De Academy Award voor beste regisseur (Engels: Academy Award for Best Directing, ook bekend als de Oscar voor beste regisseur of beste regie) is een jaarlijkse filmprijs van de Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Het is een van de belangrijkste Academy Awards, voor de beste regisseur van het voorgaande jaar. Welke films daarvoor in aanmerking komen wordt bepaald door mensen die werkzaam zijn in de filmindustrie. Uiteindelijk worden vijf regisseurs (in de eerste jaren ook enkele keren drie) bekendgemaakt, die genomineerd zijn voor de prijs. Tijdens de jaarlijkse uitreiking wordt bekendgemaakt wie de prijs gewonnen heeft.
Winnaars en genomineerden De winnaars staan bovenaan in vette letters op een gele achtergrond. De overige regisseurs en films die werden genomineerd staan eronder vermeld in alfabetische volgorde.The Official Academy Awards Database
1927-1929 In het eerste jaar werd er een aparte prijs gegeven voor de beste regisseur van een drama en van een komedie: Jaar Regisseur Film 1927-28 Regie drama Frank Borzage 7th Heaven Herbert Brenon Sorrell and Son King Vidor The Crowd Regie komedie Lewis Milestone Two Arabian Knights Ted Wilde Speedy 1928-29De nominaties waren niet vooraf bekendgemaakt, tijdens de uitreiking werden alleen de winnaars bekendgemaakt. Op basis van interne gegevens is achteraf bepaald welke films door de juryleden in beraad waren genomen. Frank Lloyd The Divine Lady Lionel Barrymore Madame X Harry Beaumont The Broadway Melody Irving Cummings In Old Arizona Frank Lloyd Weary RiverDrag Ernst Lubitsch The Patriot
1930-1939 Jaar Regisseur Film 1929-30 Lewis Milestone All Quiet on the Western Front Clarence Brown Anna Christie Clarence Brown Romance Robert Z. Leonard The Divorcee Ernst Lubitsch The Love Parade King Vidor Hallelujah 1930-31 Norman Taurog Skippy Clarence Brown A Free Soul Lewis Milestone The Front Page Wesley Ruggles Cimarron Josef von Sternberg Morocco 1931-32 Frank Borzage Bad Girl King Vidor The Champ Josef von Sternberg Shanghai Express 1932-33Frank Capra werd tweede, George Cukor derde. Frank Lloyd Cavalcade Frank Capra Lady for a Day George Cukor Little Women 1934W.S. Van Dyke werd tweede, Victor Schertzinger derde. Frank Capra It Happened One Night Victor Schertzinger One Night of Love W.S. Van Dyke The Thin Man 1935Michael Curtiz werd tweede, Henry Hathaway derde. John Ford The Informer Michael Curtiz Write-in nominatie, niet officieel genomineerd door de Academy. Captain Blood Henry Hathaway The 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
1940-1949 Jaar Regisseur Film 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 The 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
1950-1959 Jaar Regisseur Film 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About Eve George Cukor Born Yesterday John Huston The Asphalt Jungle Carol Reed The Third Man Billy Wilder Sunset Blvd. 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 Five 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 80 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
1960-1969 Jaar Regisseur Film 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 en 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 Federico Fellini's 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?
1970-1979 Jaar Regisseur Film 1970 Franklin J. Schaffner Patton Robert Altman M*A*S*H Federico Fellini 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 Polański Chinatown François Truffaut Day for Night 1975 Miloš 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 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 en 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 Édouard Molinaro La Cage aux Folles Peter Yates Breaking Away
1980-1989 Jaar Regisseur Film 1980 Robert Redford Ordinary People David Lynch The Elephant Man Roman Polański 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 & Alexander Mike Nichols Silkwood Peter Yates The Dresser 1984 Miloš 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 Héctor 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 Joffé 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 Mike Nichols Working Girl Alan Parker Mississippi Burning Martin Scorsese The Last Temptation of Christ 1989 Oliver Stone Born on the Fourth of July Woody Allen Crimes and Misdemeanors Kenneth Branagh Henry V Jim Sheridan My Left Foot Peter Weir Dead Poets Society
1990-1999