Academy Award for Best Director 1972
44th Academy Awards · held April 10, 1972 · 5 nominees
- Winner William Friedkin · The French Connection
- Nominee Stanley Kubrick · A Clockwork Orange
- Nominee Norman Jewison · Fiddler on the Roof
- Nominee John Schlesinger · Sunday, Bloody Sunday
- Nominee Peter Bogdanovich · The Last Picture Show