In India, meanwhile, the failure of director M Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense to win any Oscars has sparked an outcry against American "apartheid".
Speaking at the Beijing international film festival, Stone caused huge embarrassment for organisers when he began to discuss the failure of local directors to confront the damaging legacy of the country's revered founder Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution a half century ago.
Relationships became increasingly factional, as illustrated by the failure of three directors, including the club's de facto chief executive Panos Pavlakis, to gain re-election, followed the next day by their reinstatement.
By 2002 Labour was forced to responded to a wave of public outrage sparked by the "rewards for failure" for directors of the failed telecoms company Marconi by giving shareholders an advisory vote on pay.
But the failure of the director, Jules Stewart, to commit to either is only one of her film's many problems.
This sartorial confusion is perhaps a result of the failure of the director, Scott Elliott, to develop a consistent point of view.
Mr. Burkle showed no signs of easing up his criticism of the bookseller's management, saying that the failure of its director candidates to win the votes of at least 50 percent of outstanding shares was "pretty pathetic".
Castro said she was issuing "a formal request" to the trust to examine what she said was "the failure of the director of television to handle properly our complaint".
"The retirement savings of America's working families have been harmed by the failure of boards of directors to prevent wrongdoing at Enron, WorldCom and other scandal-plagued companies," he said.
Second, much has been made of the failure of officers and directors to notice that something was amiss at these big banks.
