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and yes, the shorts noted don't count for the totals.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Best Director

306 nominees in total seen.
65 winners seen.
1 write-in nominee seen.

In chronological order of me having seen them.

Pre-2004
• George Lucas, Star Wars (1977)
• Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
• Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Rob Marshall, Chicago (2002)
• Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

2005
• Martin Scorsese, The Aviator (2004)
• Taylor Hackford, Ray (2004)
• Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Alexander Payne, Sideways (2004)
• Paul Haggis, Crash (2005)
• Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

2006
• James Cameron, Titanic (1997)
• George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
• Bennett Miller, Capote (2005)
• Paul Greengrass, United 93 (2006)
• Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Steven Spielberg, Munich (2005)
• Martin Scorsese, The Departed (2006)
• Sam Mendes, American Beauty (1999)
• Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel (2006)

January, 2007
• Stephen Frears, The Queen (2006)

February, 2007
• Robert Benton, Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
• Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Victor Fleming, Gone with the Wind (1939)

April, 2007
• Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot (2000)
• Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation (2003)

August, 2007
• Robert Altman, Gosford Park (2001)
• Mike Leigh, Vera Drake (2004)
• George Cukor, Born Yesterday (1950)

September, 2007
• Robert Redford, Ordinary People (1980)
• Akira Kurosawa, Ran (1985)

October, 2007
• Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander (1983)

November, 2007
• Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca (1940)
• David Lynch, Mulholland Drive (2001)

December, 2007
• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Mike Nichols, The Graduate (1967)
• Stanley Kramer, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

January, 2008
• Jason Reitman, Juno (2007)
• Stephen Daldry, The Hours (2002)

February, 2008
• Alfred Hitchcock, Rear Window (1954)
• Frank Capra, It Happened One Night (1934)
• William Wyler, Roman Holiday (1953)
• Anthony Harvey, The Lion in Winter (1968)
• William Wyler, Wuthering Heights (1939)
• Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton (2007)
• Billy Wilder, Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential (1997)
• Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons (1966)

March, 2008
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve (1950)
• Martin Scorsese, The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
• Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up (1966)
• Frank Perry, David and Lisa (1962)
• Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers (1968)

April, 2008
• Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

May, 2008
• Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Frank Capra, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

June, 2008
• Sidney Lumet, Network (1976)
• Atom Egoyan, The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

July, 2008
• Billy Wilder, Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
• Leo McCarey, The Awful Truth (1937)
• Krzysztof Kieslowski, Three Colors: Red (1994)
• Woody Allen, Interiors (1978)

August, 2008
• Clarence Brown, Anna Christie (1929/1930)
• Arthur Penn, The Miracle Worker (1962)
• Carol Reed, The Third Man (1950)
• François Truffaut, Day for Night (1974)
• George Cukor, The Philadelphia Story (1950)

September, 2008
• Woody Allen, Annie Hall (1977)
• Joel Coen, Fargo (1996)
• Mike Leigh, Secrets & Lies (1996)
• Robert Wise, The Sound of Music (1965)

October, 2008
• Marvin Ritt, Hud (1963)
• Frank Capra, You Can't Take It with You (1938)
• Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho (1960)
• Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard (1950)

November, 2008
• Laurence Olivier, Hamlet (1948)
• Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity (1944)

December, 2008
• Fred Zinnemann, High Noon (1952)
• Bob Fosse, Cabaret (1972)
• Richard Brooks, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
• David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• Michael Curtiz, Casablanca (1943)
• Gus Van Sant, Milk (2008)

January, 2009
• Stephen Daldry, The Reader (2008)
• Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• George Roy Hill, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull (1980)
• Fernando Meirelles, City of God (2003)

February, 2009
• Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• Vincente Minnelli, Gigi (1958)
• Billy Wilder, The Apartment (1960)
• Jack Clayton, Room at the Top (1959)
• Carol Reed, The Fallen Idol (1949)
• Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon (2008)
• John Schlesinger, Darling (1965)
• Roman Polanski, The Pianist (2002)
• Roman Polanski, Chinatown (1974)
• David Lean, Doctor Zhivago (1965)

March, 2009
• Anthony Minghella, The English Patient (1996)
• Robert Stevenson, Mary Poppins (1964)
• James Ivory, A Room with a View (1986)
• Pedro Almodóvar, Talk to Her (2002)
• Jane Campion, The Piano (1993)

April, 2009
• Alfred Hitchcock, Spellbound (1945)
• Robert Z. Leonard, The Divorcee (1929/1930)
• Frank Capra, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
• George La Cava, Stage Door (1937)

May, 2009
• William Wyler, The Letter (1940)
• Federico Fellini, (1963)

June, 2009
• William Wyler, The Little Foxes (1941)
• Syndey Pollack, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
• Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
• Tony Richardson, Tom Jones (1963)
• Vincente Minnelli, An American in Paris (1951)
• Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• David Lean, Brief Encounter (1946)

