Most surprising Best Director nominees

[Gabe Guarin Joined: Feb 23rd, 2017 Topics: 40 Posts: 2389 View Predictions]

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I created a previous forum talking about the weirdest Best Director lineups, but then I realized it would make more sense to talk about individual nominees instead.

I noted Babe’s Chris Noonan and Dead Man Walking’s Tim Robbins from 1995, The Full Monty’s Peter Cattaneo from 1997, and Amour’s Michael Haneke from 2012 and Beasts of the Southern Wild’s Benh Zeitlin from 2012. Another one for me includes La cage aux folle’s Edouard Molinaro from 1979.

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[Awardsfan1990 Joined: Mar 28th, 2015 Topics: 241 Posts: 9041 View Predictions]

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There’s also Paul Greengrass for United 93, Lenny Abrahamson for Room and Pawel Pawlikowski for Cold War. In my opinion, their respective slots should have been filled with Bill Condon for Dreamgirls, Ridley Scott for The Martian, and Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born.

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[Leo Grant Logan Joined: Nov 7th, 2010 Topics: 73 Posts: 1934 View Predictions]

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Lenny Abrahamson – Room
Pawel Pawlikowski – Cold War
Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild

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[Gabe Guarin Joined: Feb 23rd, 2017 Topics: 40 Posts: 2389 View Predictions]

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Jason Reitman – Juno

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[kingfan011 Joined: Mar 11th, 2017 Topics: 2 Posts: 140 View Predictions]

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PTA: Phantom Thread

Everybody was betting on Martin McDonaugh

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[marcelo]

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Hiroshi Teshigahara, Woman in the dunes
Arthur Penn, Alice’s Restaurante
Tim Robbins, Dead Man Walking
Ridley Scott, Black Hawk Down
Fernando Mereilles, City of God
Behn Zeitlin, Beast of….

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[manakamana Joined: Jul 28th, 2011 Topics: 19 Posts: 1561 View Predictions]

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marcelo wrote:

Hiroshi Teshigahara, Woman in the dunes

Teshigahara’s nomination is still completely confusing and easily one of the most inspired nominations ever.

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[Hoster1 Joined: Aug 8th, 2016 Topics: 4 Posts: 2417 View Predictions]

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marcelo wrote:

Ridley Scott, Black Hawk Down

He literally got nominated by DGA, how is that nomination shocking?

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[Dan Jo]

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David Lynch for Mulholland Drive. Single nomination and nothing else. During nominations announcement while his name was announced, you can hear the press chuckles.

Fernando Meirelles for City of God. Wasn’t it a big surprise then? Received 4 Oscar nominations (Directing, Cinematography, Editing & Screenplay) but shut out for Foreign Language award.

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[Gabe Guarin Joined: Feb 23rd, 2017 Topics: 40 Posts: 2389 View Predictions]

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Dan Jo wrote:

Fernando Meirelles for City of God. Wasn’t it a big surprise then? Received 4 Oscar nominations (Directing, Cinematography, Editing & Screenplay) but shut out for Foreign Language award.

It had been snubbed for Foreign Film when it was eligible, and Harvey Weinstein parlayed that injustice into 4 nominations for it the next year. Shame it missed Best Picture though.

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[Elazul Joined: Sep 2nd, 2017 Topics: 8 Posts: 1006 View Predictions]

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Dan Jo wrote:

David Lynch for Mulholland Drive. Single nomination and nothing else. During nominations announcement while his name was announced, you can hear the press chuckles.

Lynch was a sole nominee twice even, I wonder what the reason was behind that. Getting nominated for Blue Velvet after Dune was a feat by itself, wasn’t it?

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[JayDF]

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The greatest thing about the Director branch is that they throw curve balls often. Usually these curve balls are smaller, less seen and often foreign. Don’t get me wrong they nominate a lot of schlock that the rest of the academy also notates, but bc of those curves they are my favorite branch!

“City of God” missing the foreign language film category was dumb, but let’s face it the special rules for voting in that category was likely part of the problem.

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[Atypical Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 355 Posts: 21785 View Predictions]

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BENH ZEITLIN! One of my favorite Oscar nominees of all time! The world was gagged when this “Behn” was nominated over the other “Ben” lol, and I of course lived!

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[Thatcher, Prime Minister of GoldDerby Joined: Jan 3rd, 2018 Topics: 8 Posts: 2436 View Predictions]

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Darlings, not that it was surprising but Guillermo del Toro won for an abolutely lazy and disgusting work in the Disgust of Water.

As a famous singer said, "ain't nobody gonna Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher!"

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[Dan Backslide Joined: Apr 24th, 2016 Topics: 63 Posts: 5680 View Predictions]

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Thatcher, Prime Minister of GoldDerby wrote:

not that it was surprising

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