"Golden Globe Award for Best Director The Golden Globe Award for Best Director has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943. Having won all four of his nominations, Elia Kazan has been honored most often in this category. Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, David Lean, Miloš Forman, and Oliver Stone tie for second place with three wins each. Steven Spielberg has had the most nominations (twelve) and has received the award twice. Barbra Streisand is the only woman to"
"for the United States, two of his films, ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975) and ""Amadeus"" (1984), acquired particular renown, and both gained him an Academy Award for Best Director. ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" became the second film to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Leading Role, Actress in Leading Role, Director, and Screenplay) after ""It Happened One Night"" in 1934—an accomplishment not repeated until 1991, by ""The Silence of the Lambs"". Forman was also nominated for a Best Director Oscar for ""The People vs. Larry Flynt"" (1996). He also won Golden Globe,"
"a group of fellow Czech film directors, established the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Filmová Akademia muzických umění or FAMU), where he taught for over five decades. Among his students were several directors of the 1960s ""Czech New Wave"" of art films, including future Oscar-winner Miloš Forman (""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"", ""Amadeus""). Otakar Vávra's decades-long career as a film director, from the 1930s through the 1990s, epitomized the tradition of middle-European filmmaking. This tradition ended in Germany and Austria at the end of World War II and ended in the Czech Republic after"
"was settled, with Warner Bros. and Fogerty changing the title and lyric to ""Vanz Kant Danz"". Zaentz lost on the copyright issue when a jury found Fogerty not liable. Fogerty in turn claimed the label misled him about investing and managing his earnings from royalties, resulting in a devastating financial loss. Years later, when Zaentz sold his interest in Fantasy, Fogerty almost immediately re-signed with the label. Zaentz received the Best Picture Oscar for three films, two of them directed by Miloš Forman—""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975) and ""Amadeus"" (1984)—as well as for ""The English Patient"" (1996), directed"
"Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. . He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Motion Picture Editors Guild, and American Cinema Editors. Richard Chew Richard Franklin Chew (born June 28, 1940) is an American film editor, producer, and cinematographer, best known for his Academy Award-winning work on ""Star Wars"" (1977), alongside Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas. Other notable films include ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975), ""Risky Business"" (1983), ""Waiting to Exhale"" (1995), ""That Thing You Do!"" (1996), and ""I Am Sam"" (2001). His career as an editor and cinematographer of a variety of"
"1945 and was assigned to rebuild the Bavaria Film Studios. From 1951 he was working for United Artists and was responsible for the movie rental in Europe and South Africa. He also started to produce movies himself. In 1973 he became president of United Artists. Under his presidency United Artists won the Academy Award (""Oscar"") for the best picture three years in a row (1975: ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"", 1976: ""Rocky"", 1977: ""Annie Hall""). In 1978, Pleskow left United Artists and built up Orion Pictures, which he directed until 1992. Their greatest successes under his management were ""Amadeus"","
"Richard Chew Richard Franklin Chew (born June 28, 1940) is an American film editor, producer, and cinematographer, best known for his Academy Award-winning work on ""Star Wars"" (1977), alongside Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas. Other notable films include ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975), ""Risky Business"" (1983), ""Waiting to Exhale"" (1995), ""That Thing You Do!"" (1996), and ""I Am Sam"" (2001). His career as an editor and cinematographer of a variety of films spans more than four decades. Born of Chinese immigrant parents in Los Angeles, Chew attended its inner-city schools, served in the U.S. Navy, and graduated from"
"have dreams which may come true. Miloš Forman, born in Čáslav outside Prague, he lost both his parents in the Nazi death camps. After studying in Prague he made his first feature film in 1963: ""Black Peter"", an autobiographical account of a teenager in a small Czech town. He gained international recognition with ""Loves of a Blonde"". Despite this, his next film, ""The Firemen's Ball"", attracted the attention of the Communist authorities and was banned. After the Soviet invasion of 1968, Forman settled in America, winning international fame with ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"". It swept the Academy Awards,"
