Attenborough won two Oscar Awards for Gandhi in 1983, Best Picture and Best Director. The BFI ranked Gandhi the 34th greatest British film of the 20th century.

At the time of his death, Michael Anderson was the oldest living Oscar nominee, and the only surviving director whose film won a Best Picture award in the 1950s, Around the World in 80 Days.

Allen has often starred in his films, typically in the persona he developed as a standup.

Starring Jane Fonda and Jon Voight, both in Oscar-winning performances, Coming Home was the film for which Ashby earned his only Best Director Oscar nomination.

Schnabel directed Before Night Falls, which became Javier Bardem’s breakthrough Oscar-nominated role, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Director.