July, 2009
• W.S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man (1934)
• John Ford, Stagecoach (1939)
• John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

August, 2009
• John Huston, The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• Elia Kazan, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds (2009)

September, 2009
• Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker (2009)

October, 2009
• Gregory La Cava, My Man Godfrey (1936)
• John Huston, The African Queen (1951)
• King Vidor, The Champ (1931/1932)
• William Wyler, The Heiress (1949)

November, 2009
• King Vidor, The Crowd (1927/1928)

December, 2009
• Billy Wilder, Sabrina (1954)
• James Cameron, Avatar (2009)
• George Seaton, The Country Girl (1954)
• Jason Reitman, Up in the Air (2009)
• Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (1941)

January, 2010
• Warren Beatty, Reds (1981)
• Lee Daniels, Precious (2009)
• Ingmar Bergman, Cries and Whispers (1973)

February, 2010
• William Friedkin, The Exorcist (1973)
• Edward Dmytryk. Crossfire (1947)
• Fred Zinnemann, Julia (1977)
• David Lean, Summertime (1955)
• Anatole Litvak, The Snake Pit (1948)
• George Stevens, A Place in the Sun (1951)
• King Vidor, The Citadel (1938)
• Clarence Brown, A Free Soul (1930/1931)
• Richard Brooks, In Cold Blood (1967)
• Mike Nichols, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• William Wyler, Ben-Hur (1959)

March, 2010
• Jim Sheridan, In the Name of the Father (1993)
• Sam Wood, Kitty Foyle (1940)
• Pietro Germi, Divorce, Italian Style (1962)
• David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront (1954)
• Jean Negulesco, Johnny Belinda (1948)

April, 2010
• Peter Bogdanovich, The Last Picture Show (1971)
• Stanley Kramer, Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
• William A. Wellman, A Star Is Born (1937)

May, 2010
• William A. Wellman, Battleground (1949)

June, 2010
• Herbert Ross, The Turning Point (1977)
• Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, West Side Story (1961)

July, 2010
• William Wyler, Dodsworth (1936)
• Robert Mulligan, To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• David Lean, Great Expectations (1947)
• John Sturges, Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

August, 2010
• Otto Preminger, Laura (1944)
• George Roy Hill, The Sting (1973)
• Sam Wood, Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
• Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor (1987)
• Richard Rush, The Stunt Man (1980)

September, 2010
• Mervyn LeRoy, Random Harvest (1942)
• Fred Zinnemann, The Sundowners (1960)
• Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity (1953)

October, 2010
• David Fincher, The Social Network (2010)

November, 2010
• David Lean, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• William Wyler, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• Josef von Sternberg, Morocco (1930/1931)
• Peter Glenville, Becket (1964)

December, 2010
• Chris Noonan, Babe (1995)
• Fred Zinnemann, The Nun's Story (1959)
• Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan (2010)
• Richard Attenborough, Gandhi (1982)
• Alan Parker, Mississippi Burning (1988)
• John Ford, The Quiet Man (1952)
• Henry Koster, The Bishop's Wife (1947)
• Mike Nichols, Working Girl (1988)
• Peter Weir, Witness (1985)
• David O. Russell, The Fighter (2010)
• Tom Hooper, The King's Speech (2010)
• Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (1972)

January, 2011
• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, True Grit (2010)
• Josef von Sternberg, Shanghai Express (1931/1932)
• John Huston, Prizzi's Honor (1985)
• Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men (1957)
• M. Night Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense (1999)

February, 2011
• James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment (1952)
• Ernst Lubitsch, The Love Parade (1929/1930)
• Gus Van Sant, Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Clarence Brown, The Yearling (1946)
• George Stevens, The More the Merrier (1942)
• Costa-Gavras, Z (1969)
• Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire (1981)
• Alexander Hall, Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
• Milos Forman, Amadeus (1984)
• Ridley Scott, Thelma & Louise (1991)
• William Wyler, The Collector (1965)
• Milos Forman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

March, 2011
• Harry Beaumont, The Broadway Melody (1928/1929)

April, 2011
• Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Michael Curtiz, Four Daughters (1938)
• Henry King, Wilson (1944)
• Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men (1976)
• Mike Nichols, Silkwood (1983)
• Sidney Lumet, Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Sidney Lumet, The Verdict (1982)

May, 2011
• Lewis Milestone, Two Arabian Knights (1927/1928; Comedy)
• George Cukor, My Fair Lady (1964)
• George Cukor, Little Women (1932/1933)
• Joshua Logan, Picnic (1955)
• Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa (1985)

June, 2011
• Elia Kazan, East of Eden (1955)
• Ernst Lubitsch, Heaven Can Wait (1943)
• Henry King, The Song of Bernadette (1943)
• Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life (2011)
• Robert Siodmak, The Killers (1946)
• Roland Joffé, The Killing Fields (1984)

