Oscar Best Director Quiz

Year	Director	Movie
1927-1928		Seventh Heaven
1927-1928		Two Arabian Knights
1928-1929		The Divine Lady
1929-1930		All Quiet on the Western Front
1930-1931		Skippy
1931-1932		Bad Girl
1932-1933		Cavalcade
1934		It Happened One Night
1935		The Informer
1936		Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1937		The Awful Truth
1938		You Can't Take It with You
1939		Gone with the Wind
1940		The Grapes of Wrath
1941		How Green Was My Valley
1942		Mrs. Miniver
1943		Casablanca
1944		Going My Way
1945		The Lost Weekend
1946		The Best Years of Our Lives
1947		Gentleman's Agreement
1948		The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949		A Letter to Three Wives
1950		All About Eve
1951		A Place in the Sun
1952		The Quiet Man
1953		From Here to Eternity
1954		On the Waterfront
1955		Marty

Year	Director	Movie
1956		Giant
1957		The Bridge on the River Kwai
1958		Gigi
1959		Ben-Hur
1960		The Apartment
1961		West Side Story
1962		Lawrence of Arabia
1963		Tom Jones
1964		My Fair Lady
1965		The Sound of Music
1966		A Man For All Seasons
1967		The Graduate
1968		Oliver!
1969		Midnight Cowboy
1970		Patton
1971		The French Connection
1972		Cabaret
1973		The Sting
1974		The Godfather Part II
1975		One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976		Rocky
1977		Annie Hall
1978		The Deer Hunter
1979		Kramer vs. Kramer
1980		Ordinary People
1981		Reds
1982		Gandhi
1983		Terms of Endearment
1984		Amadeus

Year	Director	Movie
1985		Out of Africa
1986		Platoon
1987		The Last Emperor
1988		Rain Man
1989		Born on the Fourth of July
1990		Dances with Wolves
1991		The Silence of the Lambs
1992		Unforgiven
1993		Schindler's List
1994		Forrest Gump
1995		Braveheart
1996		The English Patient
1997		Titanic
1998		Saving Private Ryan
1999		American Beauty
2000		Traffic
2001		A Beautiful Mind
2002		The Pianist
2003		The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004		Million Dollar Baby
2005		Brokeback Mountain
2006		The Departed
2007		No Country for Old Men
2008		Slumdog Millionaire
2009		The Hurt Locker
2010		The King's Speech
2011		The Artist
2012		Life of Pi

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	MovieDynamic:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 04:43 GMT		2 points
	Thank you! Got 69 of them, forgot basically all of the 20s but got pretty much everything else, with a few slipping my mind here and there. How did I forget Lloyd and McCarey?!

	thelesserevil:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 04:50 GMT		4 points
	SPOILERS George Stevens comes up when Im typing in Steven Spielberg.

	guyleguy:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 05:35 GMT		9 points
	Best director to never win the award? I'd go with Kubrick, but maybe it's Welles?

	Mr_T:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 05:49 GMT		8 points
	guyleguy: in my book, the top 3 overlooked were Hitchcock, Welles, and Chaplin. Plus, they only JUST gave Scorsese one near the end of his career (For "The Departed?" Come on - that had to be a nod to Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, etc.) And you're right: Kubrick was very good, too - until Private Joker graduated boot camp.

	radish:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 06:13 GMT		2 points
	Only 23, Zinnemann got me on the spelling.

	buiksloot:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 06:21 GMT		3 points
	I agree with both y'all, guyleguy and Mr. T. I'd add Peter Weir, too, maybe - but he's got time left. :)

	Lilybert:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 09:48 GMT		1 point
	53, wooot hoot.

	Westley:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 15:19 GMT		2 points
	Great quiz! I love the Oscar ones, even if they are tough. Got 54 -- forgot a lot of the 70s directors who did bad movies immediately after winning.

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	ElDavo:	Nov 22nd, 2008 at 18:34 GMT		1 point
	Wow, I suck. I don't pay attention to Oscars/movies except watching my own favorites. Didn't do well on this quiz.

	Annie1:	Nov 24th, 2008 at 20:57 GMT		1 point
	Howard Hawks, in my opinion, is the director most deserving of an Oscar who never got one.

	raggedyanne:	Nov 26th, 2008 at 13:47 GMT		3 points
	I did better than I thought I would, which isn't saying much. I too was surprised by the snubbing of Hitchcock, Kubrick and Welles.

	JohnJF:	Aug 5th, 2009 at 21:57 GMT		3 points
	I know he isn't historically considered the "best" not to win, but my personal favorite to have never won Best Director has to be Sidney Lumet. He actually got a lifetime achievement award a few years back but never a Best Director.

	exackerly:	Oct 19th, 2009 at 20:24 GMT		7 points
	Actually there's no rule that says the winner even has to be an English-language movie. Fellini, Kurosawa & Bergman were all nominated at some point...

	jamiez:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 22:57 GMT		3 points
	I really hope a woman can be added to this list soon. Go Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)!

	Aarong:	May 4th, 2010 at 00:36 GMT		2 points
	What Tarantino and Reitman two great directors who havent won (and yes I know their careers arent over)

	cheesemonster:	May 28th, 2010 at 00:43 GMT		0 points
	i remembered kathryn bigelow won from the oscars this year. only one i remembered. AND I SPELLED HER NAME WRONG! lol.

	itzDMad:	Jul 3rd, 2010 at 11:29 GMT		0 points
	I respect Robert Zemeckis as a director, and Forrest Gump was a good movie. That being said, HOW THE **** did he win Best Director over Tarantino?!

	johnlk:	Feb 19th, 2011 at 16:20 GMT		1 point
	Why does "Robert Wise" work for West Side Story, but "Joel Coen" doesn't work for No Country for Old Men?

	mattycakes345:	Mar 1st, 2011 at 02:17 GMT		1 point
	Anyone else cheesed with Hooper winning? Kings Speech was a good movie, but come on... best director?

	LJ55:	Aug 14th, 2011 at 19:24 GMT		2 points
	Actually, Kubrick did win one for 2001 (special effects), so he did win an oscar, just not for directing. A lot of other great directors never to win. How bout Robert Altman?

	Moviebuff17:	Nov 1st, 2011 at 03:27 GMT		1 point
	@ mattycakes345: I thought The King's Speech was a good movie too. But out of the nominees, Darren Aronofsky should have won instead of Hooper.

	kick:	Jan 26th, 2013 at 18:23 GMT		1 point
	@ Mr_t are you saying full metal jacket was a bad movie? wow.

	xyanthus:	May 12th, 2013 at 08:48 GMT		0 points
	86/86 in 4:38