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Steven Soderbergh, Ron Howard, Roman Polanski, Peter Jackson, Clint Eastwood, Ang Lee, Martin Scorsese, Joel & Ethan Coen.

This is (except for one) an impressive list of winners. If they can keep it up for another two years, this will be Oscar's most impressive decade for best director winners ever!
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Hustler wrote:It was a late recognition to the Coens, as it happened last year with Marty.
I also think it is a recognition of their finest directorial effort...
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It was a late recognition to the Coens, as it happened last year with Marty.
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The Coens are no Leo McCarey -- the one great filmmaker in this bunch.
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The Coens have joined Leo McCarey, Billy Wilder, Francis Ford Coppola, James L. Brooks, and Peter Jackson as the only people to win Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Picture in the same night.
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Too bad it couldn't happen, but I think we're faced with a Thin Red Line kind of situation. In another 10 years, I think we'll all be looking back similarly. While people liked both SPR and SiL, the film they liked most was The Thin Red Line.
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Hustler wrote:I wasn´t so sure about that. I was suspecting a possible win for P.T. Anderson.
and that would have been a nice surprise...
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I wasn´t so sure about that. I was suspecting a possible win for P.T. Anderson.
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Predictable in the best way.
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Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
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