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Director Paul Thomas Anderson accepts the award for Best Director for "One Battle After Another" onstage during the 98th Annual Academy Awards at the...

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Director Paul Thomas Anderson accepts the award for Best Director for "One Battle After Another" onstage during the 98th Annual Academy Awards at the...

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Julie Taymor , Best Director of a Musical for "The Lion King," flanked by the play's producers, Thomas Schumacher and Peter Schneider, during Tony...

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Richard Attenborough and Ben Kingsley celebrate at the Kate Mantalini restaurant in Beverly Hills after the movie 'Ghandi' won eight Oscars' at the...

Richard Attenborough, Ben Kingsley

Richard Attenborough makes a phone call to friends back home in the UK in a back room at the Kate Mantalini restaurant, Beverly Hills, after the...

Richard Attenborough, Ben Kingsley

Richard Attenborough and Ben Kingsley celebrate at the Kate Mantalini restaurant in Beverly Hills after the movie 'Ghandi' won eight Oscars' at the...

Oscars, wine, celebration,

Richard Attenborough and Ben Kingsley celebrate at the Kate Mantalini restaurant in Beverly Hills after the movie 'Ghandi' won eight Oscars' at the...

Richard Attenborough, Ben Kingsley

American film director Frank Borzage with American actress Helen Hayes at the Academy Awards ceremony held at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood,...

Borzage And Hayes

American director William Wyler , French actress Simone Signoret and American actor Charlton Heston with their trophies at the Academy Awards...

Oscar Winning Trio

Host Danny Kaye with Oscar winners Humphrey Bogart, Arthur Freed and George Stevens, at the 24th Academy Awards, Los Angeles, March 20th 1952.

Humphrey Bogart, Danny Kaye, Arthur Freed And George Stevens

Director David Lean holding his Oscar for the film 'The Bridge on the River Kwai', with presenter Sophia Loren, at the 30th Academy Awards, Los...

Sophia Loren And David Lean

Director John G Avildson with his Oscar for the film 'Rocky', at the 49th Academy Awards, Los Angeles, March 28th 1977.

John G Avildson

Director George Stevens holding his Best Director Oscar for the film 'Giant', at the 29th Academy Awards, March 27th 1957.

Director George Roy Hill holding hid Best Director Oscar for the film 'The Sting', with presenters Walter Matthau and Shirley MacLaine, at the 46th...

Walter Matthau, Shirley MacLaine And George Roy Hill

Actor and film maker Warren Beatty holding his Best Director Oscar for the film 'Reds', at the 54th Academy Awards, Los Angeles, March 29th 1982.

Actor Robert Redford holding his Best Actor Oscar for the film 'Ordinary People' at the 53rd Academy Awards, Los Angeles, March 31st 1981.

Director Barry Levinson , producer Mark Johnson and actor Dustin Hoffman holding their Oscar statuettes for the film 'Rain Man', with co-star Tom...

Barry Levinson, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise And Mark Johnson

Director Barry Levinson and producer Mark Johnson holding their Oscar statuettes for the film 'Rain Man', at the 61st Academy Awards, at the Shrine...

Barry Levinson And Mark Johnson

Director Oliver Stone holding his Oscar statuette at the 62nd Academy Awards, Los Angeles, March 26th 1990.

Actress Claire Trevor holding her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the film 'Key Largo' with John Huston holding his Best Supporting Actor Oscar for...

Claire Trevor And Walter Huston

Actress Rita Moreno kissing the cheek of director Robert Wise, both Oscar winners for their film 'West Side Story', at the 39th Academy Awards, Los...

Robert Wise And Rita Moreno

Director Vincente Minnelli holding his Oscar for the film 'Gigi', with presenter Millie Perkins, at the 31st Academy Awards, Los Angeles, April 6th...

Vincente Minnelli And Millie Perkins

Walter Huston and his son, John Huston, exchange congratulations after they won academy awards for their work in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre",...

Walter Huston And Son

Mr. And Mrs. Billy Wilder arrive for Oscar Ceremonies.

Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wilder Arrive for Oscar Ceremonies

Director Frank Lloyd Holding Trophy for Calvacade

The big winners of the movie, Kramer vs. Kramer, hold up four of the Oscars won by the film at the 52nd Annual Academy Award presentations at the...

Big Winners Of 52Nd Annual Academy Award

Robert Redford, moving into the director's chair for the first time, won the Oscar as Best Director for Ordinary People.

Robert Redford Holding Award

Ronald Schwary and Robert Redford both received Oscars for the film Ordinary People. Robert Redford won for Best Director and Ronald Schwary for Best...

Robert Redford and Ronald Schwary Holding Awards

Mary Tyler Moore, star of the film, Ordinary People, and the film's director, Robert Redford, are among those favored for best actress and best...

Portrait of Mary Tyler Moore and Robert Redford

Annual academy award presentations. Gina Lollobrigada presents oscar for best direction to Billy Wilder.

Gina Lollobrigada and Billy Wilder

Santa Monica, Calif.: George Cukor, Oscar Winner, for Best Achievement in Directing, and the star of his film, Audrey Hepburn, watch TV monitor in...

Actors Watching Monitor

Joseph Mankiewicz, Dr. Ralph Bunche, and Darryl Zanuck. Bunche presented award for the best picture award to Mankiewicz. Zanuck received that...

