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"Oscar Trivia: Day 6"
Best Picture and Best Director Winners Not From Same Film
By Tim Nasson
January 8, 2008

As of 2008, there will have been 80 Oscar ceremonies. (We're still not sure if the 80th Academy Awards will be televised). See WAM BLOG. And during those 80 years, (we're not including this one, 2008, yet), less than one quarter of the time has the Best Director Oscar gone to a movie other than the movie that won the Best Picture Oscar. As you know, or should know, if you're Wild About Movies, Alfred Hitchcock is the most nominated director (for Best Director - Oscar) - to never win one. (Alfred Hitchcock was nominated for the Oscar for Best Director five times: "Psycho;" "Rear Window;" "Spellbound;" "Lifeboat" and "Rebecca." Alfred Hitchock received an honorary Oscar in 1968 - The Irving Thalberg Award. We're sure he couldn't have cared less - about the honorary Oscar).

Below, the complete list from the first 79 Academy Awards - of Oscars not going to the same movie for Best Director and Best Picture - in chronological order. +

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1927/28 (1st Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Wings (director William Wellman was NOT nominated)
Best Director (Comedy Picture): Two Arabian Knights (Lewis Milestone)
Best Director (Dramatic Picture): 7th Heaven (Frank Borzage)

1928/29 (2nd Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: The Broadway Melody (director Harry Beaumont was NOT nominated)
Best Director: The Divine Lady (Frank Lloyd)

1930/31 (4th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Cimarron (director Wesley Ruggles was nominated)
Best Director: Skippy (Norman Taurog)

1931/32 (5th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Grand Hotel (director Edmund Goulding was NOT nominated)
Best Director: Bad Girl (Frank Borzage)

1935 (8th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty (director Frank Lloyd was nominated)
Best Director: The Informer (John Ford)

1936 (9th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld (director Robert Z. Leonard was nominated)
Best Director: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)

1937 (10th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: The Life of Emile Zola (director William Dieterle was nominated)
Best Director: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)

1940 (13th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Rebecca (director Alfred Hitchcock was nominated)
Best Director: The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)

1948 (21st Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Hamlet (director Laurence Olivier was nominated)
Best Director: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)

1949 (22nd Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: All the King's Men (director Robert Rossen was nominated)
Best Director: A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1951 (24th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: An American in Paris (director Vincente Minnelli was nominated)
Best Director: A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)

1952 (25th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: The Greatest Show on Earth (director Cecil B. DeMille was nominated)
Best Director: The Quiet Man (John Ford)

1956 (29th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Around the World in 80 Days (director Michael Anderson was nominated)
Best Director: Giant (George Stevens)

1967 (40th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night (director Norman Jewison was nominated)
Best Director: The Graduate (Mike Nichols)

1972 (45th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: The Godfather (director Francis Ford Coppola was nominated)*
Best Director: Cabaret (Bob Fosse)

1981 (54th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Chariots of Fire (director Hugh Hudson was nominated)
Best Director: Reds (Warren Beatty)

1989 (62nd Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy (director Bruce Beresford was NOT nominated)
Best Director: Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)

1998 (71st Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love (director John Madden was nominated)
Best Director: Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)

2000 (73rd Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Gladiator (director Ridley Scott was nominated)
Best Director: Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)

2002 (75th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Chicago (director Rob Marshall was nominated)
Best Director: The Pianist (Roman Polanski)

2005 (78th Oscar Awards Show) Best Picture: Crash (director Paul Haggis was nominated)
Best Director: Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)

* Francis Ford Coppola went on to win the Best Director Oscar two years later for The Godfather: Part 2. The film also won Best Picture.

+ Most compelling about all of the above references: Only once since 1935, (and we couldn't really care less about the first ten Oscar presentations, which were self-admittedly a farce), has the Best Picture Oscar gone to a movie where the director, Bruce Beresford, was NOT even nominated for Best Director. That one horrible, dreadful time - 1989 for Driving Miss Daisy.

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