July, 2011
• Elia Kazan, Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

August, 2011
• Alan Parker, Midnight Express (1978)

September, 2011
• Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris (2011)
• George Stevens, Giant (1956)
• Héctor Babenco, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
• Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
• Barbet Schroeder, Reversal of Fortune (1990)

October, 2011
• Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

November, 2011
• Robert Redford, Quiz Show (1994)
• Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas (1990)
• Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Martin Scorsese, Gangs of New York (2002)
• Kenneth Branagh, Henry V (1989)
• Stephen Frears, The Grifters (1990)

December, 2011
• Martin Scorsese, Hugo (2011)
• Bob Fosse, Lenny (1974)
• Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
• Dustin Hoffman, Tootsie (1982)

January, 2012
• Alexander Payne, The Descendants (2011)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
• Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist (2011)
• Peter Weir, Dead Poets Society (1989)

February, 2012
• William Wyler, Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• Fred Zinnemann, The Search (1948)
• Federico Fellini, Amarcord (1975)
• Charles Walters, Lili (1975)
• Jules Dassin, Never on Sunday (1960)
• Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita (1961)

March, 2012
• Robert Rossen, All the King's Men (1949)
• Norman Jewison, Moonstruck (1987)
• Tim Robbins, Dead Man Walking (1995)
• Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend (1945)
• Jim Sheridan, My Left Foot (1989)

April, 2012
• Barry Levinson, Bugsy (1991)

May, 2012
• John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (1974)
• Joshua Logan, Sayonara (1957)

June, 2012
• Elia Kazan, America, America (1963)
• Claude Lelouch, A Man and a Woman (1966)
• Robert Wise, I Want to Live! (1958)

July, 2012
• Michael Curtiz, Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
• Clarence Brown, Romance (1929/1930)
• Mark Robson, Peyton Place (1957)

August, 2012
• Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (1994)

September, 2012
• John Madden, Shakespeare in Love (1998)

November, 2012
• Michael Curtiz, Captain Blood (1935)
• Clarence Brown, National Velvet (1945)
• Alfred Hitchcock, Lifeboat (1944)

December, 2012
• Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
• Robert Rossen, The Hustler (1961)

January, 2013
• Robert Benton, Places in the Heart (1984)
• Steven Spielberg, Lincoln (2012)

February, 2013
• Peter Cattaneo, The Full Monty (1997)
• David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

April, 2013
• John Schlesinger, Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
• Édouard Molinaro, La Cage aux Folles (1979)
• Adrian Lyne, Fatal Attraction (1987)
• Federico Fellini, Fellini Satyricon (1970)

May, 2013
• Warren Beatty and Buck Henry, Heaven Can Wait (1978)

June, 2013
• Louis Malle, Atlantic City (1981)
• William Wyler, Detective Story (1951)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sleuth (1972)

July, 2013
• Frank Capra, Lady for a Day (1932/1933)

August, 2013
• Norman Jewison, In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• Delbert Mann, Marty (1955)

September, 2013
• Ang Lee, Life of Pi (2012)
• Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter (1978)
• George Stevens, Shane (1953)
• Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

November, 2013
• Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (2013)

December, 2013
• David O. Russell, American Hustle (2013)

January, 2014
• Ted Wilde, Speedy (1927/1928; Comedy)

February, 2014
• Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity (2013)
• Robert Altman, M*A*S*H (1970)
• Victor Schertzinger, One Night of Love (1934)

March, 2014
• Alexander Payne, Nebraska (2013)
• Peter Weir, The Truman Show (1998)

April, 2014
• Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
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All Nominees Seen in:
1934 • 1939 • 1940 • 1948 • 1949 • 1950 • 1951 • 1955 • 1957 • 1962 • 1967 • 1977 • 1985 • 1989 • 1997 • 2002 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2013

At least 75% of Nominees Seen in:
1943 • 1944 • 1946 • 1947 • 1953 • 1954 • 1959 • 1960 • 1961 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1971 • 1974 • 1978 • 1981 • 1982 • 1988 • 2001 • 2012

At least 50% of Nominees Seen in:
1929/1930 • 1931/1932 • 1932/1933 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1941 • 1942 • 1945 • 1958 • 1968 • 1969 • 1972 • 1973 • 1975 • 1980 • 1983 • 1984 • 1987 • 1990 • 1991 • 1994 • 1996 • 1998 • 2003

Percent Seen by Decade
'20s/'30s: 53%
(29/54)
'40s: 78%
(39/50)
'50s: 76%
(38/50)
'60s: 80%
(40/50)
'70s: 62%
(31/50)
'80s: 74%
(37/50)
'90s: 50%
(25/50)
'00s: 88%
(44/50)
'10s: 95%
(19/20)

72% of nominees seen, of 424.
75% of winners seen, of 87.

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