Best Directors Who Won the Oscar In the 2000s

The Top Ten
1 Roman Polanski - The Pianist Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film directer, best known for Repulsion (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1968), and Chinatown (1974). His former wife, Sharon Tate, along with their unborn son, was murdered by followers of Charles Manson. Polanski is also a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system; he fled the country in 1977 while awaiting sentencing for unlawful intercourse with a minor.
2 Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He first came to prominence as a child actor, guest-starring in several television series, including an episode of The Twilight Zone. He gained national attention for playing young Opie Taylor, the ...read more.
3 Steven Soderbergh - Traffic
4 Martin Scorsese - The Departed
5 Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker Kathryn Ann Bigelow is an American director, producer, and writer. Her films include the vampire Western horror film Near Dark, the action crime film Point Break, the science fiction action thriller Strange Days, the mystery thriller The Weight of Water, the submarine thriller K-19: The Widowmaker, ...read more.
6 Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
7 Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
8 Joel & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
9 Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. is an American actor, film director, producer, musician, and political figure.
10 Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy, both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkein. He is also known for cult films like Bad ...read more.
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