Two movies directed by two men won an Oscar for Best Direction: 1961's West Side Story directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, and 2007's No Country for Old Men directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
The only other couple nominated together for direction are Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for 1978's Heaven Can Wait.
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The following are winners of the Academy Awards Best Director category from 2000 to 2010:
Year: Director: Film:
2000 Steven Soderbergh Traffic
2001 Ron Howard A Beautiful Mind
2002 Roman Polanski The Pianist
2003 Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings: Return of the king
2004 Clint Eastwood Million Dollar Baby
2005 Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain
2006 Martin Scorsese The Departed
2007 Joel & Ethan Coen No Country For Old Men
2008 Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire
2009 Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker
2010 Tom Hooper The King's Speech
Source: Oscars.org
John Ford has won the most Best Director Academy Awards (four).
Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for Best Director for the film Out of Africa.
To win an Oscar "The academy award" a film needs to be nominated by members of the Academy and then those that are nominated are voted for by members of the Academy it does not have to win anything to be considered.
West Side Story
Clint Eastwood has been nominated for ten Oscars and won four. In 1993 he won an Oscar for Best Director and another for Best Picture for his movie Unforgiven. In 2005 he won two more Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for his movie Million Dollar Baby.
John Ford has won the most Best Director Academy Awards (four).
West Side Story (1961).
The 1993 Oscar for best director went to Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List and in 2005 it went to Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain.
James Cameron won the Oscar for Best Director for Titanic (1997).
William Wyler
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)
Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for Best Director for the film Out of Africa.
The director usually picks a casting director and there are different casting directors for everything- tons of casting directors......there are hundreds of casting directors, you just have to do your research. Best to get an agent!
To win an Oscar "The academy award" a film needs to be nominated by members of the Academy and then those that are nominated are voted for by members of the Academy it does not have to win anything to be considered.
West Side Story
Zombie films
John Hutson was nominated for the following OscarsNominated Oscar Best Director for: Prizzi's Honor(1985)Nominated Oscar Best Adapted Screenplay for: The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Shared with: Gladys HillNominated Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: The Cardinal (1963)Nominated Oscar Best Adapted Screenplay for: Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) Shared with: John Lee MahinNominated Oscar Best Director for: Moulin Rouge(1952)Nominated Oscar Best Picture for: Moulin Rouge(1952)Nominated Oscar Best Director for: The African Queen(1951)Nominated Oscar Best Screenplay for: The African Queen (1951) Shared with: James AgeeNominated Oscar Best Director for: The Asphalt Jungle(1950)Nominated Oscar Best Screenplay for: The Asphalt Jungle(1950) Shared with: Ben MaddowWon Oscar Best Director for: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)Won Oscar Best Screenplay for: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)Nominated Oscar Best Original Screenplay for: Sergeant York (1941) Shared with: Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel and Howard KochNominated Oscar Best Screenplay for: The Maltese Falcon(1941)Nominated Oscar Best Original Screenplay for: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) Shared with: Norman Burnstine and Heinz Herald