Best Director 2014: Cuarón, McQueen and Jonze vie for Oscar

Posted by · 5:00 pm · October 29th, 2013

HitFix’s awards editorial team surveys this year’s Best Director crop, from debut filmmakers to weathered vets and all points in between.

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Oscar Guide 2013: Best Director

Posted by · 3:37 pm · February 12th, 2013

Michael Haneke, Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, David O. Russell and Benh Zeitlin square off.

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2013 Best Director Contenders: From Ben Affleck to Robert Zemeckis

Posted by · 9:50 pm · October 31st, 2012

Moving right along through the season’s major Oscar categories, we come today to the Best Director field.

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Oscar Guide 2011: Best Director

Posted by · 8:45 am · February 22nd, 2012

As was the case last year, this year’s Best Director race pits one foreign first-time nominee against a quartet of more established American auteurs — will the outsider emerge victorious again? We examine who will win, and who should.

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On Woody and Terrence, Oscar's inevitable no-shows

Posted by · 5:29 pm · January 28th, 2012

The DGA Awards will be going down tonight, and the smart money remains on Michel Hazanavicius. And speaking of directors, I hadn’t quite taken note yet of the fact that two of the Academy’s nominees in the field are inevitable no-shows for the event.

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