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Who Directed The Classic Film Psycho?
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Steven Spielberg Directed Which Beloved 1982 Film?
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Who Is Known For Directing The Godfather?
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Titanic Was Directed By Which Filmmaker?
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Who Directed The Wizard Of Oz In 1939?
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Which Director Made Schindler's List In 1993?
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Breakfast At Tiffany's Was Directed By Which Filmmaker?
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Who Directed All Three Lord Of The Rings Films?
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In What Year Did Spielberg Direct Jaws?
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Who Directed The Sound Of Music In 1965?
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Who Directed The Epic Film Lawrence Of Arabia?
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Casablanca Was Directed By Which Hollywood Legend?
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Who Directed The Original 1977 Star Wars Film?
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Who Directed The Classic Film Roman Holiday In 1953?
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Which Director Made The Beloved Film Singin' In The Rain?
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Who Directed The Iconic Film Sunset Boulevard In 1950?
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Who Directed The Classic Film Chinatown In 1974?
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Who Directed The Film All About Eve In 1950?
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Which Director Made The African Queen Starring Humphrey Bogart?
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Who Directed The Beloved Musical Film Grease In 1978?
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On The Waterfront Was Directed By Which Acclaimed Filmmaker?
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Cabaret The 1972 Musical Film Was Directed By Whom?
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Who Directed The Classic Western High Noon In 1952?
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Which Director Made The Magnificent Seven In 1960?
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Bonnie And Clyde The 1967 Film Was Directed By Whom?
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Who Directed The Beloved Film Mary Poppins In 1964?
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Which Director Made The Film Midnight Cowboy In 1969?
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Who Directed The Film The Graduate Starring Dustin Hoffman?
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Kramer Vs. Kramer The 1979 Drama Was Directed By Whom?
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Which Director Made The Film Network In 1976?
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Who Directed The Beloved Film Tootsie Starring Dustin Hoffman?
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An Officer And A Gentleman Was Directed By Which Filmmaker?
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Who Directed The Classic Film Forrest Gump In 1994?
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Which Director Made The Film Terms Of Endearment?
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Who Directed The Beloved Film Moonstruck In 1987?
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Steel Magnolias The 1989 Film Was Directed By Whom?
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Who Directed The Iconic Film Dirty Dancing In 1987?
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Thelma And Louise The 1991 Film Was Directed By Whom?
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Who Directed The Classic Film Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
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Which Director Made The Film Sophie's Choice In 1982?
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Who Directed The Classic Film Amadeus In 1984?
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Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Was Directed By Whom?
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Who Directed The Original 1960 Film Spartacus?
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Was Directed By Whom?
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Who Directed The Iconic Film Witness In 1985?
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Which Director Made The Film Ordinary People In 1980?
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Who Directed The Beloved Film To Kill A Mockingbird?
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Which Director Made The Film Reds Starring Warren Beatty?
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Who Directed The Beloved Film Yentl In 1983?
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Who Directed The Iconic Film The Silence Of The Lambs?
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Which Director Made The Film Mrs. Doubtfire In 1993?
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Who Directed The Classic Film Annie Hall In 1977?
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Driving Miss Daisy The 1989 Film Was Directed By Whom?
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Who Directed The Beloved Film Fried Green Tomatoes In 1991?
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Which Director Made The Film On Golden Pond In 1981?
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Who Directed The Classic Film Rebel Without A Cause?
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Which Director Made The Film Barefoot In The Park?
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Who Directed The Beloved 1970 Film Love Story?
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Who Directed The Iconic Film The Philadelphia Story In 1940?
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Which Director Made The Film Beaches Starring Bette Midler?
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How To Marry A Millionaire Was Directed By Which Filmmaker?
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Who Directed The Beloved Film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes In 1953?
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Auntie Mame The 1958 Film Was Directed By Which Filmmaker?
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Who Directed The Classic Film It Happened One Night In 1934?
