Best Director

 1930: 

1. Lewis Milestone - All Quiet on the Western Front
2. Howard Hawks - The Dawn Patrol
3. G.W. Pabst - Westfront 1918
4. Luis Buñuel - L'Age d'Or
5. Yasujirō Ozu - That Night's Wife

 1931: 

1. Fritz Lang - M 
2. James Whale - Frankenstein
3. Charlie Chaplin - City Lights
4. William Wellman - The Public Enemy
5. Jean Renoir - La Chienne
   

1932:

1. Jean Cocteau - The Blood of A Poet
2. Mervyn LeRoy - I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang 
3. Julien Duvivier - Poil de Carotte
4. Frank Capra - American Madness
5. Rouben Mamoulian - Love Me Tonight

1933:

1. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack - King Kong
2. James Whale - The Invisible Man 
3. Fritz Lang - The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
4. Rouben Mamoulian - Queen Christina
5. Julien Duvivier - La Tête D’un Homme

1934:

1. Frank Capra - It Happened One Night
2. John Ford - The Lost Patrol
3. W.S. Van Dyke - The Thin Man 
4. Raymond Bernard - Les Miserables
5. Yasujirō Ozu - A Story of Floating Weeds

1935:

1. John Ford - The Informer
2. James Whale - Bride of Frankenstein
3. Alfred Hitchcock - 39 Steps
4. Jack Conway & Robert Z. Leonard - A Tale of Two Cities
5. Roy William Neill - The Black Room 

1937:

1. Jean Renoir - Grand Illusion
2. Frank Capra - Lost Horizon
3. Leo McCarey - Make Way For Tomorrow
4. Julien Duvivier - Pepe Le Moko
5. David Hand - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1938:

1. Michael Curtiz - Angels With Dirty Faces
2. Jean Renoir - The Human Beast
3. Marcel Carne - Port of Shadows
4. Alfred Hitchcock - The Lady Vanishes
5. Michael Curtiz -The Adventures of Robin Hood

1942:

1. Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
2. Henri-Georges Clouzot -The Murderer Lives At Number 21
3. Alfred Hitchcock - Saboteur
   
4. Yasujirō Ozu - There Was A Father
5. Marcel Carne - The Devil's Envoys
   

1943:

1. Alfred Hitchcock - Shadow of a Doubt
2. William Wellman - The Ox-Bow Incident
3. Powell & Pressburger - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
4. Henri-Georges Clouzot - Le Corbeau
5. Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath

1944:

1. Billy Wilder - Double Indemnity
2. David Lean - This Happy Breed
3. Otto Preminger - Laura
4. Laurence Olivier - Henry V
5. George Cukor - Gaslight

1945:

1. David Lean - Brief Encounter
2. Marcel Carne - Children of Paradise
3. Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
4. Powell & Pressburger - I Know Where I'm Going
5. Elia Kazan - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 
   

1946:

1. Frank Capra - It's A Wonderful Life
2. William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives
3. Powell & Pressburger - A Matter of Life and Death
4. Jean Cocteau - Beauty and the Beast
5. Alfred Hitchcock - Notorious  

1947:

1. Carol Reed - Odd Man Out
2. Powell & Pressburger - Black Narcissus
3. George Cukor - A Double Life
4. Henri-Georges Clouzot  - Quai des Orfèvres
5. Robert Montgomery - Ride the Pink Horse

1948:

1. John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madrea
2. Vittorio De Sica - Bicycle Thieves
3. Powell & Pressburger - The Red Shoes 
4. Akira Kurosawa - The Drunken Angel
5. John Boulting - Brighton Rock

1949:

1. Carol Reed - The Third Man
2. Akira Kurosawa - Stray Dog
3. William Wellman - Battleground
4. Robert Wise - The Set-Up
5. Raoul Walsh - White Heat
   

1950:

1. Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon
2. Billy Wilder - Sunset Blvd.
3. Jean Cocteau - Orpheus
4. Jules Dassin - Night and the City
5. Max Ophüls - La Ronde
   

1951:

1. Alfred Hitchcock - Strangers on a Train
2. Billy Wilder - Ace in the Hole
3. Brian Desmond-Hurst - Scrooge
4. Yasujirō Ozu - Early Summer
   
5. Robert Bresson - Diary of a Country Priest 

1952:

1. Akira Kurosawa - Ikiru
2. Vittorio De Sica - Umberto D.
3. Fred Zinnemann - High Noon
4. John Ford - The Quiet Man
5. Charlie Chaplin - Limelight

1953:

1.  Kenji Mizoguchi - Ugetsu
2.  Henri-Georges Clouzot - The Wages of Fear
3. Yasujirō Ozu - Tokyo Story
4. Billy Wilder - Stalag 17
5. Fred Zinnemann - From Here to Eternity  

1954:

1. Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai
2. Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window
3. Kenji Mizoguchi - Sansho the Baliff 
4. Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
5. Federico Fellini - La Strada

1955:

1. Charles Laughton - The Night of the Hunter
2. Henri-Georges Clouzot - Les Diaboliques
   
3. Jules Dassin - Rififi
4. John Sturges - Bad Day At Black Rock
5. Laurence Olivier - Richard III
   

1957:

1. David Lean - The Bridge on the River Kwai
2. Stanley Kubrick - Paths of Glory
3. Akira Kurosawa - Throne of Blood
4. Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal
5. Ingmar Bergman - Wild Strawberries

1958:

1. Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo
2. Orson Welles - Touch of Evil
   
3. J. Lee Thompson - Ice Cold in Alex
4. Akira Kurosawa - Hidden Fortress
5. Andrzej Wajda - Ashes and Diamonds

1960:

1. Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho
2. Akira Kurosawa - The Bad Sleep Well
3. Michael Powell - Peeping Tom
4. Satyajit Ray - Devi
5. Luchino Visconti - Rocco and his Brothers 

1961:

1. Masaki Kobayashi - The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
2. Akira Kurosawa - Yojimbo
3. Jack Clayton - The Innocents
4. Alain Resnais - Last Year At Marienbad
5. Jean-Pierre Melville - Leon Morin, Priest

1963:

1. Akira Kurosawa - High and Low
2. Robert Wise - The Haunting
3. Martin Ritt - Hud
4. Luchino Visconti - The Leopard
5. Federico Fellini - 8 1/2

1964:

1. Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove
2. Hiroshi Teshigahara - Woman in the Dunes
3. Sergio Leone - A Fistful of Dollars
4. Jacques Demy -  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev - Hamlet
   

1965:

1. Orson Welles - Chimes at Midnight
2. David Lean - Doctor Zhivago
3. Akira Kurosawa - Red Beard
4. Martin Ritt - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
5. Sergio Leone - For a Few Dollars More

1966:

1. Sergio Leone - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
2. Andrei Tarkovsky - Andrei Rublev
3. Ingmar Bergman - Persona
4. John Frankenheimer - Seconds
5. Gillo Pontecorvo - The Battle of Algiers

1967:

1. Jean-Pierre Melville - Le Samouraï
2. Richard Brooks - In Cold Blood
3. Arthur Penn - Bonnie and Clyde
4. Mike Nichols - The Graduate
5. Milos Forman - The Firemen's Ball

1968:

1. Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in the West
2. Ingmar Bergman - Shame
3. Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Ingmar Bergman - Hour of the Wolf
5. Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet

1970:

1. David Lean - Ryan's Daughter
   
2. Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev  - King Lear
3. Jean-Pierre Melville - Le Cercle Rouge
4. Costa-Gavras - The Confession
   
5. Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton

1971:

1. Richard Fleischer - 10 Rillington Place
2. Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange
3. Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show
4. William Friedkin - The French Connection
5. Robert Altman - McCabe & Mrs. Miller

1973:

1. Nicolas Roeg - Don't Look Now
2. Robert Altman - The Long Goodbye
3. William Friedkin - The Exorcist
4. Robin Hardy - The Wicker Man
5. Martin Scorsese - Mean Streets

1974:

1. Terrence Malick - Badlands
2. Roman Polanski - Chinatown
3. Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation
4. Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II
5. Brian De Palma - Phantom of the Paradise
   

1975:

1. Steven Spielberg - Jaws
2. Peter Weir - Picnic At Hanging Rock
3. Andrei Tarkovsky - Mirror
4. Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
5. Sidney Lumet - Dog Day Afternoon

1977:

1. Ridley Scott - The Duellists
2. Larisa Shepitko - The Ascent
3. Wim Wenders - The American Friend
4. Robert Altman - 3 Women
5. William Friedkin - Sorcerer

1978:

1. Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter
2. Ingmar Bergman - Autumn Sonata
3. John Carpenter - Halloween
4. Martin Rosen - Watership Down 
5. Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven

1979:

1. Francis Ford Coppola - Apocalypse Now
2. Ridley Scott - Alien
3. Andrei Tarkovsky - Stalker
4. Werner Herzog - Nosferatu the Vampyre 
5. Bob Fosse - All That Jazz

1980:

