Won Best Director, but not Best Picture (Academy Awards)
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- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen BardA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.1928 - Frank Borzage
"Wings" won Best Picture, directed by William A. Wellman, who was not nominated for Best Director. - DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsWilliam BoydMary AstorLouis WolheimTwo American soldiers are captured by the Germans on the Western Front during World War One and escape a POW camp only to stumble into further life-threatening adventures when they come across an Arabian king's daughter while on the lam.1928 - Lewis Milestone
"Wings" won Best Picture, directed by William A. Wellman, who was not nominated for Best Director.
"Two Arabian Knights" was not nominated for Best Picture. - DirectorFrank LloydStarsCorinne GriffithVictor VarconiH.B. WarnerThe story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.1929 - Frank Lloyd
"The Broadway Melody" won Best Picture, directed by Harry Beaumont.
"The Divine Lady" was not nominated for Best Picture. - DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJackie CooperRobert CooganMitzi GreenSkippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.1931 - Norman Taurog
"Cimarron" won Best Picture, directed by Wesley Ruggles. - DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJames DunnSally EilersMinna GombellTwo adolescents fall in love and are wed, but misunderstandings born from a lack of trust and communication haunt their marriage.1932 - Frank Borzage
"Grand Hotel" won Best Picture, directed by Edmund Goulding, who was not nominated for Best Director. - DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston FosterIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.1935 - John Ford
"Mutiny on the Bounty" won Best Picture, directed by Frank Lloyd. - DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperJean ArthurGeorge BancroftA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.1936 - Frank Capra
"The Great Ziegeld" won Best Picture, directed by Robert Z. Leonard. - DirectorLeo McCareyStarsIrene DunneCary GrantRalph BellamyA married couple files an amicable divorce, but find letting go of each other harder than they originally thought.1937 - Leo McCarey
"The Life of Emile Zola" won Best Picture, directed by William Dieterle. - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.1940 - John Ford
"Rebecca" won Best Picture, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. - DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartWalter HustonTim HoltTwo down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.1948 - John Huston
"Hamlet" won Best Picture, directed by Laurence Olivier. - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsJeanne CrainLinda DarnellAnn SothernA letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.1949 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
"All the King's Men" won Best Picture, directed by Robert Rossen. - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsMontgomery CliftElizabeth TaylorShelley WintersA poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.1951 - George Stevens
"An American in Paris" won Best Picture, directed by Vincente Minnelli. - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneMaureen O'HaraBarry FitzgeraldA retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.1952 - John Ford
"The Greatest Show on Earth" won Best Picture, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsElizabeth TaylorRock HudsonJames DeanSprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.1956 - George Stevens
"Around the World in Eighty Days" won Best Picture, directed by Michael Anderson. - DirectorMike NicholsStarsDustin HoffmanAnne BancroftKatharine RossA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.1967 - Mike Nichols
"In the Heat of the Night" won Best Picture, directed by Norman Jewison. - DirectorBob FosseStarsLiza MinnelliMichael YorkHelmut GriemA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.1972 - Bob Fosse
"The Godfather" won Best Picture, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. - DirectorWarren BeattyStarsWarren BeattyDiane KeatonEdward HerrmannA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.1981 - Warren Beatty
"Chariots of Fire" won Best Picture, directed by Hugh Hudson. - DirectorOliver StoneStarsTom CruiseBryan LarkinRaymond J. BarryThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.1989 - Oliver Stone
"Driving Miss Daisy" won Best Picture, directed by Bruce Beresford, who was not nominated for Best Director. - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.1998 - Steven Spielberg
"Shakespeare in Love" won Best Picture, directed by John Madden. - DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsMichael DouglasBenicio Del ToroCatherine Zeta-JonesA conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.2000 - Steven Soderbergh
"Gladiator" won Best Picture, directed by Ridley Scott. - DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsAdrien BrodyThomas KretschmannFrank FinlayDuring WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.2002 - Roman Polanski
"Chicago" won Best Picture, directed by Rob Marshall. - DirectorAng LeeStarsJake GyllenhaalHeath LedgerMichelle WilliamsTwo shepherds fall for each other, but their relationship becomes complicated when they both get married to their respective girlfriends.2005 - Ang Lee
"Crash" won Best Picture, directed by Paul Haggis. - DirectorAng LeeStarsSuraj SharmaIrrfan KhanAdil HussainA young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.2012 - Ang Lee
"Argo" won Best Picture, directed by Ben Affleck, who was not nominated for Best Director. - DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsSandra BullockGeorge ClooneyEd HarrisDr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.2013 - Alfonso Cuarón
"12 Years a Slave" won Best Picture, directed by Steve McQueen. - DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsLeonardo DiCaprioTom HardyWill PoulterA frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.2015 - Alejandro González Iñárritu
"Spotlight" won Best Picture, directed by Tom McCarthy.