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Will William Wyler's record ever be beaten?
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Author:  Dr. Lecter [ Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:36 am ]
Post subject:  Will William Wyler's record ever be beaten?
Looking through different Oscar trivia, this one strikes me as quite terrific. 12 nominations for Best Director! The closest to his total is Billy Wilder and that with "only" eight nominations. He's pretty much the Meryl Streep of directing.

Of the still living and working directors the closest to him are:

1. Woody Allen - 6
2. Martin Scorsese - 6
3. Steven Spielberg - 6
4. Francis Ford Coppola - 4
5. Sidney Lumet - 4
6. Mike Nichols - 4
7. Peter Weir - 4
8. Clint Eastwood - 4

All the others have less than four. Of the eight above, I don't see anyone getting even close to Wyler. They're simply getting to old. Scorsese and Spielberg certainly have some nominations in them left, but I don't see either getting more than eight in total. Weir might snatch some more too, but not enough.

At this point the likely contenders are actually (like it or not) Stephen Daldry who's 3/3 (a Best Director nom for each of his films so far) and Jason Reitman (two nomiations at the age of 32 already!). What helps is that both seem to be very keen on directing Oscar fare. But even they probably won't make it this far.

And a second interesting question to ponder:

What's harder to beat? Wyler's 12 nominations or John Ford's four (!) wins for Best Director?
Author:  Jack Sparrow [ Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Will William Wyler's record ever be beaten?
When I think that both of these are extremely hard to beat I think that John Ford's four wins is the more difficult to beat
Author:  _axiom [ Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Will William Wyler's record ever be beaten?
So why are you missing Ford with his 5 noms in the above chart?
Author:  trixster [ Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:25 pm ]
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be.redy wrote:
So why are you missing Ford with his 5 noms in the above chart?

Because Ford is neither alive nor working.
Author:  Chippy [ Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Will William Wyler's record ever be beaten?
be.redy wrote:
So why are you missing Ford with his 5 noms in the above chart?

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Author:  _axiom [ Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Will William Wyler's record ever be beaten?
trixster wrote:
be.redy wrote:
So why are you missing Ford with his 5 noms in the above chart?

Because Ford is neither alive nor working.


LOL. I somehow understood it was a definitive list.
Author:  nghtvsn [ Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Will William Wyler's record ever be beaten?
Now that the Academy is nominating 10 films again I would think the 4 wins for BD would be more difficult to achieve. If it were still 5 films then I'd give the edge to the 12 nods.
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