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- William Wyler. The other director to have won the Academy Award for Best Director three times is filmmaker William Wyler. Wyler first won the award at the 15th Academy Awards for 1942's Mrs. Miniver.
- Frank Capra. Director Frank Capra is one of only two directors to have won the Academy Award for Best Director only three times. Capra first won the award at the 7th Academy Awards for 1934's It Happened One Night.
- Fred Zinnemann. Going in alphabetical order, Fred Zinnemann is the final director to have won the Academy Award for Best Director only twice. Zinnemann first won it at the 26th Academy Awards for 1953's From Here to Eternity.
- Robert Wise. Robert Wise not only won the Academy Award for Best Director twice, but he was also part of the first duo to win the award. Wise first won the Oscar alongside co-director Jerome Robbins at the 34th Academy Awards for 1961's West Side Story.
Of the 89 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 68 won the award. [7] [8] Since its inception, the award has been given to 75 directors or directing teams. As of the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan is the most recent winner in this category for his work on Oppenheimer.
- 2023: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once. Everything Everywhere All at Once and its directors Kwan and Scheinert took home seven awards during the 2023 ceremony, the most of any film that year.
- 2022: Jane Campion, Power of the Dog. Becoming the third woman in Academy Awards history to win Best Director, Jane Campion snagged the Oscar for her modern-day Western at the 2022 ceremony.
- 2021: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland. In another history-making win, not only was Zhao the second woman to ever win in the category, but she was the first Asian woman to take an Oscar for directing.
- 2020: Bong Joon Ho, Parasite. "Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films," said South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho when he accepted the Golden Globe for best motion picture, foreign language in 2020.
Mar 10, 2024 · Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan won the Academy Award for best director, his first Oscar ever, on Sunday night. “I have so many people to thank,” Nolan said during his acceptance speech ...
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Mar 11, 2024 · Item 1 of 5 Christopher Nolan accepts the Oscar for Best Director for "Oppenheimer" from presenter Steven Spielberg during the Oscars show at the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles ...
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Mar 11, 2024 · Christopher Nolan fans, the time has finally come: Nolan has won his first-ever Best Director Oscar for Oppenheimer. Nolan has been nominated for a total of eight Academy Awards over the course of ...
