The DGA vs. the Academy: 2000s

Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge (top); Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring in Mulholland Dr. (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1990s

2000

DGA: Cameron Crowe for Almost Famous

AMPAS: Stephen Daldry for Billy Elliot

2001

DGA: Baz Luhrmann for Moulin Rouge and Christopher Nolan for Memento

AMPAS: Robert Altman for Gosford Park and David Lynch for Mulholland Dr.

2002

DGA: Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

AMPAS: Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her

2003

DGA: Gary Ross for Seabiscuit

AMPAS: Fernando Meirelles for City of God

2004

DGA: Marc Forster for Finding Neverland

AMPAS: Mike Leigh for Vera Drake

2006

DGA: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine and Bill Condon for Dreamgirls

AMPAS: Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima and Paul Greengrass for United 93

2007

DGA: Sean Penn for Into the Wild

AMPAS: Jason Reitman for Juno

2008

DGA: Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight

AMPAS: Stephen Daldry for The Reader

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