  • David Lynch – Blue Velvet

• 1985 Sydney Pollack – Mitt Afrika, (Out of Africa)
  • Héctor Babenco – Edderkoppkvinnens kyss, (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
  • John Huston – Prizzis ære, (Prizzi's Honor)
  • Akira Kurosawa – Ran
  • Peter Weir – Vitne til mord, (Witness)

• 1984 Miloš Forman – Amadeus
  • Woody Allen – Broadway Danny Rose
  • Robert Benton – En plass i hjertet, (Places in the Heart)
  • Roland Joffé – Dødsmarkene, (The Killing Fields)
  • David Lean – Reisen til India, (A Passage to India)

• 1983 James L. Brooks – Tid for ømhet, (Terms of Endearment)
  • Bruce Beresford – Sangen til livet, (Tender Mercies)
  • Ingmar Bergman – Fanny og Alexander, (Fanny och Alexander)
  • Mike Nichols – Silkwood
  • Peter Yates – Påklederen, (The Dresser)

• 1982 Richard Attenborough – Gandhi
  • Sidney Lumet – Dommen, (The Verdict)
  • Wolfgang Petersen – Ubåten, (Das Boot)
  • Sydney Pollack – Tootsie
  • Steven Spielberg – E.T., (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)

• 1981 Warren Beatty – Reds
  • Hugh Hudson – Ildvognene, (Chariots of Fire)
  • Louis Malle – Atlantic City
  • Mark Rydell – Sensommer, (On Golden Pond)
  • Steven Spielberg – Jakten på den forsvunne skatten, (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

• 1980 Robert Redford – Ordinary People
  • David Lynch – Elefantmannen, (The Elephant Man)
  • Roman Polanski – Tess
  • Richard Rush – The Stunt Man
  • Martin Scorsese – Den rasende oksen, (Raging Bull)

• 1979 Robert Benton – Kramer mot Kramer, (Kramer vs. Kramer)
  • Francis Ford Coppola – Apokalypse nå!, (Apocalypse Now)
  • Bob Fosse – Bak kulissene, (All That Jazz)
  • Edouard Molinaro – Møt min kjære hr. mor, (La Cage aux Folles)
  • Peter Yates – Breaking Away

• 1978 Michael Cimino – Hjortejegeren, (The Deer Hunter)
  • Woody Allen – Når demninger brister (Interiors)
  • Hal Ashby – Hjemkomsten, (Coming Home)
  • Warren Beatty, Buck Henry – Himmelen kan vente, (Heaven Can Wait)
  • Alan Parker – Midnight Express

• 1977 Woody Allen – Annie og jeg, (Annie Hall)
  • George Lucas – Star Wars Episode IV: Et nytt håp (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
  • Herbert Ross – Vendepunktet, (The Turning Point)
  • Steven Spielberg – Nærkontakt av tredje grad, (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
  • Fred Zinnemann – Julia

• 1976 John G. Avildsen – Rocky
  • Ingmar Bergman – Ansikte mot ansikte
  • Sidney Lumet – Network
  • Alan J. Pakula – Alle presidentens menn, (All the President's Men)
  • Lina Wertmüller – Syv skjønnheter

• 1975 Miloš Forman – Gjøkeredet, (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
  • Robert Altman – Nashville
  • Federico Fellini – Amarcord – et tilbakeblikk
  • Stanley Kubrick – Barry Lyndon
  • Sidney Lumet – Het ettermiddag, (Dog Day Afternoon)

• 1974 Francis Ford Coppola – Gudfaren II, (The Godfather Part II)
  • John Cassavetes – Kvinne under påvirkning, (A Woman Under the Influence)
  • Bob Fosse – Lenny
  • Roman Polanski – Chinatown
  • François Truffaut – Natteffekt (La Nuit américaine)

• 1973 George Roy Hill – Stikket, (The Sting)
  • Ingmar Bergman – Viskningar och rop
  • Bernardo Bertolucci – Siste tango i Paris, (Last Tango in Paris)
  • William Friedkin – Exorcisten, (The Exorcist)
  • George Lucas – Siste natt med gjengen, (American Graffiti)

• 1972 Bob Fosse – Cabaret
  • John Boorman – Picnic med døden, (Deliverance)
  • Francis Ford Coppola – Gudfaren, (The Godfather)
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Spillet er slutt, (Sleuth)
  • Jan Troell – Utvandrerne (Utvandrarna)

