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THE RESULTS
97 | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (21 votes)
94 | Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs (23 votes)
92 | Bong Joon-ho, Parasite (23 votes)
92 | Miloš Forman, Amadeus (16 votes)
91 | Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven (17 votes)
90 | Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List (23 votes)
88 | Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (23 votes)
87 | Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain (17 votes)
87 | Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor (10 votes)
85 | Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (22 votes)
84 | Oliver Stone, Platoon (18 votes)
83 | Damien Chazelle, La La Land (23 votes)
83 | Roman Polanski, The Pianist (18 votes)
83 | Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan (17 votes)
82 | Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker (22 votes)
82 | Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity (21 votes)
82 | Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July (12 votes)
81 | Martin Scorsese, The Departed (21 votes)
80 | Mel Gibson, Braveheart (17 votes)
78 | James Cameron, Titanic (16 votes)
76 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman (25 votes)
76 | Chloé Zhao, Nomadland (19 votes)
75 | Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog (21 votes)
75 | Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist (18 votes)
73 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant (24 votes)
73 | Robert Zemeckis, Forrest Gump (21 votes)
72 | Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water (21 votes)
72 | Ang Lee, Life of Pi (17 votes)
72 | Alfonso Cuarón, Roma (16 votes)
72 | Steven Soderbergh, Traffic (15 votes)
68 | Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves (13 votes)
68 | Barry Levinson, Rain Man (13 votes)
65 | Anthony Minghella, The English Patient (15 votes)
62 | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once (23 votes)
62 | Sam Mendes, American Beauty (19 votes)
59 | Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire (16 votes)
58 | James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment (16 votes)
56 | Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (17 votes)
54 | Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind (16 votes)
51 | Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa (13 votes)
44 | Tom Hooper, The King's Speech (15 votes)

James L. Brooks earns a mediocre score of 58. And now for 1982's winner,
Richard Attenborough for Gandhi

How would you rate this achievement from 0 to 10?

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therealcomicman117 Legend Posts: 11,601 Likes: 7,740	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1982 (CLOSED) Jun 10, 2024 0:36:09 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by therealcomicman117 on Jun 10, 2024 0:36:09 GMT 7 / 10
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stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 25,538 Likes: 25,641 Member is Online	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1982 (CLOSED) Jun 10, 2024 0:57:57 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephen on Jun 10, 2024 0:57:57 GMT 9.5.
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8.5. Re-watching recently, Attenborough doesn't hit Lean heights, but does an extremely admirable job of navigating the story and mining some powerful moments, particularly Om Puri's scene and Edward Fox's testimony scene.

...though I would have rather rated him for an Oscar-winning performance.

countjohn God Tier Posts: 8,562 Likes: 5,807	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1982 (CLOSED) Jun 10, 2024 2:13:45 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by countjohn on Jun 10, 2024 2:13:45 GMT 9/10

Steve17 Badass Posts: 1,140 Likes: 229	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1982 (CLOSED) Jun 10, 2024 2:42:27 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Steve17 on Jun 10, 2024 2:42:27 GMT 8 His work is very good, but I would've voted Spielberg if I was alive and a voting member at the time.
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Tommen_Saperstein Legend you don't understand the essence of brat summer Posts: 17,633 Likes: 11,737 Member is Online	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1982 (CLOSED) Jun 10, 2024 3:17:33 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 10, 2024 3:17:33 GMT 8.5

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JangoB Legend Posts: 12,212 Likes: 11,133	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1982 (CLOSED) Jun 10, 2024 17:15:27 GMT mrimpossible likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by JangoB on Jun 10, 2024 17:15:27 GMT 7. Certainly impressive in terms of scale and all that, but also very dry and academic.
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tylosaur Junior Member Posts: 276 Likes: 143 Member is Online	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1982 (CLOSED) Jun 10, 2024 21:48:43 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by tylosaur on Jun 10, 2024 21:48:43 GMT 7

mrimpossible Badass Posts: 1,629 Likes: 850	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1982 (CLOSED) Jun 10, 2024 23:03:17 GMT JangoB likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mrimpossible on Jun 10, 2024 23:03:17 GMT 7, what JangoB said.