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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 .
Academy Award for Best Director: Year Name Film Status Notes 1976: Lina Wertmüller: Seven Beauties: Nominated First woman to be nominated for Best Director. 1993: Jane Campion: The Piano: Nominated 2003: Sofia Coppola: Lost in Translation: Nominated 2009: Kathryn Bigelow: The Hurt Locker: Won First woman to win for Best Director. 2017: Greta ...
However Lee Grant won for Best Supporting Actress for Shampoo (1975) and she directed the Best Documentary Feature, Down and Out in America (1986), but under the Academy rules at the time, only producers were eligible to win the award, so the award went to her producer husband and another co-producer. Under the present rules, the director would ...
British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan won his first Academy Award on Sunday, clinching best director for his historical drama "Oppenheimer" about the man behind the development of the ...
Spielberg is recipient of various awards including three Academy Awards (with two for Best Director), two British Academy Film Awards, twelve Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, three Directors Guild of America Awards, and seven Producers Guild of America Awards.
"The Power of the Dog" director Jane Campion has already made Oscars history. When the 2022 Academy Award nominations were announced in February, Campion — the lone woman among the directing ...
Mendes is the first British director and the sixth director overall, to win an Academy Award for Best Director for a debut film. 2000 Stephen Daldry: Billy Elliot: Nominated Ridley Scott Gladiator: Nominated 2001 Black Hawk Down: Nominated 2002 Stephen Daldry The Hours: Nominated 2004 Mike Leigh Vera Drake: Nominated 2006 Stephen Frears The ...
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.