Best Director
| Academy Award for Best Director | ||||
| Year | Name | Film | Status | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | John Singleton | Boyz n the Hood | Nominated | First black person to be nominated for Best Director; youngest person ever nominated in this category (age 23). |
| 2009 | Lee Daniels | Precious | Nominated | Second black person to earn a Best Director nomination. Daniels, also becomes the first black director to earn a Best Picture nomination. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Black Academy Award Winners And Nominees
Famous quotes containing the word director:
“He wrote me sad Mother’s Day stories. He’d always kill me in the stories and tell me how bad he felt about it. It was enough to bring a tear to a mother’s eye.”
—Connie Zastoupil, U.S. mother of Quentin Tarantino, director of film Pulp Fiction. Rolling Stone, p. 76 (December 29, 1994)
“When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country’s ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in ‘29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, “What’s General Motors got to be nervous about?” “Overproduction,” I says. “Collapse.””
—John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)