• 1971 William Friedkin – Brennpunkt New York, (The French Connection)
  • Peter Bogdanovich – Siste forestilling, (The Last Picture Show)
  • Norman Jewison – Spelemann på taket, (Fiddler on the Roof)
  • Stanley Kubrick – A Clockwork Orange
  • John Schlesinger – Sunday Bloody Sunday

• 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton – menneske og soldat, (Patton)
  • Robert Altman – M*A*S*H
  • Federico Fellini – Satyricon
  • Arthur Hiller – Love Story
  • Ken Russell – Kvinner som elsker, (Women in Love)

• 1969 John Schlesinger – Asfalt-cowboy, (Midnight Cowboy)
  • Costa-Gavras – Z
  • George Roy Hill – To uvanlige fredløse, (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
  • Arthur Penn – Alice's Restaurant
  • Sydney Pollack – De skyter jo hester, ikke sant?, (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)

• 1968 Carol Reed – Oliver
  • Anthony Harvey – Løven om vinteren, (The Lion in Winter)
  • Stanley Kubrick – 2001: En romodyssé, (2001: A Space Odyssey)
  • Gillo Pontecorvo – Kampen om Algerie
  • Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo og Julie, (Romeo and Juliet)

• 1967 Mike Nichols – Manndomsprøven, (The Graduate)
  • Richard Brooks – Med kaldt blod (In Cold Blood)
  • Norman Jewison – Natten var het, (In the Heat of the Night)
  • Stanley Kramer – Gjett hvem som kommer til middag, (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
  • Arthur Penn – Bonnie and Clyde

• 1966 Fred Zinnemann – En mann fremfor alt, (A Man for All Seasons)
  • Michelangelo Antonioni – Blow-Up
  • Richard Brooks – Fire farlige menn (The Professionals)
  • Claude Lelouch – En mann og en kvinne (Un Homme et une Femme)
  • Mike Nichols – Hvem er redd for Virginia Woolf?, (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

• 1965 Robert Wise – Sound of Music, (The Sound of Music)
  • David Lean – Doctor Zhivago
  • John Schlesinger – Darling
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara – Kvinnen i sanden (Suna no Onna)
  • William Wyler – Samleren, (The Collector)

• 1964 George Cukor – My Fair Lady
  • Michael Cacoyannis – Zorba (Zorba the Greek)
  • Peter Glenville – Becket
  • Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove, (Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
  • Robert Stevenson – Mary Poppins

• 1963 Tony Richardson – Tom Jones
  • Federico Fellini – 8½
  • Elia Kazan – America, America
  • Otto Preminger – Kardinalen, (The Cardinal)
  • Martin Ritt – Villstyringen Hud, (Hud)

• 1962 David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia
  • Pietro Germi – Skilsmisse på italiensk (Divorzio all'italiana)
  • Robert Mulligan – Drep ikke en sangfugl, (To Kill a Mockingbird)
  • Arthur Penn – Miraklet Helen Keller, (The Miracle Worker)
  • Frank Perry – David and Lisa

• 1961 Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins – West Side Story
  • Federico Fellini – Det søte liv, (La dolce vita)
  • Stanley Kramer – Dommen i Nürnberg (Judgement at Nuremberg)
  • Robert Rossen – Storbyens haier, (The Hustler)
  • J. Lee Thompson – Kanonene på Navarone, (The Guns of Navarone)

• 1960 Billy Wilder – Ungkarsleiligheten, (The Apartment)
  • Jack Cardiff – Sønner og elskere, (Sons and Lovers)
  • Jules Dassin – Aldri på en søndag, (Never on Sunday)
  • Alfred Hitchcock – Psycho
  • Fred Zinnemann – Nattens hevnere, (The Sundowners)

• 1959 William Wyler – Ben-Hur
  • Jack Clayton – Plass på toppen, (Room at the Top)
  • George Stevens – Anne Franks dagbok, (The Diary of Anne Frank)
  • Billy Wilder – Noen har det hett, (Some Like It Hot)
  • Fred Zinnemann – Nonnenes historie, (The Nun's Story)

• 1958 Vincente Minnelli – Gigi
  • Richard Brooks – Katt på hett blikktak, (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
  • Stanley Kramer – Lenken, (The Defiant Ones)
  • Mark Robson – Vertshuset Den sjette lykke, (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
  • Robert Wise – Jeg vil leve, (I Want to Live!)