"the Edwardian period. František Kupka was a pioneer and co-founder of the abstract art movement. Other well-known painters are Josef Čapek, Josef Lada, Theodoric of Prague, Wenceslaus Hollar, Toyen, Jan Kupecký, Petr Brandl, Vladimír Vašíček, Václav Brožík, Josef Mánes, Karel Škréta or Max Švabinský. Renowned sculptors were Josef Václav Myslbek or Matyáš Bernard Braun, photographers Jan Saudek, Josef Sudek, František Drtikol or Josef Koudelka, illustrators Zdeněk Burian or Adolf Born, architects Jan Kotěra or Josef Gočár. Jiří Kylián was an important ballet choreographer. Film director Miloš Forman, known best for his movie, ""One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest"" is of"
"Kirk Douglas, Leonard Nimoy, Aleksandr Abdulov, Gary Sinise, Christian Slater, Shane Ritchie, Roman Wilhelmi, (Polish adaptation), Bernard Tapie (French adaptation), Ibrahim Amr, (Egyptian adaptation), Jiří Hrdina, (Czech adaptation), and most recently by Uri Meir. Randle McMurphy Randle Patrick ""Mac"" McMurphy (also known as R.P. McMurphy) is the protagonist of Ken Kesey's novel ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1962). He appears in the stage and film adaptations of the novel as well. Jack Nicholson portrayed Randle Patrick McMurphy in the film adaption, earning him an Academy Award for Best Actor. He was nominated on the ""Heroes"" list of AFI's 100"
"UCLA with a B.A. in Philosophy. After a stint at Harvard Law School, Chew, inspired by the independent cinema of the 1960s, left school to pursue a film career. Starting with his camera and editing work on documentaries, such as ""The Redwoods"", an Oscar winner for Best Short Documentary in 1967, he eventually transitioned to editing feature films as co-editor on Francis Coppola's ""The Conversation"", Miloš Forman's ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest"", and George Lucas's ""Star Wars"". During his varied career, he has edited films for actor-directors such as Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, and Forest Whitaker. Other writer-directors with"
"of reality, its comical or monstrous quality which lies just beneath everyday mishaps, stutters and waverings"". Diane Sippl has noted that, once Forman came to America and created his high-profile Hollywood productions, such as ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"", ""Hair"" and ""Amadeus"", he was able to introduce into commercial cinema the same qualities that characterized his early films like ""Loves of a Blonde"": ""An acute observation of the ironic details of mundane life; an intimate understanding of emotions, both projected and silenced; a keen sensitivity to the moment when solemnity melts into farce,"" English director Ken Loach has stated"
"failure of ""Taking Off"", producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz hired him to direct the adaptation of Ken Kesey's cult novel ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"". Forman later said they hired him because he was in their price range. Starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, the adaptation was a critical and commercial success. The film won Oscars in the five most important categories: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. One of only three films in history to do so (alongside ""It Happened One Night"" and ""The Silence of the Lambs""), it firmly established"
"You Know"" in 2010, but does not consider himself to be retired. He has also directed three films, including ""The Two Jakes"" (1990), the sequel to ""Chinatown"". Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. Nicholson has won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice - one for the drama ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (1975), and the other for the romantic comedy ""As Good as It Gets"" (1997). He also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the comedy-drama ""Terms of Endearment"" (1983). Nicholson is one of three"
"whom Chew has worked include: Cameron Crowe, Paul Brickman, Bruce Joel Rubin, and Emilio Estevez. Chew was Oscar-nominated for ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest"". He also won British Oscars (BAFTA) as co-editor on both ""The Conversation"" and ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest"". His work on ""Shanghai Noon"" was nominated for Best Feature Comedy by American Cinema Editors. At various times throughout his editing career, Chew has taught and lectured with the goal of enhancing audience appreciation for the cinema arts. For over thirty years, he has appeared at art schools and colleges, churches, and community groups. On January"
"Cuckoo's Nest"", a story he purchased, and which he later gave to his son Michael Douglas, who turned it into an Oscar-winning film. As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas has received three Academy Award nominations, an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As an author, he has written ten novels and memoirs. Currently, he is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends of classic Hollywood cinema, and the highest-ranked living person on the list. After barely surviving a helicopter crash in 1991 and then suffering a stroke in 1996,"
