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Academy Award for Best Director. 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.
Of the 96 films that have won Best Picture, 69 have also been awarded Best Director. Only six films have been awarded Best Picture without receiving a Best Director nomination: Wings directed by William A. Wellman (1927/28), Grand Hotel directed by Edmund Goulding (1931/32), Driving Miss Daisy directed by Bruce Beresford (1989), Argo directed ...
David O. Russell, Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan, and Mike Nichols are the only directors with two movies on this list. Nine actors appear twice on this list as Best Actor nominees: Anthony Hopkins, Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Montgomery Clift, Paul Newman, Warren Beatty and William Holden.
Quentin Tarantino filmography. Tarantino at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con. Quentin Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer who has directed ten films. [a] He first began his career in the 1980s by directing and writing Love Birds In Bondage[1] and writing, directing and starring in the black-and-white My Best ...
Highest-grossing directors worldwide [1]; Rank Name Worldwide box office Highest-grossing film 1 Steven Spielberg: $10,753,640,095 $1,114,456,337 (Jurassic Park) 2 James Cameron
Christopher Edward Nolan was born on 30 July 1970, in Westminster, London. His father, Brendan James Nolan, was a British advertising executive of Irish descent [1] who worked as a creative director. His mother, Christina Jensen, was an American flight attendant from Evanston, Illinois; she would later work as a teacher of English.
For other uses, see Tarantino (disambiguation). Quentin Jerome Tarantino (/ ˌtærənˈtiːnoʊ /; born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker. His films are characterized by stylized violence, extended dialogue often with profanity, and references to popular culture.
Christopher Nolan filmography. Christopher Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature directorial debut was the neo-noir crime thriller Following (1998) which was made on a budget of $6,000. [1][note 1] Two years later, he directed the psychological thriller Memento (2000) which starred Guy Pearce as ...