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Of the 89 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 68 won the award. [7] [8] The award has been criticised in recent years for failing to recognise female directors. [9] Of the 257 individual directors nominated in the history of the award, only 9 have been women; [10] and only 3 of the 75 winners have been women. [11]
Along with Robert Altman and King Vidor, he received five nominations in the category of Best Director without a win. However, four of his films also earned Best Picture nominations (Foreign Correspondent in 1941, Suspicion in 1942 and Spellbound in 1946, plus winning Rebecca from 1941). The total number of Oscar nominations (including winners ...
Sven Erik Alf Sjöberg (21 June 1903 – 17 April 1980) was a Swedish theatre and film director.He won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes Film Festival twice: in 1946 for Torment (Swedish: Hets) (part of an eleven-way tie), and in 1951 for his film Miss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie) [1] (an adaptation of August Strindberg's play which tied with Vittorio De Sica's Miracle in Milan).
Hitchcock received his first nomination for Best Director, his first of five such nominations. [ 5 ] [ 131 ] Hitchcock's second American film was the thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), set in Europe, based on Vincent Sheean 's book Personal History (1935) and produced by Walter Wanger .
At the Academy Awards, the so-called "Big Five" awards are those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay (either Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay). [1] As of the 94th Academy Awards (2021), a total of 43 films have been nominated in all five of these award categories.
Best Director: Won [104] Best Picture [c] Won Austin Film Critics Association: Best Film [c] Runner-up [105] Chicago Film Critics Association: Best Director: Nominated [106] Best Film [c] Nominated Broadcast Film Critics Association: Best Acting Ensemble [d] Nominated [107] Best Director: Won Best Picture [c] Won Dallas–Fort Worth Film ...
Three other Best Picture winners of the 1940s had wartime themes: "Casablanca" (1943), "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) and "Gentleman’s Agreement" (1947). ... Sidney Franklin, its director ...
Year Winner Film; 1980: Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull: 1981: Louis Malle: Atlantic City: 1982: Steven Spielberg: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: 1983: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani: The Night of the Shooting Stars (La notte di San Lorenzo)