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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 .
- Excellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- ((John Ford)) (5)
Mar 28, 2022 · Jane Campion has won the best director Oscar for “The Power of the Dog.” The 67-year-old filmmaker won the Academy Award on Sunday night for the unconventional Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch that was shot in her native New Zealand.
Mar 28, 2022 · For the second year in a row, a woman has won the Oscar for best director. Jane Campion took home the Academy Award for best director for “The Power of the Dog,” a searing Western drama...
Apr 26, 2021 · Chloé Zhao has won the Oscar for directing Nomadland, becoming the first woman of color to win the award and the second woman to win (Katheryn Bigelow, was the first ). Zhao was also the...
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Mar 27, 2022 · Jane Campion won the Academy Award for best director at the 2022 Oscars, becoming just the third woman to win the accolade. Campion, 67, snagged the trophy for her film "The Power of the Dog," which is based on Thomas Savage's 1967 novel of the same name, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
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John Ford has won the most Academy Awards for best director (four), and Frank Capra and William Wyler each have received three. Other notable recipients include Kathryn Bigelow, who is the first woman to earn the award (2010), and Chloé Zhao, the first director of color to win (2021).
Mar 28, 2022 · Nearly three decades after winning for writing the screenplay for The Piano, the Power of the Dog director won the 2022 Academy Award for Best Director at Sunday night's ceremony, marking...
