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Rarest Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director — All 77 Answers Ranked by Rarity

77 answers are accepted for “Name a winner of the Academy Award for Best Director”. Daniel Scheinert is the rarest winner of the Academy Award for Best Director in this ranking, with 2,490 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Daniel Kwan is the second-rarest with 2,713 monthly Wikipedia views, 1.09× the figure for Daniel Scheinert. Christopher Nolan is the most common winner of the Academy Award for Best Director in this ranking, with 6,502,705 monthly Wikipedia views, 2,612× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 77 answers: 69,455,558. Daniel Scheinert is under 0.1% of that total. 16 answers are Epic or Legendary: Daniel Scheinert (Legendary), Daniel Kwan (Legendary), Frank Lloyd (Legendary), and 13 more.

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Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).

Ranked answers

77 answers to “Name a winner of the Academy Award for Best Director”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this prompt.
Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views
1 Daniel Scheinert on Wikipedia Legendary 1.000 2,490
2 Daniel Kwan on Wikipedia Legendary 0.987 2,713
3 Frank Lloyd on Wikipedia Legendary 0.974 17,241
4 Delbert Mann on Wikipedia Legendary 0.961 20,288
5 Norman Taurog on Wikipedia Legendary 0.947 20,573
6 Frank Borzage on Wikipedia Legendary 0.934 28,963
7 Leo McCarey on Wikipedia Epic 0.921 34,804
8 Lewis Milestone on Wikipedia Epic 0.908 39,092
9 Franklin J. Schaffner on Wikipedia Epic 0.895 45,716
10 Michel Hazanavicius on Wikipedia Epic 0.882 50,808
11 Robert Benton on Wikipedia Epic 0.868 56,896
12 George Stevens on Wikipedia Epic 0.855 74,017
13 Fred Zinnemann on Wikipedia Epic 0.842 82,905
14 Jerome Robbins on Wikipedia Epic 0.829 106,907
15 George Cukor on Wikipedia Epic 0.816 122,023
16 Victor Fleming on Wikipedia Epic 0.803 126,311
17 Michael Curtiz on Wikipedia Rare 0.789 127,074
18 John G. Avildsen on Wikipedia Rare 0.776 131,483
19 John Schlesinger on Wikipedia Rare 0.763 133,768
20 Robert Wise on Wikipedia Rare 0.750 136,411
21 Carol Reed on Wikipedia Rare 0.737 137,495
22 Tom Hooper on Wikipedia Rare 0.724 144,817
23 George Roy Hill on Wikipedia Rare 0.711 163,710
24 Joseph L. Mankiewicz on Wikipedia Rare 0.697 164,799
25 Jane Campion on Wikipedia Rare 0.684 191,925
26 Bernardo Bertolucci on Wikipedia Rare 0.671 197,867
27 William Wyler on Wikipedia Rare 0.658 213,605
28 Michael Cimino on Wikipedia Rare 0.645 266,978
29 Ethan Coen on Wikipedia Rare 0.632 284,392
30 David Lean on Wikipedia Rare 0.618 288,272
31 Miloš Forman on Wikipedia Rare 0.605 290,413
32 Frank Capra on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.592 300,419
33 Jonathan Demme on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.579 304,701
34 Anthony Minghella on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.566 305,199
35 Tony Richardson on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.553 309,685
36 John Ford on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.539 425,753
37 Joel Coen on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.526 442,174
38 William Friedkin on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.513 453,855
39 Sean Baker on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.500 473,862
40 Billy Wilder on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.487 476,072
41 Mike Nichols on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.474 495,917
42 Sydney Pollack on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.461 516,309
43 James L. Brooks on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.447 518,564
44 Damien Chazelle on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.434 519,316
45 Alfonso Cuarón on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.421 555,411
46 Ang Lee on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.408 557,247
47 Vincente Minnelli on Wikipedia Familiar 0.395 563,413
48 Barry Levinson on Wikipedia Familiar 0.382 572,469
49 Bong Joon Ho on Wikipedia Familiar 0.368 626,855
50 Alejandro González Iñárritu on Wikipedia Familiar 0.355 631,301
51 John Huston on Wikipedia Familiar 0.342 635,375
52 Oliver Stone on Wikipedia Familiar 0.329 691,639
53 Steven Soderbergh on Wikipedia Familiar 0.316 702,270
54 Danny Boyle on Wikipedia Familiar 0.303 709,560
55 Elia Kazan on Wikipedia Familiar 0.289 725,749
56 Bob Fosse on Wikipedia Familiar 0.276 739,606
57 Robert Zemeckis on Wikipedia Familiar 0.263 803,034
58 Kathryn Bigelow on Wikipedia Familiar 0.250 869,361
59 Peter Jackson on Wikipedia Familiar 0.237 1,052,000
60 Sam Mendes on Wikipedia Familiar 0.224 1,130,418
61 Chloé Zhao on Wikipedia Familiar 0.211 1,440,656
62 Francis Ford Coppola on Wikipedia Common 0.197 1,726,967
63 Ron Howard on Wikipedia Common 0.184 1,788,840
64 Richard Attenborough on Wikipedia Common 0.171 1,971,698
65 Guillermo del Toro on Wikipedia Common 0.158 1,978,167
66 Kevin Costner on Wikipedia Common 0.145 2,223,080
67 Roman Polanski on Wikipedia Common 0.132 2,260,052
68 Warren Beatty on Wikipedia Common 0.118 2,298,110
69 Woody Allen on Wikipedia Common 0.105 2,528,950
70 Martin Scorsese on Wikipedia Common 0.092 2,667,869
71 Robert Redford on Wikipedia Common 0.079 2,716,843
72 James Cameron on Wikipedia Common 0.066 2,866,988
73 Mel Gibson on Wikipedia Common 0.053 2,920,696
74 Steven Spielberg on Wikipedia Common 0.039 4,066,653
75 Paul Thomas Anderson on Wikipedia Common 0.026 4,100,318
76 Clint Eastwood on Wikipedia Common 0.013 4,584,676
77 Christopher Nolan on Wikipedia Common 0.000 6,502,705

FAQ

What is the rarest winner of the Academy Award for Best Director?

Daniel Scheinert is the rarest winner of the Academy Award for Best Director in this ranking, with 2,490 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).

How many winner of the Academy Award for Best Directors are there?

There are 77 winner of the Academy Award for Best Directors in this ranking, from Daniel Scheinert (rarest) to Christopher Nolan (most common).

What is the most common winner of the Academy Award for Best Director?

Christopher Nolan is the most common winner of the Academy Award for Best Director in this ranking, with 6,502,705 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).

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Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.