Kammala wannan jumla: Tun lokacin da aka kafa ta, an ba da lambar yabo ga daraktoci 72 ko ƙungiyoyin gudanarwa. John Ford ya sami lambar yabo mafi yawa a wannan rukuni tare da hudu. An zabi William Wyler sau goma sha biyu, fiye da kowane mutum. Damien Chazelle ya zama darektan mafi ƙanƙanta a tarihi don karɓar wannan lambar yabo, yana da shekaru 32 don aikinsa a kan "La La Land". John Singleton ya zama mafi ƙanƙanta darektan da za a zabi wannan lambar yabo, yana da shekaru 24 don aikinsa a kan "Boyz n the Hood". Kungiyoyin daraktoci biyu sun raba kyautar; Robert Wise da Jerome Robbins don "West Side Story" a 1961 da Joel da Ethan Coen don "Babu Ƙasar Tsofaffi" a 2007. 'Yan'uwan Coen su ne kawai' yan uwan da suka lashe kyautar. Kathryn Bigelow ita ce mace ta farko da ta lashe kyautar, don "The Hurt Locker" na 2009. Kamar yadda na
2020-21 bikin, Chloé Zhao ita ce ta ƙarshe ta lashe wannan rukunin don aikinta a kan "Nomadland".