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Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 19, 2024 20:16:44 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)
89 | Michael Cimino, The Deer Hunter (17 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)
79 | Woody Allen, Annie Hall (17 votes)
78 | James Cameron, Titanic (16 votes)
78 | Robert Redford, Ordinary People (14 votes)
77 | Richard Attenborough, Gandhi (14 votes)
76 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman (25 votes)
76 | Chloé Zhao, Nomadland (19 votes)
76 | Warren Beatty, Reds (16 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)
59 | Robert Benton, Kramer vs. Kramer (14 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)

Woody Allen gets a strong score of 79. And now for 1976's winner,
John G. Avildsen for Rocky

How would you rate this achievement from 0 to 10?

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stephen Legend "Not my remains, Al." Posts: 25,538 Likes: 25,641	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 19, 2024 20:31:03 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stephen on Jun 19, 2024 20:31:03 GMT 8.5.
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wallsofjericho Badass Posts: 1,638 Likes: 1,267	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 19, 2024 20:55:10 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by wallsofjericho on Jun 19, 2024 20:55:10 GMT 9.

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Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 19, 2024 20:55:19 GMT

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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jun 19, 2024 20:55:19 GMT

9.

Strong, iconic performances across the entire cast, a palpable sense of time and setting that colors the entire film, invents the modern training montage, and puts together one of the all-time great film endings.

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Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 19, 2024 21:52:00 GMT

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Post by countjohn on Jun 19, 2024 21:52:00 GMT

6/10 seems right. Another one that's good for the writing and cast but not really for the directing. Giving this a bit higher than some of the other ones because the final fight is well put together but the rest of it feels like I'm watching some urban set 70's cop show.

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Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 19, 2024 22:27:19 GMT

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Post by paulgallo on Jun 19, 2024 22:27:19 GMT

4/10

This won and Scorsese wasn't even nominated, ridiculous. And it must be some kind of in-joke that every time they nominated Bergman they gave the award to a journeyman director for rather unimpressive work.

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finniussnrub God Tier Posts: 6,190 Likes: 3,377	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 20, 2024 2:10:27 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by finniussnrub on Jun 20, 2024 2:10:27 GMT 8, I mean he does deserve credit for inventing the training montage.

Joaquim God Tier "Truzz Trump" - Lamar Jackson, Apr. 18, 2020 Posts: 9,881 Likes: 5,545	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 20, 2024 2:20:33 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Joaquim on Jun 20, 2024 2:20:33 GMT 7/10

therealcomicman117 Legend Posts: 11,601 Likes: 7,740	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 20, 2024 2:58:23 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by therealcomicman117 on Jun 20, 2024 2:58:23 GMT 8 / 10
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ibbi God Tier "Batman's a scientist" Posts: 5,830 Likes: 5,120	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 20, 2024 11:05:17 GMT mikediastavrone96 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by ibbi on Jun 20, 2024 11:05:17 GMT 9. Bicentennial fairytale draped in New Hollywood murk.

JangoB Legend Posts: 12,212 Likes: 11,133	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 20, 2024 14:31:45 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by JangoB on Jun 20, 2024 14:31:45 GMT 8.5/10 Basically what ibbi said: always loved the balance Avildsen strikes between the grit of the cinematic language of the day and the uplifting fairytale spirit of the story.
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franklin Badass Posts: 1,954 Likes: 919	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 20, 2024 15:24:24 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by franklin on Jun 20, 2024 15:24:24 GMT 8

Tommen_Saperstein Legend you don't understand the essence of brat summer Posts: 17,633 Likes: 11,737	Rate the Oscar-Winning Directing: 1976 (CLOSED) Jun 20, 2024 19:27:24 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 20, 2024 19:27:24 GMT ground zero for one of the worst movie subgenres. This win always seemed odd to me, but I'll abstain because it's been forever since I saw it.