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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]
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
Orson Welles was selected as the greatest film director of all time by both critics and filmmakers. This list was put together by assembling the directors of the individual films that the critics and the directors polled voted for. 2002 was the only year Sight & Sound compiled the list.
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.
List of individuals that have been awarded the Best Director Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Pages in category "Films whose director won the Best Directing Academy Award" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
First Asian person (and non-Caucasian) to win Best Director. Ang Lee (from Taiwan) for Brokeback Mountain (2005) 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 ...
John Carpenter is known best for crafting one of the greatest villains of all time with Michael Myers, but he also created a memorable hero in "Big Trouble in Little China.". For this late 1980s ...