Best Director commentary (Updated Feb. 27, 2025): Brady Corbet dominated early directing prizes, sweeping nearly every award leading up to the televised ceremonies — until Sean Baker stormed in ...

The Best Director nominees for the Oscars 2025 include some of Hollywood's rising voices hoping to secure their first win. The 2025 awards season has a very different group of contenders for Best ...

Director Brady Corbet poses with the Best Director award for "The Brutalist", during the 2025 British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) at the Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank ...

Winning the Academy Award for best director, though, is the Academy’s way of pointing directly at someone and saying, “Okay, here is the genius who put it all together.” That appraisal may ...

LOS ANGELES, March 2 (Reuters) - Filmmaker Sean Baker won the Academy Award for best director for "Anora," a film about an exotic dancer and sex worker who has the chance of a Cinderella story ...

In 2009, Kathryn Bigelow made cinematic history with her intense war drama “The Hurt Locker,” becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Her groundbreaking ...