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Poll: The Best Director of the 21st Century

These directors won an Oscar for Best Directing in the 21st Century. Who is your favorite?

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    Clint Eastwood

    Films: Unforgiven (1992), Million Dollar Baby (2004)
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    Steven Soderbergh

    Film: Traffic (2000)
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    Ron Howard

    Film: A Beautiful Mind (2001)
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    Roman Polanski

    Film: The Pianist (2002)
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    Peter Jackson

    Film: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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    Ang Lee

    Films: Brokeback Mountain (2005), Life of Pi (2012)
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    Martin Scorsese

    Film: The Departed (2006)
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    Ethan Coen

    Film: No Country for Old Men (2007)
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    Joel Coen

    Film: No Country for Old Men (2007)
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    Danny Boyle

    Film: Slumdog Millionare (2008)
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    Kathryn Bigelow

    Film: The Hurt Locker (2009)
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    Tom Hooper

    Film: The King’s Speech (2010)
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    Michel Hazanavicius

    Film: The Artist (2011)
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    Alfonso Cuarón

    Films: Gravity (2012), Roma (2018)
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    Alejandro G. Iñárritu

    Films: Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015)
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    Damien Chazelle

    Film: La La Land (2016)
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    Guillermo del Toro

    Film: Shape of Water (2017)
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    Bong Joon Ho

    Film: Parasite (2019)
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    Chloé Zhao

    Film: Nomadland (2020)
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    Jane Campion

    Film: The Power of the Dog (2021)
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    Daniel Kwan

    Film: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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    Daniel Scheinert

    Film: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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    Christopher Nolan

    Film: Oppenheimer (2023), added on March 11, 2024

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