Academy Award for Best Director

Quality:

Academy Award for Best Director - category of film award. Article “Academy Award for Best Director” in Simple English Wikipedia has 43.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in Greek Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Academy Award for Best Director”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2429 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 131 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 21980 times in all languages (7821^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #314 in April 2020
• Global: #399 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #29 in May 2026
• Global: #4454 in February 2015

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Greek (el) Όσκαρ Καλύτερης Σκηνοθεσίας		90.9197
2	Hungarian (hu) Oscar-díj a legjobb rendezőnek		89.8883
3	Indonesian (id) Academy Award untuk Sutradara Terbaik		88.8577
4	English (en) Academy Award for Best Director		88.3723
5	Persian (fa) جایزه اسکار بهترین کارگردانی		88.2468
6	Ukrainian (uk) Премія «Оскар» за найкращу режисерську роботу		80.2181
7	Italian (it) Oscar al miglior regista		75.9314
8	Turkish (tr) En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü		75.4919
9	Malay (ms) Anugerah Akademi untuk Pengarah Terbaik		68.6093
10	Urdu (ur) اکیڈمی ایوارڈ برائے بہترین ہدایت کار		64.4531

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Academy Award for Best Director		8 549 030
2	Italian (it) Oscar al miglior regista		1 110 946
3	French (fr) Oscar du meilleur réalisateur		659 773
4	Russian (ru) Премия «Оскар» за лучшую режиссуру		625 216
5	Portuguese (pt) Oscar de melhor direção		548 808
6	German (de) Oscar/Beste Regie		491 001
7	Japanese (ja) アカデミー監督賞		406 618
8	Chinese (zh) 奥斯卡最佳导演奖		374 083
9	Persian (fa) جایزه اسکار بهترین کارگردانی		237 671
10	Turkish (tr) En İyi Yönetmen Akademi Ödülü		193 022

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Academy Award for Best Director		22 722
2	Italian (it) Oscar al miglior regista		2 016
3	Russian (ru) Премия «Оскар» за лучшую режиссуру		1 270
4	French (fr) Oscar du meilleur réalisateur		1 061
5	Simple English (simple) Academy Award for Best Director		1 061
6	Chinese (zh) 奥斯卡最佳导演奖		890
7	Japanese (ja) アカデミー監督賞		773
8	Persian (fa) جایزه اسکار بهترین کارگردانی		684
9	German (de) Oscar/Beste Regie		617
10	Portuguese (pt) Oscar de melhor direção		524

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Academy Award for Best Director		583
2	German (de) Oscar/Beste Regie		182
3	French (fr) Oscar du meilleur réalisateur		156
4	Italian (it) Oscar al miglior regista		155
5	Dutch (nl) Oscar voor beste regisseur		107
6	Hebrew (he) פרס אוסקר לבימוי הטוב ביותר		87
7	Russian (ru) Премия «Оскар» за лучшую режиссуру		83
8	Japanese (ja) アカデミー監督賞		79
9	Hungarian (hu) Oscar-díj a legjobb rendezőnek		77
10	Chinese (zh) 奥斯卡最佳导演奖		63

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Όσκαρ Καλύτερης Σκηνοθεσίας		2
2	English (en) Academy Award for Best Director		2
3	French (fr) Oscar du meilleur réalisateur		2
4	Ukrainian (uk) Премія «Оскар» за найкращу режисерську роботу		2
5	Italian (it) Oscar al miglior regista		1
6	Japanese (ja) アカデミー監督賞		1
7	Dutch (nl) Oscar voor beste regisseur		1
8	Polish (pl) Oscar za najlepszą reżyserię		1
9	Arabic (ar) جائزة الأوسكار لأفضل مخرج		0
10	Belarusian (be) Прэмія «Оскар» за найлепшую рэжысуру		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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