1. David Lynch - The Elephant Man
2. Martin Scorsese - Raging Bull
3. Akira Kurosawa - Kagemusha
4. Irvin Kershner - The Empire Strikes Back
   
5. Samuel Fuller - The Big Red One 

1981:

1. Steven Spielberg - Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Peter Weir - Gallipoli
3. Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire
4. Wolfgang Peterson - Das Boot
5. Brian De Palma - Blow Out

1983:

1. Philip Kaufman - The Right Stuff
2. David Cronenberg - Videodrome
3. Bob Clark - A Christmas Story
4. Andrzej Wajda - Danton
5. Andrei Tarkovsky - Nostalgia 

1984:

1. Milos Forman - Amadeus
2. Wim Wenders - Paris, Texas
3. Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in America
4. Roland Joffe - The Killing Fields
5. Neil Jordan - The Company of Wolves

1985:

1. Akira Kurosawa - Ran
2. Elem Klimov - Come and See
3. Hector Babenco - Kiss of the Spider Woman
4. Terry Gilliam - Brazil
5. Robert Zemeckis - Back to the Future

1986:

1. David Lynch - Blue Velvet
2. Michael Mann - Manhunter
3. Claude Berri - Jean de Florette
4. Andrei Tarkovsky - The Sacrifice
5. James Cameron - Aliens

1987:

1. Bernardo Bertolucci - The Last Emperor
2. Wim Wenders - Wings of Desire
3. Stanley Kubrick - Full Metal Jacket 
4. John Huston - The Dead
5. Paul Verhoeven - Robocop

1988:

1. Robert Zemeckis - Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
2. Isao Takahata - Grave of the Fireflies
3. Hayao Miyazaki - My Neighbor Totoro
4. Martin Scorsese - The Last Temptation of Christ
5. David Cronenberg - Dead Ringers

1990:

1. Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
2. Akira Kurosawa - Dreams 
3. Rob Reiner - Misery 
4. Joel Coen - Miller's Crossing
5. David Lynch - Wild At Heart 

1991:

1. Joel Coen - Barton Fink
2. Oliver Stone - JFK
3. Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
4. Zhang Yimou - Raise the Red Lantern
5. Isao Takahata - Only Yesterday

1992:

1. Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
2. Robert Altman - The Player
3. Francis Ford Coppola - Bram Stoker's Dracula
4. Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
5. David Lynch - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

1993:

1. Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
2. Steven Spielberg - Jurassic Park
3. Martin Scorsese - The Age of Innocence
4. Jane Campion - The Piano
5. James Sheridan - In the Name of the Father

1994:

1. Tim Burton - Ed Wood
2. Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
3. Frank Darabont - The Shawshank Redemption
4. Krzysztof Kieślowski - Three Colours: Red
5. Jiang Wen - In The Heat of the Sun
   

1996:

1. Joel Coen - Fargo
2. Mike Leigh - Secrets & Lies
3. Lars von Trier - Breaking the Waves
4. Kenneth Branagh - Hamlet
5. Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade

 1997:

1. Curtis Hanson - L.A. Confidential
   
2. Paul Thomas Anderson - Boogie Nights
3. Atom Egoyan - The Sweet Hereafter
4. Hayao Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke
5. David Lynch - Lost Highway

1998:

1. Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
2. Thodōros Angelopoulos - Eternity and a Day
   
3. Satoshi Kon - Perfect Blue
4. Tom Tywker - Run Lola Run
5. Peter Weir - The Truman Show
   

1999:

1. Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia
2. David Lynch - The Straight Story
3. Mike Leigh - Topsy-Turvy
4. Michael Mann - The Insider
5. Antonia Bird - Ravenous 

2000:

1. Wong Kar-Wai - In the Mood For Love
2. Christopher Nolan - Memento
3. Ang Lee - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
   
4. Park Chan-wook - Joint Security Area
5. Edward Yang - Yi Yi
   

2001:

1. David Lynch - Mulholland Drive
2. Hayao Miyazaki - Spirited Away
3. Ridley Scott - Black Hawk Down
4. Jiang Wen - Devils on the Doorstep
5. Peter Jackson - Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2002:

1. Sam Mendes - Road to Perdition
2. Fernando Meirelles - City of God
3. Roman Polanski - The Pianist
4. Peter Jackson - Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 
5. Paul Thomas Anderson - Punch Drunk Love

2003:

1. Peter Weir - Master and Commander
2. Bong Joon-ho - Memories of Murder
3. Park Chan-wook - Oldboy
4. Peter Jackson - Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
5. Tim Burton - Big Fish

2004:

1. Michael Mann - Collateral
2. Wong Kar-Wai - 2046
3. Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Wes Anderson - The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
5. Mike Leigh - Vera Drake

2005:

1. John Hillcoat - The Proposition
2. Kim Jee-woon - A Bittersweet Life
3. Tommy Lee Jones - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
4. David Cronenberg - A History of Violence
5. Michael Haneke - Cache

2008:

1. Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
2. Gotz Spielmann - Revanche
3. Charlie Kaufman - Synecdoche, New York
4. Martin McDonagh - In Bruges
5. Tomas Alfredson - Let the Right One In

2009:

1. Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
2. Joel & Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
3. Jacques Audiard - A Prophet
4. Juan José Campanella - The Secret in Their Eyes
5. Bong Joon-ho - Mother

2010:

1. David Fincher - The Social Network
2. Kim Jee-woon - I Saw the Devil
3. Anton Corbijn - The American
4. Christopher Nolan - Inception
5. Martin Scorsese - Shutter Island

2011:

1. Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive
2. Tomas Alfredson - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
3. Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
4. Asghar Farhadi - A Separation
5. Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life

2012:

1. Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
2. Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
3. Gareth Evans - The Raid
4. Thomas Vinterberg - The Hunt
5. Sam Mendes - Skyfall

2013:

1. Joel & Ethan Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis
2. Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity
3. Pawel Pawlikowski - Ida
4. Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
5. Bong Joon-ho - Snowpiercer

2014:

1. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdman
2. Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
3. Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Paul Thomas Anderson - Inherent Vice 
5. Christian Petzold - Phoenix

2015:

1. George Miller - Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Ciro Guerra - Embrace of the Serpent
3. Denis Villeneuve - Sicario
4. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - The Revenant
5. Quentin Tarantino - The Hateful Eight
   

2016:

1. Martin Scorsese - Silence
2. Damien Chazelle - La La Land
3. Park Chan-wook - The Handmaiden
   
4. Denis Villeneuve - Arrival
5. Jim Jarmusch - Paterson

2017:

1. Paul Thomas Anderson - Phantom Thread
2. Denis Villeneuve - Blade Runner 2049
3. Lynne Ramsay - You Were Never Really Here
4. Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk
5. Josh & Benny Safdie - Good Time

2018:

1. Joel & Ethan Coen - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2. Damien Chazelle - First Man
3. Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite
4. Pawel Pawlikowski - Cold War
5. Panos Cosmatos - Mandy

2019:

1. Bong Joon-ho - Parasite 
2. Sam Mendes - 1917
3. Robert Eggers - The Lighthouse
4. Josh & Benny Safdie - Uncut Gems
5. Martin Scorsese - The Irishman

2020:

1. Thomas Vinterberg - Another Round
2. Chloé Zhao - Nomadland 
3. Lee Isaac Chung - Minari
4. Emerald Fennell - Promising Young Woman 
5. Florian Zeller - The Father

2021:

1. Joel Coen - The Tragedy of Macbeth
2. Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
3. Guillermo Del Toro - Nightmare Alley
4. Steven Spielberg - West Side Story
5. Mamoru Hosoda - Belle  

2022:

1. Steven Spielberg - The Fabelmans
2. Park Chan-wook - Decision to Leave
3. Robert Eggers - The Northman
4. Joel Crawford - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
5. Martin McDonagh - The Banshees of Inisherin  

2023:

1. Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
2. Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
3. Victor Erice - Close Your Eyes
4. Alexander Payne - The Holdovers
5. Celine Song - Past Lives

2024:

1. Robert Eggers - Nosferatu
2. Brady Corbet - The Brutalist
3. Walter Salles - I'm Still Here
4. Sean Baker - Anora
5. Coralie Fargeat - The Substance

2025:

1. Park Chan-wook - No Other Choice
2. Josh Safdie - Marty Supreme
3. Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another
4. Yorgos Lanthimos - Bugonia
5. Kleber Mendonça Filho - The Secret Agent

My Nominees:

Tomas Alfredson, 2 noms

Best Director 2008: Let The Right One In (#5 loses to Christopher Nolan)
Best Director 2011: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (#2 loses to Nicolas Winding Refn)

Robert Altman, 5 noms 1 win

Best Director 1971: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (#5 loses to Richard Fleischer)
Best Director 1973: The Long Goodbye (#2 loses to Nicolas Roeg)

Best Director 1977: 3 Women (#4 loses to Ridley Scott)

Best Original Screenplay 1977: 3 Women (WINS)
Best Director 1992: The Player (#2 loses to Clint Eastwood)

