I'm actually surprised this hasn't been done as a poll series before! I think it's a cool idea
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As for the question itself,
The Power of the Dog is an easy pick. I think Director-winning movies will end up triumphant in most of these rounds.
I'm guessing
stephen will be the only person who has seen some of the earliest examples, though.
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I definitely haven't seen them all.
Here's the full list, in case you guys are curious (2021 excluded):
2018: Green Book / Roma
2016: Moonlight / La La Land
2015: Spotlight / The Revenant
2013: 12 Years a Slave / Gravity
2012: Argo / Life of Pi
2005: Crash / Brokeback Mountain
2002: Chicago / The Pianist
2000: Gladiator / Traffic
1998: Shakespeare in Love / Saving Private Ryan
1989: Driving Miss Daisy / Born on the Fourth of July
1981: Chariots of Fire / Reds
1972: The Godfather / Cabaret
1967: In the Heat of the Night / The Graduate
1956: Around the World in 80 Days / Giant
1952: The Greatest Show on Earth / The Quiet Man
1951: An American in Paris / A Place in the Sun
1949: All the King’s Men / A Letter to Three Wives
1948: Hamlet / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1941: Rebecca / The Grapes of Wrath
1937: The Life of Emile Zola / The Awful Truth
1936: The Great Ziegfeld / Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty / The Informer
1931/32: Grand Hotel / Bad Girl
1930/31: Cimarron / Skippy
1928/29: The Broadway Melody / The Divine Lady
1927/28: Wings/Sunrise / Two Arabian Knights/7th Heaven