Academy Award for Directing
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The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. The expression of approval is given, along with an Oscar Statuette and a chance for the director to speak, at an annual Academy Awards ceremony. All but twenty-one of the seventy-eight Oscars for best director were for films that also won the award for best picture. The Academy has selected one director from five nominees each year for the past seven decades to receive the honor. For the first few Academy Awards ceremonies, starting in 1927, the ceremony honored the best films released in a year-long period between August of one year and August of the following year.
While the award is considered a good way to sum up the most successful and talented American film directors, several revered directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, John Cassavetes, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock never won the award. Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman, who have each been nominated five times, are also considered great American directors never have won directorial Oscars. John Ford is the only director with 4 Best Director Oscars, followed by Frank Capra and William Wyler with 3 Best Director Academy Awards.
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[edit] List of Awards and Nominees
Each Academy Award ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Academy Award for Directing and the film associated with the award. Indented and following the winner of each award are the other nominees for best director.
[edit] 1920s
In the first year only, the award was separated into Dramatic Direction and Comedy Direction.
Dramatic Direction:
[edit] 1930s
[edit] 1940s
[edit] 1950s
[edit] 1960s
[edit] 1970s
[edit] 1980s
[edit] 1990s
- 1995 Mel Gibson - Braveheart
- Chris Noonan - Babe
- Tim Robbins - Dead Man Walking
- Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas
- Michael Radford - Il Postino also known as The Postman
[edit] 2000s
[edit] See also
- List of movies
- List of actors
- List of directors
- List of documentaries
- List of Hollywood movie studios
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