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Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1981 (CLOSED) Jun 11, 2024 0:49:27 GMT

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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)
77 | Richard Attenborough, Gandhi (14 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)

Richard Attenborough earns a very respectable 77. And now for 1981's winner,
Warren Beatty for Reds

How would you rate this achievement from 0 to 10?

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TheAlwaysClassy Based Posts: 4,504 Likes: 2,106	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1981 (CLOSED) Jun 11, 2024 1:15:52 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by TheAlwaysClassy on Jun 11, 2024 1:15:52 GMT 7
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stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 25,092 Likes: 25,268	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1981 (CLOSED) Jun 11, 2024 1:28:49 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephen on Jun 11, 2024 1:28:49 GMT 7.5.
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jun 11, 2024 2:48:43 GMT

I'm going with a 10. I absolutely love this film - the epic sweep of it, the interviews interspersed throughout - but also the intimacy of the love story between Beatty and Keaton. Beatty strikes the perfect balance IMO.

This is one of my all time favorite scenes...

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Post by urbanpatrician on Jun 11, 2024 2:55:20 GMT

8.5

I wouldn't say this movie is Lean/Dr Zhivago but I think it deserves to be in the 83-87 range which is looks like it's falling way short of.

Definitely above questionably high rated directions of Bertolucci, Stone for 4th of July, Bigelow, Gibson, Cuaron, and Chazelle. Lmao that they're all 80% or higher. omg.

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Kings_Requiem Based Posts: 3,132 Likes: 773	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1981 (CLOSED) Jun 11, 2024 5:16:29 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Kings_Requiem on Jun 11, 2024 5:16:29 GMT 9.5
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Post by ibbi on Jun 11, 2024 11:28:00 GMT

5 whole points for the sense to hire Vittorio Storaro, who can make it worth looking at even while it's barely worth watching. Alas, the rest of Reds feels like it takes 10 Days to watch without shaking any worlds.

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countjohn God Tier Posts: 8,281 Likes: 5,617	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1981 (CLOSED) Jun 11, 2024 16:51:45 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by countjohn on Jun 11, 2024 16:51:45 GMT 8/10

JangoB Legend Posts: 11,936 Likes: 10,866 Member is Online	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1981 (CLOSED) Jun 11, 2024 17:09:54 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by JangoB on Jun 11, 2024 17:09:54 GMT 9/10 Agree with Tyler about Beatty striking a great balance between the epicness and the intimacy.
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mrimpossible Badass Posts: 1,607 Likes: 845	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1981 (CLOSED) Jun 11, 2024 22:57:07 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mrimpossible on Jun 11, 2024 22:57:07 GMT 9.5. Great Stuff.