With the new standard of the Hollywood Academy that allows there to be between five and ten films nominated for the Oscar for best film, the category of best director, which is maintained with five nominations, becomes very interesting, since several directors can see how their film ends up nominated for the top prize without them having the same luck.
El Oscar for best director it is already disputed from the nominations where highly prestigious filmmakers will be left out. Ten filmmakers start as favorites to enter the contest for this award.
Ben Affleck It is one of the great favorites to get hold of the prized statuette. After his first two very promising films, the director arrives at this gala with "Argo", one of the great favorites to be the highlight of the gala.
Another of those who has stood out in his work behind the cameras this year is Paul Thomas Anderson, which reaches the Oscar race with the Silver Lion for best direction with his film «The Master«. Anderson was already a candidate for this award in 2007 for his previous film "Wells of Ambition."
One of the classics in this category is Steven Spielberg, who has been nominated up to six times for this award, obtaining it on two of them. This year he will seek his third best director award for "Lincoln."
Tom Hooper, director who won this award two years ago for "The King's Speech", has the opportunity to return to the gala once again and fight for what would be his second Oscar with the adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic "Les Misérables."
Another of those who already has this award and will try to win it for the second time is the Taiwanese Ang Lee. At the time he won it for "Brokeback Mountain", this year he will try to repeat with "Life of Pi", an even higher quality film, although this year it is much more competitive.
One of the public's most beloved filmmakers, although not so much from the Academy, Quentin Tarantino, is another of the favorites for this award. He will try to win over the academics with "Django Unchained", just as he tried unsuccessfully in the past with "Pulp Fiction" and "Inglourious Basterds."
Gus Van Sant He could get his third nomination in this category with his new work "Promised Land", he had previously been nominated for the gala with "The Indomitable Will Haunting" and "My name is Harvey Milk".
The co-production between France and Austria "Amour" could not only receive the nomination for best foreign language film, a category in which it represents Austria, but could also be nominated for Michael Haneke as director.
Following the hits "Pride and Prejudice" and "Atonement," which garnered several Oscar nominations but not for Best Director, Joe Wright He could win his first candidacy with his adaptation of the famous novel by Leo Tolstoy "Anna Karenina."
David O Russell is another of the filmmakers who has many possibilities for this award for his latest work "Silver Linings Playbook", a film with which he has already won the Hollywood Award for best director.
More information - "The Master" great winner of the Mostra, although without the Golden Lion
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