Steven Spielberg was nominated as Best Director for E.T.and lost to Richard Attenborough who won for Gandhi(1982). Attenborough appeared in Spielberg's Jurassic Park(1993).
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)
James Cameron won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1997 for directing "Titanic".
The Best Director of 2010 will not be announced until February or March of 2011.On March 7, 2010, the best director of 2009 was announced. Kathryn Bigelow won the 2009 Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Director for The Hurt Locker (2009). She is the first woman to win the award in this category. Her film was widely regarded as the most important film of those nominated. Avatar (2009) was also a favorite. It was cutting-edge in many ways, but the job of the director was mostly in post-production and had little to do with actors.
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 1989 went to Ireland's Brenda Fricker for her performance in "My Left Foot."
Anthony Quinn won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice.Bette Davis won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Dianne Wiest won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress twice.Dustin Hoffman won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Elizabeth Taylor won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Fredric March won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Gary Cooper won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Glenda Jackson won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Hilary Swank won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Ingrid Bergman won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Jack Nicholson won the Oscar for Best Actor twice and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor once.Jane Fonda won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Jason Robards won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice.Jodie Foster won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Katharine Hepburn won the Oscar for Best Actress four times.Luise Rainer won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Many actors and actresses have more than one acting Oscar.Marlon Brando won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Melvyn Douglas won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice.Michael Caine won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice.Olivia de Havilland won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Peter Ustinov won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor twice.Sally Field won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Sean Penn won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Shelley Winters won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress twice.Spencer Tracy won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Tom Hanks won the Oscar for Best Actor twice.Vivien Leigh won the Oscar for Best Actress twice.Walter Brennan won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor three times.
James Cameron won the Oscar for Best Director for Titanic (1997).
Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for Best Director for the film Out of Africa.
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)
Robert Redford won the 1980 Oscar for "Ordinary People," which marked his debut as a director.
Martin Scorsese won the Best Director Oscar for "The Departed".
Jack Nicholson won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1983.
Robert Duvall won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1983.
Shirley MacLaine won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1983.
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He won an Oscar for Best Director for Ordinary People (1980).
Alfred Hitchcock
Richard Attenborough won the Golden Globe for Best Director - Motion Picture in 1983.