Paul Thomas Anderson, 18 noms 11 wins
 

Best Director 1997: Boogie Nights (#2 loses to Curtis Hanson)

Best Original Screenplay 1997: Boogie Nights (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1997: Hard Eight (Nom)

Best Director 1999: Magnolia (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1999: Magnolia (WINS)
Best Director 2002: Punch Drunk Love (#5 loses to Sam Mendes)

Best Original Screenplay 2002: Punch Drunk Love (WINS)
Best Director 2012: The Master (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 2012: The Master (WINS)
Best Director 2014: Inherent Vice (#4 loses to Alejandro G. Iñárritu)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2014: Inherent Vice (WINS)
Best Director 2017: Phantom Thread (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 2017: Phantom Thread (WINS) 

Best Cinematography 2017: Phantom Thread (Nom)

Best Director 2021: Licorice Pizza (#2 loses to Joel Coen)

Best Original Screenplay 2021: Licorice Pizza (WINS) 

Best Director 2025: One Battle After Another (#3 loses to Park Chan-wook)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2025: One Battle After Another (WINS)

Wes Anderson, 6 noms

Best Original Screenplay 1996: Bottle Rocket (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 2001: The Royal Tenenbaums (Nom)

Best Director 2004: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (#4 loses to Michael Mann)
Best Original Screenplay 2004: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Nom)

Best Director 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel (#3 loses to Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
Best Original Screenplay 2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Nom)

Michael Antonioni, 2 noms

Best Director 1960: L'Avventura (#4 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Original Screenplay 1960: L'Avventura (Nom)

Jacques Audiard, 4 noms

Best Adapted Screenplay 2005: The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Nom)
Best Original Screenplay 2009: A Prophet (Nom)

Best Director 2009: A Prophet (#3 loses to Quentin Tarantino)
Best Adapted Screenplay 2018: The Sisters Brothers (Nom)

Sean Baker, 3 noms

Best Original Screenplay 2021: Red Rocket (Nom)

Best Director 2024: Anora (#4 loses to Robert Eggers)

Best Original Screenplay 2024: Anora (Nom)

Ingmar Bergman, 18 noms 3 wins

Best Original Screenplay 1950: To Joy (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1952: Secrets of Women (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1953: Sawdust & Tinsel (Nom) 

Best Original Screenplay 1955: Smiles of a Summer Night (Nom)

Best Director 1957: The Seventh Seal (#4 loses to David Lean)

Best Original Screenplay 1957: Wild Strawberries (WINS)
Best Director 1957: Wild Strawberries (#5 loses to David Lean)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1957: The Seventh Seal (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1961: Through A Glass Darkly (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1963: Winter Light (WINS)
Best Director 1966: Persona (#3 loses to Sergio Leone)

Best Original Screenplay 1966: Persona (Nom)  
Best Director 1968: Shame (#2 loses to Sergio Leone)

Best Original Screenplay 1968: Shame (Nom)
Best Director 1968: Hour of the Wolf (#4 loses to Sergio Leone)
Best Director 1978: Autumn Sonata (#2 loses to Michael Cimino)

Best Original Screenplay 1978: Autumn Sonata (WINS)  

Claude Berri, 2 noms 

Best Director 1986: Jean de Florette (#2 loses to David Lynch) 

Best Adapted Screenplay 1986: Jean de Florette (Nom)

Sergei Bondarchuk, 3 noms

Best Adapted Screenplay 1966: War and Peace Part I (Nom) 

Best Adapted Screenplay 1966: War and Peace Part II (Nom)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1967: War and Peace Part III (Nom)

Bong Joon-ho, 8 noms 2 wins

Best Director 2003: Memories of Murder (#2 loses to Peter Weir)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2003: Memories of Murder (Nom)

Best Director 2009: Mother (#5 loses to Quentin Tarantino)

Best Original Screenplay 2009: Mother (Nom)

Best Director 2013: Snowpiercer (#5 loses to Joel & Ethan Coen)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2013: Snowpiercer (Nom)
Best Director 2019: Parasite (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 2019: Parasite (WINS)

 

Robert Bresson, 3 noms

Best Original Screenplay 1945: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Nom)

Best Director 1951: Diary of a Country Priest (#5 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Original Screenplay 1951: Diary of a Coutry Priest (Nom)

Richard Brooks, 3 noms 1 win

Best Original Screenplay 1947: Brute Force (Nom)
Best Adapted Screenplay 1967: In Cold Blood (WINS)
Best Director 1967: In Cold Blood (#2 loses to Jean-Pierre Melville)

 

Tim Burton, 2 noms 1 win

 

Best Director 1994: Ed Wood (WINS)

Best Director 2003: Big Fish (#5 loses to Peter Weir)

 

Luis Buñuel, 2 noms

 

Best Director 1930: L'Age d'Or (#4 loses to Lewis Milestone)

Best Original Screenplay 1930: L'Age d'Or (Nom) 

James Cameron, 2 noms

Best Adapted Screenplay 1986: Aliens (Nom)

Best Director 1986: Aliens (#4 loses to David Lynch)

Juan José Campanella, 2 noms 1 win

Best Adapted Screenplay 2009: The Secret in Their Eyes (WINS)

Best Director 2009: The Secret in Their Eyes (#4 loses to Quentin Tarantino)

Frank Capra, 5 noms 3 wins

Best Director 1932: American Madness (#4 loses to Jean Cocteau)

Best Director 1934: It Happened One Night (WINS)
Best Director 1937: Lost Horizon (#2 loses to Jean Renoir)

Best Director 1946: It's a Wonderful Life (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1946: It's A Wonderful Life (WINS)  

 

Michel Carne, 3 noms

 

Best Director 1938: Port of Shadows (#3 loses to Michael Curtiz)

Best Director 1942: The Devil's Envoys (#5 loses to Michael Curtiz) 

Best Director 1945: Children of Paradise (#2 loses to David Lean)

 

John Carpenter, 4 noms 1 win

 

Best Director 1978: Halloween (#3 loses to Michael Cimino)

Best Score 1978: Halloween (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1978: Halloween (Nom)

Best Score 1981: Escape From New York (#5)

Damien Chazelle, 4 noms

Best Director 2014: Whiplash (#2 loses to Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
Best Original Screenplay 2014: Whiplash (Nom)
Best Director 2016: La La Land (#2 loses to Martin Scorsese)
Best Director 2018: First Man (#2 loses to Joel & Ethan Coen)

Lee Isaac Chung, 2 noms

Best Director 2020: Minari (#3 loses to Thomas Vinterberg)

Best Original Screenplay 2020: Minari (Nom)  

 

René Clair, 2 noms

 

Best Original Screenplay 1930: Prix de beauté (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1931: A Nous La Liberte (Nom) 

 

Henri-Georges Clouzot, 10 noms

Best Director 1942: The Murderer Lives At Number 21 (#2 loses to Michael Curtiz)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1942: The Murderer Lives At Number 21 (Nom)

Best Director 1943: Le Corbeau (#4 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1943: Le Corbeau (Nom)
Best Director 1947: Quai des Orfèvres (#4 loses to Carol Reed)

Best Adapted 1947: Quai des Orfèvres (Nom)

Best Director 1953: The Wages of Fear (#2 loses to Kenji Mizoguchi)

Best Adapted 1953: The Wages of Fear (Nom)

Best Director 1955: Les Diaboliques (#2 loses to Charles Laughton)

Best Adapted 1955: Les Diaboliques (Nom)

*Joel* & Ethan Coen, 17 noms 10 wins

*Best Director 1990: Miller's Crossing (#4 loses to Martin Scorsese)* 

Best Original Screenplay 1990: Miller's Crossing (WINS) 

*Best Director 1991: Barton Fink (WINS)*

Best Original Screenplay 1991: Barton Fink (WINS)
*Best Director 1996: Fargo (WINS)*

Best Original Screenplay 1996: Fargo (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1998: The Big Lebowski (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2000: Oh Brother Where Art Thou? (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 2001: The Man Who Wasn't There (Nom)

Best Director 2009: A Serious Man (#2 loses to Quentin Tarantino)

Best Original Screenplay 2009: A Serious Man (Nom)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2010: True Grit (Nom)
Best Director 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 2015: Bridge of Spies (Nom)
Best Director 2018: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (WINS) 

*Best Director 2021: The Tragedy of Macbeth (WINS)* 

Jean Cocteau, 6 noms 1 win

Best Director 1932: The Blood of a Poet (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1945: Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Nom)

Best Director 1946: Beauty and the Beast (#4 loses to Frank Capra)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1946: Beauty and the Beast (Nom) 

Best Director 1950: Orpheus (#3 loses to Akira Kurosawa)
Best Adapted Screenplay 1950: Orpheus (Nom)

Ryan Coogler, 2 noms

Best Adapted Screenplay 2015: Creed (Nom)
Best Original Screenplay 2025: Sinners (Nom)

