Best of the Academy Awards Nominees: Best Director

Frank Capra "It Happened One Night"
John Ford "The Grapes of Wrath"
John Huston "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"

Joseph L. Mankiewicz "All About Eve"
Elia Kazan "On the Waterfront"
Billy Wilder "The Apartment"
David Lean "Lawrence of Arabia"
Mike Nichols "The Graduate"
Francis Ford Coppola "The Godfather Part II"
Milos Forman "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Steven Spielberg "Schindler's List"

Peter Jackson "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
Martin Scorsese "The Departed"