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Highest-grossing directors worldwide [1]; Rank Name Worldwide box office Highest-grossing film 1 Steven Spielberg: $10,753,945,763 $1,114,456,337 (Jurassic Park) 2 James Cameron
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Films directed by Steven Spielberg have been the highest-grossing film of the year on six occasions, and on three occasions have been the highest-grossing film of all time. Steven Spielberg is the most represented director on the chart, with six films to his credit, occupying the top spot in 1975, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989 and 1993.
The "Top 100 Greatest Films of All Time" is a list published every ten years by Sight and Sound according to worldwide opinion polls they conduct. They published the critics' list, based on 1,639 participating critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics, and the directors' list, based on 480 directors and filmmakers.
Wilder was ranked 6th in director's poll on Sight & Sound's 2002 list of The Greatest Directors of All Time. [50] In 1996, Entertainment Weekly ranked Wilder at No. 24 in its "50 Greatest Directors" list. [51] [52] Wilder was ranked at No. 19 on Empire's "Top 40 Greatest Directors of All-Time" list in 2005. [51]
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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 .
First Asian person (and non-Caucasian) to be nominated for Best Director. Hiroshi Teshigahara (from Japan) for Woman in the Dunes (1965) First Asian person to receive an Honorary Award. Akira Kurosawa (from Japan) received an Honorary Award in 1989; First Asian woman to be nominated for (and win) Best Director. Chloé Zhao for Nomadland (2020)