Academy Award for Best Director

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Academy Award film award

The Academy Award for Best Director is a prestigious Oscar presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor outstanding achievement in film directing.

Aliases (25)

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Academy Award → film award →
alsoKnownAs	Oscar for Best Director →
associatedWith	Academy Award for Best Actor → Academy Award for Best Actress → Academy Award for Best Picture →
awardedFor	outstanding achievement in film directing →
awardType	competitive award →
belongsToIndustry	film industry →
broadcastNetworkExamples	ABC (United States) →
broadcastOn	television →
ceremonyLocation	Hollywood → Los Angeles →
country	United States →
eligibleWorks	feature films →
field	film directing →
firstAwarded	1929 →
frequency	annual →
governingBody	Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →
hasCategoryType	individual achievement award →
hasGenderRestriction	no →
hasHistoricalNote	originally had separate categories for drama and comedy in the first years →
hasNomineeLimit	typically five nominees →
hasNotableFirstAsianWinner	Ang Lee →
hasNotableFirstBlackWinner	no Black director has yet won as of 2024 →
hasNotableFirstFemaleWinner	Kathryn Bigelow →
hasNotableFirstFemaleWinnerYear	2010 ceremony (for 2009 films) →
hasNotableMultipleWinners	Frank Capra → John Ford → Steven Spielberg → William Wyler →
hasOfficialWebsite	https://www.oscars.org →
hasSignificance	often seen as recognition of overall creative control of a film →
inception	1927–1928 film season →
languageOfOfficialName	English →
notableAs	one of the major Academy Award categories → one of the most prestigious awards in film directing →
organizer	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →
partOf	Academy Awards →
presentedBy	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →
relatedAward	BAFTA Award for Best Direction → Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures → Golden Globe Award for Best Director →
selectionProcess	voted on by members of the Directors Branch of the Academy for nominations → winners chosen by all voting members of the Academy →
trophyName	Oscar statuette →
typicalAnnouncementTime	announced during the annual Academy Awards ceremony →

