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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 .
- Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
- Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Jane Campion, Power of The Dog
- Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
- Bong Joon Ho, Parasite
- Alfonso Cuarón, Roma
- Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
- Damien Chazelle, La La Land
- Alejandro González Iñárritu, The Revenant
- Alejandro González Iñárritu, Birdman Or
Oppenheimer won big at the 2024 Oscars, including in the Best Director category, where Christopher Nolan picked up his first award.
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.
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. Campion also made history when she was nominated, as she became the first woman to be nominated twice for Best Director — her first nod was in 1993 for The Piano. Though she didn't win then, she di...
In another history-making win, not only was Zhao the second woman to ever win in the category, but she was the first Asian womanto take an Oscar for directing.
"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 Howhen he accepted the Golden Globe for best motion picture, foreign language in 2020. At the Oscars that same year, he gave another touching speech, thanking and acknowledging his fellow nominees —...
This touching film, inspired by Cuarón's own upbringing, was a black-and-white picture that highlightedthe class differences in Mexican culture.
Going into the 90th Academy Awards in 2018, Del Toro's The Shape of Water had a staggering 13 nominations and snagged four trophies, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score and Best Production Design.
Any man who can get Ryan Gosling to break out in those dance moves certainly deserves to be awarded! Chazelle's La La Land was a big hit when it came out, and at the Academy Awards in 2017, it also won Best Cinematography, Best Original Song and Best Production Design in addition to Best Actress for Emma Stone.
Iñarritu took home the prestigious award for the second year in a row. Not only was this the film that got Leonardo DiCaprio his long-awaited Oscar, but The Revenant, which was based on the true story of explorer Hugh Glass, also won the award for Best Cinematography.
Starring powerhouses such as Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Emma Stone and Zach Galifianakis, it's no wonder Birdmanwas a hit. The film also won trophies for Best Cinematography, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
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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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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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Mar 28, 2022 · Jane Campion took home the Academy Award for best director for “The Power of the Dog,” a searing Western drama about a hardened rancher (Benedict Cumberbatch) who torments his brother’s wife ...
Apr 26, 2021 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chloé Zhao has made history at the 2021 Academy Awards, becoming the first woman of color to win best director and just the second woman to win the award. Zhao won the directing Oscar for “ Nomadland,” joining Kathryn Bigelow, who won in 2009 for “The Hurt Locker.”
Mar 28, 2022 · Jane Campion on Sunday night became the third woman in film history to win the best director prize at the Academy Awards, earning a statuette for the brooding Western “The Power of the Dog.”...
