What is the criteria for selecting nominees for best director at the Academy Awards?

Answer 1

A director is considered for an Oscar nomination if he invokes the best performances out of every cast and crew member. That not just being the acting and visual effects but every aspect of the film.

Answer 2

Popularity - the Oscar awards are presented by popular vote, so in order to win you must be popular, but you must be popular among a specific group of people, specifically, the Academy. The Academy is made up of the best filmmakers in Hollywook. If they like your work, they will vote for you, and you will win.

Answer 3

The criteria for determining if a film is eligible to be nominated for an Academy Award varies from category to category.

Best Picture: the film must premiere in Los Angeles county during the calendar year.

Best Director: due to strict rules from the Directors Guild of America (DGA), only one individual may claim screen credit as a film's director, unless two co-directors seeking to share director credit for a film qualify as an "established duo". In the history of the Academy Awards, established duos have been nominated for Best Director only three times: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (who won for West Side Story in 1961); Warren Beatty and Buck Henry (who were nominated for Heaven Can Wait in 1978), and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (who won for No Country for Old Men in 2007).

Best Animated Feature: The award is only given if there are at least eight animated feature films (with a theatrical release in Los Angeles). For the purposes of the award, only films over 70 minutes long are considered to be feature films. If there are 16 or more films submitted for the category, the winner is voted from a shortlist of five films (which has thus far happened only in 2002 and 2009), otherwise there will only be three films on the shortlist.

Best Documentary Feature: films must NOT be constructed entirely out of archive footage.

Best Foreign Language Film: the film must be foreign AND in a foreign language. British films in English are not eligible. It used to be the language had to be indigenous, so that an Arabic film made in Italy was not eligible. That rule was changed, so that a Hindi film made in Canada was eligible. The film must premeire in a commerical movie theater BEFORE it is broadcast on television. The submitting nation must exercise sufficient artistic control over the film (whatever that means).

Answer 4

To be eligible for BAFTA, a feature film must:

• be feature-length, i.e., with a running time exceeding 60 minutes;
• receive its first public exhibition or distribution in the UK as a theatrical release;
• be exhibited publicly to a paying audience within a commercial cinema in the UK for no fewer than seven consecutive days.

Any release pattern which falls outside of this definition will not normally be eligible.

Previously entered films are not eligible. Where a film is released in more than one language version, only one version can be entered and this should generally be the original language version. Films from all countries are eligible in all categories, with the exception of Outstanding British Film, Outstanding Debut, Short Film and Short Animation which are for British films only.

Answer 5

Any screenplay based on material previously published. It can be a book, a play, a musical, a TV show, another movie or a newspaper article.