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Can you name the directors who won the Academy Award for Best Director?

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YearDirectorFilm
1928 (Drama)Seventh Heaven
1928 (Comedy)Two Arabian Knights
1929The Divine Lady
1930All Quiet on the Western Front
1931Skippy
1932Bad Girl
1933Cavalcade
1934It Happened One Night
1935The Informer
1936Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1937The Awful Truth
1938You Can't Take It with You
1939Gone with the Wind
1940The Grapes of Wrath
1941How Green Was My Valley
1942Mrs. Miniver
1943Casablanca
1944Going My Way
1945The Lost Weekend
1946The Best Years of Our Lives
1947Gentleman's Agreement
1948The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1949A Letter to Three Wives
1950All About Eve
1951A Place in the Sun
1952The Quiet Man
1953From Here to Eternity
1954On the Waterfront
YearDirectorFilm
1955Marty
1956Giant
1957A Bridge on the River Kwai
1958Gigi
1959Ben-Hur
1960The Apartment
1961West Side Story
1962Lawrence of Arabia
1963Tom Jones
1964My Fair Lady
1965The Sound of Music
1966A Man for All Seasons
1967The Graduate
1968Oliver!
1969Midnight Cowboy
1970Patton
1971The French Connection
1972Cabaret
1973The Sting
1974The Godfather Part II
1975One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1976Rocky
1977Annie Hall
1978The Deer Hunter
1979Kramer vs. Kramer
1980Ordinary People
1981Reds
1982Gandhi
YearDirectorFilm
1983Terms of Endearment
1984Amadeus
1985Out of Africa
1986Platoon
1987The Last Emperor
1988Rain Man
1989Born on the Fourth of July
1990Dances with Wolves
1991The Silence of the Lambs
1992The Unforgiven
1993Schindler's List
1994Forrest Gump
1995Braveheart
1996The English Patient
1997Titanic
1998Saving Private Ryan
1999American Beauty
2000Traffic
2001A Beautiful Mind
2002The Pianist
2003Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004Million Dollar Baby
2005Brokeback Mountain
2006The Departed
2007No Country for Old Men
2008Slumdog Millionaire
2009The Hurt Locker
2010The King's Speech
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