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Total: 96  
Seen: 64 (66.7%)
See Again: 0 (0.0%)
Unseen: 32 (33.3%)

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Academy Awards Best Director

1. 7th Heaven (1927)
2. The Divine Lady (1929)
3. All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
4. Skippy (1931)
5. Bad Girl (1931)
6. Cavalcade (1933)
7. It Happened One Night (1934)
8. The Informer (1935)
9. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
10. The Awful Truth (1937)
11. You Can't Take It With You (1938)
12. Gone With the Wind (1939)
13. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
14. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
15. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
16. Casablanca (1942)
17. Going My Way (1944)
18. The Lost Weekend (1945)
19. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
20. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
21. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
22. A Letter To Three Wives (1949)
23. All About Eve (1950)
24. A Place In the Sun (1951)
25. The Quiet Man (1952)
26. From Here To Eternity (1953)
27. On the Waterfront (1954)
28. Marty (1955)
29. Giant (1956)
30. The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
31. Gigi (1958)
32. Ben-Hur (1959)
33. The Apartment (1960)
34. West Side Story (1961)
35. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
36. Tom Jones (1963)
37. My Fair Lady (1964)
38. The Sound of Music (1965)
39. A Man For All Seasons (1966)
40. The Graduate (1967)
41. Oliver! (1968)
42. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
43. Patton (1970)
44. The French Connection (1971)
45. Cabaret (1972)
46. The Sting (1973)
47. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
48. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
49. Rocky (1976)
50. Annie Hall (1977)
51. The Deer Hunter (1978)
52. Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
53. Ordinary People (1980)
54. Reds (1981)
55. Gandhi (1982)
56. Terms of Endearment (1983)
57. Amadeus (1984)
58. Out of Africa (1985)
59. Platoon (1986)
60. The Last Emperor (1987)
61. Rain Man (1988)
62. Born On the Fourth of July (1989)
63. Dances With Wolves (1990)
64. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
65. Unforgiven (1992)
66. Schindler's List (1993)
67. Forrest Gump (1994)
68. Braveheart (1995)
69. The English Patient (1996)
70. Titanic (1997)
71. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
72. American Beauty (1999)
73. Traffic (2000)
74. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
75. The Pianist (2002)
76. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
77. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
78. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
79. The Departed (2006)
80. No Country For Old Men (2007)
81. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
82. The Hurt Locker (2009)
83. The King's Speech (2010)
84. The Artist (2011)
85. Life of Pi (2012)
86. Gravity (2013)
87. Birdman (2014)
88. The Revenant (2015)
89. La La Land (2016)
90. The Shape of Water (2017)
91. Roma (2018)
92. Parasite (2019)
93. Nomadland (2020)
94. The Power of the Dog (2021)
95. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
96. Oppenheimer (2023)