The DGA vs. the Academy: 1990s

Harrison Ford in The Fugitive (top); Madeleine Stowe, Tim Robbins in Short Cuts (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1980s

1990

DGA: Barry Levinson for Avalon and Giuseppe Tornatore for Cinema Paradiso [the 1988 best foreign language film Oscar winner; ineligible for the 1990 Academy Awards]

AMPAS: Stephen Frears for The Grifters and Barbet Schroeder for Reversal of Fortune

1991

DGA: Barbra Streisand for The Prince of Tides

AMPAS: John Singleton for Boyz n the Hood

1992

DGA: Rob Reiner for A Few Good Men

AMPAS: Martin Brest for Scent of a Woman

1993

DGA: Martin Scorsese for The Age of Innocence and Andrew Davis for The Fugitive

AMPAS: Jim Sheridan for In the Name of the Father and Robert Altman for Short Cuts

1994

DGA: Mike Newell for Four Weddings and a Funeral and Frank Darabont for The Shawshank Redemption

AMPAS: Woody Allen for Bullets Over Broadway and Krzysztof Kieslowski for Three Colors: Red

1995

DGA: Ron Howard for Apollo 13 and Ang Lee for Sense and Sensibility

AMPAS: Chris Noonan for Babe and Tim Robbins for Dead Man Walking

1996

DGA: Cameron Crowe for Jerry Maguire

AMPAS: Milos Forman for The People vs. Larry Flynt

1997

DGA: James L. Brooks for As Good As It Gets and Steven Spielberg for Amistad

AMPAS: Peter Cattaneo for The Full Monty and Atom Egoyan for The Sweet Hereafter

1999

DGA: Frank Darabont for The Green Mile

AMPAS: Lasse Hallström for The Cider House Rules

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