The first Canadian director to win an Oscar for Best Director is James Cameron for Titanic (1997).
Kathryn Bigelow won a 2009 Best Director Oscar for her work on "The Hurt Locker." She won a second Oscar for co-producing the film, which was named Best Picture.
Hattie McDaniel was the first black to win an oscar
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.
First British actor to win an Oscar was George Arliss for his role in "Disraeli" 1929/30. The
Elia Kazan won best director for the movie On the Waterfront.
No black film director has ever won an Oscar.
No one. The first person to win the Oscar for Best Director did so in 1928.
Mary Pickford
No, Alfred Hitcock was nominated for the Oscar for Best Director for Psycho, but he did not win.
No Canadian movie won the Oscar for Best Picture. One Canadian movie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: 2003's The Barbarian Invasions.
In 1929 Mary Pickford won Best Actress for Coquette.
It was David Lean, who won the 1957 Best Director award for "The Bridge on the River Kwai." He won the Oscar again for "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962). The first director from the United Kingdom to win the award was Frank Lloyd (for 1933's "Cavalcade"), a native of Scotland.
Yes, he did. It was his first of three Best Director Academy Awards.
He won two Oscar for Unforgiven (1992): Best Picture and Best Director.
Kathryn Bigelow won a 2009 Best Director Oscar for her work on "The Hurt Locker." She won a second Oscar for co-producing the film, which was named Best Picture.
On March 7, 2010, Kathryn Bigelow won the 2009 Best Director award for "The Hurt Locker."
Hattie McDaniel was the first black to win an oscar