I was sitting there doing one of our Oscar Podcast and was like: ‘You know what would be a good idea?’ Ranking the last twenty years of winners from the Academy.
So today, I continue my series with the Best Director category.
| Rank | Director | Movie |
| 1 | Bong Joon-Ho | Parasite |
| 2 | Martin Scorsese | The Departed |
| 3 | Damien Chazelle | La La Land |
| 4 | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker |
| 5 | Ethan Coen + Joel Coen | No Country for Old Men |
| 6 | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 7 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| 8 | Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind |
| 9 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | The Revenant |
| 10 | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby |
| 11 | Alfonso Cuaron | Roma |
| 12 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffic |
| 13 | Peter Jackson | Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 14 | Tom Hooper | The King’s Speech |
| 15 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain |
| 16 | Alfonso Cuaron | Gravity |
| 17 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water |
| 18 | Ang Lee | Life of Pi |
| 19 | Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist |
| 20 | The Pianist |
