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The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry .
Highest-grossing directors worldwide [1]; Rank Name Worldwide box office Highest-grossing film 1 Steven Spielberg: $10,753,945,763 $1,114,456,337 (Jurassic Park) 2 James Cameron
Henry King was the first recipient of this award for The Song of Bernadette (1943) Billy Wilder won twice for The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950) Elia Kazan won four times for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), On the Waterfront (1954), Baby Doll (1956), and America America (1963) John Huston won twice for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Prizzi's Honor (1985) Cecil B ...
Films whose director won the Best Director Golden Horse Award (21 P) Best Director Golden Orange Award winners (20 P) Best Director Goya Award winners (27 P)
The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director is one of the awards given to film directors working in the film industry by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. It was first given out to Mel Gibson for Braveheart in 1996 as a juried award. Until 2001, only the winner was presented; since then, a set of ...
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1985 – Steven Spielberg (The Color Purple); despite the film's 11 total Oscar nominations, Spielberg was not nominated for Best Director. [5] 1995 – Ron Howard ; Howard was not nominated for the Oscar. [6] 2000 – Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon); lost to Steven Soderbergh [7]
Year Winner Film; 1980: Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull: 1981: Louis Malle: Atlantic City: 1982: Steven Spielberg: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: 1983: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani: The Night of the Shooting Stars (La notte di San Lorenzo)