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Orson Welles
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Billy Wilder
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John Huston
Alfred Hitchcock filmed the iconic shower scene in just seven days using chocolate syrup for blood.
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Back To The Future
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Poltergeist
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Tootsie
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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Spielberg originally wanted to keep E.T. a secret project and banned cameras from the set.
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Martin Scorsese
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Sidney Lumet
3
Roman Polanski
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola directed The Godfather in 1972 and it became a legendary cinematic masterpiece.
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Ridley Scott
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Ron Howard
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James Cameron
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Wolfgang Petersen
James Cameron actually learned to scuba dive specifically to film the real Titanic wreck himself.
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Victor Fleming
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Ernst Lubitsch
3
George Cukor
4
Frank Capra
Victor Fleming also directed Gone With The Wind the same year which remains a Hollywood record.
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Steven Spielberg
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Robert Zemeckis
3
Barry Levinson
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Oliver Stone
Steven Spielberg directed Schindler's List in 1993 and donated his salary to Holocaust education organizations.
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Blake Edwards
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William Wyler
3
Stanley Donen
4
Vincente Minnelli
Blake Edwards cast Audrey Hepburn after Marilyn Monroe was considered for the role of Holly Golightly.
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Ridley Scott
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Bryan Singer
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Peter Jackson
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James Cameron
Peter Jackson filmed all three Lord Of The Rings movies simultaneously over 438 days in New Zealand.
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1978
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1980
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1972
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1975
The mechanical shark broke so often that Spielberg barely showed it which made Jaws far scarier.
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Fred Zinnemann
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David Lean
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Robert Wise
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George Stevens
Robert Wise also directed West Side Story winning Best Director Oscars four years apart in 1961 and 1965.
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William Wyler
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John Huston
3
David Lean
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Fred Zinnemann
David Lean spent two years filming in the Jordanian desert and the film won seven Academy Awards.
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John Ford
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Billy Wilder
3
Howard Hawks
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Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz directed over 100 films and shot Casablanca in just 36 days in 1942.
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Steven Spielberg
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Brian De Palma
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Ridley Scott
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George Lucas
George Lucas and Brian De Palma held joint actor auditions simultaneously helping cast both Star Wars and Carrie.
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Billy Wilder
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Fred Zinnemann
3
William Wyler
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John Huston
William Wyler directed Roman Holiday in 1953 and secretly hired blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo for it.
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Charles Walters
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Vincente Minnelli
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George Sidney
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Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen co-directed the film with Gene Kelly and was only 27 years old at the time.
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Otto Preminger
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Billy Wilder
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John Huston
Billy Wilder originally cast Mae West in the lead role before she famously turned down the part.
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Roman Polanski
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Sidney Lumet
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Billy Wilder
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John Huston
Roman Polanski cast John Huston as the villain making Huston both actor and rival director in one film.
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William Wyler
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Elia Kazan
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John Ford
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz won back-to-back Best Director Oscars in 1950 and 1951 a feat never repeated since.
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Carol Reed
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John Huston
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Fred Zinnemann
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David Lean
John Huston filmed The African Queen entirely on location in Africa where the cast and crew battled dysentery and insects.
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Norman Jewison
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Bob Fosse
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Randal Kleiser
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Herbert Ross
Randal Kleiser was only 32 when he directed Grease and the film became one of the highest-grossing musicals ever made.
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Sidney Lumet
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Elia Kazan
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Robert Rossen
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John Cassavetes
Elia Kazan drew on his own controversial decision to name names before Congress when shaping Brando's whistleblower role.
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Bob Fosse
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Vincente Minnelli
3
Stanley Donen
4
Richard Attenborough
Bob Fosse deliberately kept all the musical numbers inside the cabaret so the outside world stayed dark and realistic.
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Fred Zinnemann
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Anthony Mann
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John Ford
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Howard Hawks
Fred Zinnemann structured High Noon in near real time so the film's running length almost matches the story's clock.