• 1957 David Lean – Broen over Kwai, (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
  • Joshua Logan – Sayonara
  • Sidney Lumet – 12 edsvorne menn, (12 Angry Men)
  • Mark Robson – Peyton Place
  • Billy Wilder – Anklagerens vitne, (Witness for the Prosecution)

• 1956 George Stevens – Giganten, (Giant)
  • Michael Anderson – Jorden rundt på 80 dager, (Around the World in Eighty Days)
  • Walter Lang – Kongen og jeg, (The King and I)
  • King Vidor – Krig og fred, (War and Peace)
  • William Wyler – Det beste i livet, (Friendly Persuasion)

• 1955 Delbert Mann – Marty
  • Elia Kazan – Øst for Eden, (East of Eden)
  • David Lean – Sommergalskap, (Summertime)
  • Joshua Logan – Picnic
  • John Sturges – En mann gikk av toget, (Bad Day at Black Rock)

• 1954 Elia Kazan – Storbyhavnen, (On the Waterfront)
  • Alfred Hitchcock – Vinduet mot bakgården, (Rear Window)
  • George Seaton – Bak kulissene, (The Country Girl)
  • William A. Wellman – Ingen vei tilbake (The High and the Mighty)
  • Billy Wilder – Sabrina

• 1953 Fred Zinnemann – Herfra til evigheten, (From Here to Eternity)
  • George Stevens – Shane
  • Charles Walters – Lili
  • Billy Wilder – Dronningen slår alle veier, (Stalag 17)
  • William Wyler – Prinsesse på vift, (Roman Holiday)

• 1952 John Ford – Den tause mann, (The Quiet Man)
  • Cecil B. DeMille – Verdens største show, (The Greatest Show on Earth)
  • John Huston – Moulin Rouge
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Operasjon Cicero , (5 Fingers)
  • Fred Zinnemann – Sheriffen, (High Noon)

• 1951 George Stevens – En plass i solen, (A Place in the Sun)
  • John Huston – Afrikadronningen, (The African Queen)
  • Elia Kazan – En sporvogn til Begjær, (A Streetcar Named Desire)
  • Vincente Minnelli – En amerikaner i Paris, (An American in Paris)
  • William Wyler – Politidistrikt 21, (Detective Story)

• 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Alt om Eva, (All About Eve)
  • George Cukor – Født i går, (Born Yesterday)
  • John Huston – Asfaltjungelen, (The Asphalt Jungle)
  • Carol Reed – Den tredje mann, (The Third Man)
  • Billy Wilder – Sunset Boulevard

• 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz – Min mann eller din?, (A Letter to Three Wives)
  • Carol Reed – Tapte illusjoner, (The Fallen Idol)
  • Robert Rossen – Det kan hende overalt, (All the King's Men)
  • William A. Wellman – De var alene (Battleground)
  • William Wyler – Arvingen (The Heiress)

• 1948 John Huston – Sierra Madres skatt, (Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
  • Anatole Litvak – Hennes annen verden, (The Snake Pit)
  • Jean Negulesco – Johnny Belinda
  • Laurence Olivier – Hamlet
  • Fred Zinnemann – Et streif av sol, (The Search)

• 1947 Elia Kazan – Mellom gentlemenn, (Gentleman's Agreement)
  • George Cukor – A Double Life
  • Edward Dmytryk – Kryssild, (Crossfire)
  • Henry Koster – Biskopens kone, (The Bishop's Wife)
  • David Lean – Store forventninger, (Great Expectations)

• 1946 William Wyler – De beste år av vårt liv
  • Clarence Brown – Hjortekalven, (The Yearling)
  • Frank Capra – Livet er vidunderlig, (It's a Wonderful Life)
  • David Lean – Kort møte (Brief Encounter)
  • Robert Siodmak – Drapsmenn

• 1945 Billy Wilder – Forspilte dager, (The Lost Weekend)
  • Clarence Brown – Over alle hindrer, (National Velvet)
  • Alfred Hitchcock – Trollbundet, (Spellbound)
  • Leo McCarey – The Bells of St. Mary's
  • Jean Renoir – Mannen fra Sydstatene, (The Southerner)

• 1944 Leo McCarey – Going My Way, (Going My Way)
  • Alfred Hitchcock – Livbåt (Lifeboat)
  • Henry King – Wilson
  • Otto Preminger – Laura
  • Billy Wilder – Dobbelt erstatning

• 1943 Michael Curtiz – Casablanca
  • Clarence Brown – Den menneskelige komedie (The Human Comedy)
  • Henry King – Sangen om Bernadette, (The Song of Bernadette)
  • Ernst Lubitsch – Himmelen kan vente, (Heaven Can Wait)
  • George Stevens – Jo fler dess bedre (The More the Merrier)

