The Best Director award is one of the most coveted — and at times, hot button — trophies at the Academy Awards

Best Director at the Academy Awards is a field that has celebrated some of the most iconic people in film, including the Coen brothers, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg. But it is not without controversy: over 95 Oscars ceremonies, only seven women have been nominated, and just three have won, the first in 2009.

Here, a rundown of every Best Director Oscar winner since the inception of the Academy Awards in 1929.

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