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John Sturges
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John Ford
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Delmer Daves
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Howard Hawks
John Sturges based The Magnificent Seven on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Kurosawa reportedly loved the remake.
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Norman Jewison
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Sam Peckinpah
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Arthur Penn
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Robert Altman
Arthur Penn's Bonnie And Clyde shocked audiences with its graphic violence and launched the New Hollywood era.
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George Cukor
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David Lean
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Robert Stevenson
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Stanley Donen
Robert Stevenson directed more Disney live-action films than any other director earning him the title Disney's go-to director.
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Arthur Penn
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Bob Fosse
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John Schlesinger
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Mike Nichols
John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy remains the only X-rated film ever to win the Best Picture Oscar.
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Norman Jewison
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John Schlesinger
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George Cukor
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Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols directed The Graduate in 1967 and won his only Best Director Oscar for the film.
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Alan J. Pakula
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Hal Ashby
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Robert Benton
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Sydney Pollack
Robert Benton won both Best Director and Best Screenplay Oscars for Kramer Vs. Kramer in the same ceremony.
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Alan J. Pakula
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Sydney Pollack
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Hal Ashby
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Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet's Network earned three acting Oscars a record that stood for decades in Hollywood history.
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Norman Jewison
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Sydney Pollack
3
Robert Benton
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Sidney Lumet
Sydney Pollack also played Dustin Hoffman's agent in Tootsie stepping in front of the camera when the original actor quit.
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Alan J. Pakula
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George Cukor
3
Taylor Hackford
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Hal Ashby
Taylor Hackford directed An Officer And A Gentleman and the film earned over 130 million dollars worldwide.
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Rob Reiner
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Barry Levinson
3
Robert Zemeckis
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Ron Howard
Robert Zemeckis directed Forrest Gump in 1994 and used groundbreaking visual effects throughout the film.
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Norman Jewison
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Sydney Pollack
3
Alan Pakula
4
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks won his only directing Oscar for Terms Of Endearment beating out a very competitive 1983 field.
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John Badham
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Norman Jewison
3
Herbert Ross
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Arthur Hiller
Norman Jewison shot Moonstruck entirely in New York City giving the film its warm authentic Italian-American neighborhood feel.
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Carl Reiner
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Gene Saks
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Herbert Ross
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Garry Marshall
Herbert Ross assembled a celebrated ensemble including Dolly Parton Sally Field and Shirley MacLaine for this tearjerker.
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Emile Ardolino
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Randal Kleiser
3
John Badham
4
Adrian Lyne
Emile Ardolino was primarily a documentary filmmaker and Dirty Dancing was only his second feature film.
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Ridley Scott
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Taylor Hackford
3
Jonathan Demme
4
Alan Pakula
Ridley Scott directed the iconic 1991 feminist road film Thelma and Louise earning widespread critical acclaim.
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Stanley Kramer
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Otto Preminger
3
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
4
Elia Kazan
Stanley Kramer cast Spencer Tracy despite knowing Tracy was gravely ill and Tracy died just 17 days after filming wrapped.
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Richard Attenborough
2
Fred Zinnemann
3
Alan Pakula
4
Norman Jewison
Alan Pakula insisted Meryl Streep learn Polish and German for Sophie's Choice which helped her win her second Academy Award.
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Norman Jewison
2
Milos Forman
3
John Schlesinger
4
Sidney Lumet
Milos Forman directed Amadeus in 1984 and won the Best Director Oscar for his outstanding work.
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George Roy Hill
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Robert Altman
3
Sam Peckinpah
4
Arthur Penn
George Roy Hill reunited with stars Newman and Redford four years later to direct The Sting in 1973.
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William Wyler
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John Huston
3
Stanley Kubrick
4
David Lean
Stanley Kubrick directed the original 1960 film Spartacus and was only 31 years old at the time.
