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List of Best Director winners by age at win

Rank	Age	Name	Film	Annual	Year	Date of Birth	Date of Award	Notes
1	74 years, 272 days	Clint Eastwood	Million Dollar Baby	77th	2004	May 31, 1930	February 27, 2005
2	69 years, 217 days	Roman Polanski	The Pianist	75th	2002	August 18, 1933	March 23, 2003
3	65 years, 272 days	George Cukor	My Fair Lady	37th	1964	July 7, 1899	April 5, 1965
4	64 years, 100 days	Martin Scorsese	The Departed	79th	2006	November 17, 1942	February 25, 2007
5	62 years, 302 days	Clint Eastwood	Unforgiven	65th	1992	May 31, 1930	March 29, 1993
6	62 years, 105 days	Carol Reed	Oliver!	41st	1968	December 30, 1906	April 14, 1969
7	59 years, 346 days	Fred Zinnemann	A Man for All Seasons	39th	1966	April 29, 1907	April 10, 1967
8	59 years, 225 days	Richard Attenborough	Gandhi	55th	1982	August 29, 1923	April 11, 1983
9	59 years, 46 days	John Ford	The Quiet Man	25th	1952	February 1, 1894	March 19, 1953
10	57 years, 278 days	William Wyler	Ben-Hur	32nd	1959	July 1, 1902	April 4, 1960
11	57 years, 69 days	Michael Curtiz	Casablanca	16th	1943	December 24, 1886	March 2, 1944
12	56 years, 37 days	Vincente Minnelli	Gigi	31st	1958	February 28, 1903	April 6, 1959
13	55 years, 14 days	David Lean	Lawrence of Arabia	35th	1962	March 25, 1908	April 8, 1963
14	54 years, 299 days	Billy Wilder	The Lost Weekend	33rd	1960	June 22, 1906	April 17, 1961
15	53 years, 35 days	Miloš Forman	Amadeus	57th	1984	February 18, 1932	March 25, 1985
16	52 years, 103 days	George Roy Hill	The Sting	46th	1973	December 20, 1921	April 2, 1974
17	52 years, 99 days	George Stevens	A Place in the Sun	29th	1956	December 18, 1904	March 27, 1957
18	52 years, 93 days	Steven Spielberg	Saving Private Ryan	71st	1998	December 18, 1946	March 21, 1999
19	51 years, 266 days	Sydney Pollack	Out of Africa	58th	1985	July 1, 1934	March 24, 1986
20	51 years, 220 days	Robert Wise	The Sound of Music	38th	1965	September 10, 1914	April 18, 1966
21	51 years, 133 days	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain	78th	2005	October 23, 1954	March 5, 2006
22	51 years, 6 days	Victor Fleming	Gone with the Wind	12th	1939	February 23, 1889	February 29, 1940
23	50 years, 320 days	Franklin Schaffner	Patton	43rd	1970	May 30, 1920	April 15, 1971
24	50 years, 1 day	David Lean	The Bridge on the River Kwai	30th	1957	March 25, 1908	March 26, 1958
25	48 years, 42 days	Frank Lloyd	Cavalcade	6th	1932 / 1933	February 2, 1886	March 16, 1934
26	48 years, 37 days	Jonathan Demme	The Silence of the Lambs	64th	1991	February 22, 1944	March 30, 1992
27	48 years, 26 days	Bernardo Bertolucci	The Last Emperor	60th	1987	March 16, 1940	April 11, 1988
28	48 years, 25 days	John Ford	How Green Was My Valley	14th	1941	February 1, 1894	February 26, 1942
29	48 years, 23 days	Ron Howard	A Beautiful Mind	74th	2001	March 1, 1954	March 24, 2002
30	47 years, 211 days	Robert Wise	West Side Story	34th	1961	September 10, 1914	April 9, 1962	Debut
31	47 years, 198 days	Robert Benton	Kramer vs. Kramer	52nd	1979	September 29, 1932	April 14, 1980
32	47 years, 93 days	Steven Spielberg	Schindler's List	66th	1993	December 18, 1946	March 21, 1994
33	47 years, 93 days	George Stevens	A Place in the Sun	24th	1951	December 18, 1904	March 20, 1952
34	47 years, 26 days	John Ford	The Grapes of Wrath	13th	1940	February 1, 1894	February 27, 1941
35	46 years, 357 days	Barry Levinson	Rain Man	61st	1988	April 6, 1942	March 29, 1989
36	46 years, 330 days	Fred Zinnemann	From Here to Eternity	26th	1953	April 29, 1907	March 25, 1954
37	46 years, 163 days	Leo McCarey	Going My Way	17th	1944	October 3, 1898	March 15, 1945
38	45 years, 277 days	Bob Fosse	Cabaret	45th	1972	June 23, 1927	March 27, 1973
39	45 years, 204 days	Elia Kazan	On the Waterfront	27th	1954	September 7, 1909	March 30, 1955
40	44 years, 364 days	Warren Beatty	Reds	54th	1981	March 30,1937	March 29, 1982
41	44 years, 255 days	William Wyler	The Best Years of Our Lives	19th	1946	July 1, 1902	March 13, 1947
