Best Director on Blu-ray

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Academy Award Winners for Best Director
on Region A Blu-ray
(or DVD when no Blu-ray)
Red = DVD Only

1920's

Frank Borzage - 7th Heaven (1927)
Lewis Milestone - Two Arabian Knights (1927) No DVD or Blu-ray listed on this site.
Frank Lloyd - The Divine Lady (1929)


1930's

Lewis Milestone - All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
Norman Taurog - Skippy (1931) No DVD or Blu-ray listed on this site.
Frank Borzage - Bad Girl (1931)
Frank Lloyd - Cavalcade (1933)
Frank Capra - It Happened One Night (1934)

John Ford - The Informer (1935)
Frank Capra - Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
Leo McCarey - The Awful Truth (1937)
Frank Capra - You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Victor Fleming - Gone With The Wind (1939)


1940's

John Ford - The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
John Ford - How Green Was My Valley (1941)
William Wyler - Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Michael Curtiz - Casablanca (1943)
Leo McCarey - Going My Way (1944)

Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend (1945)
William Wyler - The Best Years Of Our Lives (1946)
Elia Kazan - Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
John Huston - The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (1948)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - A Letter To Three Wives (1949)


1950's

Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve (1950)
George Stevens - A Place In The Sun (1951)
John Ford - The Quiet Man (1952)
Fred Zinnemann - From Here To Eternity (1953)
Elia Kazan - On The Waterfront (1954)

Delbert Mann - Marty (1955)
George Stevens - Giant (1956)
David Lean - The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
Vincente Minnelli - Gigi (1958)
William Wyler - Ben-Hur (1959)


1960's

Billy Wilder - The Apartment (1960)
Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins - West Side Story (1961)
David Lean - Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
Tony Richardson - Tom Jones (1963)
George Cukor - My Fair Lady (1964)

Robert Wise - The Sound Of Music (1965)
Fred Zinnemann - A Man For All Seasons (1966)
Mike Nichols - The Graduate (1967)
Carol Reed - Oliver! (1968)
John Schlesinger - Midnight Cowboy (1969)


1970's

Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton (1970)
William Friedkin - The French Connection (1971)
Bob Fosse - Cabaret (1972)
George Roy Hill - The Sting (1973)
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II (1974)

Miloš Forman - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
John G. Avildsen - Rocky (1976)
Woody Allen - Annie Hall (1977)
Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter (1978)
Robert Benton - Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)


1980's

Robert Redford - Ordinary People (1980)
Warren Beatty - Reds (1981)
Richard Attenborough - Gandhi (1982)
James L. Brooks - Terms Of Endearment (1983)
Miloš Forman - Amadeus (1984)

Sydney Pollack - Out Of Africa (1985)
Oliver Stone - Platoon (1986)
Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor (1987)
Barry Levinson - Rain Man (1988)
Oliver Stone - Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)


1990's

Kevin Costner - Dances With Wolves (1990)
Jonathan Demme - The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven (1992)
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List (1993)
Robert Zemeckis - Forrest Gump (1994)

Mel Gibson - Braveheart (1995)
Anthony Minghella - The English Patient (1996)
James Cameron - Titanic (1997)
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Sam Mendes - American Beauty (1999)


2000's

Steven Soderbergh - Traffic (2000)
Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Roman Polanski - The Pianist (2002) Canada Region A Blu-ray
Peter Jackson - The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King (2003)
Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby (2004)

Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Martin Scorsese - The Departed (2006)
Coen Brothers - No Country For Old Men (2007)
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker (2009)


2010's

Tom Hooper - The King's Speech (2010)
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist (2011)
Ang Lee - Life Of Pi (2012)
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity (2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) (2014)

Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant (2015)
Damien Chazelle - La La Land (2016)
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape Of Water (2017)
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma (2018)
Bong Joon-ho - Parasite (2019)


2020's

Chloé Zhao - Nomadland (2020)
Jane Campion - The Power Of The Dog (2021)
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert - Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)


Note: Some of these movies have multiple releases. I've only linked to one version. I'm not claiming I linked to the best version. Just click on the Blu-ray cover to go to that Blu-ray's page and it links to all the other versions. Pick the one YOU want.

Award Winners on Blu-Ray
Best Picture (Winners & Nominees) / Best Actress / Best Actor / Best Director
Best Animated Feature (Winners & Nominees) / Best Documentary Feature / Best Foreign Language Film