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Who was the first black director nominated for an Oscar?
John Singleton was the first black director nominated for an Oscar for Best Director. He was nominated for the movie Boyz n the Hood in 1991. He was also the youngest director ever nominated, at age 23.
What is Oscar winning director Kazan's first name?
Elia
Thanks to Midnight Express what director's first Oscar was actually for screenwriting?
Oliver Stone.
Who was first british director to win Oscar?
It was David Lean, who won the 1957 Best Director award for "The Bridge on the River Kwai." He won the Oscar again for "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962). The first director from the United Kingdom to win the award was Frank Lloyd (for 1933's "Cavalcade"), a native of Scotland.
Did Frank Capra win a Best Director Oscar for It happened One Night?
Yes, he did. It was his first of three Best Director Academy Awards.
Who won the Oscar triple crown of writer-producer-director for the same movie first?
Billy Wilder
Who traditionally presents the Best Director Award at the Oscar ceremony?
It varies from year to year. Sometimes the presenter is the Best Director winner from the previous year. Other times, the presenter is an actor or actress or esteemed director. When Martin Scorsese won the 2006 Best Director award for "The Departed," he was presented the Oscar by good friends and fellow directors Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola. When Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the award (for "The Hurt Locker"), the presenter was Barbra Streisand.
Who was the first woman film director to win an Oscar in the United States?
Kathryn Bigelow has so far become the only woman to win the Best Director Oscar for her work on the 2009 film "The Hurt Locker." Sofia Coppola was nominated for Best Director for the 2003 movie, "Lost in Translation." Italian director Lina Wertmüller was nominated for Best Director in 1976 for "Seven Beauties." New Zealand's Jane Campion was nominated for Best Director for "The Piano" in 1993 (she won an Oscar that same year for Best Original Screenplay).
When was the first Rocky made?
"Rocky" (1976). It won the OSCAR for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing.
Martin Landau was the first actor to win an Oscar for playing another actor in a bio-pic Who?
Bela Lugosi
Who won his third Best Director Oscar seventeen years after winning his first?
Idk off the top of my head but check the academy's website there's a list of all the Oscar winners ever on it
Who was the first Canadian director to win an Oscar?
Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. She won for The Hurt Locker(2009). She beat her ex-husband, James Cameron, who was nominated for Avatar.