Francis Ford Coppola, 10 noms 4 wins

Best Adapted Screenplay 1970: Patton (WINS)

Best Director 1974: The Conversation (#3 loses to Terrence Malick)

Best Original Screenplay 1974: The Conversation (Nom)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1974: The Godfather Part II (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1974: The Great Gatsby (Nom)
Best Director 1974: The Godfather Part II (#4 loses to Terrence Malick)

Best Director 1979: Apocalypse Now (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1979: Apocalypse Now (WINS)

Best Score 1979: Apocalypse Now (#3)
Best Director 1992: Bram Stoker's Dracula (#3 loses to Clint Eastwood)

Brady Corbet, 2 noms 1 win

Best Director 2024: The Brutalist (#2 loses to Robert Eggers)

Best Original Screenplay 2024: The Brutalist (WINS)

David Cronenberg, 7 noms 1 win

Best Director 1983: Videodrome (#2 loses to Philip Kaufman)

Best Original Screenplay 1983: Videodrome (WINS)  

Best Director 1986: The Fly (#5 loses to David Lynch)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1986: The Fly (Nom)
Best Director 1988: Dead Ringers (#5 loses to Robert Zemeckis)
Best Adapted Screenplay 1988: Dead Ringers (Nom)
Best Director 2005: A History of Violence (#4 loses to John Hillcoat)

 

George Cukor, 2 noms

 

Best Director 1944: Gaslight (#5 loses to Billy Wilder)
Best Director 1947: A Double Life (#3 loses to Carol Reed)

 

Michael Curtiz, 3 noms 2 wins

Best Director 1938: Angels With Dirty Faces (WINS)

Best Director 1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood (#5 loses to himself)

Best Director 1942: Casablanca (WINS)

Jules Dassin, 3 noms

Best Director 1955: Night and the City (#4 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Best Director 1955: Rififi (#3 loses to Charles Laughton)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1955: Rififi (Nom)

Brian De Palma, 4 noms

Best Director 1974: Phantom of the Paradise (#5 loses to Terrence Malick)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1974: Phantom of the Paradise (Nom)

Best Director 1981: Blow Out (#5 loses to Steven Spielberg)

Best Original Screenplay 1981: Blow Out (Nom)

Julien Duvivier, 6 noms

Best Director 1932: Poil de Carotte (#3 loses to Jean Cocteau)

Best Adapted Screenplay1932:Poil de Carotte (Nom)

Best Director 1933: La Tête D’un Homme (#5 loses to Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

Best Adapted Screenplay1933: La Tête D’un Homme (Nom)

Best Director 1937: Pepe Le Moko (#4 loses to Jean Renoir)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1937: Pepe Le Moko (Nom)

Robert Eggers, 6 noms 1 win

Best Director 2019: The Lighthouse (#3 loses to Bong Joon-ho)

Best Original Screenplay 2019: The Lighthouse (Nom)

Best Director 2022: The Northman (#3 loses to Steven Spielberg)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2022: The Northman (Nom)

Best Director 2024: Nosferatu (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2024: Nosferatu (Nom)

Atom Egoyan, 2 noms

Best Director 1997: The Sweet Hereafter (#3 loses to Curtis Hanson)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1997: The Sweet Hereafter (Nom)

Victor Erice, 2 noms 1 win

Best Director 2023: Close Your Eyes (#3 loses to Yorgos Lanthimos)

Best Original Screenplay 2023: Close Your Eyes (WINS)

Mona Fastvold, 2 noms 1 win

Best Original Screenplay 2025: The Brutalist (WINS)

Best Original Song 2025: “John’s Running Song”  - The Testament of Ann Lee (Nom)

 

Federico Fellini, 6 noms


Best Director 1954: La Strada (#5 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Best Original Screenplay 1954: La Strada (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1955: Il Bidone (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1957: Nights of Cabiria (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1963: 8 1/2 (Nom

Best Director 1963: 8 1/2 (#5 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Emerald Fennell, 2 noms 1 win

Best Original Screenplay 2020: Promising Young Woman (WINS)

Best Director 2020: Promising Young Woman (#4 loses to Thomas Vinterberg)

John Ford, 3 noms 1 win

Best Director 1934: The Lost Patrol (#2 loses to Frank Capra)
Best Director 1935: The Informer (WINS)

Best Director 1952: The Quiet Man (#4 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Milos Forman, 3 noms 1 win

Best Original Screenplay 1967: The Firemen's Ball (Nom)

Best Director 1967: The Firemen's Ball (Nom)

Best Director 1984: Amadeus (WINS)

William Friedkin, 3 noms

Best Director 1971: The French Connection (#4 loses to Richard Fleischer)
Best Director 1973: The Exorcist (#3 loses to Nicolas Roeg)

Best Director 1977: Sorcerer (#5 loses to Ridley Scott)

Pietro Germi, 3 noms 1 win

Best Original Screenplay 1961: Divorce Italian Style (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1964: Seduced and Abandoned (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1975: My Friends (Nom)

Terry Gilliam, 2 noms

Best Director 1985: Brazil (#4 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Best Original Screenplay 1985: Brazil (Nom)

James Gray, 2 noms 1 win

Best Adapted Screenplay 2008: Two Lovers (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 2013: The Immigrant (Nom)

 

Howard Hawks, 2 noms

 

Best Adapted Screenplay 1930: The Dawn Patrol (Nom)

Best Director 1930: The Dawn Patrol (#2 loses Lewis Milestone)  

Alfred Hitchcock, 9 noms 4 wins

Best Director 1935: The 39 Steps (#3 loses to John Ford)

Best Director 1938: The Lady Vanishes (#4 loses to Michael Curtiz)

Best Director 1942: Saboteur (#3 loses to Michael Curtiz)
Best Director 1943: Shadow of a Doubt (WINS)

Best Director 1946: Notorious (#5 loses to Frank Capra) 

Best Director 1951: Strangers on a Train (WINS)
Best Director 1954: Rear Window (#2 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Best Director 1958: Vertigo (WINS)

Best Director 1960: Psycho (WINS)

Mamoru Hosoda, 4 noms 1 win

Best Director 2021: Belle (#5 loses to Joel Coen)
Best Adapted Screenplay 2021: Belle (Nom)

Best Original Song 2021: "Lend Me Your Voice" - Belle (WINS)

Best Original Song 2021: A Million Miles Away" - Belle (Nom)

John Huston, 6 noms 2 wins

Best Director 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1950: The Asphalt Jungle (Nom)

Best Supporting Actor 1974: Chinatown (#2 loses to John Cazale)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1975: The Man Who Would Be King (Nom)
Best Director 1987: The Dead (#4 loses to Bernardo Bertolucci) 

 

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 3 noms 2 wins

 

Best Director 2014: Birdman (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 2014: Birdman (WINS)

Best Director 2015: The Revenant (#4 loses to George Miller)

Peter Jackson, 7 noms 2 wins
 

Best Original Screenplay 1994: Heavenly Creatures (Nom)
Best Director 2001: The Fellowship of the Ring (#5 loses to David Lynch)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2001: LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (WINS)

Best Director 2002: The Two Towers (#4 loses to Sam Mendes)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2002: LOTR: The Two Towers (Nom)

Best Director 2003: The Return of the King (#4 loses to Peter Weir)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2003: LOTR: The Return of the King (WINS)

Jiang Wen,  3 noms

Best Director 1994: In the Heat of the Sun (#4 loses to Tim Burton)
Best Director 2000: Devils on the Doorstep (#4 loses to David Lynch)
Best Actor 2001: Devils on the Doorstep (#10 loses to Gene Hackman)

 

Neil Jordan, 3 noms

Best Director 1984: The Company of Wolves (#5 loses to Milos Forman)

Best Director 1992: The Crying Game (#4 loses to Clint Eastwood)

Best Original Screenplay 1992: The Crying Game (Nom)

Philip Kaufman, 2 noms 2 wins

Best Director 1983: The Right Stuff (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1983: The Right Stuff (WINS)

 

Elia Kazan, 2 noms

Best Director 1945: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (#5 loses to David Lean)

Best Director 1954: On the Waterfront (#5 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Kim Jee-woon, 2 noms

Best Director 2005: A Bittersweet Life (#2 loses to John Hillcoat)
Best Director 2010: I Saw the Devil (#2 loses to David Finche

Masaki Kobayashi, 2 noms 2 wins

Best Director 1961: The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1961: The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (WINS)

Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev, 2 noms 

Best Director 1964: Hamlet (#5 loses to Stanley Kubrick)

Best Director 1970: King Lear (#2 loses to David Lean)

Stanley Kubrick, 12 noms 2 wins

Best Director 1957: Paths of Glory (#2 loses to David Lean)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1957: Paths of Glory (Nom)

Best Director 1964: Dr. Strangelove (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1964: Dr. Strangelove (WINS)
Best Director 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (#3 loses to Sergio Leone)

Best Original Screenplay 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Nom)

Best Director 1971: A Clockwork Orange (#2 loses to Richard Fleischer)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1971: A Clockwork Orange (Nom)

