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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
Orson Welles was selected as the greatest film director of all time by both critics and filmmakers. This list was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films that the critics and the directors polled voted for. 2002 was the only year Sight & Sound compiled the list.
The "Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time" is a list published every ten years by Sight and Sound according to worldwide opinion polls they conduct. They published the critics' list, based on 1,639 participating critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics, and the directors' list, based on 480 directors and filmmakers.
First Asian person (and non-Caucasian) to win Best Director. Ang Lee (from Taiwan) for Brokeback Mountain (2005) First Asian person (and non-Caucasian) to be nominated for Best Director. Hiroshi Teshigahara (from Japan) for Woman in the Dunes (1965) First Asian person to receive an Honorary Award. Akira Kurosawa (from Japan) received an ...
Films whose director won the Best Directing Academy Award (97 P) Pages in category "Best Directing Academy Award winners" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total.
3. The Departed (2005) Scorsese won his first (and, somehow, only) Best Director Oscar for his work on The Departed, his third collaboration with DiCaprio and a genuine sensation.Based on the 2002 ...
Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange, 1977) was voted the best Dutch film of all time by nearly 9,000 people in a 2006 online poll organized by the now defunct Dutch website Filmwereld.net. [163] Zwartboek (Black Book, 2006) was voted the best Dutch film of all time at the 2008 Netherlands Film Festival by nearly 15,000 members of the public ...