Academy Award for Best Director 1970
42nd Academy Awards · held April 7, 1970 · 5 nominees
- Winner John Schlesinger · Midnight Cowboy
- Nominee Arthur Penn · Alice's Restaurant
- Nominee George Roy Hill · Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Nominee Sydney Pollack · They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Nominee Costa-Gavras · Z