Academy Award untuk Sutradara Terbaik

The Academy Award for Directing (Sutradara Terbaik) adalah penghargaan Oscar untuk sutradara yang dianggap terbaik dalam suatu tahun perfilman.

Pemenang dicetak tebal.

1920-an

• 1927/1928 Frank Borzage - Seventh Heaven
  • Herbert Brenon - Sorrell and Son
  • King Vidor - The Crowd

Pada tahun pertama terdapat pula penghargaan Sutradara Terbaik Film Komedi

• 1927/1928 Lewis Milestone - Two Arabian Knights
  • Charles Chaplin - The Circus
  • Ted Wilde - Speedy

• 1928/1929 Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady
  • Lionel Barrymore - Madame X
  • Harry Beaumont - Broadway Melody
  • Irving Cummings - In Old Arizona
  • Frank Lloyd - Weary River dan Drag
  • Ernst Lubitsch - The Patriot

• 1929/1930 Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Clarence Brown - Anna Christie
  • Clarence Brown - Romance
  • Robert Z. Leonard - The Divorcée
  • Ernst Lubitsch - The Love Parade
  • King Vidor - Hallelujah

1930-an

• 1930/1931 Norman Taurog - Skippy
  • Clarence Brown - A Free Soul
  • Lewis Milestone - The Front Page
  • Wesley Ruggles - Cimarron
  • Josef von Sternberg - Morocco

• 1931/1932 Frank Borzage - Bad Girl
  • King Vidor - The Champ
  • Josef von Sternberg - Shanghai Express

• 1932/1933 Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade
  • Frank Capra - Lady for a Day
  • George Cukor - Little Women

• 1934 Frank Capra - It Happened One Night
  • Victor Schertzinger - One Night of Love
  • W. S. Van Dyke - The Thin Man

• 1935 John Ford - The Informer
  • Henry Hathaway - Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  • Frank Lloyd - Mutiny on the Bounty

• 1936 Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • Gregory La Cava - My Man Godfrey
  • Robert Z. Leonard - The Great Ziegfeld
  • W. S. Van Dyke - San Francisco
  • William Wyler - Dodsworth

• 1937 Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth
  • William Dieterle - The Life of Emile Zola
  • Sidney Franklin - The Good Earth
  • Gregory La Cava - Stage Door
  • William Wellman - A Star Is Born

• 1938 Frank Capra - You Can't Take It with You
  • Michael Curtiz - Angels With Dirty Faces
  • Michael Curtiz - Four Daughters
  • Norman Taurog - Boys Town
  • King Vidor - The Citadel

• 1939 Victor Fleming - Gone with the Wind
  • Frank Capra - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • John Ford - Stagecoach
  • Sam Wood - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  • William Wyler - Wuthering Heights

1940-an

• 1940 John Ford - The Grapes of Wrath
  • George Cukor - The Philadelphia Story
  • Alfred Hitchcock - Rebecca
  • Sam Wood - Kitty Foyle
  • William Wyler - The Letter

• 1941 John Ford - How Green Was My Valley
  • Alexander Hall - Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  • Howard Hawks - Sergeant York
  • Orson Welles - Citizen Kane
  • William Wyler - The Little Foxes

• 1942 William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver
  • Michael Curtiz - Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • John Farrow - Wake Island
  • Mervyn LeRoy - Random Harvest
  • Sam Wood - Kings Row

• 1943 Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
  • Clarence Brown - The Human Comedy
  • Henry King - The Song of Bernadette
  • Ernst Lubitsch - Heaven Can Wait
  • George Stevens - The More the Merrier

• 1944 Leo McCarey - Going My Way
  • Alfred Hitchcock - Lifeboat
  • Henry King - Wilson
  • Otto Preminger - Laura
  • Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity

• 1945 Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
  • Clarence Brown - National Velvet
  • Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound
  • Leo McCarey - The Bells of St. Mary's
  • Jean Renoir - The Southerner

• 1946 William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Clarence Brown - The Yearling
  • Frank Capra - It's a Wonderful Life
  • David Lean - Brief Encounter
  • Robert Siodmak - The Killers

• 1947 Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement
  • George Cukor - A Double Life
  • Edward Dmytryk - Crossfire
  • Henry Koster - The Bishop's Wife
  • David Lean - Great Expectations

• 1948 John Huston - Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Anatole Litvak - The Snake Pit
  • Jean Negulesco - Johnny Belinda
  • Laurence Olivier - Hamlet
  • Fred Zinnemann - The Search

• 1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
  • Carol Reed - The Fallen Idol
  • Robert Rossen - All the King's Men
  • William A. Wellman - Battleground
  • William Wyler - The Heiress

1950-an

• 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve
  • George Cukor - Born Yesterday
  • John Huston - The Asphalt Jungle
  • Carol Reed - The Third Man
  • Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard

• 1951 George Stevens - A Place in the Sun
  • John Huston - The African Queen
  • Elia Kazan - A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Vincente Minnelli - An American in Paris
  • William Wyler - Detective Story