"Coppola among others and headed to International Famous Agency in 1970. In 1974, United Artists brought Medavoy in as senior vice president of production. There, he was part of the team responsible for ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"", ""Rocky"", and ""Annie Hall"", which won best Pictures Oscars® in 1975, 1976 and 1977 respectively. United Artists made a number of other notable films at the time, including ""Apocalypse Now"", ""Raging Bull"", ""Network"" and ""Coming Home"". In 1978, Medavoy co-founded Orion Pictures, joint venture with Warner Brothers, along with fellow United Artists executives Arthur Krim, Robert Benjamin, Eric Pleskow, and William"
"One Night"" and ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest""), to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is also the first (and so far only) Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film, and only the third such film to be nominated in the category, after ""The Exorcist"" (1973) and ""Jaws"" (1975). It is regularly cited by critics, film directors, and audiences alike as one of the greatest and most influential films of all time. In 2018, ""Empire"" ranked it 48th, on their"
"Hoosiers had won the NCAA title that night in Philadelphia. The following year, the two events were again on the same night.) Miloš Forman's ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" made a ""clean sweep"" of the major categories: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Adapted). It was the second of three films to date to accomplish the sweep, following ""It Happened One Night"" in 1934 and preceding ""The Silence of the Lambs"" in 1991. French actress Isabelle Adjani received her first nomination for Best Actress this year, making Adjani, 20 at the time, the youngest"
"Ip Wischin Ippolit Wischinsky (born April 20, 1963), known as Ip Wischin, is a Russian/Austrian dramaturgist, director, screenwriter, composer and business consultant, whose main work is about the basic principles of film dramaturgy. Wischin started filmmaking in his early teens, shooting Shorts and experimental movies on Super 8. Moving to New York in 1981, he studied directing, producing and editing at the ""School of Visual Arts"" and later assisted Miloš Forman (known for movies like ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" and ""Amadeus"") at Columbia University. After returning to Austria in 1985, he started working on , a variation on"
"Bridge in Prague. Karel Zeman Karel Zeman (3 November 1910 – 5 April 1989) was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator, best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation. Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the ""Czech Méliès."" Zeman was born on 3 November 1910 in Ostroměř (near Nová Paka) in what was then Austria-Hungary. At his parents' insistence, he studied business at high school in Kolín. In the 1920s, he studied at a French advertising school, and worked at an advertising"
"made. George Cukor, who was of Jewish descent, won an Academy Award for Best Director for ""My Fair Lady"". King Vidor was nominated for the same Academy Award five times. Independent directors and the films that have brought them acclaim include Nimród Antal for his cult film ""Kontroll""; Peter Medak, infamous for his B-movies; and László Benedek for the Golden Globe Award-winning film rendition of ""Death of a Salesman"". Joe Eszterhas wrote the screenplay for ""Basic Instinct"", dubbed a cult classic. Andrew G. Vajna produced the ""Die Hard"", ""Rambo"" and ""The Terminator"" sequels. Ladislas Farago wrote numerous books on World"
"the most profitable films of its time, ending with a $260 million gross in the United States alone. The film won Academy Awards for its skillful editing, chilling score, and sound recording. It was also nominated for Best Picture that year, though it lost to Miloš Forman's ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" (which also won acting awards for Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher). It spawned the successful sequel, ""Jaws 2"" in 1978, which featured the same cast, but without Steven Spielberg. Another tailor-made blockbuster, Dino De Laurentiis' ""King Kong"" was released, but to less than stellar success. ""King Kong"""
"Alexandr Hackenschmied Alexandr Hackenschmied, born Alexander Siegried George Smahel, known later as Alexander Hammid (17 December 1907, Linz – 26 July 2004, New York City) was a Czech-American photographer, film director, cinematographer and editor. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1938 and became involved in American avant-garde cinema. He is best known for three films: ""Crisis"" (1939), ""Meshes of the Afternoon"" (1943) and ""To Be Alive!"" (1964). He made ""Meshes of the Afternoon"", with his wife Maya Deren—to whom he was married from 1942 to 1947. He won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for ""To Be"
"weak. The chronics are patients who will never be cured. Many of the chronics are elderly and/or in vegetative states. ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" is one of America's most challenged and banned novels. The novel was adapted into a 1963 play, starring Kirk Douglas (who purchased the rights to produce it for the stage and motion pictures) as McMurphy and Gene Wilder as Billy Bibbit. A film adaptation, starring Jack Nicholson, and co-produced by Michael Douglas was released in 1975. The film won five Academy Awards. The characters of Nurse Ratched and Chief Bromden appear as recurring characters"
