DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1980s: Odd Men Out Roman Polanski, Kenneth Branagh, Akira Kurosawa

Bob Hoskins, Jessica Rabbit in Robert Zemeckis‘ DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Who Framed Roger Rabbit (top); Willem Dafoe in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar- (but not DGA-) nominated The Last Temptation of Christ (bottom)

DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1970s: Odd Men Out Bob Fosse, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman

1980

DGA
Michael Apted, Coal Miner’s Daughter

AMPAS
Roman Polanski, Tess

DGA/AMPAS
Robert Redford, Ordinary People
David Lynch, The Elephant Man
Richard Rush, The Stunt Man
Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull

 

1981

DGA/AMPAS
Warren Beatty, Reds
Hugh Hudson, Chariots of Fire
Louis Malle, Atlantic City
Mark Rydell, On Golden Pond
Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark

 

1982

DGA
Taylor Hackford, An Officer and a Gentleman

AMPAS
Sidney Lumet, The Verdict

DGA/AMPAS
Richard Attenborough, Gandhi
Wolfgang Petersen, Das Boot
Sydney Pollack, Tootsie
Steven Spielberg, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

 

1983

DGA
Lawrence Kasdan, The Big Chill
Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff

AMPAS
Mike Nichols, Silkwood
Peter Yates, The Dresser

DGA/AMPAS
James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment
Bruce Beresford, Tender Mercies
Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander

 

1984

DGA
Norman Jewison, A Soldier’s Story

AMPAS
Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose

DGA/AMPAS
Milos Forman, Amadeus
Robert Benton, Places in the Heart
Roland Joffé, The Killing Fields
David Lean, A Passage to India

 

1985

DGA
Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple
Ron Howard, Cocoon

AMPAS
Akira Kurosawa, Ran
Hector Babenco, Kiss of the Spider Woman

DGA/AMPAS
Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa
John Huston, Prizzi’s Honor
Peter Weir, Witness

 

1986

DGA
Randa Haines, Children of a Lesser God
Rob Reiner, Stand By Me

AMPAS
Roland Joffé, The Mission
David Lynch, Blue Velvet

DGA/AMPAS
Oliver Stone, Platoon
Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters
James Ivory, A Room with a View

 

1987

DGA
James L. Brooks, Broadcast News
Steven Spielberg, Empire of the Sun

AMPAS
Norman Jewison, Moonstruck
John Boorman, Hope and Glory

DGA/AMPAS
Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor
Lasse Hallström, My Life as a Dog
Adrian Lyne, Fatal Attraction

 

1988

DGA
Robert Zemeckis, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

AMPAS
Martin Scorsese, The Last Temptation of Christ

DGA/AMPAS
Barry Levinson, Rain Man
Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda
Mike Nichols, Working Girl
Alan Parker, Mississippi Burning

 

1989

DGA
Phil Alden Robinson, Field of Dreams
Rob Reiner, When Harry Met Sally…

AMPAS
Kenneth Branagh, Henry V
Jim Sheridan, My Left Foot

DGA/AMPAS
Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July
Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors
Peter Weir, Dead Poets Society

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