Pencho for Best Director
by Pencho15 | created - 13 Aug 2015 | updated - 16 Jan 2023 | PublicMy personal movie awards winners and nominees for Best Director.
40 points for winning, 10 for nominations. * meas a win
Directors by points:
William K.L. Dickson** (130)
Louis Le Prince* (70)
Clint Eastwood* (60)
Peter Jackson* (60)
Louis Lumiére* (60)
Christopher Nolan* (60)
Woody Allen* (50)
Joel Coen* (50)
Ethan Coen* (50)
Alfonso Cuarón* (50)
Martin Scorsese* (50)
Steven Spielberg* (50)
Maren Ade* (40)
Darren Aronofsky* (40)
Juan José Campanella* (40)
Guillermo del Toro* (40)
Alejandro González Iñárritu* (40)
Roman Polansky* (40)
Ridley Scott* (40)
Lars von Trier* (40)
Damien Chazelle (20)
David Cronenberg (20)
Michael Haneke (20)
William Heisse (20)
Sam Mendes (20)
Ben Affleck (10)
Robert Altman (10)
Alejandro Amenábar (10)
Paul Thomas Anderson (10)
Wes Anderson (10)
Juan Antonio Bayona (10)
Pablo Berger (10)
Iciar Bollaín (10)
Danny Boyle (10)
Niki Caro (10)
William Car Crofts (10)
Alfred Clark (10)
John Crowley (10)
Jean-Pierre Dardenne (10)
Luc Dardenne (10)
Asghar Farhadi (10)
David Fincher (10)
Stephen Frears (10)
Alex Garland (10)
Mel Gibson (10)
Michael Gondry (10)
Ashutosh Gowariker (10)
Todd Haynes (10)
Michel Hazanavicius (10)
Werner Herzog (10)
Tom Hooper (10)
Ron Howard (10)
Barry Jenkins (10)
Dover Koshashvili (10)
Ang Lee (10)
Richard Linklater (10)
Kátia Lund (10)
James Marsh (10)
Tom McCarthy (10)
Steve McQueen (10)
Fernando Meirelles (10)
Georges Melies (10)
Peter Mullan (10)
Gerardo Naranjo (10)
Pawel Pawlikowsky (10)
Alexander Payne (10)
Lynne Ramsay (10)
Jason Reitman (10)
Walter Salles (10)
Gus van Sant (10)
Lone Scherfig (10)
Paolo Sorrentino (10)
Denis Villeuneve (10)
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (10)
Denzel Washington (10)
1. Maren Ade
Producer | Toni Erdmann
Maren Ade was born in Karlsruhe on 12 December 1976 to a couple of teachers.She studied cinema at Munich's Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film. As of 2001 she co-founded, together with Janine Jackowski, a fellow graduate from HFF, the "Komplizen" film company. It is through Komplizen that Maren would...
[Winner 2016 for Toni Erdmann
Nominees:
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge)
Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)
Denzel Washington (Fences)
2. Ridley Scott
Producer | The Martian
Described by film producer Michael Deeley as "the very best eye in the business", director Ridley Scott was born on November 30, 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. His father was an officer in the Royal Engineers and the family followed him as his career posted him throughout the United Kingdom ...
Winner 2015 for The Martian
Nominees:
John Crowley (Brooklyn)
Todd Haynes (Carol)
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
Steven Spielberg (Bridge of Spies)
3. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Director | Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.
González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director. He is also the first Mexican-born ...
Winner 2014 for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Nominees:
Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)
Jean-Pierre y Luc Dardenne (Deux jours, une nuit)
Alex Garland (Ex Machina)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
4. Alfonso Cuarón
Producer | Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...
Winner 2013 for Gravity
Nominees:
Joel & Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida)
Paolo Sorrentino (La Grande Bellezza)
5. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
Winner 2012 for Lincoln
Nominees:
Pablo Berger (Blancanieves)
Michael Haneke (Amour)
Tom Hooper (Les Miserábles)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
6. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
Winner 2011 for Hugo
Nominees:
Asghar Farhadi (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Gerardo Naranjo (Miss Bala)
Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
7. Darren Aronofsky
Writer | Pi
Darren Aronofsky was born February 12, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. After high school, Darren went to Harvard University to study film (both live-action and animation). He won ...
