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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 .
A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members , production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking in cooperation with the producer .
Cameron directed the first film to gross over $1 billion, the first two films to gross over $2 billion, and is the only director to have had three films gross over $2 billion. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2010, Time named Cameron one of the 100 most influential people in the world .
Len Ryan Wiseman (born March 4, 1973 [1] [better source needed]) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.He is best known for his work on the Underworld series, Live Free or Die Hard, and the 2012 film Total Recall.
Jonathan Murray Chu (born November 2, 1979) [3] is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for directing the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians (2018) and the musical fantasy Wicked (2024), the former being one of the first films by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asian descent. [4]
Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965 [1]) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter.In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Years Honours List.
Lone Scherfig (Danish: [ˈloːnə ˈɕɛɐ̯fi]) (born 2 May 1959) [1] is a Danish film director and screenwriter. She is especially known for her films Italian for Beginners (2000) and An Education (2009), and is also known for her romantic comedies, such as One Day (2011).
James Allen Mangold (born December 16, 1963) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Noted for his versatility in tackling a range of genres, Mangold made his debut as a film director with Heavy (1995), and gained recognition for the films Cop Land (1997), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Identity (2003), Walk the Line (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), and two films in the X-Men franchise ...