# Best Director Oscar winners of the 2010s

The directors who won the Academy Award for Best Director for films from 2010 to 2019, with two wins each for Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Alfonso Cuarón.

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## Top 10

1. **Michel Hazanavicius — The Artist** (16 · ▲17 ▼1) — 2011 film. A silent, black-and-white tribute to early Hollywood.
2. **Tom Hooper — The King's Speech** (14 · ▲18 ▼4) — 2010 film. George VI and his speech therapist.
3. **Alfonso Cuarón — Gravity** (14 · ▲15 ▼1) — 2013 film. An astronaut adrift in orbit.
4. **Alejandro G. Iñárritu — The Revenant** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — 2015 film. Leonardo DiCaprio left for dead in the frontier wilderness.
5. **Ang Lee — Life of Pi** (10 · ▲10 ▼0) — 2012 film. A boy and a tiger in a lifeboat.
6. **Guillermo del Toro — The Shape of Water** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — 2017 film. A mute cleaner and an amphibian man.
7. **Bong Joon-ho — Parasite** (7 · ▲11 ▼4) — 2019 film. The first non-English-language Best Picture winner too.
8. **Damien Chazelle — La La Land** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — 2016 film. At 32, the youngest Best Director winner.
9. **Alfonso Cuarón — Roma** (5 · ▲9 ▼4) — 2018 film. A domestic worker in 1970s Mexico City.
10. **Alejandro G. Iñárritu — Birdman** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — 2014 film. A faded superhero actor stages a Broadway play.

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