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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 .
Seven Samurai (1954) topped the BBC poll of best foreign-language films as well as several Japanese polls.. Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951. [3]
The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director is one of the awards given to film directors working in the film industry by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. It was first given out to Mel Gibson for Braveheart in 1996 as a juried award. Until 2001, only the winner was presented; since then, a set of ...
The film is also up for two Golden Globe nominations, including for director Payal Kapadia, whose Best Director nomination is a first for an Indian filmmaker. Lionel Hahn // Getty Images #2.
Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” won best film, director, screenwriter and actress at the 37th European Film Awards, which were held Saturday in Lucerne, Switzerland. The best film nominees ...
Payne twice won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing his directorials Sideways (2004) and The Descendants (2011). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for these two films and for the road film Nebraska (2013). He has since directed the comedy-dramas Downsizing (2017), and The Holdovers (2023).
“Carry-On” has entered Netflix’s most popular English-language films list. The action thriller reached the fifth spot Tuesday with 149.5 million views since its release a month ago ...
Henry King was the first recipient of this award for The Song of Bernadette (1943) Billy Wilder won twice for The Lost Weekend (1945) and Sunset Boulevard (1950) Elia Kazan won four times for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), On the Waterfront (1954), Baby Doll (1956), and America America (1963) John Huston won twice for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Prizzi's Honor (1985) Cecil B ...