| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $2000: Best Director, 2014, for "Birdman" & 2015, for "The Revenant" (González) Iñárritu |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $2000: The 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Film went to director Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation", the first winner from this country Iran |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $400: Born while her dad was making "The Godfather", she's won an Oscar for screenwriting & been named best director at Cannes Sofia Coppola |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | TROPHY HUSBAND $800: When he won Best Director at Cannes for "After Hours", he was married to Barbara de Fina, who produced his "The Color of Money" Martin Scorsese |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | THE OSCA"R"s $2000: For "West Side Story" Robert Wise shared Best Director with this man, seen working on the film Jerome Robbins |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $200: 1990:
"Dances with Wolves" danced away with a win for him Kevin Costner |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $400: 1998:
"Saving Private Ryan" won the war for this man Spielberg |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $600: 2006:
"The Departed" gave him his long-anticipated Oscar Scorsese |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $800: 1989:
This director cruised to victory for "Born on the Fourth of July" (Oliver) Stone |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | OSCAR'S BEST DIRECTOR $1,000 (Daily Double): 2012:
There are more letters in "Life of Pi" than in his name Ang Lee |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | OSCAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES $1200: In 2021 this "Nomadland" Best Director quoted a Chinese work that begins, "People at birth are inherently good" (Chloé) Zhao |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | POP CULTURE $800: On Oscar night in 2017, this film took home 6 awards, including Best Director for Damien Chazelle La La Land |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CONSECUTIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS $800: Best Director: "Mystic River" (2004) & Best Actor: "Million Dollar Baby" (2005) Clint Eastwood |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | FIGHTING FOR AN OSCAR $800: This Swank-y 2004 film fought its way to Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actress & Supporting Actor Million Dollar Baby |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | BEST DIRECTOR TWICE $400: "Brokeback Mountain" & "Life of Pi", this man seen here Ang Lee |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | BEST DIRECTOR TWICE $800: "Gravity" & "Roma" Alfonso Cuarón |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | BEST DIRECTOR TWICE $1200: "Gentleman's Agreement" & "On the Waterfront" Elia Kazan |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | BEST DIRECTOR TWICE $1600: "The Bridge on the River Kwai" & "Lawrence of Arabia" David Lean |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | BEST DIRECTOR TWICE $2000: "The Lost Weekend" & "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $400: On Oscar night 2016 Best Animated Short went to "Bear Story"; this other bear story won Best Actor & Best Director The Revenant |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | FEMALE FIRSTS $8,600 (Daily Double): Kathryn Bigelow became Oscar's first female Best Director for this film with only one named female character The Hurt Locker |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | FESTIVALS $400: Given to the director of the best film, the Palme d'Or is the top prize at this festival Cannes |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | THEIR ENTIRE OSCAR SPEECH $1600: This Viennese-Amer. Best Director for "The Apartment": "Thank you so much, you lovely discerning people. Thank you" (Billy) Wilder |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: This alliterative Italian won Best Director for his work on "The Last Emperor" (Bernardo) Bertolucci |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | FOREIGN FILM AWARDS $1200: This director of "The Skin I Live In" has been nominated for the Goya Award for Best Director 9 times Pedro Almodóvar |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | 5 EXES $1200: Best-known nickname of ex-White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci The Mooch |
| #7299, aired 2016-05-12 | COLORFUL OSCAR-WINNING FILMS $1000: "How Green Was My Valley" brought this man one of his 4 Best Director Oscars John Ford |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | CHOREOGRAPHERS $800: Fired before "West Side Story" was completed, he won an Oscar for Best Director anyway Jerome Robbins |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | THE MOVIES $1600: He won the Best Director Oscar for 2013's "Gravity" (Alfonso) Cuarón |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $400: (A.O. Scott of The New York Times presents.) Kathryn Bigelow won the Best Director Oscar for this film I reviewed as the best nondocumentary American feature made yet about the war in Iraq The Hurt Locker |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $800: He was nominated for 5 Best Director Oscars & won a record 4, including one for "The Quiet Man" John Ford |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $1200: For this 2003 film, Sofia Coppola became the first American woman nominated for a directing Oscar Lost in Translation |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $1600: His Best Director nominations for "Blue Velvet" & "Mulholland Drive" were the only nominations for those films (David) Lynch |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $2000: The youngest Best Director nominee was this 24-year-old who directed 1991's "Boyz N the Hood" John Singleton |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | INTERNATIONAL CINEMA SHOWCASE $2000: The 2011 Oscar for Best Foreign Film went to director Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation", the first winner from this country Iran |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | OSCAR MIRE $400: He had 5 nominations for Best Director, including in consecutive years for "Lifeboat" & "Spellbound" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $400: For the 2009 Oscars, she was in competition against ex-husband James Cameron for Best Director; she won Kathryn Bigelow |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | THE GOLDEN GLOBES: BEST DIRECTOR $400: 2007:
