With many directors since the 1970s winning the Oscar for Best Director in the early-to-prime of their careers, every single Oscar-winning director was alive from Francis Ford Coppola's win for THE GODFATHER, PART II (1974) to present, until Anthony Minghella's (pictured with THE ENGLISH PATIENT Oscar) premature passing at age 54. Here's a list of the 32 living Oscar-winning Best Directors as it now stands:
1. Mike Nichols: The Graduate (1967)
2. William Friedkin: The French Connection (1971)
3. Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather, Part II (1974)
4. Milos Forman: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
5. John G. Avildsen: Rocky (1976)
6. Woody Allen: Annie Hall (1977)
7. Michael Cimino: The Deer Hunter (1978)
8. Robert Benton: Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
9. Robert Redford: Ordinary People (1980)
10. Warren Beatty: Reds (1981)
11. Richard Attenborough: Gandhi (1982)
12. James L. Brooks: Terms of Endearment (1983)
—. Milos Forman: Amadeus (1984)
13. Sydney Pollack: Out of Africa (1985)
14. Oliver Stone: Platoon (1986)
15. Bernardo Bertolucci: The Last Emperor (1987)
16. Barry Levinson: Rain Man (1988)
—. Oliver Stone: Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
17. Kevin Costner: Dances with Wolves (1990)
18. Jonathan Demme" The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
19. Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven (1992)
20. Steven Spielberg: Schindler's List (1993)
21. Robert Zemeckis: Forrest Gump (1994)
22. Mel Gibson: Braveheart (1995)
23. James Cameron: Titanic (1997)
—. Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
24. Sam Mendes: American Beauty (1999)
25. Steven Soderbergh: Traffic (2000)
26. Ron Howard: A Beautiful Mind (2001)
27. Roman Polanski: The Pianist (2002)
28. Peter Jackson: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
—. Clint Eastwood: Million Dollar Baby (2004)
29. Ang Lee: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
30. Martin Scorsese: The Departed (2006)
31 & 32. Joel and Ethan Coen: No Country For Old Men (2007)
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