Oscar stats/trivia: Best Director nominees
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Max
Apr 13 '21, 08:12
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Cumulative nominees for Best Director:
239 since the first ceremony, listed by IMDB.
227 since the category was fixed at 5 nominees (1937 ceremony)
75 since 2000 (vs 61 Cinematographers)
Living nominees:
120
Youngest living nominees:
35 Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
36 Damien Chazelle (La La Land made him the youngest winner at 32)
37 Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, age 34)
38 Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild, age 30)
39 Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Oldest living nominees:
94 Norman Jewison
92 James Ivory
92 Lina Wertmuller
92 Mark Rydell
91 Richard Rush
Record setters for youngest nominee at nominations announcement:
33 Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights - 1927)
32 Norman Taurog (Skippy - 1931)
26 Orson Welles (Citizen Kane - 1941)
24 John Singleton (Boyz in the Hood - 1991)
Singleton was also the first African-American nominee for Best Director.
Oldest age at nominations announcement:
79 John Huston (Prizzi's Honor)
78 Charles Chrichton (A Fish Called Wanda)
77 Martin Scorsese (The Irishman)
76 Robert Altman (Gosford Park)
76 Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima). Oldest winner at 74 for Million Dollar Baby.
76 Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)
76 David Lean (A Passage to India)
Lean broke the Oldest record set by Cecil B. DeMille 32 years earlier when DeMille was nominated at age 71 for The Greatest Show on Earth.
Average age for nominated film:
45 - 2020
52 - 2010s & 2000s
61 - 2011 (Hazanavicius, Payne, Scorsese, Malick, Allen)
40 - 1971 (Friedkin, Schlesinger, Jewison, Bogdanovich, Kubrick)
48 - 1936-2019
38 - First Oscars
Earliest nominated among living nominees (film year):
1966 - Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman)
1967 - Norman Jewison (In the Heat of the Night)
1969 - Costa-Gavras (Z)
1971 - William Friedkin (The French Connection)
1971 - Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show)
Earliest born nominee:
Lionel Barrymore - Apr 28, 1878 (Madame X)
The earliest year from which all five nominees are still alive:
1980 - Redford, Lynch, Scorsese, Rush, Polanski
Most recent year in which all five nominees were first-timers:
1997 - Cameron, Egoyan, Hanson, Van Sant, Cattaneo
Most recent year in which all five nominees were veterans:
1974 - Coppola, Fosse, Truffaut, Cassavetes, Polanski
Total nominations:
12 William Wyler
9 Martin Scorsese
8 Billy Wilder
7 Woody Allen
7 Steven Spielberg
7 David Lean
7 Fred Zinnemann
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