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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.
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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.
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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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Academy Award for best director, award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honours outstanding achievement by a director in a movie from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. At the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, the award recognized the work in films from 1927–28, and it was offered in two categories: drama and comedy. However, the two Oscars were subsequently combined into one award that covered all genres. In addition, beginning with the seventh ceremony (1935), only work in movies released the previous year was eligible for consideration. The winning directors are given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar.
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 colour to win (2021). Below is a list of the winning directors and the films for which they won. The year is when the award was presented.
•1929: best drama: Frank Borzage (7th Heaven [1927]); best comedy: Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights [1927])
•1930: Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady [1928])
•1931: Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front [1930])
•1932: Norman Taurog (Skippy [1931])
•1933: Frank Borzage (Bad Girl [1931])
•1934: Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade [1933])
•1940: Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)
•1941: John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)
•1942: John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)
•1943: William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)
•1944: Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)
•1945: Leo McCarey (Going My Way)
•1960: William Wyler (Ben-Hur)
•1961: Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
•1962: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (West Side Story)
•1963: David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)
•1964: Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)
•1965: George Cukor (My Fair Lady)
•1980: Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)
•1981: Robert Redford (Ordinary People)
•1982: Warren Beatty (Reds)
•1983: Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)
•1984: James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)
•1985: Milos Forman (Amadeus)
•2000: Sam Mendes (American Beauty)
•2001: Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
•2002: Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
•2003: Roman Polanski (The Pianist)
•2004: Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
•2005: Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)
•2020: Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite)
•2021: Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)
•2022: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
•2023: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
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Apr 26, 2021 · Pool/Getty Images. 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 )....
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Mar 12, 2023 · From Warren Beatty to Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion, here's every filmmaker who's won the Best Director Oscar at the Academy AWards through the years
Mar 28, 2022 · By. Rebecca Rubin, Adam B. Vary. Christopher Polk for Variety. 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...
