{"id":14564,"date":"2012-02-26T04:59:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14564"},"modified":"2012-02-26T05:02:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T05:02:28","slug":"84th-academy-awards-best-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/26\/84th-academy-awards-best-director\/","title":{"rendered":"84th Academy Awards: Best Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14444\" title=\"84th Academy Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOMINEES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Woody Allen\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woody_Allen\">Woody Allen<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em><a title=\"Midnight in Paris\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midnight_in_Paris\">Midnight in Paris<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Michel Hazanavicius\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michel_Hazanavicius\">Michel Hazanavicius<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em><a title=\"The Artist (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Artist_(film)\">The Artist<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Terrence Malick\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terrence_Malick\">Terrence Malick<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em><a title=\"The Tree of Life (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Tree_of_Life_(film)\">The Tree of Life<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Alexander Payne\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Payne\">Alexander Payne<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em><a title=\"The Descendants (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Descendants_(film)\">The Descendants<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Martin Scorsese\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Scorsese\">Martin Scorsese<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em><a title=\"Hugo (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugo_(film)\">Hugo<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the\u00a0<a title=\"1st Academy Awards\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1st_Academy_Awards\">1st Academy Awards<\/a>\u00a0there were two directing awards &#8211; one for drama and the other for comedy &#8211; but the latter was was eliminated the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Only twice has it been awarded to a co-directing team, rather than to an individual director: <a title=\"Jerome Robbins\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerome_Robbins\">Jerome Robbins<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Robert Wise\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Wise\">Robert Wise<\/a>\u00a0for <a title=\"West Side Story (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Side_Story_(film)\">West Side Story<\/a>\u00a0(1961) and <a title=\"Coen Brothers\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coen_Brothers\">Joel Coen and Ethan Coen<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<a title=\"No Country for Old Men (film)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No_Country_for_Old_Men_(film)\">No Country for Old Men<\/a>\u00a0(2007).<\/p>\n<p><strong>WOODY ALLEN &#8211; Midnight in Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EnHX7MQDV4E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS \u2013 The Artist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/edoUuigMSV8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>TERRENCE MALICK \u2013 The Tree of Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UVUXDn6hCY4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALEXANDER PAYNE \u2013 The Descendants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h1ehnTQPXOQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>MARTIN SCORSESE \u2013 Hugo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"279\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"background\" value=\"#333333\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"si=254&amp;&amp;contentValue=50119106&amp;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-3445_162-57367902\/martin-scorsese-on-hugo-a-very-personal-film\/\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"279\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/cnettv.cnet.com\/av\/video\/cbsnews\/atlantis2\/cbsnews_player_embed.swf\" scale=\"noscale\" salign=\"lt\" background=\"#333333\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"si=254&amp;&amp;contentValue=50119106&amp;shareUrl=http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-3445_162-57367902\/martin-scorsese-on-hugo-a-very-personal-film\/\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\">Official Oscar site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Best_Director\">Explore previous winners of Best Director at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominees include Woody Allen, Michel Hazanavicius, Terrence Malick, Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}