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Peter Bogdanovich
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Francis Ford Coppola
3
Martin Scorsese
4
Brian De Palma
Ellen Burstyn won the Best Actress Oscar for this 1974 film and later inspired the long-running TV series Alice.
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Taylor Hackford
2
Ridley Scott
3
Richard Attenborough
4
Peter Weir
Peter Weir directed Witness in 1985 and received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Director.
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James L. Brooks
2
Herbert Ross
3
Robert Benton
4
Robert Redford
Robert Redford won the Best Director Oscar for his very first directorial effort beating out Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull.
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Stanley Kramer
2
Elia Kazan
3
Robert Mulligan
4
George Stevens
Robert Mulligan directed this 1962 film that earned Gregory Peck the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch.
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Mike Nichols
2
Alan Pakula
3
Warren Beatty
4
Robert Benton
Warren Beatty both starred in and directed Reds in 1981 winning the Academy Award for Best Director.
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Barbra Streisand
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Taylor Hackford
3
Herbert Ross
4
Sydney Pollack
Barbra Streisand became the first woman to write produce direct and star in a major studio film with Yentl.
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Roman Polanski
2
Ridley Scott
3
David Fincher
4
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme's 1991 thriller swept all five major Oscars making it only the third film in history to do so.
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Chris Columbus
2
Robert Zemeckis
3
Emile Ardolino
4
Randal Kleiser
Chris Columbus also directed Home Alone and the first two Harry Potter films making him a family movie icon.
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Mike Nichols
2
Milos Forman
3
George Roy Hill
4
Woody Allen
Woody Allen won Best Director for Annie Hall beating Star Wars director George Lucas at the 1978 Academy Awards.
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Peter Weir
2
Norman Jewison
3
Bruce Beresford
4
Robert Mulligan
Bruce Beresford directed Driving Miss Daisy which won Best Picture despite him not receiving a Best Director nomination.
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Jon Avnet
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Stanley Kramer
3
Herbert Ross
4
Martin Scorsese
Jon Avnet directed Fried Green Tomatoes which became one of the highest-grossing films of 1991 despite modest expectations.
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Mark Rydell
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Robert Stevenson
3
Fred Zinnemann
4
John Schlesinger
Henry Fonda won his only Best Actor Oscar for On Golden Pond directed by Mark Rydell in 1981.
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Nicholas Ray
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Otto Preminger
3
John Huston
4
Elia Kazan
Nicholas Ray cast James Dean after spotting his raw intensity during a casual screen test in 1954.
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Arthur Penn
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Mike Nichols
3
Gene Saks
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Herbert Ross
Gene Saks directed Robert Redford and Jane Fonda reprising their original Broadway roles in 1967.
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Arthur Hiller
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John Schlesinger
3
Sydney Pollack
4
Mark Rydell
Arthur Hiller completed Love Story in just 42 days and the film became the top-grossing movie of 1970.
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Howard Hawks
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Ernst Lubitsch
3
Frank Capra
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George Cukor
George Cukor was so celebrated for directing female stars that Hollywood nicknamed him the women's director.
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Herbert Ross
2
Jon Avnet
3
Norman Jewison
4
Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall said Bette Midler personally chose him to direct after admiring his earlier television and film work.
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Otto Preminger
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Howard Hawks
3
Jean Negulesco
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Jean Negulesco directed Marilyn Monroe Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall together making the 1953 film a box office sensation.
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Billy Wilder
2
Howard Hawks
3
George Cukor
4
Jean Negulesco
Howard Hawks directed Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and also made classic films like Bringing Up Baby.
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Vincente Minnelli
2
George Cukor
3
Joshua Logan
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Morton DaCosta
Morton DaCosta directed Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame after directing the same story on Broadway just two years earlier.
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William Wyler
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Howard Hawks
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Frank Capra
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John Ford
Frank Capra's It Happened One Night was the first film to sweep all five major Academy Award categories in one night.
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