Best Director 1975: Barry Lyndon (#3 loses to Steven Spielberg)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1975: Barry Lyndon (Nom)

Best Director 1987: Full Metal Jacket (#3 loses to Bernardo Bertolucci)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1987: Full Metal Jacket (Nom)

Akira Kurosawa, 30 noms 13 wins

Best Original Screenplay 1947: One Wonderful Sunday (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1947: Snow Trail (Nom)

Best Director 1948: Drunken Angel (#4 loses to John Huston)

Best Original Screenplay 1948: Drunken Angel (WINS)
Best Director 1949: Stary Dog (#2 loses to Carol Reed)

Best Original Screenplay 1949: Stray Dog (Nom)

Best Director 1950: Rashomon (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1950: Rashomon (WINS)
Best Director 1952: Ikiru (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1952: Ikiru (WINS)
Best Director 1954: Seven Samurai (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1954: Seven Samurai (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1955: I Live in Fear (Nom)
Best Director 1957: Throne of Blood (#3 loses to David Lean)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1957: Throne of Blood (Nom)

Best Director 1958: The Hidden Fortress (#4 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Original Screenplay 1960: The Bad Sleep Well (Nom)

Best Director Screenplay 1960: The Bad Sleep Well (#2 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Director 1961: Yojimbo (#2 loses to Masaki Kobayashi)
Best Original Screenplay 1961: Yojimbo (WINS)

Best Director 1963: High and Low (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1963: High and Low (WINS)
Best Director 1965: Red Beard (#3 loses to Orson Welles)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1965: Red Beard (Nom)

Best Director 1980: Kagemusha (#3 loses to David Lynch)

Best Original Screenplay 1980: Kagemusha (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1985: Ran (WINS)

Best Director 1985: Ran (WINS)

Best Director 1990: Dreams (#2 loses to Martin Scorsese) 

Best Original Screenplay 1990: Dreams (Nom) 

Fritz Lang, 4 noms 2 wins

 

Best Director 1931: M (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1931: M (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1934: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Nom) 

Best Director 1933: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (#3 loses to Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

Yorgos Lanthimos, 3 noms 1 win

Best Director 2018: The Favourite (#3 loses to Joel & Ethan Coen)

Best Director 2023: Poor Things (WINS)

Best Director 2025: Bugonia (#4 loses to Park Chan-wook)

 

David Lean, 7 noms 4 wins

Best Director 1944: This Happy Breed (#2 loses to Billy Wilder)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1944: This Happy Breed (Nom)

Best Director 1945: Brief Encounter (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1945: Brief Encounter (WINS) 

Best Director 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai (WINS)
Best Director 1965: Doctor Zhivago (#2 loses to Orson Welles)

Best Director 1970: Ryan's Daughter (WINS)

Lee Chang-dong, 2 noms

Best Original Screenplay 2010: Poetry (Nom)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2018: Burning (Nom)

 

Mike Leigh, 4 noms

Best Director 1996: Secrets & Lies (#2 loses to Joel Coen)
Best Director 1999: Topsy-Turvy (#3 loses to Paul Thomas Anderson)

Best Original Screenplay 1999: Topsy-Turvy (Nom)
Best Director 2004: Vera Drake (#5 loses to Michael Mann)

Sergio Leone, 10 noms 5 wins

Best Director 1964: A Fistful of Dollars (#3 loses to Stanley Kubrick)

Best Director 1965: For a Few Dollars More (#5 loses to Orson Welles)

Best Original Screenplay 1965: For a Few Dollars More (WINS) 
Best Director 1966: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1966: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (WINS) 
Best Director 1968: Once Upon a Time in the West (WINS) 

Best Original Screenplay 1968: Once Upon a Time in the West (WINS) 

Best Original Screenplay 1971: Duck, You Sucker! (Nom)
Best Director 1984: Once Upon a Time in America (#3 loses to Milos Forman)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1984: Once Upon a Time in America (Nom)

David Lynch, 13 noms 6 wins

Best Production Design 1977: Eraserhead (Nom)

Best Director 1980: The Elephant Man (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1980: The Elephant Man (WINS)

Best Director 1986: Blue Velvet (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1986: Blue Velvet (WINS)

Best Director 1990: Wild At Heart (#5 loses to Martin Scorsese) 
Best Adapted Screenplay 1990: Wild At Heart (Nom)

Best Director 1992: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (#5 loses to Clint Eastwood)

Best Director 1997: Lost Highway (#5 loses to Curtis Hanson)
Best Director 1999: The Straight Story(#2 loses to Paul Thomas Anderson)
Best Director 2001: Mulholland Drive (WINS)
Best Original Screenplay 2001: Mulholland Drive (WINS)
Best Supporting Actor 2017: Lucky (#9 loses to Sam Rockwell)

Terrence Malick, 6 noms 3 wins

Best Director 1974: Badlands (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1974: Badlands (Nom)
Best Director 1978: Days of Heaven (#5 loses to Michael Cimino)

Best Director 1998: The Thin Red Line (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1998: The Thin Red Line (WINS)
Best Director 2011: The Tree of Life (#5 loses to Nicolas Winding Refn)

Rouben Mamoulian, 2 noms

Best Director 1932: Love Me Tonight (#4 loses to Jean Cocteau)

Best Director 1933: Queen Christina (#4 loses to Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

Michael Mann, 6 noms 3 wins

Best Adapted Screenplay 1981: Thief (Nom)
Best Adapted Screenplay 1986: Manhunter (WINS)

Best Director 1986: Manhunter (#2 loses to David Lynch)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1999: The Insider (WINS)

Best Director 1999: The Insider (#4 loses to Paul Thomas Anderson)

Best Director 2004: Collateral (WINS)

Martin McDonagh, 6 noms 2 wins

Best Original Screenplay 2008: In Bruges (WINS)

Best Director 2008: In Bruges (#4 loses to Christopher Nolan)

Best Original Screenplay 2012: Seven Psychopaths (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (Nom)

Best Director 2022: The Banshees of Inisherin (#5 loses to Steven Spielberg)

Best Original Screenplay 2022: The Banshees of Inisherin (WINS)

Jean-Pierre Melville, 5 noms 1 win

Best Director 1961: Leon Morin, Priest (#5 loses to Masaki Kobayashi)
Best Adapted Screenplay 1961: Leon Morin, Priest (Nom)
Best Original Screenplay 1967: Le Samouraï

Best Director 1967: Le Samouraï (WINS)

Best Director 1970: Le Cercle Rouge (#3 loses to David Lean)

Sam Mendes, 3 noms 1 win

Best Director 2002: Road to Perdition (WINS)
Best Director 2012: Skyfall (#5 loses to Paul Thomas Anderson)
Best Director 2019: 1917 (#2 loses to Bong Joon-ho)

Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2 noms

Best Original Screenplay 2025: The Secret Agent (Nom)
Best Director 2025: The Secret Agent (#5 loses to Park Chan-wook)

Hayao Miyazaki, 8 noms

Best Adapted Screenplay 1984: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Nom)

Best Director 1988: My Neighbor Totoro (#3 loses to Robert Zemeckis)

Best Original Screenplay 1988: My Neighbor Totoro (Nom)
Best Director 1997: Princess Mononoke (#4 loses to Curtis Hanson)

Best Original Screenplay 1997: Princess Mononoke (Nom)
Best Director 2001: Spirited Away (#2 loses to David Lynch)
Best Original Screenplay 2001: Spirited Away (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 2013: The Wind Rises (Nom)

Kenji Mizoguchi, 2 noms 1 win

 

Best Director 1953: Ugetsu (WINS)

Best Director 1954: Sansho the Bailiff (#3 loses to Akira Kurosawa) 
 

Christopher Nolan, 8 noms 3 wins

Best Director 2000: Memento (#2 loses to Wong Kar-wai)

Best Original Screenplay 2000: Memento (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2005: Batman Begins (Nom)

Best Director 2008: The Dark Knight (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2008: The Dark Knight (Nom)
Best Director 2010: Inception (#4 loses to David Fincher)
Best Director 2017: Dunkirk (#3 loses to Paul Thomas Anderson) 

Best  Director 2023: Oppenheimer (#2 loses to Yorgos Lanthimos)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2023: Oppenheimer (WINS)

 

Yasujirō Ozu, 12 noms 3 wins

 

Best Director 1930: That Night's Wife (#5 loses to Lewis Milestone) 

Best Original Screenplay 1934: A Story of Floating Weeds (WINS)

Best Director 1934: A Story of Floating Weeds (#5 loses to Frank Capra)

Best Director 1942: There Was a Father (#4 loses to Michael Curtiz)

Best Original Screenplay 1942: There Was A Father (WINS) 

Best Original Screenplay 1949: Late Spring (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1951: Early Summer (Nom)

Best Director 1951: Early Summer (#4 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Original Screenplay 1953: Tokyo Story (WINS)  

