Oscar Directors: Bogdanovich, Peter–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

Paper Moon, a Depression-era comedy starring Ryan O’Neal that won his 10-year-old daughter Tatum O’Neal an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress, proved the high-water mark of Bogdanovich’s career.

Oscar Directors: Beatty, Warren–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography (Cum Advantage, Tony Nom, 15 Oscar Noms)

He has been nominated for 15 Oscar Awards, including four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay, winning Best Director for Reds (1981).

Oscar Directors: Barrymore, Lionel–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography (Oscar Winner as Actor)

In 1931, he won Oscar for his role as alcoholic lawyer in A Free Soul, after being considered in 1930 for Best Director for Madame X.

Oscar Directors: Babenco, Hector–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography (Strangers in Paradise, Foreigners in Hollywood)

For Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Babenco was nominated for the Best Director Oscar, the first Latin American to be nominated in this category.

Oscar Directors: Anderson, Paul Thomas–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography

Anderson has been nominated for eight Oscars, one Golden Globe Award and five BAFTA Awards, and has won a Best Director Award at Cannes, Silver Bear at Berlin and a Silver Lion at Venice.