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Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. She won for The Hurt Locker(2009). She beat her ex-husband, James Cameron, who was nominated for Avatar.
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∙ 15y agoI believe that would be Woody Allen who won for Annie Hall (1977), but he still acted in it. The next one (and I started checking in 1928) is Robert Redford for Ordinary People (1980).
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∙ 15y agoThe first Canadian director to win an Oscar for Best Director is James Cameron for Titanic (1997).
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Elia Kazan won best director for the movie On the Waterfront.
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First woman to win Oscar Best picture?
Julia Phillips for The Sting (1973).
Who is the fist woman to win Oscar award for the best director?
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Mary Pickford
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Did Frank Capra win a Best Director Oscar for It happened One Night?
Yes, he did. It was his first of three Best Director Academy Awards.
Who win the best director in Oscars 2010?
Kathryn Bigelow won the award and also made Oscar history because she was the first lady to win in this category
Did John Singleton win an Oscar when nominated for Best Director for Boyz n the Hood?
No, he did not win.
Did al gore win an Oscar?
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.
Who was the first woman film director to win an Oscar in the United States?
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).
Who did not ever win an Oscar for Best Director?
Orson Welles for "Citizen Kane."
What was the first film to win a Best Director Oscar for 2 directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins?
West Side Story (1961).
Did steven spielberg win an oscar for et?
No, but he was nominated for Best Director and Best Picture.
As of 2008 this icon is the oldest person to win the Oscar for Best Director?
Clint Eastwood
Did John Ford win 3 directing Oscars or 4?
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)