Best Director 1953: Tokyo Story (#3 loses to Kenji Mizoguchi) 

Best Original Screenplay 1957: Tokyo Twilight (Nom)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1960: Late Autumn (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1961: The End of Summer (Nom)

 

G.W. Pabst, 2 noms

 

Best Original Screenplay 1930: Prix de beauté (Nom)

Best Director 1930: Westfront 1918 (#3 loses to Lewis Milestone)

Park Chan-wook, 10 noms 2 wins

Best Director 2000: Joint Security Area (#4 loses to Christopher Nolan)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Joint Security Area (WINS) 
Best Director 2003: Oldboy (#3 loses to Peter Weir)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2003: Oldboy (Nom)
Best Director 2016: The Handmaiden (#3 loses to Martin Scorsese)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2016: The Handmaiden (Nom)

Best Director 2022: Decision to Leave (#2 loses to Steven Spielberg)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2022: Decision To Leave (Nom)

Best Director 2025: No Other Choice (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2025: No Other Choice (Nom)

 

Pawel Pawlikowski, 2 noms

Best Director 2013: Ida (#3 loses to Joel & Ethan Coen)
Best Director 2018: Cold War (#4 loses to Joel & Ethan Coen) 

Alexander Payne, 2 noms 1 win

Best Adapted Screenplay 2004: Sideways (WINS)
Best Director 2023: The Holdovers (#4 loses to Yorgos Lanthimos)

Roman Polanski, 4 noms

Best Original Screenplay 1965: Repulsion (Nom)

Best Director 1974: Chinatown (#2 loses to Terrence Malick)
Best Director 2002: The Pianist (#3 loses to Sam Mendes)
Best Adapted Screenplay 2010: The Ghost Writer (Nom)

Sam Peckinpah, 2 noms

Best Original Screenplay 1965: Major Dundee (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1974: Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (Nom)

 

*Michael Powell* & Emeric Pressburger, 10 noms 2 wins

 

Best Director 1943: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (#3 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Original Screenplay 1943: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Nom)  
Best Original Screenplay 1944: A Canterbury Tale (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1945: I Know Where I'm Going (Nom)

Best Director 1945: I Know Where I'm Going (#4 loses to David Lean)

Best Director 1946: A Matter of Life and Death (#3 loses to Frank Capra)

Best Original Screenplay 1946: A Matter of Life and Death (WINS)
Best Director 1947: Black Narcissus (#3 loses to Carol Reed)

Best Director 1948: The Red Shoes (#2 loses to John Huston)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1949: The Small Back Room (WINS)

*Best Director 1960: Peeping Tom (#3 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)*

*Best Original Screenplay 1960: Peeping Tom (Nom)* 

 

Otto Preminger, 2 noms

 

Best Director 1944: Laura (#3 loses to Billy Wilder)

Best Supporting Actor 1953: Stalag 17 (#6 loses to Robert Ryan)

Lynne Ramsay, 2 noms

Best Director 2017: You Were Never Really Here (#3 loses to Paul Thomas Anderson)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2017: You Were Never Really Here (Nom)

Satyajit Ray, 5 noms

Best Adapted Screenplay 1958: Jalsaghar (Nom)

Best Director 1960: Devi (#4 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Original Screenplay 1963: Mahanagar (Nom)
Best Adapted Screenplay 1964: Charulata (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1966: Nayak (Nom)

Carol Reed, 2 noms 2 wins 

Best Director 1947: Odd Man Out (WINS)
Best Director 1949: The Third Man (WINS)

 

Rob Reiner, 2 noms

 

Best Original Screenplay 1984: This Is Spinal Tap (Nom)

Best Director 1990: Misery (#3 loses to Martin Scorsese) 

Jean Renoir,  7 noms 3 wins

 

Best Director 1931: La Chienne (#5 loses to Fritz Lang)
Best Adapted Screenplay 1931: La Chienne (Nom)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1932: Boudu Saved From Drowning (Nom)

Best Director 1937: Grand Illusion (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1937: Grand Illusion (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1938: La Marseilles (WINS)

Best Director 1938: The Human Beast (#2 loses to Michael Curtiz)

Martin Ritt, 2 noms

Best Director 1963: Hud (#3 loses to Akira Kurosawa)
Best Director 1965: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (#4 loses to Orson Welles)

*Josh* & Benny Safdie, 6 noms *1 win*

Best Director 2017: Good Time (#5 loses to Paul Thomas Anderson)

*Best Original Screenplay 2017: Good Time (Nom)*
Best Director 2019: Uncut Gems (#4 loses to Bong Joon-ho)

Best Original Screenplay 2019: Uncut Gems (Nom)

*Best Original Screenplay 2025: Marty Supreme (WINS)*
*Best Director 2025: Marty Supreme (#2 loses to Park Chan-wook)*

Martin Scorsese, 12 noms 4 wins

Best Director 1973: Mean Streets (#5 loses to Nicolas Roeg)
Best Director 1980: Raging Bull (#2 loses to David Lynch)

Best Director 1988: The Last Temptation of Christ (#4 loses to Robert Zemeckis)

Best Director 1990: Goodfellas (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1990: Goodfellas (WINS) 
Best Director 1993: The Age of Innocence (#3 loses to Steven Spielberg)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1993: The Age of Innocence (Nom)
Best Director 2010: Shutter Island (#5 loses to David Fincher)
Best Director 2013: The Wolf of Wall Street (#4 loses to Joel & Ethan Coen)

Best Director 2016: Silence (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2016: Silence (WINS)

Best Director 2019: The Irishman (#5 loses to Bong Joon-ho)

Ridley Scott, 3 noms 1 win

Best Director 1977: The Duellists (WINS)

Best Director 1979: Alien (#2 loses to Francis Ford Coppola)

Best Director 2001: Black Hawk Down (#3 loses to David Lynch)  

Vittorio De Sica, 2 noms

Best Director 1947: Bicycle Thieves (#2 loses to Carol Reed)
Best Director 1952: Umberto D. (#2 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Laris Shepitko, 2 noms 

Best Director 1977: The Ascent (#2 loses to Ridley Scott)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1977: The Ascent (Nom)

Celine Song, 2 noms

Best Director 2023: Past Lives (#5 loses to Yorgos Lanthimos)

Best Original Screenplay 2023: Past Lives (Nom)

Steven Spielberg, 7 noms 4 wins

Best Director 1975: Jaws (WINS)
Best Director 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (WINS)
Best Director 1993: Schindler's List (WINS)
Best Director 1993: Jurassic Park (#2 loses to himself)

Best Director 2021: West Side Story (#4 loses to Joel Coen)

Best Director 2022: The Fabelmans (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 2022: The Fabelmans (Nom)

Oliver Stone, 3 noms 1 win

Best Original Screenplay 1986: Platoon (Nom)

Best Director 1991: JFK (#2 loses to Joel Coen)
Best Adapted Screenplay 1991: JFK (WINS)

Isao Takahata, 4 noms

Best Director 1988: Grave of the Fireflies (#2 loses to Robert Zemeckis)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1988: Grave of Fireflies (Nom)
Best Director 1991: Only Yesterday (#5 loses to Joel Coen)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1991: Only Yesterday (Nom)

Quentin Tarantino, 10 noms 4 wins

Best Original Screenplay 1993: True Romance (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1994: Pulp Fiction (WINS)
Best Director 1994: Pulp Fiction (#2 loses to Tim Burton)
Best Adapted Screenplay 1997: Jackie Brown (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 2003: Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 2004: Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Nom)

Best Director 2009: Inglourious Basterds (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 2009: Inglourious Basterds (WINS)

Best Director 2015: The Hateful Eight (#5 loses to George Miller)

Best Original Screenplay 2015: The Hateful Eight (WINS)

 

Andrei Tarkovsky, 9 noms

Best Director 1966: Andrei Rublev (#2 loses to Sergio Leone)

Best Original Screenplay 1966: Andrei Rublev (Nom)
Best Director 1975: The Mirror (#3 loses to Steven Spielberg)

Best Original Screenplay 1975: The Mirror (Nom)

Best Director 1979: Stalker (#3 loses to Francis Ford Coppola)

Bes Production Design 1979: Stalker (Nom)
Best Director 1983: Nostalgia (#5 loses to Philip Kaufman)

Best Director 1986: The Sacrifice (#3 loses to  David Lynch)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1986: The Sacrifice (Nom)

Lars von Trier, 4 noms 1 win

Best Director 1996: Breaking The Waves (#3 loses to Joel Coen)

Best Original Screenplay 1996: Breaking the Waves (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 2000: Dancer in The Dark (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 2003: Dogville (WINS)

François Truffaut, 3 noms

Best Adapted Screenplay 1970: Bed and Board (Nom)

Best Original Screenplay 1973: Day For Night (Nom)
Best Original Screenplay 1980: The Last Metro (Nom)

 

Tom Tykwer, 4 noms 1 win

 

Best Director 1998: Run Lola Run (#4 loses to Terrence Malick)

