Sentence examples for director wins from inspiring English sources

Eastwood has won four Academy Awards so far, with Best Picture and Best Director wins for both 1993's Unforgiven and 2005's Million Dollar Baby.

My editor here, Ben Greenman, has a fascinating game in mind: that when a director wins the Best Director Oscar, he should then be required to make a Bond film.

Boyhood's best drama and best director wins, and Birdman's for actor and screenplay mean the stage is set for a meta-smackdown, a battle between two movies whose tech bravado is part and parcel of their sell.

And if a female director wins Venice's Golden Lion next week, like Sofia Coppola did for Somewhere in 2010, let us hope there won't be furious allegations that she won simply because she is the daughter of a famous male director (Francis Ford Coppola) and the ex-girlfriend of the head of the jury (Quentin Tarantino).

Whichever director wins, he will be handed the award by Barbra Streisand.

It is a concern that might be addressed by Iñárritu's own invoking of his heritage, as he did at the conclusion of Sunday's Oscars, when he joked about the successive director wins by himself and countryman Alfonso Cuarón.

Both the picture and Eastwood (for best director) won Academy Awards.

Still, The King's Speech was criticised by some for its inaccuracies, and its director won an Oscar.

Asghar Farhadi, an Iranian director, won for Best Foreign Language Film for his intense drama about family and justice, "A Separation".

It was the equivalent of an indie director winning Best Picture over Steven Spielberg and James Cameron.

The director won the best foreign film Oscar in 1992 for Indochine.