The Mexican-born filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón won the 2013 Best Director award for his space thriller "Gravity." It was the first of three consecutive Oscars in the category that went to a director from Mexico. The 2014 and 2015 awards were won by Cuarón's good friend Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who directed "Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)" and "The Revenant."
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon Gus Van Sant, Milk
Kathryn Bigelow won the 2009 Academy Award for "Best Director" for her work in "The Hurt Locker." She is the first woman to win the award.
Quentin Tarantino, "Inglourious Basterds"
Lee Daniels, "Precious"
Jason Reitman, "Up in the Air"
Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"
James Cameron, "Avatar"
Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for Best Director for the film Out of Africa.
Alfred Hitchcock
Viva Villa! won the Oscar for Assistant Director in 1934.
Michael Cimino.
Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor.
James Cameron won the Oscar for Best Director for Titanic (1997).
The Best Director of 2010 will not be announced until February or March of 2011.On March 7, 2010, the best director of 2009 was announced. Kathryn Bigelow won the 2009 Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Director for The Hurt Locker (2009). She is the first woman to win the award in this category. Her film was widely regarded as the most important film of those nominated. Avatar (2009) was also a favorite. It was cutting-edge in many ways, but the job of the director was mostly in post-production and had little to do with actors.
Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for Best Director for the film Out of Africa.
Four.1953 Won Oscar Best Director for: The Quiet Man (1952)1942 Won Oscar Best Director for: How Green Was My Valley (1941)1941 Won Oscar Best Director for: The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 1940 Nominated Oscar Best Director for: Stagecoach (1939)1936 Won Oscar Best Director for: The Informer (1935)
Kathryn Bigelow won the 2009 Best Director Academy Award for her work on "The Hurt Locker." She also won an Oscar as a producer of the film, which was named Best Picture. Bigelow was the fourth woman nominated for Best Director, after Lina Wertmuller for "Seven Beauties" (1975), Jane Campion for "The Piano" (1993) and Sofia Coppola for "Lost in Translation" (2003).
Robert Redford won the 1980 Oscar for "Ordinary People," which marked his debut as a director.
Martin Scorsese won the Best Director Oscar for "The Departed".
Katheryn Bigelow was the big winner at the most recent Academy Awards. She won Best Director and Best Picture for The Hurt Locker (2009).
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He won an Oscar for Best Director for Ordinary People (1980).
Alfred Hitchcock
Christoph Waltz won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2009.