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Oscar for Best Director
The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing (Best Director) is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to directors working in the motion picture industry. While nominations for Best Director are made by members in the Academy's Directing...
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| 2008 | Gus Van Sant |
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Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Achievement in Directing for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film...
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Milk | ||
| 2008 | Ron Howard |
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Ronald William "Ron" Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American film director and producer, as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show (credited as Ronny...
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Frost/Nixon | ||
| 2008 | David Fincher |
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David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated American filmmaker and music video director known for his dark and stylish movies such as Alien 3, Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
David...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | ||
| 2008 | Danny Boyle |
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Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is a British filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire. For the latter Boyle won numerous awards in 2009, including...
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Slumdog Millionaire | ||
| 2008 | Stephen Daldry |
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Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born 2 May 1961) is an English theatre and film director and producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning director.
Daldry was born in Dorset, England the son of bank manager Patrick...
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The Reader | ||
| 2007 | Julian Schnabel |
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Julian Schnabel (born October 26, 1951) is an American artist and filmmaker. He has been acclaimed at Cannes and has won a Golden Globe, as well as BAFTA, César Award, Golden Palm and two nominations for the Golden Lion and an Academy Award...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | ||
| 2007 | Jason Reitman |
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Jason Reitman (born October 19, 1977) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking (2006), Juno (2007), and Up in the Air (2009).
Reitman was born in...
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Juno | ||
| 2007 | Tony Gilroy |
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Anthony Joseph "Tony" Gilroy (born September 11, 1956) is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays for the Bourne series starring Matt Damon. He has been nominated for Academy Awards for his direction and script for Michael...
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Michael Clayton | ||
| 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
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Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has written and directed five feature films: Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and There Will Be...
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There Will Be Blood | ||
| 2007 | Ethan Coen |
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Ethan Coen is a film director and film writer.
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No Country for Old Men | ||
| Joel Coen |
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Joel Coen is a film director and film writer.
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| 2006 | Paul Greengrass |
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Paul Greengrass (born 13 August 1955) is an English writer and film director. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras.
Greengrass was born in Cheam, Surrey, and educated at...
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United 93 | ||
| 2006 | Stephen Frears |
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Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film director.
Frears was born in Leicester, England to Ruth M., a social worker, and Dr. Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant. He did not find out that his mother was...
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The Queen | ||
| 2006 | Clint Eastwood |
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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards—including...
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Letters from Iwo Jima | ||
| 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
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Alejandro González Iñárritu (Spanish pronunciation: [aleˈxandɾo ɡonˈsales iˈɲaritu]) is an award-winning Mexican film director. He was the first Mexican director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.
He was born on August 15, 1963,...
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Babel | ||
| 2006 | Martin Scorsese |
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Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his...
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The Departed | ||
| 2005 | Bennett Miller |
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Bennett Miller (born December 30, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director.
Miller is the director of the feature Capote (2005), a film for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Director. He also directed the documentary...
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Capote | ||
| 2005 | Paul Haggis |
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Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian-American screenwriter, producer and film director. He spent his early career producing and directing various American and Canadian television network series.
Paul Haggis was born on March 10,...
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Crash | ||
| 2005 | George Clooney |
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George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. Clooney has balanced his performances in big-budget blockbusters with work as a producer and director behind commercially riskier projects, as...
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Good Night, and Good Luck. | ||
| 2005 | Steven Spielberg |
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Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In a career spanning over four decades, Spielberg's films have touched on many themes and genres. Spielberg's early sci-fi and...
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Munich | ||
| 2005 | Ang Lee |
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Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; Pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger,...
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Brokeback Mountain | ||
| 2004 | Mike Leigh |
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Mike Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He began as a theatre director and...
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Vera Drake | ||
| 2004 | Martin Scorsese |
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Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his...
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The Aviator | ||
| 2004 | Taylor Hackford |
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Taylor Edwin Hackford (born December 31, 1944) is an Academy Award-winning American film director.
Hackford was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Mary (née Taylor), a waitress, and Joseph Hackford. He graduated from the University of...
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Ray | ||
| 2004 | Alexander Payne |
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Constantine Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961) is an American Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark humour and satirical depictions of contemporary American society. His films also revolve...
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Sideways | ||
| 2004 | Clint Eastwood |
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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards—including...
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Million Dollar Baby | ||
| 2003 | Fernando Meirelles |
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Fernando Meirelles (born November 9, 1955 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian film director.
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in 2004 for his work in the Brazilian film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in...
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City of God | ||
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola |
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Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, actress, producer and screenwriter. She is the third female director, and only American woman, to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing.
Coppola was born in New York...
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Lost in Translation | ||
| 2003 | Clint Eastwood |
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Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, film producer and composer. He has received five Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards—including...
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Mystic River | ||
| 2003 | Peter Weir |
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Peter Lindsay Weir AM (born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director. After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir relocated to the US and...
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | ||
| 2003 | Peter Jackson |
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Peter Robert Jackson, CNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also known for his 2005 remake of...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | ||
| 2002 | Rob Marshall |
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Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work includes the 2002 film Chicago and...
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Chicago | ||
| 2002 | Martin Scorsese |
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Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his...
