Guide Note

The "Best Director" Academy Award is presented to who members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences believe is the year's best director of a single film.

Fast Facts

No. statues awarded: 81
No. recipients: 61
First winner: Frank Borzage, 1929
Most nominations: William Wyler (12)
Most wins: John Ford (4)
Consecutive winners: John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Oldest winner: Clint Eastwood (age 74)
Youngest winner: Norman Taurog (age 32)
2008 winners: The Coen Brothers

2008 Academy Awards

The "Best Director" Oscar for 2008 was awarded to The Coen Brothers for their work on No Country for Old Men, which also won "Best Picture" the same evening.

Other nominees included Julian Schnabel (for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), Jason Reitman (for Juno), Tony Gilroy (for Michael Clayton), and Paul Thomas Anderson (for There Will Be Blood).

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Best Director Winner

Coen Brothers Best Directing Oscar Award Speech

YouTube Video: Achievement in Directing (Time: 2:51)
Coen Brothers Best Directing Oscar Award Speech from Oscars.org:
Ethan Coen:
- I don't have a lot to add to what I said earlier. Thank you.
Joel Coen:
- Ethan and I have been making stories with movie cameras since we were kids. In the late '60s when Ethan was 11 or 12, he got a suit and a briefcase and we went to the Minneapolis International Airport with a Super 8 camera and made a movie about shuttle diplomacy called "Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go." And honestly, what we do now doesn't feel that much different from what we were doing then. There are too many people to thank for this. We're really thrilled to have received it, and we're very thankful to all of you out there for letting us continue to play in our corner of the sandbox, so thank you very much.

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