Statistics are valid through the 2007 (80th) Academy Awards, presented on February 24, 2008. [document last updated 3/08]
PICTURE AND DIRECTING WINNERS NOT FROM SAME FILM
1927/28 (1st) Picture: Wings (director William Wellman was NOT nominated).
Directing (Comedy Picture): Two Arabian Knights
(Lewis Milestone).
Directing (Dramatic Picture): 7th Heaven
(Frank Borzage).
1928/29 (2nd) Picture: The Broadway Melody (director Harry Beaumont
was under consideration).
Directing: The Divine Lady (Frank Lloyd).
1930/31 (4th) Picture: Cimarron (director Wesley Ruggles was nominated).
Directing: Skippy (Norman Taurog).
1931/32 (5th) Picture: Grand Hotel (director Edmund Goulding was NOT
nominated).
Directing: Bad Girl (Frank Borzage).
1935 (8th) Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty (director Frank Lloyd was nominated).
Directing: The Informer (John Ford).
1936 (9th) Picture: The Great Ziegfeld (director Robert Z. Leonard was
nominated).
Directing: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank
Capra).
1937 (10th) Picture: The Life of Emile Zola (director William Dieterle
was nominated).
Directing: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey).
1940 (13th) Picture: Rebecca (director Alfred Hitchcock was nominated).
Directing: The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford).
1948 (21st) Picture: Hamlet (director Laurence Olivier was nominated).
Directing: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
(John Huston).
1949 (22nd) Picture: All the King's Men (director Robert Rossen was
nominated).
Directing: A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph
L. Mankiewicz).
1951 (24th) Picture: An American in Paris (director Vincente Minnelli
was nominated).
Directing: A Place in the Sun (George Stevens).
1952 (25th) Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth (director Cecil B. DeMille
was nominated).
Directing: The Quiet Man (John Ford).
1956 (29th) Picture: Around the World in 80 Days (director Michael Anderson
was nominated).
Directing: Giant (George Stevens).
1967 (40th) Picture: In the Heat of the Night (director Norman Jewison
was nominated).
Directing: The Graduate (Mike Nichols).
1972 (45th) Picture: The Godfather (director Francis Ford Coppola was
nominated).
Directing: Cabaret (Bob Fosse).
1981 (54th) Picture: Chariots of Fire (director Hugh Hudson was nominated).
Directing: Reds (Warren Beatty).
1989 (62nd) Picture: Driving Miss Daisy (director Bruce Beresford was
NOT nominated).
Directing: Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver
Stone).
1998 (71st) Picture: Shakespeare in Love (director John Madden was nominated).
Directing: Saving Private Ryan (Steven
Spielberg).
2000 (73rd) Picture: Gladiator (director Ridley Scott was nominated).
Directing: Traffic (Steven Soderbergh).
2002 (75th) Picture: Chicago (director Rob Marshall was nominated).
Directing: The Pianist (Roman Polanski).
2005 (78th) Picture: Crash (director Paul Haggis was nominated).
Directing: Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee).