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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean Baker won best director at the Oscars on Sunday for “Anora,” bookending a dominant awards season for the American filmmaker whose stories seek to humanize sex workers ...

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 ...

In addition to best picture and best director, Baker also won Oscars for best editing and best original screenplay. “The Brutalist” won three Oscars including best actor for Adrien Brody as ...

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 ...

In his acceptance speech for best director, Baker made what he called his "battle cry" for supporting movie theaters. "Where did we fall in love with the movies? At the movie theater," he said ...

Distributors, please focus first and foremost on the theatrical releases of your films,” said the 'Anora' during his acceptance speech.

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 ...