42	44 years, 225 days	Robert Redford	Ordinary People	53rd	1980	August 18, 1936	March 31, 1981	Debut
43	44 years, 60 days	Frank Lloyd	The Divine Lady	2nd	1928 / 1929	February 2, 1886	April 3, 1930
44	44 years, 50 days	John Schlesinger	Midnight Cowboy	42nd	1969	February 16, 1926	April 7, 1970
45	44 years, 40 days	Miloš Forman	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	48th	1975	February 18, 1932	March 29, 1976
46	43 years, 336 days	James L. Brooks	Terms of Endearment	56th	1983	May 9, 1940	April 9, 1984	Debut
47	43 years, 219 days	James Cameron	Titanic	70th	1997	August 16, 1954	March 23, 1998
48	43 years, 192 days	Oliver Stone	Born on the Fourth of July	62nd	1989	September 15, 1946	March 26, 1990
49	43 years, 180 days	Jerome Robbins	West Side Story	34th	1961	October 11, 1918	April 9, 1962	Debut
50	43 years, 77 days	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient	69th	1996	January 6, 1954	March 24, 1997
51	42 years, 317 days	Robert Zemeckis	Forrest Gump	67th	1994	May 14, 1952	March 27, 1995
52	42 years, 231 days	John Huston	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	21st	1948	August 5, 1906	March 24, 1949
53	42 years, 123 days	Woody Allen	Annie Hall	50th	1977	December 1, 1935	April 3, 1978
54	42 years, 121 days	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	76th	2003	October 31, 1961	February 29, 2004
55	42 years, 46 days	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	All About Eve	23rd	1950	February 11, 1909	March 29, 1951
56	42 years, 33 days	John Ford	The Informer	8th	1935	February 1, 1894	March 5, 1936
57	41 years, 281 days	Frank Capra	You Can't Take It with You	11th	1938	May 18, 1897	February 23, 1939
58	41 years, 97 days	John G. Avildsen	Rocky	49th	1976	December 21, 1935	March 28, 1977
59	41 years, 40 days	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	A Letter to Three Wives	22nd	1949	February 11, 1909	March 23, 1950
60	40 years, 246 days	William Wyler	Mrs. Miniver	15th	1942	July 1, 1902	March 4, 1943
61	40 years, 196 days	Oliver Stone	Platoon	59th	1986	September 15, 1946	March 30, 1987
62	40 years, 82 days	Mel Gibson	Braveheart	68th	1995	January 3, 1956	March 25, 1996
63	40 years, 65 days	Michael Cimino	The Deer Hunter	51st	1978	February 3, 1939	April 9, 1979
64	39 years, 290 days	Frank Capra	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	9th	1936	May 18, 1897	March 4, 1937
65	39 years, 258 days	Billy Wilder	The Lost Weekend	18th	1945	June 22, 1906	March 7, 1946
66	39 years, 158 days	Leo McCarey	The Awful Truth	10th	1937	October 3, 1898	March 10, 1938
67	38 years, 209 days	Frank Borzage	Bad Girl	5th	1931 / 1932	April 23, 1894	November 18, 1932
68	38 years, 195 days	Elia Kazan	Gentleman's Agreement	20th	1947	September 7, 1909	March 20, 1948
69	38 years, 70 days	Steven Soderbergh	Traffic	73rd	2000	January 14, 1963	March 25, 2001
70	37 years, 285 days	Frank Capra	It Happened One Night	7th	1934	May 18, 1897	February 27, 1935
71	36 years, 225 days	William Friedkin	The French Connection	44th	1971	August 29, 1935	April 10, 1972
72	36 years, 156 days	Mike Nichols	The Graduate	40th	1967	November 6, 1931	April 10, 1968
73	36 years, 66 days	Kevin Costner	Dances with Wolves	63rd	1990	January 18, 1955	March 25, 1991	Debut
74	36 years, 51 days	Delbert Mann	Marty	28th	1955	January 30, 1920	March 21, 1956	Debut
75	36 years, 1 day	Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather Part II	47th	1974	April 7, 1939	April 8, 1975
76	35 years, 313 days	Tony Richardson	Tom Jones	36th	1963	June 5, 1928	April 13, 1964
77	35 years, 36 days	Lewis Milestone	All Quiet on the Western Front	3rd	1929 / 1930	September 30, 1895	November 5, 1930
78	35 years, 23 days	Frank Borzage	7th Heaven	1st	1927 / 1928	April 23, 1894	May 16, 1929	Dramatic
79	34 years, 238 days	Sam Mendes	American Beauty	72nd	1999	August 1, 1965	March 26, 2000	Debut
80	33 years, 228 days	Lewis Milestone	Two Arabian Knights	1st	1927 / 1928	September 30, 1895	May 16, 1929	Comedy
81	32 years, 260 days	Norman Taurog	Skippy	4th	1930 / 1931	February 23, 1899	November 10, 1931