Winner 2010 for Black Swan
Nominees:
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams)
Christopher Nolan (Inception)
Denis Villeneuve (Incendies)
8. Juan José Campanella
Writer | El secreto de sus ojos
Juan José Campanella was born on July 19, 1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), The Man of Your Dreams (2011) and The Weasel's Tale (2019).
Winner 2009 for El secreto de sus ojos
Nominees:
Woody Allen (Whatever Works)
Michael Haneke (Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)
Sam Mendes (Away We Go)
Lone Scherfig (An Education)
9. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
Winner 2008 for The Dark Knight
Nominees:
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)
James Marsh (Man on Wire)
Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road)
10. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
Winner in 2007 for No Country for Old Men, shared with his brother Ethan
Nominees:
Ben Affleck (Gone Baby Gone)
Juan Antonio Bayona (El orfanato)
David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises)
Jason Reitman (Juno)
11. Ethan Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...
Winner in 2007 for No Country for Old Men, shared with his brother Joel
12. Guillermo del Toro
Writer | El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...
Winner 2006 for El laberinto del fauno
Nominees:
Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men)
Stephen Frears (The Queen)
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Das Leben der Anderen)
Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
13. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
Winner 2005 for Match Point
Nominees:
Niki Caro (North Country)
David Cronenberg (A History of Violence)
Ron Howard (Cinderella Man)
Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins)
14. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
Winner 2004 for Million Dollar Baby
Nominees:
Alejandro Amenábar (Mar adentro)
Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Alexander Payne (Sideways)
Walter Salles (Diarios de Motocicleta)
15. Lars von Trier
Writer | Dancer in the Dark
Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...
Winner 2003 for Dogville
Nominees:
Iciar Bollaín (Te doy mis ojos)
Clint Eastwood (Mystic River)
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
Gus van Sant (Elephant)
16. Roman Polanski
Director | Chinatown
Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.
His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...
Winner 2002 for The Pianist
Nominees:
Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love)
Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)
Kátia Lund y Fernando Meirelles (Cidade de Deus)
Peter Mullan (The Magdalene Sisters)
17. Peter Jackson
Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King were nominated for and collected a slew of awards from around the globe, with The ...
Winner 2001 for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Nominees:
Robert Altman (Gosford Park)
Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Ashutosh Gowariker (Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India)
Dover Koshashvili (Hatuna Meuheret)
18. Louis Lumière
Producer | La Mi-Carême, Char et batailles de confettis
Louis Lumière was a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema. His parents were Antoine Lumière, a photographer and painter, and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière, who were married in 1861 and moved to Besançon, setting up a small ...
Winner 1895-1896 L'arroseur arrosé
Nominees:
Alfred Clark (The Execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots)
Louis Lumière (Charcouterie Mecanique)
Louis Lumière (Photographe)
Georges Melies (Nuit Terrible)
19. William K.L. Dickson
Cinematographer | Sandow
Born in France to British parents, William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson stayed in that country until age 19, when he, his mother and sisters (their father had died sometime before) returned to Great Britain. Once there, Dickson--in an early indication of his lifelong fascination with science and ...
Winner 1892-1894 for Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Nominees:
William Dickson (A Hand Shake)
William Dickson (Annie Oakley)
William Dickson (Blacksmith Scene)
William Heisse (Fire Rescue Scene).
20. William K.L. Dickson
Cinematographer | Sandow
Born in France to British parents, William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson stayed in that country until age 19, when he, his mother and sisters (their father had died sometime before) returned to Great Britain. Once there, Dickson--in an early indication of his lifelong fascination with science and ...
Winner 1889-1891 for Dickson Greeting
Nominees:
William Car Crofts (London's)
William Dickson (Men Boxing)
William Dickson (Newark Athlete)
William Heise (Monkeyshines no.2)
21. Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
Director | Roundhay Garden Scene
Le Prince was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion picture camera born in Metz, France. His father was a major of artillery in the French Army and an officer of the Légion d'honneur. When growing up, he reportedly spent time in the studio of his father's friend, the pioneer of ...
Winner 1887-1888 for Roundhay Garden Scene
Louis Le Prince was the sole nominee for his whole work including: Accordion Player, Man Walking Around the Corner and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.
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