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Gangs of New York | ||
| 2002 | Stephen Daldry |
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Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born 2 May 1961) is an English theatre and film director and producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning director.
Daldry was born in Dorset, England the son of bank manager Patrick...
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The Hours | ||
| 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar |
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Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo almoˈðoβar kaβaˈʎeɾo]; born 1949, is an Academy Award winning Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.
Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish...
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Talk to Her | ||
| 2002 | Roman Polański |
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Roman Raymond Polanski (Polish: Roman Rajmund Polański; born 18 August 1933) is a French-born and resident Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a critically acclaimed director of...
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The Pianist | ||
| 2001 | Peter Jackson |
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Peter Robert Jackson, CNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also known for his 2005 remake of...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | ||
| 2001 | Ridley Scott |
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Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail. Some of his films include Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Black...
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Black Hawk Down | ||
| 2001 | Robert Altman |
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Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his...
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Gosford Park | ||
| 2001 | David Lynch |
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David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001). He also...
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Mulholland Drive | ||
| 2001 | Ron Howard |
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Ronald William "Ron" Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American film director and producer, as well as an actor. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s while playing Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show (credited as Ronny...
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A Beautiful Mind | ||
| 2000 | Stephen Daldry |
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Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born 2 May 1961) is an English theatre and film director and producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning director.
Daldry was born in Dorset, England the son of bank manager Patrick...
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Billy Elliot | ||
| 2000 | Ang Lee |
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Ang Lee (Chinese: 李安; Pinyin: Lǐ Ān; born October 23, 1954) is an Academy Award-winning Taiwanese American film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Crouching Tiger,...
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | ||
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh |
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing the films Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich,...
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Erin Brockovich | ||
| 2000 | Ridley Scott |
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Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail. Some of his films include Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Black...
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Gladiator | ||
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh |
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing the films Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich,...
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Traffic | ||
| 1999 | Spike Jonze |
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Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel; October 22, 1969) is an American director and producer, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999...
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Being John Malkovich | ||
| 1999 | Lasse Hallström |
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Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström (born 2 June 1946) is a Swedish film director.
Hallström was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a dentist and his mother was the Swedish writer Karin Lyberg (1907 - 2000). His maternal grandfather, Ernst Lyberg,...
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The Cider House Rules | ||
| 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan |
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Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan (pronounced /ˈʃɑːməˌlɑːn/; Malayalam: മനോജ് നെല്ലിയട്ടു ശ്യാമളന്, Manōj Nelliyaṭṭu Śiyāmaḷan; Maṉōj Nelliyāṯṯu Ṣiyāmaḷaṉ, born 6 August 1970), known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is a two-time Academy Award...
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The Sixth Sense | ||
| 1999 | Michael Mann |
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Michael Mann is the name of:
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The Insider | ||
| 1999 | Sam Mendes |
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Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director who also directs commercials at Ridley Scott Associates (RSA US). He is known for his 1998 production of Cabaret, starring Alan Cumming, and his debut film,...
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American Beauty | ||
| 1998 | Roberto Benigni |
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Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.
Benigni was born in Manciano, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy, the son of Isolina...
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Life Is Beautiful | ||
| 1998 | John Madden |
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John Philip Madden (born 8 April 1949) is an English director of theatre, film, television, and radio. He was educated at Clifton College. He was in the same house as friend and fellow director Roger Michell. He began his career in British...
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Shakespeare in Love | ||
| 1998 | Terrence Malick |
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Terrence Malick (born 30 November 1943) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. In a career spanning decades, Malick has directed one short film and four feature-length films.
Numerous critics consider Malick's films to be masterpieces,...
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The Thin Red Line | ||
| 1998 | Peter Weir |
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Peter Lindsay Weir AM (born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director. After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir relocated to the US and...
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The Truman Show | ||
| 1998 | Steven Spielberg |
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Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In a career spanning over four decades, Spielberg's films have touched on many themes and genres. Spielberg's early sci-fi and...
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Saving Private Ryan | ||
| 1997 | Peter Cattaneo |
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Peter Cattaneo was born in 1964 in Twickenham, London. He is a two-time Academy Award-nominated English filmmaker most famous for directing the hit British film The Full Monty. He also directed 2005's Opal Dream'
He has just made a new film called...
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The Full Monty | ||
| 1997 | Gus Van Sant |
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Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, photographer, musician, and author. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Achievement in Directing for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film...
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Good Will Hunting | ||
| 1997 | Curtis Hanson |
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Curtis Lee Hanson (born March 24, 1945) is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker.
Hanson was born in Reno, Nevada and grew up in Los Angeles, the son of Beverly June and William Hanson. Hanson dropped out of high school, finding work as a...
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L.A. Confidential | ||
| 1997 | James Cameron |
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James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter and film inventor. His writing and directing work include The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Aliens and Titanic. To date, his directorial...
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Titanic | ||
| 1996 | Scott Hicks |
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Robert Scott Hicks (born 4 March 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning film director from South Australia. He is best known as the screenwriter and director of Shine, the Oscar-winning biopic of pianist David Helfgott.
Hicks was...
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Shine | ||
