Search results
People also ask
What is the Academy Award for Best Director?
Who has won the most Academy Awards?
Who was the first female director to win the Oscar?
When did Kathryn Bigelow win an Academy Award?
On March 7, 2010, Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for her movie The Hurt Locker, about an American bomb squad that disables explosives in...
Four directing teams have been nominated together (a total of five times): Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story (1961), Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait (1978), Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007) and True Grit (2010), and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once ...
- Excellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- ((John Ford)) (5)
- Overview
- 1929 and 1930s
- 1940s and 1950s
- 1960s and 1970s
- 1980s and 1990s
- 2000s and 2010s
- 2020s
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)
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Experiencing 3-D while hosting the Oscars. Michael Giacchino. Original Score winner for Up. A Tribute to John Hughes. Macaulay Culkin, Matthew Broderick, Jon Cryer, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall, and Judd Nelson. View More Memorable Moments.
Mar 12, 2023 · 2010: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker. Kathryn Bigelow made Academy Awards history when she became the first woman to win Best Director with her gripping thriller in 2010.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 7, 2010. [15] [16] [17] Kathryn Bigelow made history as the first female to win the Oscar for Best Director. [18] Up became the second animated film to be nominated for Best Picture after 1991's Beauty and the Beast. [14]
Kathryn Ann Bigelow ( / ˈbɪɡəˌloʊ /; born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker. [1] . Bigelow has received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. [2]
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(999x0:1001x2)/Every-Years-Best-Director-Oscar-Winner-030323-16-cf1903711644467dbc2619072496ad0c.jpg&q=+Academy%20Award%20for%20Directing%202010&ck=6FF180B29545C8BDE0078FE249EAB284&idpp=rc&idpview=singleimage&form=rc2idp "Academy Award for Directing 20101")
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(893x0:895x2)/Every-Years-Best-Director-Oscar-Winner-030323-15-670d163242564a67b5c172cf70a8161e.jpg&q=+Academy%20Award%20for%20Directing%202010&ck=ADF6E04FB2AE2F0EE6FE338FC7078BF7&idpp=rc&idpview=singleimage&form=rc2idp "Academy Award for Directing 20102")
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(764x0:766x2)/Every-Years-Best-Director-Oscar-Winner-030323-05-1dad5b8d1b7c4bf283664843b94672ec.jpg&q=+Academy%20Award%20for%20Directing%202010&ck=1340AB2CDB9513E9631FE89F643A2A24&idpp=rc&idpview=singleimage&form=rc2idp "Academy Award for Directing 20103")
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(671x0:673x2)/Every-Years-Best-Director-Oscar-Winner-030323-03-3139f634b3e84433970549d52e0e8fcf.jpg&q=+Academy%20Award%20for%20Directing%202010&ck=3848654A7E1D6AA5C57FE8C8F8638C36&idpp=rc&idpview=singleimage&form=rc2idp "Academy Award for Directing 20104")
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(746x0:748x2)/Every-Years-Best-Director-Oscar-Winner-030323-10-0cf798f3f5fb4cdcbcce1993c77841a3.jpg&q=+Academy%20Award%20for%20Directing%202010&ck=B6B87BBC7FD1BDE877B2B1082A97EDC4&idpp=rc&idpview=singleimage&form=rc2idp "Academy Award for Directing 20105")
