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:
“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)
“The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)