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Academy Award for Best Director

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Summary

Academy Award for Best Director is an award for best direction[1]. It draws 11,548 Wikipedia views per month (award for best direction category, ranking #1 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Winner: Alejandro González Iñárritu[3], Alfonso Cuarón[4], Ang Lee[5], Bong Joon-ho[6]
  • Country: United States[7]
  • Part of: Academy Awards[8]
  • Commons category: Winners of Academy Award for Best Director[9]
  • Inception: 1929[10]
  • Official website: https://oscar.go.com/nominees/directing[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Best Directing Academy Award winners[12]
  • Conferred by: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences[13]
  • Topic has template: Template:Academy Award for Best Director[14]
  • Native label: Academy Award for Best Director[15]
  • Event interval: 1[16]
  • Category for recipients of this award: Category:Best Directing Academy Award winners[17]

Why It Matters

Academy Award for Best Director has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

FAQs

What awards did Academy Award for Best Director receive?

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

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · CommonsDelinker · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Icon → —
    Part of → Academy Awards
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Icon: Oscar gold silhouette.svg, Removing [[:c:File:Oscar_gold_silhouette.svg|Oscar_gold_silhouette.svg]], it has been deleted from Commons by [[:c:User:Kr"
  2. 14w ago · Toghrul R · 2026-07-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Inception → +1929-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Topic's main category → Category:Best Directing Academy Award winners
    Winner → Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón +2
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Instance of: Academy Awards"
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