"The Departed" Martin Scorsese |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | THE GOLDEN GLOBES: BEST DIRECTOR $800: 2001:
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (Ang) Lee |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | THE GOLDEN GLOBES: BEST DIRECTOR $1200: 1986:
"Prizzi's Honor" (also 1949 for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre") Huston |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | THE GOLDEN GLOBES: BEST DIRECTOR $1600: 2011:
"The Social Network" David Fincher |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | THE GOLDEN GLOBES: BEST DIRECTOR $2000: 1974:
"The Exorcist" William Friedkin |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | "DE" BEST PEOPLE $1200: This director of "The Ten Commandments" was a founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Cecil DeMille |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | THE 2011 EMMYS $1000: This Best Director was a raging bull in an Emmy shop for his work on "Boardwalk Empire" (Martin) Scorsese |
| #6231, aired 2011-10-24 | A "TON" OF PEOPLE $1000: His "Boyz N the Hood" earned him the first-ever best director Oscar nomination for an African American John Singleton |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | THE 82nd ACADEMY AWARDS $400: Barbra Streisand said, "The time has come" before announcing this best director winner Kathryn Bigelow |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $2000: This 2003 musical won 8 Tonys, including best actor for Harvey Fierstein & best director for Jack O'Brien Hairspray |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | LE CINEMA $1600: This director, son of a famous impressionist painter, is perhaps best known for his 1937 film 'Grand Illusion" Jean Renoir |
| #5247, aired 2007-06-05 | BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS $400: It not only won Best Picture, it also earned Martin Scorsese his long-awaited Best Director Oscar The Departed |
| #5135, aired 2006-12-29 | ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $800: One of 2 films for which Steven Spielberg won a Best Director Oscar, both in the 1990s Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan |
| #5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE OSCARS $600: At the ceremony in 1998, this Best Director declared himself "King of the World" James Cameron |
| #4743, aired 2005-03-30 | OSCAR NIGHT 2005 $200: Pulling no punches, it won awards for Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor & Director Million Dollar Baby |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | BROADWAY $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands on stage with giraffes at the New Amsterdam Theatre.) She was the first woman to win a Tony for best director of a musical when she won in 1998 for "The Lion King" Julie Taymor |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | OSCAR $400: For 1948's "Hamlet", he was nominated for both Best Director & Best Actor Sir Laurence Olivier |
| #4244, aired 2003-01-30 | OSCAR $1600: Prior to winning his Best Director Oscar for "Platoon", he won for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Midnight Express" Oliver Stone |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | OSCAR! OSCAR! $400: He was nominated for Best Actor, Best Director & Best Screenplay for 1978's "Heaven Can Wait" & 1981's "Reds" Warren Beatty |
| #4182, aired 2002-11-05 | CITIZEN KANE $200: At the Oscars, he lost out as actor & director for "Kane" but shared Best Original Screenplay Orson Welles |
| #4072, aired 2002-04-23 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $1000: In 1992 he became the first African-American to be nominated for a Best Director Oscar John Singleton |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | SELF-PROMOTION $2000: This painter & director called his film "Before Night Falls" the best of 2000 Julian Schnabel |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | THE EMMYS $800: Daniel Sackheim's 1994 Best Director Emmy was for the "Tempest in a C-Cup" episode of this Steven Bochco series NYPD Blue |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | WHAT ARE "YOU" DOING? $800: This 1938 James Stewart film won Best Picture & earned an Oscar for its director, Frank Capra You Can't Take It with You |
| #3884, aired 2001-06-21 | 4-LETTER FILMS $800: Warren Beatty won Oscar nominations for Best Actor, Director & Screenwriter for this 1981 film Reds |
| #3830, aired 2001-04-06 | WORLD OF ANIMATION $400: Like George Pal's "Toons", director Ladislas Starevich was best known for animation using these 3-D figures Puppets |
| #3549, aired 2000-01-27 | THE OSCARS $400: Upon winning Best Director for this 1998 film, Steven Spielberg said, "Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?" Saving Private Ryan |
| #3541, aired 2000-01-17 | THE ACADEMY AWARDS $500: Robert Wise & choreographer Jerome Robbins shared the Best Director Oscar for this 1961 musical West Side Story |
