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Oscars 2012: Best Director First Look

October 18, 2011 By Thelma 2 Comments

Alexander Payne,George Clooney,The Descendants

Payne: Running Man

And now we turn our gimlet eye to the best director category. Full disclosure: of the top five men in the race, I’ve only seen two of the movies: The Descendants and The Artist. Any women directors in the race? Oopsy!

Alexander Payne, The Descendants

Steven Spielberg, War Horse

David Fincher, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Michael Hazanavicius, The Artist

Stephen Daldry, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Other directorial contenders: Bennett Miller, Moneyball; Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar; Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris; Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life; Tomas Alfredson, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Martin Scorsese, Hugo; Oren Moverman, Rampart; and George Clooney, The Ides of March.

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Filed Under: Movies & TV, Oscar Race Tagged With: Alexander Payne, Best Director, Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Daldry, Steven Spielberg

Comments

  1. Mark Johnson says

    October 18, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    The best shot is probably Phylida Lloyd – The Iron Lady; behold the power of the Weinsteins!!

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  2. Mark Johnson says

    October 18, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    And you might consider Lynne Ramsay – We Need to Talk About Kevin – a dark horse, but I’m not willing to bet on it this year. I like your 5, but does this mean Dragon Tattoo gets a BP nom? Hard to get Director and not film if more than 5 movies get BP noms, right?

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