Winning the Academy Award for best director, though, is the Academy’s way of pointing directly at someone and saying, “Okay, here is the genius who put it all together.” That appraisal may ...

"No Other Land" co-director Hamdan Ballal, witnesses said, was beaten by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, and then detained ...

In 2009, Kathryn Bigelow made cinematic history with her intense war drama “The Hurt Locker,” becoming the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Her groundbreaking ...

Around 600 Oscar voters have called "indefensible" the Academy leadership’s failure to quickly and adequately respond to the ...

Director Brady Corbet poses with the Best Director award for "The Brutalist", during the 2025 British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) at the Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank ...

Director Sean Baker makes history by winning five awards for the same film for Anora, about a sex worker who has a romance with a Russian oligarch's son.

LOS ANGELES — The independent film "Flow" won the best animated feature film at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday, securing the first Academy Award for Latvia and its Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis.

The film’s director, Sean Baker, also won the award for Best Director ... am the first American of Dominican origin to accept an Academy Award, and I know I will not be the last.” ...

After winning five Academy Awards this year, including best picture, best director for Sean Baker, best actress for Mikey ...

Oscar winners are demanding the Academy strengthen its defense of 'No Other Land' director Hamdan Ballal after he was ...

In addition to Best Director, it won Best Picture ... Adrien Brody winning the Best Actor Academy Award for The Brutalist. (credit: Courtesy of A.M.P.A.S.© 2025) Adrien Brody won Best Actor for The ...