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* Directing - Sam Mendes * Best Picture - Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, Producers * Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) - Alan Ball Actress in a Leading Role - Annette Bening Film Editing - Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury Music (Original Score) - Thomas Newman
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 26, 2000. Sam Mendes was the sixth person to win Best Director for his directorial debut. Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey became the tenth performer to win acting Oscars in both lead and supporting categories.
- March 26, 2000
- American Beauty (8)
- American Beauty (5)
- Billy Crystal
That rule has since been amended, although the only director who has received multiple nominations in the same year was Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000, winning the award for the latter.
- Excellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- ((John Ford)) (5)
- 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.
This list will include all winners that won the Academy Award for best director. Not all films that won Best Picture will have their directors win the award for Best Director. A film may win the award for best picture.
Mar 11, 2024 · 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).
