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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).
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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 .
- 2023: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Everything Everywhere All at Once and its directors Kwan and Scheinert took home seven awards during the 2023 ceremony, the most of any film that year.
- 2022: Jane Campion, Power of the Dog. Becoming the third woman in Academy Awards history to win Best Director, Jane Campion snagged the Oscar for her modern-day Western at the 2022 ceremony.
- 2021: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland. In another history-making win, not only was Zhao the second woman to ever win in the category, but she was the first Asian woman to take an Oscar for directing.
- 2020: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite. "Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films," said South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho when he accepted the Golden Globe for best motion picture, foreign language in 2020.
Mar 11, 2024 · 2006 Best Director Nominees: Clint Eastwood, “Letters from iwo Jima” Stephen Frears, “The Queen” Paul Greengrass, “United 93” Alejandro G. Inarritu, “Babel”
Directing - Steven Spielberg Film Editing - Michael Kahn Music (Original Score) - John Williams Best Picture - Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel, Producers Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth
2006: Martin Scorsese: The Departed : 2007: Joel and Ethan Coen: No Country for Old Men : 2008: Danny Boyle: Slumdog Millionaire: 2009: Kathryn Bigelow: The Hurt Locker : 2010: Tom Hooper: The King's Speech : 2011: Michel Hazanavicius: The Artist : 2012: Ang Lee: Life of Pi # 2013: Alfonso Cuarón: Gravity # 2014: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Martin Scorsese. Best Directing winner for The Departed, with presenters Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. An Inconvenient Truth. Documentary Feature winner Davis Guggenheim with Al Gore, Lawrence Bender, Laurie David, Scott Burns and Lesley Chilcott. Jennifer Hudson.
