I thought I had seen more of these, but I guess 27 isn’t a bad start.
1927 Wings – William A. Wellman
1928 The Broadway Melody – Norman Taurog
1929 All Quiet on the Western Front -Lewis Milestone
1930 Cimarron – Wesley Ruggles
1931 Grand Hotel – Edmund Goulding
1932 Cavalcade – Frank Lloyd
1934 It Happened One Night – Frank Capra
1935 Mutiny on the Bounty – Frank Lloyd
1936 The Great Ziegfeld – Robert Z. Leonard
1937 The Life of Emile Zola – William Dieterle
1938 You Can’t Take It with You – Frank Capra
1939 Gone with the Wind – Victor Fleming
1940 Rebecca – Alfred Hitchcock
1941 How Green Was My Valley – John Ford
1942 Mrs. Miniver – William Wyler
1943 Casablanca – Michael Curtiz
1944 Going My Way – Leo McCarey
1945 The Lost Weekend – Billy Wilder
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives – William Wyler
1947 Gentleman’s Agreement – Elia Kazan
1948 Hamlet – Laurence Olivier
1949 All the King’s Men – Robert Rossen
1950 All About Eve – Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1951 An American in Paris – Vincente Minnelli
1952 The Greatest Show on Earth – Cecil B. DeMille
1953 From Here to Eternity – Fred Zinnemann
1954 On the Waterfront – Elia Kazan
1955 Marty – Delbert Mann
1956 Around the World in 80 Days – Michael Anderson
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai – David Lean
1958 Gigi – Charles Walters & Vincente Minnelli
1959 Ben-Hur – William Wyler
1960 The Apartment – Billy Wilder
1961 West Side Story – Robert Wise &Jerom Robbins
1962 Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean
1963 Tom Jones – Tony Richardson
1964 My Fair Lady – George Cukor1965 The Sound of Music – Robert Wise
1966 A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann
1967 In the Heat of the Night – Norman Jewison
1968 Oliver! – Carol Reed
1969 Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger
1970 Patton – Franklin J. Schaffner
1971 The French Connection – William Friedkin
1972 The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola
1973 The Sting – George Roy Hill
1974 The Godfather Part II Francis Ford Coppola-
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Milos Forman1976 Rocky – John G. Avildsen
1977 Annie Hall – Woody Allen
1978 The Deer Hunter – Michael Cimino
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton
1980 Ordinary People – Robert Redford
1981 Chariots of Fire – Hugh Hudson
1982 Gandhi – Richard Attenborough1983 Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks
1984 Amadeus – Milos Forman
1985 Out of Africa – Sydney Pollack
1986 Platoon – Oliver Stone
1987 The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci
1988 Rain Man – Barry Levinson1989 Driving Miss Daisy – Bruce Beresford
1990 Dances with Wolves – Kevin Costner1991 The Silence of the Lambs – Jonathan Demme
1992 Unforgiven – Clint Eastwood
1993 Schindler’s List – Steven Spielberg1994 Forrest Gump – Robert Zemeckis1995 Braveheart – Mel Gibson
1996 The English Patient – Anthony Minghella
1997 Titanic – James Cameron
1998 Shakespeare in Love – John Madden
1999 American Beauty – Sam Mendes
2000 Gladiator – Ridley Scott2001 A Beautiful Mind – Ron Howard2002 Chicago – Rob Marshall2003 The LOTR :The Return Of the King – Peter Jackson
2004 Million Dollar Baby – Clint Eastwood