Winners at 1951 Academy Awards

Ben Kingsley , recipient of the 1982 Best Actor Academy Award, and Gandhi director Richard Attenborough, winner of the 1982 Best Picture Academy...

Richard Attenborough and Ben Kingsley with Oscars

Richard Attenborough, winner of the 1982 Academy Awards for both Best Picture and Best Director for Gandhi, poses backstage at the ceremony.

Richard Attenborough Holding Oscars

Hollywood, California: Director Richard Attenborough , winner of the 1982 Academy Award for Best Picture for Gandhi, stands with Actress Meryl...

Oscar Winners of 1982

Hollywood, California: Director Richard Attenborough , winner of the 1982 Academy Award for Best Picture for Gandhi, poses with Ben Kingsley, winner...

Richard Attenborough and Ben Kingsley Holding Oscars

Hollywood, California: Director Richard Attenborough accepts his Best Picture Oscar for Gandhi at the 1982 Academy Awards ceremony.

Richard Attenborough Accepting His Academy Award

Hollywood, CA-: Robert Redford admires his Oscar after he won it for Best Achievement for Directing in the movie, Ordinary People. The Oscar was one...

Robert Redford Holding Oscar

Producer Charles H. Joffe accepts Woody Allen's Best Director Oscar for Annie Hall during the 50th Academy Awards. In the background are actor Jack...

Charles H. Joffe Accepting Oscar for Woody Allen

New York: Definitely not in the role of the nervous nominee, comedian Woody Allen played clarinet in jazz band at a Manhattan pub during broadcast of...

Woody Allen Attempting to Play Clarinet

Los Angeles, CA- Producer Mark Johnson holds the best picture Oscar for the film "Rain Man" and is joined by Dustin Hoffman with his best actor Oscar...

Mark Johnson, Dustin Hoffman and Barry Levinson

Los Angeles: Producer Arnold Kopelson , film editor Claire Simpson and director Oliver Stone hold their respective Oscars for Platoon at the Academy...

Oliver Stone and Others Holding Awards

Academy Awards Party 1962: L-R are Robert Wise; Rita Moreno; and George Chakiris. Wise was the Director of Best Picture, with Moreno and Chakiris as...

Robert Wise and Friends at Academy Awards Party

Director Elia Kazan holds the plaque presented to him by Rouben Mamoulian, Vice President of the Screen Directors' Guild, for Outstanding Directorial...

Director Elia Kazan Holding Plaque

Actress Irene Dunn presents Fred Zinnemann with his Oscar for his direction of "From Here To Eternity." "From Here To Eternity", figured in eight...

Irene Dunn and Fred Zinnemann

New York, NY- Woody Allen plays clarinet with a band in a New York nightclub late 4/3 before learning he had won two Oscars in the Academy Awards...

Woody Allen Plays Clarinet With Band

Los Angeles: An elated Sydney Pollack clutches two handfulls of Oscar statuettes after he won an Academy Award for Out of Africa. Pollack also...

Sydney Pollack Holding Oscar Statuettes

Academy Awards. Los Angeles: An elated Sydney Pollack clutches two handfulls of Oscar statuettes after he won an Academy Award for Out of Africa....

Sydney Pollack Holding Oscar Statuettes

Los Angeles: Left to right Best Actor William Hurt, Best Supporting Actress Anjelica Houston, Best Actress Geraldine Page and Best Director Sydney...

Actors Posing with Oscar Awards

New York, NY- Tommy Tune clowns around with the Tony Award he won 6/6 as best director for the Broadway musical "Nine". The show won five awards...

Tommy Tune Ann Miller and Milton Berle

Hollywood: The big winners of the movie, Kramer vs. Kramer, hold up four of the Oscars won by the film at the 52nd Annual Award presentations at the...

Actors Holding Academy Awards

Director Milos Forman is presented his Oscar for the Best Achievement in directing by William Wyler as Diane Keaton looks on at the 48th Annual...

Director Milos Forman Receiving Award

Winning the Academy Award for 1972 director of Cabaret is Bob Fosse. He is shown smiling as he poses for the picture holding his award.

Bob Fosse Holding His Oscar Award

"Best Director." Los Angeles, California: British film director Sir Carol Reed admires "Oscar" presented him as best director for the musical film...

Carol Reed Holding His Academy Award

Santa Monica, California: The film West Side Story made a clean sweep of the 34th annual Academy Award presentations and posed here are four of the...

Academy Award Winners Holding Their Trophies

Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma, at their dinner table while waiting for Oscar nominees for Best Director to be announced.

Alfred and Alma Hitchcock

Mr. And Mrs. Billy Wilder arrive for Oscar ceremonies.

Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wilder

Proud Oscar winners bean here as they hold their trophies after the ceremony late April 4th. Left to right: Simone Signoret, Best Actress, Room at...

Oscar Winners Posing with Their Trophies

Santa Monica, CA: Lovely Leslie Caron presents Mike Nichols with an Oscar for Best Director at the 40th Annual Academy Awards presentation here,...

Leslie Caron Gives Mike Nichols An Oscar

Hollywood, CA: John Houston , Director awarded an Oscar for his work in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," rubs shoulders with another Oscar inner of...

John and Walter Huston with Oscars

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