Best Original Screenplay 1998: Run Lola Run (Nom)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2012: Cloud Atlas (Nom)

Best Original Score 2012: Cloud Atlas (WINS)

 

Denis Villeneuve, 4 noms

 

Best Director 2015: Sicario (#3 loses to George Miller)

Best Director 2016: Arrival (#4 loses to Martin Scorsese)
Best Director 2017: Blade Runner 2049 (#2 loses to Paul Thomas Anderson)
Best Adapted Screenplay 2024: Dune Part II (Nom)

Thomas Vinterberg, 4 noms 1 win

 

Best Director 2012: The Hunt (#4 loses to Paul Thomas Anderson)

Best Original Screenplay 2012: The Hunt (Nom)

Best Director 2020: Another Round (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 2020: Another Round (Nom)
 

Luchino Visconti, 3 noms

Best Director 1960: Rocco and His Brothers (#5 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)
Best Director 1963: The Leopard (#4 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1963: The Leopard (Nom)

Andrzej Wajda, 3 noms

Best Director 1958: Ashes and Diamonds (#5 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1958: Ashes and Diamonds (Nom)

Best Director 1983: Danton (#4 loses to Philip Kafuman)

Billy Wilder, 14 noms 6 wins

Best Adapted Screenplay 1942: The Major and the Minor (Nom)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1943: Five Graves to Cairo (Nom)

Best Director 1944: Double Indemnity (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1944: Double Indemnity (WINS)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1945: The Lost Weekend (Nom)

Best Director 1945: The Lost Weekend (#3 loses to David Lean)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1950: Sunset Boulevard (WINS)
Best Original Screenplay 1951: Ace in The Hole (WINS)

Best Director 1950: Sunset Blvd. (#2 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Best Director 1951: Ace in the Hole (#2 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)

Best Director 1953: Stalag 17 (#4 loses to Kenji Mizoguchi) 

Best Adapted Screenplay 1953: Stalag 17 (WINS) 

Best Original Screenplay 1960: The Apartment (WINS)

Best Original Screenplay 1966: The Fortune Cookie (Nom)

 

Peter Weir, 5 noms 1 win

Best Director 1975: Picnic at Hanging Rock (#2 loses to Steven Spielberg)
Best Director 1981: Gallipoli (#2 loses to Steven Spielberg)

Best Adapted Screenplay 1981: Gallipoli (Nom)

Best Director 1998: The Truman Show (#5 loses to Terrence Malick)
Best Director 2003: Master and Commander (WINS)

William Wellman, 3 noms

Best Director 1931: The Public Enemy (#4 loses Fritz Lang)

Best Director 1943: The Ox-Bow Incident (#2 loses to Alfred Hitchcock)
Best Director 1949: Battleground (#3 loses to Carol Reed)

Wim Wenders, 6 noms 1 win

Best Director 1977: The American Friend (#3 loses to Ridley Scott)

Best Original Screenplay 1977: The American Friend (Nom)

Best Director 1984: Paris, Texas (#2 loses to Milos Forman)
Best Director 1987: Wings of Desire (#2 loses to Bernardo Bertolucci)

Best Original Screenplay 1987: Wings of Desire (WINS)
Best Original Screenplay 2023: Perfect Days (Nom)

James Whale, 3 noms

Best Director 1931: Frankenstein (#2 loses to Fritz Lang)

Best Director 1933: The Invisible Man (#2 loses to Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

Best Director 1935: Bride of Frankenstein (#2 loses to John Ford)

 

Robert Wise, 2 noms

Best Director 1949: The Set-up (#4 loses to Carol Reed)
Best Director 1963: The Haunting (#2 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Wong Kar-wai, 5 noms 1 win

Best Original Screenplay 1997: Happy Together (Nom)

Best Director 2000: In the Mood For Love (WINS)
Best Original Screenplay 2000: In The Mood For Love (Nom)

Best Director 2004: 2046 (#2 loses to Michael Mann)
Best Adapted Screenplay 2004: 2046 (Nom)

Florian Zeller, 2 noms 1 win

Best Director 2020: The Father (#5 loses to Thomas Vinterberg)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2020: The Father (WINS)

Robert Zemeckis, 4 noms 2 wins

Best Original Screenplay 1978: I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Best Director 1985: Back to the Future (#5 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Best Original Screenplay 1985: Back to the Future (WINS) 
Best Director 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (WINS) 

Chloé Zhao, 2 noms

Best Director 2020: Nomadland (#2 loses to Thomas Vinterberg)

Best Adapted Screenplay 2020: Nomadland (Nom)

Fred Zinnemann, 2 noms

 

Best Director 1952: High Noon (#3 loses to Akira Kurosawa)

Best Director 1953: From Here to Eternity (#5 loses to Kenji Mizoguchi) 

 

*(Indicates credited sole director) 

Best Voice Over: Tony Jay in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Michael Graham Cox in Watership Down and John Hurt & Christopher Benjamin in The Plague Dogs

Tony Jay did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Judge Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

The nature of a vocal performance is perhaps an under discussed performance art form, with rare the credit given to the accomplishment. This as the vocal turn must do something quite unique in garnering the life and emotion to the images, at its best past even what the often vibrant images entail. The nature of a Disney villain performance may be another form in itself as it is often the source of entertainment for their films. This finding the right combination of a lively menace and just an enjoyable enthusiasm towards evil. Well with that we have Tony Jay as the greatest Disney villain, have no hesitations in that statement, as Judge Claude Frollo. Jay's booming baritone voice was previously used in a minor villainous role in Beauty and the Beast, as the corrupt head of an insane asylum. His work initially is an expansion on this as we see in his introductory scene. Jay quite powerfully carries a menace with such remarkable ease, and even a strange grace that suggests an unquestioned authority. Jay's work though has nuance, even before we are even given more in the introduction of the film where he murders a woman, and almost kills her malformed child if not called upon his faith to stop him. This as his pondering on the future of the "creature" as he puts it, with a manipulative intrigue at the idea of potential. This expanded upon as we see the later years as is teaching the "creature" grown up in the secluded bell tower to be Quasimodo. This as Jay brings a gentler tone, as nearly genuine one, that is rather remarkable in creating an honest sense of manipulation and even close to warmth in his explanations to his strange ward of how he should stay hidden. I particular affection for his introduction to "Out There" as the counterpart to Quasimodo's hopes of the outside world against the fierce condemnation of it by Frollo. This is something that Jay speaks not as a broad evil, but a fearful teaching with a false concern of manipulation.

Now we are given the broader evil, however even this Jay's work leaves a striking impact in specific intensity. This as a careful rage that seems to define the man's hate of the other. Frollo's evil though has far more to it than many a Disney villain, who are usually born evil, connected to the character of the novel, who is actually even more complex, however still notable to see that all complexity was not lost in this technically kid minded version. This is as even at his most evil, Jay delivers this proper conviction of a true zealot feeling his crusade has some divine purpose despite it obviously being to the contrary. This being the calm in his evil so often. This though he undercuts so effectively though as we see Frollo at his worst, with this more emotional venom, alluding to less a servant a God, and more a weak man defined by his own personal demons. The greatest depth though comes within his kept fascination with Esmeralda, and the lust that entails. Jay is outstanding in delivering this element most notably through he all time great song "Hellfire". Jay's singing is already terrific, but his performance of the song goes beyond technical skill. It is amazing the complexity Jay finds in the delivery of just one song. This as he opens with the solemn delivery of a faithful man of prayer. This slowly segues into this brilliant mix of genuine fear of the thoughts, with a desperate need related to them, along with a vindictive hate towards the temptation all the same. The detail and intensity of the emotion is simply incredible, as Jay manages to find, through his voice, a rawness within Frollo's mental state that goes beyond a generalized evil. Jay's work is not just an excellent villainous turn, as much as it is that, as he grants depth even oddly enough a distinctly flawed humanity to the hypocrite.

Michael Graham Cox did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying Bigwig in Watership Down.

The vocal "responsibility" of the films of Martin Rosen is a little bit different in a way, as the animals, while still expressive to a degree, are a little more realistically depicted than a Disney expectation. This requires than vocal turns that some how both fit this specific tone of frankly a harsher animated film, along with breathing life within the character beyond the animation, which here is purposefully more limited. The films manage to capture this tone though and the cast of both is an essential element of each. Watership Down being a brilliant film that is part horror film, part adventure film in the context of a group of rabbits somehow trying to survive. Despite some valiant efforts of John Hurt here as the crafty leader of the group Hazel, my favorite of the cast and character is that of Bigwig. A larger rabbit, original burrow enforcer, who joins the group. What I love about Cox's performance is beyond granting the needed life to the character, through such devoted work, which is throughout the cast. This being just about every vocal turn delivers the conviction of a drama rather than the broader approach usually found in animated films. The standard here though is that of bringing a strict humanity to the animal characters because the performers treat the material as a seriously as they would any real dramatic piece. This is the same for...

