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3 days ago · The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 89 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 68 won the award. Since its inception, the award has been given to 75 directors or directing teams.
- Excellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- ((John Ford)) (5)
2 days ago · For her work on The Hurt Locker, Bigelow became the first woman ever to win the Academy Award for Best Director. In 2010, she was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people.
5 days ago · Clint Eastwood won Academy Awards for best picture and best director for Unforgiven (1992), a film that takes an unsentimental look at frontier violence, and Million Dollar Baby (2004), about an aspiring female boxer.
- Michael Barson
- What is Clint Eastwood's production company?Malpaso is Clint Eastwood's production company.
- What was the first film Clint Eastwood directed?Clint Eastwood first turned to directing with his film Play Misty for Me (1971).
- When did Eastwood receive the French Legion of Honor?In 2007 Clint Eastwood was made a chevalier of the French Legion of Honour. He was elevated to commander two years later.
- When did Clint Eastwood achieve international stardom?Clint Eastwood achieved international stardom when he played "The Man with No Name" in three Italian westerns (known as “spaghetti westerns”) direc...
5 days ago · James Cameron (born August 16, 1954, Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian filmmaker known for his expansive vision and innovative special-effects films, most notably Titanic (1997), for which he won an Academy Award for best director, and Avatar (2009).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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2 days ago · His movies include The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023), both of which were nominated for an Academy Award for best picture and garnered Lanthimos nominations for best director. Early life and education. Lanthimos’s father was a professional basketball player who played for the Greek national team; his mother worked in an appliance store.
3 days ago · It was nominated for ten Academy Awards including Best Supporting Actress (Sara Allgood), Best Editing, Best Script, Best Music and Best Sound and it won five Oscars—Best Director, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp), Best B&W Cinematography (Arthur C. Miller) and Best Art Direction
3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929. This award goes to the producers of the film and is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible to submit a nomination and ...