• 1952 John Ford - The Quiet Man
  • Cecil B. DeMille - The Greatest Show on Earth
  • John Huston - Moulin Rouge
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 5 Fingers
  • Fred Zinnemann - High Noon

• 1953 Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity
  • George Stevens - Shane
  • Charles Walters - Lili
  • Billy Wilder - Stalag 17
  • William Wyler - Roman Holiday

• 1954 Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
  • Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window
  • George Seaton - The Country Girl
  • William Wellman - The High and the Mighty
  • Billy Wilder - Sabrina

• 1955 Delbert Mann - Marty
  • Elia Kazan - East of Eden
  • David Lean - Summertime
  • Joshua Logan - Picnic
  • John Sturges - Bad Day at Black Rock

• 1956 George Stevens - Giant
  • Michael Anderson - Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Walter Lang - The King and I
  • King Vidor - War and Peace
  • William Wyler - Friendly Persuasion

• 1957 David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Joshua Logan - Sayonara
  • Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men
  • Mark Robson - Peyton Place
  • Billy Wilder - Witness for the Prosecution

• 1958 Vincente Minnelli - Gigi
  • Richard Brooks - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Stanley Kramer - The Defiant Ones
  • Mark Robson - The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
  • Robert Wise - I Want to Live!

• 1959 William Wyler - Ben-Hur
  • Jack Clayton - Room at the Top
  • George Stevens - The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot
  • Fred Zinnemann - The Nun's Story

1960-an

• 1960 Billy Wilder - The Apartment
  • Jack Cardiff - Sons and Lovers
  • Jules Dassin - Never on Sunday
  • Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
  • Fred Zinnemann - The Sundowners

• 1961 Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins - West Side Story
  • Federico Fellini - La Dolce Vita
  • Stanley Kramer - Judgment at Nuremberg
  • Robert Rossen - The Hustler
  • J. Lee Thompson - The Guns of Navarone

• 1962 David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
  • Pietro Germi - Divorce - Italian Style
  • Robert Mulligan - To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Arthur Penn - The Miracle Worker
  • Frank Perry - David and Lisa

• 1963 Tony Richardson - Tom Jones
  • Federico Fellini - 8½
  • Elia Kazan - America, America
  • Otto Preminger - The Cardinal
  • Martin Ritt - Hud

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

• 1965 Robert Wise - The Sound of Music
  • David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
  • John Schlesinger - Darling
  • Hiroshi Teshigahara - Woman in the Dunes
  • William Wyler - The Collector

• 1966 Fred Zinnemann - A Man for All Seasons
  • Michelangelo Antonioni - Blow-Up
  • Richard Brooks - The Professionals
  • Claude Lelouch - A Man and a Woman
  • Mike Nichols - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• 1967 Mike Nichols - The Graduate
  • Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
  • Norman Jewison - In the Heat of the Night
  • Stanley Kramer - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde

• 1968 Carol Reed - Oliver!
  • Anthony Harvey - The Lion in Winter
  • Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Gillo Pontecorvo - The Battle of Algiers
  • Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet

• 1969 John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy
  • Costa-Gavras - Z
  • George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  • Arthur Penn - Alice's Restaurant
  • Sydney Pollack - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1970-an

• 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
  • Robert Altman - M*A*S*H
  • Federico Fellini - Satyricon
  • Arthur Hiller - Love Story
  • Ken Russell - Women in Love

• 1971 William Friedkin - The French Connection
  • Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
  • Norman Jewison - Fiddler on the Roof
  • Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
  • John Schlesinger - Sunday Bloody Sunday

• 1972 Bob Fosse - Cabaret
  • John Boorman - Deliverance
  • Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Sleuth
  • Jan Troell - The Emigrants

• 1973 George Roy Hill - The Sting
  • Ingmar Bergman - Cries and Whispers
  • Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris
  • William Friedkin - The Exorcist
  • George Lucas - American Graffiti

• 1974 Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
  • John Cassavetes - A Woman Under the Influence
  • Bob Fosse - Lenny
  • Roman Polanski - Chinatown
  • François Truffaut - La Nuit américaine

• 1975 Milos Forman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • Robert Altman - Nashville
  • Federico Fellini - Amarcord
  • Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
  • Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon

• 1976 John G. Avildsen - Rocky
  • Ingmar Bergman - Face to Face
  • Sidney Lumet - Network
  • Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
  • Lina Wertmüller - Seven Beauties

• 1977 Woody Allen - Annie Hall
  • George Lucas - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
  • Herbert Ross - The Turning Point
  • Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Fred Zinnemann - Julia

• 1978 Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
  • Woody Allen - Interiors
  • Hal Ashby - Coming Home
  • Warren Beatty, Buck Henry - Heaven Can Wait
  • Alan Parker - Midnight Express

• 1979 Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
  • Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
  • Bob Fosse - All That Jazz
  • Edouard Molinaro - La Cage aux Folles
  • Peter Yates - Breaking Away

