The DGA vs. the Academy: 1970s

Martin Balsam, Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express (top); Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1960s

1970

DGA: David Lean for Ryan’s Daughter and Bob Rafelson for Five Easy Pieces

AMPAS: Federico Fellini for Satyricon and Ken Russell for Women in Love

1971

DGA: Robert Mulligan for Summer of ‘42

AMPAS: Norman Jewison for Fiddler on the Roof

1972

DGA: George Roy Hill for Slaughterhouse-Five and Martin Ritt for Sounder

AMPAS: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Sleuth and Jan Troell for The Emigrants

1973

DGA: Sidney Lumet for Serpico

AMPAS: Ingmar Bergman for Cries and Whispers

1974

DGA: Sidney Lumet for Murder on the Orient Express and Francis Ford Coppola for The Conversation

AMPAS: John Cassavetes for A Woman Under the Influence and François Truffaut for Day for Night

1975

DGA: Steven Spielberg for Jaws

AMPAS: Federico Fellini for Amarcord

1976

DGA: Martin Scorsese for Taxi Driver

AMPAS: Ingmar Bergman for Face to Face

1978

DGA: Paul Mazursky for An Unmarried Woman

AMPAS: Woody Allen for Interiors

1979

DGA: Woody Allen for Manhattan and James Bridges for The China Syndrome

AMPAS: Bob Fosse for All That Jazz and Edouard Molinaro for La Cage aux folles

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