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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 ...
At the Academy Awards, the so-called "Big Five" awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay (either Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay). [1] As of the 94th Academy Awards (2021), a total of 43 films have been nominated in all five of these award categories.
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.
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 ...
Best Director Raiders of the Lost Ark: Nominated 1983: Best Picture: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Nominated [2] Best Director Nominated 1986: Best Picture The Color Purple: Nominated [3] 1994: Schindler's List: Won [4] Best Director Won 1999: Best Picture Saving Private Ryan: Nominated [5] Best Director Won 2006: Munich: Nominated [6] Best ...
He then won Best Director in 1980 for Ordinary People. In 1994, he was nominated twice for Best Picture and Best Director for Quiz Show. He has been nominated for seven Golden Globes, winning two for Inside Daisy Clover as New Star of the Year – Actor (1965), Ordinary People as Best Director (1980), and won the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994.