1980-an

• 1980 Robert Redford - Ordinary People
  • David Lynch - The Elephant Man
  • Roman Polanski - Tess
  • Richard Rush - The Stunt Man
  • Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull

• 1981 Warren Beatty - Reds
  • Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
  • Louis Malle - Atlantic City
  • Mark Rydell - On Golden Pond
  • Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark

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

• 1983 James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
  • Bruce Beresford - Tender Mercies
  • Ingmar Bergman - Fanny and Alexander
  • Mike Nichols - Silkwood
  • Peter Yates - The Dresser

• 1984 Milos Forman - Amadeus
  • Woody Allen - Broadway Danny Rose
  • Robert Benton - Places in the Heart
  • Roland Joffé - The Killing Fields
  • David Lean - A Passage to India

• 1985 Sydney Pollack - Out of Africa
  • Hector Babenco - Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
  • Akira Kurosawa - Ran
  • Peter Weir - Witness

• 1986 Oliver Stone - Platoon
  • Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters
  • James Ivory - A Room with a View
  • Roland Joffe - The Mission
  • David Lynch - Blue Velvet

• 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
  • John Boorman - Hope and Glory
  • Lasse Hallström - My Life as a Dog
  • Norman Jewison - Moonstruck
  • Adrian Lyne - Fatal Attraction

• 1988 Barry Levinson - Rain Man
  • Charles Crichton - A Fish Called Wanda
  • Martin Scorsese - The Last Temptation of Christ
  • Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
  • Mike Nichols - Working Girl

• 1989 Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
  • Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
  • Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
  • Jim Sheridan - My Left Foot

1990-an

• 1990 Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
  • Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather: Part III
  • Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
  • Stephen Frears - The Grifters
  • Barbet Schroeder - Reversal of Fortune

• 1991 Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
  • John Singleton - Boyz N the Hood
  • Barry Levinson - Bugsy
  • Oliver Stone - JFK
  • Ridley Scott - Thelma and Louise

• 1992 Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
  • Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
  • James Ivory - Howards End
  • Robert Altman - The Player
  • Martin Brest - Scent of a Woman

• 1993 Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
  • Jim Sheridan - In the Name of the Father
  • Jane Campion - The Piano
  • James Ivory - The Remains of the Day
  • Robert Altman - Short Cuts

• 1994 Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump
  • Woody Allen - Bullets Over Broadway
  • Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
  • Robert Redford - Quiz Show
  • Krzysztof Kieślowski - Three Colors: Red (Trois Couleurs Rouge)

• 1995 Mel Gibson - Braveheart
  • Chris Noonan - Babe
  • Tim Robbins - Dead Man Walking
  • Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas
  • Michael Radford - The Postman (Il Postino)

• 1996 Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
  • Milos Forman - The People vs. Larry Flynt
  • Joel Coen - Fargo
  • Mike Leigh - Secrets and Lies
  • Scott Hicks - Shine

• 1997 James Cameron - Titanic
  • Peter Cattaneo - The Full Monty
  • Gus Van Sant - Good Will Hunting
  • Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
  • Atom Egoyan - The Sweet Hereafter

• 1998 Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
  • John Madden - Shakespeare in Love
  • Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
  • Peter Weir - The Truman Show
  • Roberto Benigni - Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è Bella)

• 1999 Sam Mendes - American Beauty
  • Spike Jonze - Being John Malkovich
  • Lasse Hallström - The Cider House Rules
  • Michael Mann - The Insider
  • M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense

2000-an

• 2000 Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
  • Stephen Daldry - Billy Elliot
  • Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich
  • Ridley Scott - Gladiator
  • Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)

• 2001 Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
  • Ridley Scott - Black Hawk Down
  • Robert Altman - Gosford Park
  • Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • David Lynch - Mulholland Drive

• 2002 Roman Polanski - The Pianist
  • Rob Marshall - Chicago
  • Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
  • Pedro Almodóvar - Talk to Her (Hable con ella)
  • Stephen Daldry - The Hours

• 2003 Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Fernando Meirelles - City of God
  • Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
  • Peter Weir - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  • Clint Eastwood - Mystic River

• 2004 Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
  • Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
  • Taylor Hackford - Ray
  • Alexander Payne - Sideways
  • Mike Leigh - Vera Drake

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

• 2006 Martin Scorsese - The Departed
  • Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
  • Stephen Frears - The Queen
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
  • Paul Greengrass - United 93

• 2007 Joel Coen dan Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
  • Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood
  • Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
  • Jason Reitman - Juno
  • Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

• 2008 Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
  • Stephen Daldry - The Reader
  • David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
  • Gus Van Sant - Milk

• 2009 Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker (sutradara wanita pertama yang memenangkan Oscar)
  • James Cameron – Avatar
  • Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
  • Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
  • Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

2010-an

• 2010 Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
  • Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
  • Joel & Ethan Coen – True Grit
  • Jason Reitman – The Social Network
  • David O. Russell – The Fighter

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