John Hurt who did not receive an Oscar nomination or Christopher Benjamin for portraying Snitter and Rowf respectively in The Plague Dogs.

The Plague Dogs, is the, somehow, darker followup to "Watership", honing in an even more desperate tale of two dogs, who had been brutally experimented on, trying to find some place to live in the English countryside. This is all while the government is trying to kill them. I'll admit The Plague Dogs, does tear one's heart out then show it to you before you die, more so than any animated film that I've seen. An essential part of this being the performances of John Hurt and Christopher Benjamin together. This is again in both grant a given humanity to the dogs, who again have a purposefully limited emotional expression compared to many an animated film, however never seems as such. This partly due to just how careful the animation is but also what Benjamin and Hurt bring through their performances. Each give a complimentary performance to the other that is brilliant in creating the dynamic between Snitter and Rowf. Snitter being this strange optimist against the pessimistic Rowf. Hurt delivering, even within this sense of anguish buried within every line that reflects Snitter's horrible life, there is this hopeful wistfulness that Hurt garners to it. This is against Benjamin's performance that has a more grizzled quality to begin with, and a more immediately heartbreaking quality. This as the very wear of the dog, who was experimented on with forced drownings, is within his more overt anguish that speaks to the burden the life has had on Rowf.

But back to Michael Graham Cox again, who I love in his realization of Bigwig's arc. This as his initial performance carries the sort of inherent strength you'd expect. His voice creating just the since of a force of the rabbit with a tough stiffness. This though with a bit lacking in emotion other than anger towards some of Hazel's decision. Cox suggesting this potential bully even in the sort of force of his voice, but also a sense of confidence as well. Cox suggests Bigwig as a figure to be feared, even as he is on Hazel's side, and the sense of strength in every word he speaks as the larger rabbit. This suddenly changes however as Bigwig is trapped in a snare, a gut wrenching scene if there was ever one, that Cox also adds to in his harrowing haggard voice as he whispers out of his lines of the dying Bigwig. Bigwig manages to survive, and Cox is excellent in creating the sense of change in the rabbit in both in terms of respect for his company as well as general care for others. Cox is terrific in portraying this greater urgency and sense of warmth in his words. There is still this sense of strength, particularly as he takes lead later on in taking on the villainous Rabbit General Woundwort. The sense of determination that Cox delivers creates a sense of real passion that makes Bigwig stand out as this true hero. Cox brings this forcefulness that is remarkable in his voice though as it is underlined by a real care concern of that hero, rather than the seeming bully he might've been mistaken for early on. I in particular adore his vocal work in the final fight with Woundwort, where he brings such powerful sense of righetous distaste and intensity in every word he utters in the fight. This making quite honestly Bigwig was a proper, for the lack of a better word, badass, even as a rabbit. The moment of this that is the greatest in Cox's work is as he seems cornered but refuses to leave the smaller rabbits at the General's mercy. Cox is amazing in his voice manages to capture such desperation, still a striking defiance, and charity all with the same words. It is excellent work and with the best vocal turns it is that ability to create such a fluid and complex emotions, while never seeing the performer's face that is so notable. 

Speaking of, Hurt and Benjamin are particularly unique, and I'm not sure the circumstances of their recordings, but there is a such strong dynamic the two form with their voices. This is as Hurt is no stranger to exasperation, however his hardened voice only keeping that as an underlying factor makes it all the more moving in his portrayal of the consistently optimistic Snitter dreaming of an island paradise and a hope for the future. This is against Benjamin's work that offers an as moving portrayal of the bent nature of the dog, as his voice evokes the years of hardship and the waning belief in any chance at a real life. The two together though craft a warmth in between the two as their words to each other evoke a friendship and concern. A differing concern for each mind you, however Hurt haunting disjointed optimism along with Benjamin's broken resignation creates such a poignancy in each dog, but most importantly their friendship. Hurt's delivery is fascinating as in the optimism there is this bit of an intensity, a randomness at times, alluding to a mind that technically isn't quite right. In Benjamin there is a contrast in a bluntness of despair, but also still a passionate wish for survival with his friend. The ending scene is perhaps the best work from each as the two create a role reversal as they attempt to swim away from the authorities intending to kill them both. In Hurt you have that underlying exasperation brings itself to the surface in his voice that creates this heart wrenching hysteria as his certain madness is noted by despair rather than hope, however this is against Benjamin's work now of encouragement. His encouragement though is as blunt as his former despair, though now pushing his friend to push on. Their consistency though now with a different philosophy in the end, is brilliantly realized by each actor who creates this incredible moment. This of the two keeping part of their nature but changing this outlook. Both John Hurt and Christopher Benjamin's work makes the film as hard to watch as it is, though only because it is as affecting as it is, as they grant not only humanity and personality to the dogs, but a real sense of kinship and love.

10th Anniversary of Best Actor and Another Official Lineup

Welcome back to my predictions for who will be the eventually reviewed in the main Oscar lineup. This coming up on my 10th go around of doing this, to which I have a couple hopefully fun things to throw in before we get there. Anyways though let's look onto the lineup that shares the name of this blog. I will say this lineup was quite vexing to reduce to five. This as the only person I would place the safe money just to be safe for the nomination is Adam Driver. This as Joaquin Phoenix, while receiving nearly as many industry mentions, is known to be a rather prickly fellow when it comes to the awards trail, and comic book films are never the safest bet. Joker though seems to have jumped over the "prestige" line though with that Venice win/Globe nominations past Phoenix, and to be fair this is technically a previous Oscar winning role. Following Phoenix is previous winner DiCaprio, who is just looking for his first followup nomination and should get it. I do think he could miss out on assumption, despite the strength of his film. Following that I'm putting Bale, who many are not predicting to make it past SAG/Globe nod, although BAFTA should probably be likely for him as well. Ford V. Ferrari will be a tech player probably with him, and I think can get a best picture nomination quite easily fulfilling that "old school" film-making spot. The main reason for me though is that Bale hasn't really missed out, when he's in contention, since he's gotten his Oscar win. This as he got in for American Hustle, The Big Short and Vice, despite only being really being the "passion pick" for Vice. Then there is spot number 5, super passion pick for Cannes, NY winner Banderas, maybe. This is in no way a guarantee with 4 potential contenders also more than hanging around. There is alternate super passion pick Adam Sandler, who is killing it with the critics, though that did not help Hawke who did even better in that regard last year. Taron Egerton, who has gotten all the citations he's been expected to get so probably should be in the five, and I really can't argue that much against him. The two biggest knocks against him being that he was a relatively early release, and that they gave the win to Rami Malek last year for another musical biopic. Egerton though has already shown he's being remembered, and the Academy nominated Joaquin Phoenix for Johnny Cash the next year after giving the Oscar win to Jamie Foxx for Ray Charles. So really Egerton should probably be in my top five predictions. My early NGNG of Jonathan Pryce doesn't appear to be panning out beyond a Globe nod. After seeing the film, I think it is unlikely he can win now based on the somewhat lightweight approach his film takes to the subject matter, however I do think he still has an outside chance for a nomination as in the past years Antony McCarten written films have always performed best with BAFTA and the Academy above all others. Finally there is two time Oscar winner Robert De Niro leading what should be a nominations juggernaut, who has also missed out on both a Globe and SAG nomination, and is no way a guarantee for a BAFTA nod. I still think he has a strong chance if his film shows that extra bit of strength, which it easily could, or just if these previous snubs this season help push him to that nomination.

Supporting actors seems a bit more manageable however as the three P's of Pacino, Pesci and Pitt all seem pretty safe, with strong showings so far and films that are sure to do well with overall nominations.  SAG nominee Jamie Foxx seems primed to be SAG only nomination, given Just Mercy has made no impression elsewhere. So I'll will look elsewhere. Hanks has gotten in the right places this time, though he's undergoing still an Oscar nomination drought since 2000, that one must imagine carries over as some "we've rewarded him enough mentality". One ponders the same about Anthony Hopkins who too has gone on a long Oscar nomination drought, and could easily earn a BAFTA boost. If he is nominated there, he could take that fifith spot, which would be an all Oscar winners category like 2012, or even potentially shake out Hanks, who I'd say is more vulnerable than the P's, given the Academy has brazenly snubbed him before, and his film does not appear to be a major player, or even a minor player outside of him. The same is not true though for Song Kang-ho in Parasite that is seeming poised to be the foreign language film that can and will be a major Oscar player. Even if he misses BAFTA, I think he can get in bolstered by massive love for the film that seems to becoming more and more evident, the same way Roma ended up with two acting nominations last year. The category though actually doesn't appear to be too expansive however allowing for a potential last minute shakeup. Of course only minor shakeups as this category has fairly limited potential contenders, as the only man I'm forgetting who seems in play is the old sea salt himself, Willem Dafoe. He who seems to have the most against him, given his heavily stylized, horror film that doesn't appear to be the industries cup of tea based on the precursors so far. Dafoe though has managed to be the sole nomination for his films two years in a row, so I wouldn't count him out until the nominations are named.