Editing Academy Award for Best Picture (section)

===Best Picture and Best Director===
The Academy Awards for Best Picture and [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] have been closely linked throughout their history. Of the 97 films that have won Best Picture, 70 have also been awarded Best Director. Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'' directed by [[William A. Wellman]] (1927/28), ''[[Grand Hotel (1932 film)|Grand Hotel]]'' directed by [[Edmund Goulding]] (1931/32), ''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]'' directed by [[Bruce Beresford]] (1989), ''[[Argo (2012 film)|Argo]]'' directed by [[Ben Affleck]] (2012), ''[[Green Book (film)|Green Book]]'' directed by [[Peter Farrelly]] (2018), and ''[[CODA (2021 film)|CODA]]'' directed by [[Sian Heder]] (2021). The only two Best Director winners to win for films that did not receive a Best Picture nomination were during the early years of the awards: [[Lewis Milestone]] for ''[[Two Arabian Knights]]'' (1927/28), and [[Frank Lloyd]] for ''[[The Divine Lady]]'' (1928/29).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmsite.org/bestdirs1.html|title=Best Director Facts – Trivia (Part 2)|publisher=Filmsite|access-date=November 13, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901210327/http://www.filmsite.org/bestdirs1.html|archive-date=September 1, 2009}}</ref>