Sam Mendes is one of the luckiest Oscar directors, having won the coveted Best Directing Oscar for his very fisrt film, American Beauty, in 1999. His work directing theatre and film spans twenty-five years. He began his career in the theatre as Assistant Director at the Studio Theatre in Chichester in 1987 and was the […]

March 18, 2008–Anthony Minghella, the Oscar-winning director and writer of  "he English Patient," has died suddenly. He was 54.

One of the weakest films to ever win the Best Picture Oscar, in a year that most handicappers predicted Ron Howard’s well-executed adventure, “Apollo 13,” would take the award.

Robert Zemeckis won the Oscar, Golden Globe, and a Director’s Guild of American Award for Best Director for the hugely successful Forrest Gump. The film’s numerous honors also included Oscars for Best Actor (Tom Hanks) and Best Picture. The Library of Congress recently selected the film to join the esteemed National Film Registry. Zemeckis re-teamed […]

In 1990, Hollywood skeptics, convinced that Kevin Costner had a flop the size of "Heaven's Gate" on his hands, had tagged his three hours directorial debut, "Kevin's Gate." When Costner was looking for financing, there was not much interest in a marathon-length Western featuring unknown actors speaking in subtitled Lakota Sioux dialect.