Oscar / Best Director
The Oscar for Best Director honors the achievements of the directors of a film .
| statistics | |
|---|---|
| Most frequently honored director | John Ford (4 wins) |
| Most frequently nominated director | William Wyler (12 nominations) |
| Most frequently nominated director without a win | Clarence Brown (6 nominations) |
| Youngest winner | Damien Chazelle (32 years + 38 days) |
| Oldest winner | Clint Eastwood (74) |
| Youngest nominee | John Singleton (24) |
| Oldest nominee | John Huston (79) |
| The only female winner | Kathryn Bigelow |
- Eight directors were nominated for best director and best actor for the same film: Warren Beatty for Heaven Shall Wait and Reds , Clint Eastwood for Merciless and Million Dollar Baby , Orson Welles ( Citizen Kane ), Laurence Olivier ( Hamlet ), Woody Allen ( Der Urban Neurotics ), Kenneth Branagh ( Henry V. ), Kevin Costner ( Who Dances With Wolves ) and Roberto Benigni ( Life is Beautiful ).
- The only brothers nominated together were Ethan and Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men (2007) and True Grit (2010).
- Steven Soderbergh is the only director to date to have been nominated for two films in the same year: At the 2001 Academy Awards he was awarded for Traffic - Power of the Cartel , and he was nominated for Erin Brockovich .
- John Ford, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Alejandro González Iñárritu are the only defending champions.
- Since 2014, the Oscar has been awarded 5 times to Mexican directors in 6 awards: Alfonso Cuarón won in 2014 and 2019 for Gravity and Roma , Alejandro González Iñárritu won in 2015 and 2016 for Birdman and The Revenant - The Returner and Guillermo del Toro won in 2018 for Shape of Water - The whisper of water .
- A total of 25 directors were nominated whose films are not spoken in English. Only Alfonso Cuarón ( Roma ) and Bong Joon-ho ( Parasite ) won.
- Only 5 directors were nominated for Best Director : Lina Wertmüller for Seven Beauties , Jane Campion for Das Piano , Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation , Kathryn Bigelow for Tödliches Kommando - The Hurt Locker ( won ) and Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird .
Films qualify for an Oscar in the year following their release. The table below shows the winners according to the year they were awarded.
1929-1930
| year | Award winners | for the movie | Nominations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | Category: Drama Frank Borzage |
The happiness in the attic |
Herbert Brenon for Captain Sorrell and his son King Vidor for A Man of the Masses |
| Category: Comedy Lewis Milestone |
The battlers | Ted Wilde for street hunting with Speedy | |
| 1930 (1) | Frank Lloyd | The uncrowned queen |
Lionel Barrymore for Madame X Harry Beaumont for The Broadway Melody Irving Cummings for In Old Arizona Frank Lloyd for Drag Frank Lloyd for Weary River Ernst Lubitsch for Der Patriot |
| 1930 (2) | Lewis Milestone | nothing new in the West |
Clarence Brown for Anna Christie Clarence Brown for Romance Robert Z. Leonard for Die Frau für alle Ernst Lubitsch for Liebesparade King Vidor for Hallelujah |