Parima lavastaja Oscar

Parima lavastaja Oscar (inglise Academy Award for Best Directing, Best Director) on Oscari-filmiauhinna tähtsaimaid kategooriaid. 

Auhinnaga tunnustab Ameerika Filmikunsti ja -teaduste Akadeemia eelneva aasta parimat filmi, mida antakse üle filmi lavastajale.

Selles kategoorias auhinnatakse filme alates esimesest Oscari-tseremooniast 1929. aastal.

Auhinnatud filmid 
 1929
 Draamafilmi kategoorias Frank Borzage – "Seitsmendas taevas" (Seventh Heaven)
 Komöödiafilmi kategoorias Lewis Milestone – Two Arabian Knights 
 1930 (aprill) Frank Lloyd – "Jumalik naine" (The Divine Lady)
 1930 (november) Lewis Milestone – "Läänerindel muutuseta" (All Quiet on the Western Front)
 1931 Norman Taurog – "Skippy"
 1932 Frank Borzage – Bad Girl
 1934 Frank Lloyd – Kavalkaad" (Cavalcade)
 1935 Frank Capra – "See juhtus ühel ööl" (It Happened One Night)
 1936 John Ford – "Informaator" (The Informer)
 1937 Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
 1938 Leo McCarey – "Kohutav tõde" (The Awful Truth)
 1939 Frank Capra – "Sa ei vii kõike endaga kaasa" (You Can't Take It with You)
 1940 Victor Fleming – "Tuulest viidud"
 1941 John Ford – "Vihakobarad" (The Grapes of Wrath)
 1942 John Ford – "Kui roheline oli minu org" (How Green Was My Valley)
 1943 William Wyler – "Mrs. Miniver"
 1944 Michael Curtiz – "Casablanca"
 1945 Leo McCarey – "Minnes oma teed" (Going My Way)
 1946 Billy Wilder – "Kaotatud nädalavahetus" (The Lost Weekend)
 1947 William Wyler – "Meie elu parimad aastad" (The Best Years of Our Lives)
 1948 Elia Kazan – "Džentelmenlik kokkulepe" (Gentleman's Agreement)
 1949 John Huston – "Sierra Madre aare" (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz – A Letter to Three Wives
 1951 Joseph L. Mankiewicz – "Kogu tõde Eve'ist" (All About Eve)
 1952 George Stevens – "Koht päikese all" (A Place in the Sun)
 1953 John Ford – "Vaikne mees" (The Quiet Man)
 1954 Fred Zinnemann – "Siit igavikku" (From Here to Eternity)
 1955 Elia Kazan – "Veepiiril" (On the Waterfront)
 1956 Delbert Mann – "Marty"
 1957 George Stevens – Giant
 1958 David Lean – "Sild üle Kwai jõe" (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
 1959 Vincente Minnelli – "Gigi"
 1960 William Wyler – "Ben-Hur"
 1961 Billy Wilder – "Korter" (The Apartment)
 1962 Robert Wise ja Jerome Robbins – "West Side'i lugu"
 1963 David Lean – "Araabia Lawrence" (Lawrence of Arabia)
 1964 Tony Richardson – "Tom Jones" 
 1965 George Cukor – "Minu veetlev leedi"
 1966 Robert Wise – "Helisev muusika"
 1967 Fred Zinnemann – "Mees igaks hooajaks" (A Man for All Seasons)
 1968 Mike Nichols – "Elluastuja" (The Graduate)
 1969 Carol Reed – "Oliver!"
 1970 John Schlesinger – "Kesköine kauboi" (Midnight Cowboy)
 1971 Franklin J. Schaffner – "Patton"
 1972 William Friedkin – "Prantsuse sidemees" (The French Connection)
 1973 Bob Fosse – "Kabaree" (Cabaret)
 1974 George Roy Hill – "Tüssamine" (The Sting)
 1975 Francis Ford Coppola – "Ristiisa 2" (The Godfather Part II)
 1976 Milos Forman – "Lendas üle käopesa" (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
 1977 John G. Avildsen – "Rocky"
 1978 Woody Allen – "Annie Hall"
 1979 Michael Cimino – "Hirvekütt" (The Deer Hunter)
 1980 Robert Benton – "Kramer Krameri vastu" (Kramer vs. Kramer)
 1981 Robert Redford – "Tavalised inimesed" (Ordinary People)
 1982 Warren Beatty – "Punased" (Reds)
 1983 Richard Attenborough – "Gandhi"
 1984 James L. Brooks – "Helluse keeles" (Terms of Endearment)
 1985 Milos Forman – "Amadeus"
 1986 Sydney Pollack – "Minu Aafrika" (Out of Africa)
 1987 Oliver Stone – "Rühm" (Platoon)
 1988 Bernardo Bertolucci – "Viimane keiser"  (The Last Emperor)
 1989 Barry Levinson – "Vihmamees" (Rain Man)
 1990 Oliver Stone – "Sündinud neljandal juulil" (Born on the Fourth of July)
 1991 Kevin Costner – "Tantsib koos huntidega" (Dances with Wolves)
 1992 Jonathan Demme – "Voonakeste vaikimine" (The Silence of the Lambs)
 1993 Clint Eastwood – "Armutu" (Unforgiven)
 1994 Steven Spielberg – "Schindleri nimekiri" (Schindler's List)
 1995 Robert Zemeckis – "Forrest Gump"
 1996 Mel Gibson – "Kartmatu" (Braveheart)
 1997 Anthony Minghella – "Inglise patsient"
 1998 James Cameron – "Titanic" 
 1999 Steven Spielberg – "Reamees Ryani päästmine"
 2000 Sam Mendes – "Tabamatu ilu"
 2001 Steven Soderbergh – "Narkoäri" (Traffic)
 2002 Ron Howard – "Piinatud geenius"
 2003 Roman Polański – "Pianist" (The Pianist)
 2004 Peter Jackson – "Sõrmuste isand: Kuninga tagasitulek"  (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
 2005 Clint Eastwood – "Miljoni dollari tüdruk" (Million Dollar Baby)
 2006 Ang Lee – "Brokebacki mägi"  (Brokeback Mountain)
 2007 Martin Scorsese – "Kahe tule vahel"  (The Departed)
 2008 Joel ja Ethan Coen – "Ei ole maad vanadele meestele"  (No Country for Old Men)
 2009 Danny Boyle – "Rentslimiljonär" (Slumdog Millionaire)
 2010 Kathryn Bigelow – "Piinakamber" (The Hurt Locker) 
 2011 Tom Hooper – "Kuninga kõne" (The King's Speech)
 2012 Michel Hazanavicius – "Artist" (The Artist)
 2013 Ang Lee – "Pii elu"
 2014 Alfonso Cuarón – "Gravitatsioon" (Gravity)
 2015 Alejandro González Iñárritu – "Lindmees" (Birdman)
 2016 Alejandro González Iñárritu – "Mees, kes jäi ellu" (The Revenant)
 2017 Damien Chazelle – "La La Land: California unistused" ("La La Land")

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