Best of the Academy Awards Finalists: Best Director

Lewis Milestone "All Quiet on the Western Front"
Frank Capra "It Happened One Night"
Victor Fleming "Gone With the Wind"
John Ford "The Grapes of Wrath"
William Wyler "Mrs. Miniver"
Michael Curtiz "Casablanca"
John Huston "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
Joseph L. Makiewicz "All About Eve"
Elia Kazan "On the Waterfront"
Billy Wilder "The Apartment"
David Lean "Lawrence of Arabia"
Mike Nichols "The Graduate"
Francis Ford Coppola "The Godfather Part II"
Milos Forman "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Woody Allen "Annie Hall"
Michael Cimino "The Deer Hunter"
Oliver Stone "Platoon"
Jonathan Demme "The Silence of the Lambs"
Clint Eastwood "Unforgiven"
Steven Spielberg "Schindler's List"
James Cameron "Titanic"
Roman Polanski "The Pianist"
Peter Jackson "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
Martin Scorsese "The Departed"
Joel and Ethan Coen "No Country For Old Men"
Kathryn Bigelow "The Hurt Locker"