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Academy Award for Best Director

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The Academy Award for Best Director is an annual honor presented in the United States. It recognizes outstanding achievement in directing for a motion picture. The award is one of the categories of the Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars.

Established by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Best Director award has been given since the inception of the Oscars in 1929. It remains one of the most prestigious accolades in the film industry.

Academy Award for Best Director

Summary

Academy Award for Best Director is an award for best direction[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Academy Award for Best Director won the Alejandro González Iñárritu[3].
  • Academy Award for Best Director won the Alejandro González Iñárritu[4].
  • Academy Award for Best Director won the Alfonso Cuarón[5].
  • Academy Award for Best Director won the Ang Lee[6].
  • Academy Award for Best Director won the Bong Joon-ho[7].
  • Academy Award for Best Director is in the country of United States[8].
  • Academy Award for Best Director's instance of is recorded as award for best direction[9].
  • Academy Award for Best Director's instance of is recorded as Academy Awards[10].
  • Academy Award for Best Director's Commons category is recorded as Winners of Academy Award for Best Director[11].
  • 1929 marks the founding of Academy Award for Best Director[12].
  • Academy Award for Best Director's official website is recorded as https://oscar.go.com/nominees/directing[13].
  • Academy Award for Best Director's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Best Directing Academy Award winners[14].
  • Academy Award for Best Director's conferred by is recorded as Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences[15].
  • Academy Award for Best Director's topic has template is recorded as Template:Academy Award for Best Director[16].
  • Academy Award for Best Director's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Academy Award for Best Director'}[17].
  • Academy Award for Best Director's event interval is recorded as {'unit': 'Q577', 'amount': '+1'}[18].
  • Academy Award for Best Director's category for recipients of this award is recorded as Category:Best Directing Academy Award winners[19].

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When and Where

Academy Award for Best Director is in the country of United States[8].

Context

Recorded instance of include award for best direction[9] and Academy Awards[10].

Why It Matters

Academy Award for Best Director has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

FAQs

What awards did Academy Award for Best Director receive?

Honors received include Alejandro González Iñárritu[3], Alejandro González Iñárritu[4], Alfonso Cuarón[5], and Ang Lee[6].

Related Entities

12 Angry Men 12 Years a Slave 2001: A Space Odyssey 8½ A Beautiful Mind A Clockwork Orange Adam McKay Adrian Lyne A Fish Called Wanda Akira Kurosawa Alan J. Pakula Alan Parker Alejandro González Iñárritu Alexander Payne Alfonso Cuarón Alfred Hitchcock All About Eve All Quiet on the Western Front All That Jazz All the King's Men All the President's Men Amadeus A Man and a Woman A Man for All Seasons Amarcord American Beauty American Graffiti American Hustle Amour An American in Paris

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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