Oscar Directors: Leonard, Robert Z.–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

He was nominated for the Best Director Oscar for The Divorcee and The Great Ziegfeld. Both were nominated for Best Picture, and the latter won.

Oscar Directors: Lelouch, Claude–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

September 12, 2020 Claude Lelouch Career Summation Occupational Inheritance: Nationality: Social Class: Race/Ethnicity: Family: Formal Education: Training: First Film: Le Propre de l’homme Breakthrough: A Man and A Woman, 1966; aged 33 First Oscar Nomination: A Man and A Woman, 1966; aged 33 Gap between First Film and First Nom: Other Oscars: Other Oscar Nominations: […]

Oscar Directors: Leigh, Mike–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

Leigh’s most notable works are the black comedy-drama Naked (1993), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA- and Palme d’Or-winning drama Secrets & Lies (1996), the Golden Lion-winning working-class drama Vera Drake (2004), and the Palme d’Or-nominated biopic Mr. Turner (2014).

Emmy Awards 2020: Best Record–Most Wins by Black Actors in Various Categories

I love being American, and it’s important that people see all of those things together, and when you have the platform celebrate that and remind those that tend to look past Black girls, Black women. When I saw my sister Uzo had on this same shirt it just was a confirmation that this was right–Regina King

Oscar Directors: Lee, Ang–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

Lee has been nominated for nine Oscar Awards, of which he has won three: Best Foreign Language Film for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Best Director for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi, becoming the first non-white director to win the latter.