"outside the United States. Best Actor winner Michael Douglas became the second person to win Oscars for both acting and producing; he previously won a Best Picture award as co-producer of ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"". Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (). The award honors “creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production.” The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers. In view of the 60th anniversary of the Academy Awards, the Academy hired film producer Samuel Goldwyn"
"Danjaq and UA remained the public co-copyright holders for the Bond series, and the 2006 ""Casino Royale"" remake shares the copyright with Columbia Pictures. UA released ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" in 1975 a film which won the Best Picture Academy Award and earned $56 million. UA followed with the next two years' Best Picture Oscar winners, ""Rocky"" and ""Annie Hall"". However, Transamerica was not pleased with UA's releases such as ""Midnight Cowboy"" and ""Last Tango in Paris"" that were rated X by the Motion Picture Association of America. In these instances, Transamerica demanded the byline ""A Transamerica Company"""
"Alexander Payne Alexander Payne (; born Constantine Alexander Payne; February 10, 1961) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer, known for the films ""Election"" (1999), ""About Schmidt"" (2002), ""Sideways"" (2004), ""The Descendants"" (2011), and ""Nebraska"" (2013). His films are noted for their dark humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society. Payne is a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and a three-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director. Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Peggy (née Constantine) and George Payne, restaurant owners. Payne is the youngest of three sons"
"J. J. Abrams Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and composer. He is best known for his work in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote or produced such films as ""Regarding Henry"" (1991), ""Forever Young"" (1992), ""Armageddon"" (1998), ""Cloverfield"" (2008), ""Star Trek"" (2009), """" (2015), and the upcoming """" (2019). Abrams has created numerous television series, including ""Felicity"" (co-creator, 1998–2002), ""Alias"" (creator, 2001–2006), ""Lost"" (co-creator, 2004–2010), and ""Fringe"" (co-creator, 2008–2013). He won two Emmy Awards for ""Lost"" — Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama"
"critics alike, which earned him multiple awards, including eight Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography. He won in this category three times, becoming the first person to do so in three consecutive years, for ""Gravity"" (2013), ""Birdman"" (2014), and ""The Revenant"" (2015). Lubezki was born to a Jewish family in Mexico City, Mexico. His father is actor and producer Muni Lubezki. His grandmother is from Russia. Lubezki studied film at Mexico's Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC), where he met Alfonso Cuarón. Lubezki began his career in Mexican film and television productions in the late 1980s. His first international production"
"Sam Mendes Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director best known for directing the drama film ""American Beauty"" (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film ""Road to Perdition"" (2002), and the ""James Bond"" films ""Skyfall"" (2012) and ""Spectre"" (2015). He also is known for dark re-inventions of the stage musicals ""Cabaret"" (1994), ""Oliver!"" (1994), ""Company"" (1995), and """" (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (2013). In 2000 Mendes was appointed"
"Henry Bumstead Lloyd Henry ""Bummy"" Bumstead (March 17, 1915 – May 24, 2006) was an American cinematic art director and production designer. In a career that spanned over fifty-five years he won two Academy Awards: the first for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", and the second for ""The Sting"". In addition, he was nominated for Alfred Hitchcock's ""Vertigo"" and Clint Eastwood's ""Unforgiven"". Bumstead was born in Ontario, California and, following his graduation from University of Southern California, joined Paramount Pictures in 1948. He learned his trade from Hans Dreier, with whom he worked on a number of films beginning with ""Saigon""."
"Adolfas Mekas Adolfas Mekas (30 September 1925 – 31 May 2011) was a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, director, editor, actor and educator. With his brother Jonas Mekas, he founded the magazine ""Film Culture"", as well as the Film-Makers' Cooperative and was associated with George Maciunas and the Fluxus art movement at its beginning. He made several short films, culminating in the feature ""Hallelujah the Hills"" in 1963, which was played at the Cannes Film Festival of that year and is now considered a classic of American film. Adolfas Mekas was born on a farm in Semeniškiai, Lithuania to Elžbieta and"