• 1942 William Wyler – Mrs. Miniver
  • Michael Curtiz – Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • John Farrow – Til siste mann, (Wake Island)
  • Mervyn LeRoy – Ut av skodden
  • Sam Wood – Ringer på vannet, (Kings Row)

• 1941 John Ford – Grønn var min barndoms dal, (How Green Was My Valley)
  • Alexander Hall – Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  • Howard Hawks – Sersjant York
  • Orson Welles – Citizen Kane
  • William Wyler – Kvinnen uten hjerte

• 1940 John Ford – Vredens druer, (The Grapes of Wrath)
  • George Cukor – En nydelig historie, (The Philadelphia Story)
  • Alfred Hitchcock – Rebecca
  • Sam Wood – Kitty Foyle, (Kitty Foyle)
  • William Wyler – Brevet, (The Letter)

• 1939 Victor Fleming – Tatt av vinden, (Gone with the Wind)
  • Frank Capra – Mr. Smith kommer til Washington, (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
  • John Ford – Siste vogn til Lordsbury, (Stagecoach)
  • Sam Wood – Adjø, Mr. Chips, (Goodbye, Mr. Chips)
  • William Wyler – Stormfulle høyder, (Wuthering Heights)

• 1938 Frank Capra – Du kan ikke ta det med dig, (You Can't Take It with You)
  • Michael Curtiz – Angels with Dirty Faces, (Angels With Dirty Faces)
  • Michael Curtiz – Fire døtre, (Four Daughters)
  • Norman Taurog – Boys Town, (Boys Town)
  • King Vidor – Citadellet, (The Citadel)

• 1937 Leo McCarey – Hvor har du vært i natt?
  • William Dieterle – Emile Zolas liv, (The Life of Emile Zola)
  • Sidney Franklin – Den gode jord, (The Good Earth)
  • Gregory La Cava – Før teppet går op, (Stage Door)
  • William Wellman – Hollywood, (A Star Is Born)

• 1936 Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds kommer til byen, (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)
  • Gregory La Cava – Godfrey kan alt, (My Man Godfrey)
  • Robert Z. Leonard – Den store Ziegfeld
  • W. S. Van Dyke – San Francisco
  • William Wyler – Dodsworth

• 1935 John Ford – Angiveren, (The Informer)
  • Henry Hathaway – Englands sønner, (Lives of a Bengal Lancer)
  • Frank Lloyd – Mytteriet på Bounty, (Mutiny on the Bounty)

• 1934 Frank Capra – Det hendte en natt, (It Happened One Night)
  • Victor Schertzinger – Kjærlighetens symfoni, (One Night of Love)
  • W. S. Van Dyke – Den tynde mann, (The Thin Man)

• 1932/1933 Frank Lloyd – Cavalcade
  • Frank Capra – Lady for a Day
  • George Cukor – Unge kvinner, (Little Women)

• 1931/1932 Frank Borzage – Barn av idag, (Bad Girl)
  • King Vidor – The Champ
  • Josef von Sternberg – Shanghaiexpressen, (Shanghai Express)

• 1930/1931 Norman Taurog – Skippy
  • Clarence Brown – Syndere, (A Free Soul)
  • Lewis Milestone – The Front Page
  • Wesley Ruggles – Cimarron
  • Josef von Sternberg – Marokko, (Morocco)

• 1929/1930 Lewis Milestone – Intet nytt fra Vestfronten, (All Quiet on the Western Front)
  • Clarence Brown – Anna Christie
  • Clarence Brown – Ditt navn er kjærlighet, (Romance)
  • Robert Z. Leonard – Hun, den fraskilte, (The Divorcée)
  • Ernst Lubitsch – Prinsgemalen (The Love Parade)
  • King Vidor – Hallelujah

• 1928/1929 Frank Lloyd – Lady Hamilton, (The Divine Lady)
  • Lionel Barrymore – Madame X
  • Harry Beaumont – Broadway Melody
  • Irving Cummings – Ciscos elskerinne, (In Old Arizona)
  • Frank Lloyd – Weary River og Drag
  • Ernst Lubitsch – Patrioten, (The Patriot)

• 1927/1928 Frank Borzage – Syvende himmel, (Seventh Heaven)
  • Herbert Brenon – Sorrell and Son
  • King Vidor – En i mængden, (The Crowd)

Det første året ble det kun utdelt en separat regi-pris for filmkomedier.

• 1927/1928 Lewis Milestone Arabiske eventyrere (Two Arabian Knights)
  • Charles Chaplin – Sirkus, (The Circus)
  • Ted Wilde – Speedy