Every Best Director Winner In Oscar History
The ’10s
For the first time since Joseph Mankiewicz, a director actually won this award back-to-back: Alejandro González Iñárritu won for both Birdman and The Revenant. Unfortunately, he can’t actually go for the threepeat, because he isn’t nominated this year. Alas, he’ll have to make do with doing something only one other person has accomplished.
2010: Tom Hooper — The King’s Speech
- Hooper’s also directed Les Miserables and The Danish Girl.
2011: Michel Hazanavicius — The Artist
- Hazanavicius could have had an additional Oscar for Best Original Screenplay on The Artist.
2012: Ang Lee — Life of Pi
- Life of Pi, like Brokeback Mountain before it, didn’t win Best Picture.
2013: Alfonso Cuarón — Gravity
- Cuarón has also directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
2014: Alejandro González Iñárritu — Birdman
- Iñárritu’s work also includes Babel.
2015: Alejandro González Iñárritu — The Revenant
- Also, The Revenant finally won Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar, even if it didn’t win Best Picture.
Next: Every Best Picture Winner
Who will win this year? Will it be Barry Jenkins for Moonlight? Damian Chazelle for La La Land?Or one of the other nominated directors?
We’ll find out on Feb. 26.