AwardsWatch - Best Director

2022 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (May)

Erik Anderson May 14, 2021

After a season in which Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) made Academy Awards history and became the first woman of color to win the Best Director Oscar... Read More

FINAL 2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR

Erik Anderson April 21, 2021

Making history at the Oscars is always a great thing to celebrate but it’s also a measured response tempered by the fact that it took... Read More

FINAL 2021 Oscar Nomination Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR

Erik Anderson March 12, 2021

While I am comfortable predicting that we will get two female directors in this category for the first time in Oscar’s 93-year history, the question... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (February)

Erik Anderson February 19, 2021

I’m hesitant to finally call this the ‘Year of the Woman’ in the directing category since we’ve been burned so many times before but I... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (January)

Erik Anderson January 29, 2021

While Nomadland‘s Chloé Zhao remains the overwhelming favorite and frontrunner, at least with critics so far, Spike Lee (Da 5 Bloods) is moving up as... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (December)

Erik Anderson December 25, 2020

It’s Chloé Zhao’s world, we’re just living in it. Ahead of the first critics’ awards I think any of us could have predicted that Chloé... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (November)

Erik Anderson November 27, 2020

Best Director is historically an exciting and often surprising category as this Academy branch has often reached outside of the Best Picture lineup (whether it’s... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (October)

Erik Anderson October 23, 2020

Two big changes in October’s top 10 for Best Director with Denis Villeneuve’s Dune falling off for a lat 2021 bow and the decision by... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (September)

Erik Anderson October 2, 2020

Florian Zeller (The Father) and George C. Rolfe (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) move up into the top 10 this month as Ron Howard (Hillbilly Elegy)... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: BEST DIRECTOR (August)

Erik Anderson August 27, 2020

A tale of two Kings…and two Lees. Regina King’s One Night in Miami will land in Venice and Toronto, and presumably other fall festivals like... Read More