No, but he was nominated for Best Director and Best Picture.
No, he did not win.
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)
Italian-born Bernardo Bertolucci, who won the Oscar for Best Director for The Last Emperor (1987).
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Yes, he did. It was his first of three Best Director Academy Awards.
No. The German director of the 2010 film "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" was a contributor to "The ChubbChubbs!" (2002), which won the award for Best Animated Short. But the Oscar went to its director, Eric Armstrong.
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).
Contrary to popular belief, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore did not win an Oscar. He did go on stage when An Inconvenient Truth won the Oscar for Best Documentary. But the prize goes to the director of the movie. Gore was not the director of the movie.
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Elia Kazan won best director for the movie On the Waterfront.
1972. The Answer of this question is not 1972, in fact this movie is the only x-rated movie to win an Oscar for Best-Pic in 1969, director John Schlesinger also won the Oscar for Best-Dir that year. The Godfather has won this category in the 1972 Academy Award presentation.