Referenced by (248)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Fish Called Wanda → A Room with a View (1985 film) → American Graffiti → Apocalypse Now → Avatar (2009 film) → Barry Jenkins → Belfast (2021 film) → Black Hawk Down → Bonnie and Clyde → Capote (film) → Chariots of Fire → Citizen Kane → Close Encounters of the Third Kind → Coming Home → Darren Aronofsky → David Fincher → Dead Poets Society → Dog Day Afternoon → Dunkirk → E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial → East of Eden → Fargo → Fatal Attraction → Friendly Persuasion → Frost/Nixon → Get Out → Good Will Hunting → Gosford Park → Greta Gerwig → Guess Who's Coming to Dinner → Hamlet (1948 film) → Henry Koster ("Academy Award for Best Director for The Bishop's Wife") → Howards End → Inglourious Basterds → John Madden → Johnny Belinda → Jordan Peele → Julian Schnabel → Juno → King Vidor → Kitty Foyle → L.A. Confidential → Lost in Translation → MASH → Mad Max: Fury Road → Manchester by the Sea → Mark Robson → Mark Robson ("Academy Award for Best Director for Peyton Place") → Mark Robson ("Academy Award for Best Director for The Inn of the Sixth Happiness") → Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World → Michael Mann → Moonstruck → Mr. Smith Goes to Washington → Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) → On Golden Pond → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Precious → Pulp Fiction → Raging Bull → Raiders of the Lost Ark → Rear Window → Rebecca (1940 film) → Robert Altman → Roma (2018 film) → Roman Holiday → Separate Tables (1958 film) → Shine → Sidney Lumet → Silver Linings Playbook → Sleuth (1972 film) → Some Like It Hot → Spellbound → Spellbound (1945 film) → Spike Lee → The African Queen → The Aviator → The Bishop's Wife → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button → The Descendants → The Fabelmans → The Fighter → The Godfather → The Grand Budapest Hotel → The Greatest Show on Earth (1952 film) → The Guns of Navarone → The Hours → The Imitation Game → The Inn of the Sixth Happiness → The Irishman → The Lion in Winter → The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring → The Queen → The Social Network → The Tree of Life → The Truman Show → The Wolf of Wall Street → There Will Be Blood → Tom Hooper → Tootsie → True Grit (2010 film) → United 93 → William Wyler →	nominatedFor
A Beautiful Mind (2001 film) → Alfonso Cuarón → American Beauty → Ang Lee → Annie Hall → Anthony Minghella → Arthur Penn ("Academy Award for Best Director nomination") → Barry Levinson → Ben-Hur → Billy Wilder → Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) → Christopher Nolan → Clint Eastwood → Danny Boyle → Denis Villeneuve ("Academy Award nomination for Best Director") → Elia Kazan → Elia Kazan → Ethan Coen → Everything Everywhere All at Once → Francis Ford Coppola → Frank Capra → Franklin J. Schaffner → Fred Zinnemann → Gentleman's Agreement → George Cukor → Gone with the Wind → Gravity → Guillermo del Toro → How Green Was My Valley → It Happened One Night → James Cameron → Jane Campion → Joel Coen → John Ford → John G. Avildsen → John Huston → Jonathan Demme → Joseph L. Mankiewicz → Joseph L. Mankiewicz ("Academy Award for Best Director for A Letter to Three Wives") → Joseph L. Mankiewicz ("Academy Award for Best Director for All About Eve") → Joseph L. Mankiewicz → Kathryn Bigelow → Kenneth Branagh ("Academy Award for Best Director nomination") → Kevin Costner → Kramer vs. Kramer → La La Land → Lawrence of Arabia → Life of Pi → Marty → Michael Curtiz → Mike Nichols → Mr. Deeds Goes to Town → No Country for Old Men → Norman Jewison ("Academy Award for Best Director nomination") → On the Waterfront → One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest → Oppenheimer (2023 film) → Out of Africa → Peter Jackson → Platoon → Richard Attenborough → Robert Wise → Robert Zemeckis → Rocky → Roma (2018 film) → Roman Polanski → Ron Howard → Ron Howard → Ronald William Howard → Sam Mendes → Saving Private Ryan → Steven Spielberg → Steven Spielberg → The Apartment → The Deer Hunter → The Departed → The English Patient → The Graduate → The King’s Speech → The Lost Weekend → The Power of the Dog (2021 film) → The Quiet Man → The Shape of Water → Tom Hooper → Tom Jones (1963 film) → Victor Fleming → Vincente Minnelli → Warren Beatty → Wes Anderson ("Academy Award for Best Director nomination") → William Friedkin → William Wyler → Woody Allen → You Can't Take It with You (1938 film) →	awardReceived
Alejandro G. Iñárritu → Midnight Cowboy → The Artist → The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King → The Silence of the Lambs → The Treasure of the Sierra Madre →	academyAward
Crimes and Misdemeanors → Gangs of New York → Good Night, and Good Luck → Lady Bird → The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming → Witness for the Prosecution →	awardNomination
John Ford ("Academy Award for Best Director for The Informer") → John Ford ("Academy Award for Best Director for The Grapes of Wrath") → John Ford ("Academy Award for Best Director for How Green Was My Valley") → John Ford ("Academy Award for Best Director for The Quiet Man") →	academyAwards
Schindler's List → Slumdog Millionaire → The Godfather Part II →	award
Alfonso Cuarón ("Academy Award for Best Director for Gravity") → Alfonso Cuarón ("Academy Award for Best Director for Roma") → Anthony Minghella ("Academy Award for Best Director for The English Patient") →	awardReceivedFor
George Cukor ("Academy Award for Best Director for My Fair Lady") → Jonathan Demme ("Academy Award for Best Director for The Silence of the Lambs") → Victor Fleming ("Academy Award for Best Director for "Gone with the Wind"") →	awardReceivedForWork
Gus Van Sant ("Academy Award for Best Director nomination") → Martin Scorsese → Middle-earth film series ("Academy Award for Best Director for Peter Jackson") →	notableAward
Lost Horizon → The Reader →	academyAwardNomination
American Hustle → Up in the Air →	awardNominatedFor
Steven Spielberg ("Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List") → Steven Spielberg ("Academy Award for Best Director for Saving Private Ryan") →	notableAwardFor
Parasite → Titanic →	wonAward
Alejandro G. Iñárritu ("Academy Award for Best Director for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)") → Alejandro G. Iñárritu ("Academy Award for Best Director for The Revenant") →	wonFor
Fiddler on the Roof →	academyAwardNominations
Nomadland ("Best Director") →	academyAwardsWon
Traffic (2000 film) →	academyAwardWon
Academy Award for Best Director ("Oscar for Best Director") →	alsoKnownAs
The Insider →	awardNominated
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences →	awardsPresented
Elizabeth (Gentleman's Agreement) →	awardWonByWork
Forrest Gump →	hasAward
Goya Award for Best Director →	hasEquivalent
The Remains of the Day →	notableAwardNomination
WingNut Films →	notableAwardReceived
Chinatown ("Best Director") →	oscarNominatedFor
Traffic (2000 film) →	oscarNomination
BAFTA Award for Best Direction →	relatedAward
Ang Lee ("Academy Award for Best Director for Life of Pi") →	wonForWork