Oscar History for Best Picture, Directing, and Editing Categories.

I feel that the last few years that the Academy Awards never agree on Best Picture,Director, and Editing categories. It seems to me that Directing and Picture usually go hand in hand. So I decided to break down how many times The Best Picture, Best Director and Best Editing have been for the same or different films in Oscar history. It was a great undertaking, but here is the results of the last 89 Academy Awards.

*Note* The first 10 years of the Oscars were a shit show, so a lot of strange things from the 30's. The first Oscars had two Best Picture categories Outstanding and Artistic and 2 Best Director categories Comedy and Dramatic, and neither of the Best Picture winners director's were nominated. The Academy ignores the fact that Sunrise is a Best Picture winner, but I'm going to include it. Therefore with my list there are 90 Best Picture Winners, not 89. Also the Best Editing category didn't come along until 1935.

64 times Best Picture and Best Director have been for the same film

26 times Best Picture and Best Director have been different.

29 times has the same film won for Best Picture,Director, and Editing.
They are in order: Gone With The Wind, The Best Years Of Our Lives, From Here To Eternity, On The Waterfront, The Bridge On The River Kwai, Gigi, Ben Hur,The Apartment,West Side Story, Lawrence Of Arabia, The Sound Of Music, Patton, The French Connection, The Sting, Rocky, The Deer Hunter, Gandhi, Platoon, The Last Emperor, Dances With Wolves, Unforgiven, Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, The English Patient, Titanic, Return Of The King, The Departed, Slumdog Millionaire, and The Hurt Locker.
The longest run was 6 years in a row 1958-1963. The decade with the most is the '90's with 6.

6 times Editing and Director were for the same film, but Best Picture was different.
They are in order: A Place In The Sun, Cabaret, Born On The Fourth Of July, Saving Private Ryan, Traffic, and Gravity.

4 times Editing and Best Picture were the same, but different Director won.
They are in order: Around The World In 80 Days, Chicago, Crash, and Argo. Three of these films are in my top 10 worst films to ever win Best Picture.

5 Directors have not been nominated for Best Director and their films went on to win Best Picture.
Two are from the first Oscar ceremony, which was the most unorthodox in Awards history.
They are in order: William Wellman for Wings, F.W.Murnau for Sunrise, Edmund Goulding for Grand Hotel, Bruce Beresford for Driving Miss Daisy, and Ben Affleck for Argo.

Breakdown by decade:
1927-39: 8 times Best Picture and Director winners were different.
1940-49: 2 times Best Picture and Director winners were different..
1950-59: 4 times Best Picture and Director winners were different.
1960-69: 1 times Best Picture and Director winners were different.
1970-79: 1 times Best Picture and Director winners were different.
1980-89: 1 times Best Picture and Director winners were different.
1990-99: 2 times Best Picture and Director winners were different..
2000-09: 3 times Best Picture and Director winners were different.
2010-17: 4 times Best Picture and Director winners were different.

The winner for Best Picture and Best Director have been different 7 times since 2000, and only 5 times from 1960- 1999. So it seems this is going to be a new trend.