| #3520, aired 1999-12-17 | JANES ADDICTION $400: She was nominated for a 1993 Best Director Oscar Jane Campion |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | THE OSCARS $1000: This director of "Prizzi's Honor" was 79 when he was nominated for Best Director, the oldest ever John Huston |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | BEST DIRECTOR $200: "Schindler's List" (Steven) Spielberg |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | BEST DIRECTOR $400: "Reds" Warren Beatty |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | BEST DIRECTOR $600: "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" John Huston |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | BEST DIRECTOR $800: "You Can't Take It with You" Frank Capra |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | BEST DIRECTOR $1000: "Gandhi" Richard Attenborough |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS $300: When an actress in his "Lifeboat" asked him what her best side was, he said, "My dear, you're sitting on it" Hitchcock |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS $500: "The best director is the one you don't see", observed this director of "Some Like It Hot" Billy Wilder |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | THE OSCARS $1,000 (Daily Double): Film seen here, its director was nominated, but it didn't make it into the Best Picture category: Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #3008, aired 1997-10-01 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $600: He won 1967's Best Director Oscar for "The Graduate", which was only his second film Mike Nichols |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | FILMS OF THE '70s $400: Bob Fosse won a Best Director Oscar for this 1972 Liza Minnelli musical, which he also choreographed Cabaret |
| #2949, aired 1997-05-29 | THE OSCARS $800: At age 79 he became the oldest person ever nominated for Best Director, for "Prizzi's Honor" John Huston |
| #2885, aired 1997-02-28 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $1000: She was the 1st woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar, for 1976's "Seven Beauties" Lina Wertmuller |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | THE OSCARS $100: He said, "I swear I have never held one before" when he accepted his Best Director Oscar for "Schindler's List" Steven Spielberg |
| #2791, aired 1996-10-21 | FILM DIRECTORS $1,700 (Daily Double): This man won his first of 3 Best Director Oscars for the film seen here: Frank Capra |
| #2604, aired 1995-12-21 | THE MOVIES $300: This Barrymore was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for the 1929 tearjerker "Madame X" Lionel Barrymore |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | SPIELBERG FILMS $300: On March 21, 1994 this film picked up 7 Oscars, including a Best Director Award for Spielberg Schindler's List |
| #2448, aired 1995-04-05 | MOVIES $500: This 1993 Holly Hunter film earned Jane Campion the 2nd Oscar nomination ever for a woman as "Best Director" The Piano |
| #2331, aired 1994-10-24 | THE MOVIES $200: He won "Best Director" Oscars in the 1980s for "Platoon" & "Born on the Fourth of July" Oliver Stone |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | THE OSCARS $300: This actor won as "Best Director" for "Dances with Wolves", his directorial debut Kevin Costner |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | THE OSCARS $500: Never nominated for "Best Director", he got a Supporting Actor nomination for "Sunset Boulevard" Erich von Stroheim |
| #2042, aired 1993-06-22 | THE OSCARS $100: 6 of the first 10 Oscars for "Best Director" went to men with this first name, including Capra Frank |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | THE OSCARS $600: 1 of 2 films for which Oliver Stone has won "Best Director" Platoon (or Born on the Fourth of July) |
| #1442, aired 1990-12-04 | HISTORICAL FILMS $300: Sir Richard Attenborough won 1982's Best Director Oscar for this epic which also won Best Picture Gandhi |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | THE OSCARS $200: Of Best Assistant Director, Best Producer, or Best Best Boy, the one that was once an Oscar category Best Assistant Director |
| #1374, aired 1990-07-19 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $1000: This H.S. dropout became an actor, director & author of the best sellers "Tracy & Hepburn" & "Hollywood" Garson Kanin |
| #1254, aired 1990-02-01 | STARTS WITH "T" $400: This 1983 tearjerker won "Best Picture", "Best Actress", "Best Director" & "Best Supporting Actor" Oscars Terms of Endearment |
| #1205, aired 1989-11-24 | MOVIE MAKERS $800: Siskel & Ebert agree that this director of "Taxi Driver" is the best American director working today Martin Scorsese |
| #1101, aired 1989-05-22 | 1982 $300: Richard Attenborough won the "Best Director" Oscar for this "Best Picture" of 1982 Gandhi |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: Silent film director whose notorious 1922 murder was the subject of the best seller "A Cast of Killers" William Desmond Taylor |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | MOVIE MAKERS $200: It's said "North by Northwest" convinced Ian Fleming this man would be the best director for Bond films Alfred Hitchcock |
| #705, aired 1987-10-02 | FAMOUS FLEMINGS $1000: Stunt car driver & once Pres. Wilson's photographer, he won "Best Director" Oscar for "GWTW" Victor Fleming |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | "GOOD", "BETTER" & "BEST" MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1946 "Best Picture" also won Best Director, Best Actor & Best Supporting Actor Oscars The Best Years of Our Lives |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | DIRECTORS $200: "Little Shop of Horrors" director Frank Oz is best known as the voice of this porcine Muppet Miss Piggy |
| #561, aired 1987-02-02 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $400: He said, "The best films are best because of nobody but the director"-- before he made "Pirates" Sir Roman Polanski |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | THE OSCARS $200: In 1929 only, a separate award was also given for Best Director of this type of film a comedy |
| #486, aired 1986-10-20 | ITALY $800: Director of 3 foreign language film Oscar winners, he's perhaps best known for "The Bicycle Thief" Vittorio De Sica |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT $200: Persona non grata at this film festival in 1957, Truffaut won "Best Director" there in 1959 Cannes |
| #148, aired 1985-04-03 | CLASSIC CINEMA $600: First called "Night Bus", this '34 film drove away with Best Picture, acting, Director & Writing Oscars It Happened One Night |
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