Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Mutiny on the Bounty
Biggest Oscar Snubs #10b: THE PIANO's Michael Nyman, INCEPTION's Lee Smith
Below is a partial list of directors whose films were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar — but the directors themselves weren't.
- William A. Wellman, Wings (1927-28)
- Edmund Goulding, Grand Hotel (1931-32)
- Sam Wood, The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
- George Cukor, Gaslight (1944)
- Michael Curtiz, Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Laurence Olivier, Henry V (1946)
- George Seaton, Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
- Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, The Red Shoes (1948)
- Mervyn LeRoy, Quo Vadis (1951)
- Daniel Mann, The Rose Tattoo (1955)
- Henry King, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
- Cecil B. DeMille, The Ten Commandments (1956)
- Otto Preminger, Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- John Wayne, The Alamo (1960)
- Lewis Milestone, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Cleopatra (1963)
- Stanley Kramer, Ship of Fools (1965)
- Robert Wise, The Sand Pebbles (1966)
- Richard Fleischer, Doctor Dolittle (1967)
- Paul Newman, Rachel, Rachel (1968)
- Charles Jarrott, Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
- Gene Kelly, Hello Dolly! (1969)
- George Seaton, Airport (1970)
- Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces (1970)
- Franklin J. Schaffner, Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
- Steven Spielberg, Jaws (1975)
- Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver (1976)
- Herbert Ross, The Goodbye Girl (1977)
- Paul Mazursky, An Unmarried Woman (1978)
- Michael Apted, Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
- Costa-Gavras, Missing (1982)
- Philip Kaufman, The Right Stuff (1983)
- Randa Haines, Children of a Lesser God (1986)
- James L. Brooks, Broadcast News (1987)
- Bruce Beresford, Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- Andrew Davis, The Fugitive (1993)
- Ron Howard, Apollo 13 (1995)
- Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire (1996)
- Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
- Joe Wright, Atonement (2007)
Well, at least AIRPORT director George Seaton made the list for MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, and Sandy may have hit on the reason for your mental mishap. :-) I didn't spot any others offhand…
another major oscar snub for best director in my view was Paul Newman for Rachel Rachel in 1968 even though that film lost the four nominations it was given which included best picture and best actress for his wife Joanne Woodward who threatened to resign from the Academy of Motion picture arts and Sciences when he wasn't nominated but never followed through on that
Arthur Hiller directed some great movies, but "Airport" was not among them. "Airport" was WRITTEN BY Arthur HAILEY.
Hey, Joao,
I've know Mark for a number of years. Very cool guy. And a thorough film researcher and great photographer.
I've been pestering him to do a q&a on his latest Irving Thalberg book.
Hopefully, he'll find some time to do it in the next couple of weeks.
lol! Apologies, apologies… I should have known better. Btw, congrats on the acknowledgements on Mark A. Vieira's "Greta Garbo – A Cinematic Legacy" – I've just finished reading it.
Hold your horses, Joao!!
I do say that a couple of *major* directorial snubs will show up elsewhere on the "Biggest Snubs" list.
In fact they'll have their own private Snub Listing.
Hang in there… Barbra S. will be back.
You're also snubbing the snubbing of Barbra Streisand in "The Prince of Tides" (1992 awards, with seven nominations including Best Picture). As snubs go…