The Directors

A cataloging of those who directed Felix's Best Pictures () = nominees * Update - I've added links to directorial lists, some that rank their pictures, with notes. Look for names in color (like Christian Petzold or Carlos Saura) to see these.

Giovanni Pastrone – Cabiria (Nominees: Il fuoco, Maciste the Warrior)
Reginald Barker – The Italian (Nominees: The Bargain)
Cecil B. DeMille – The Cheat (Nominees: The Captive, The 10 Commandments)
Charlie Chaplin - The Kid (Nominees: Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, Monsieur Verdoux)

Maurice Tourneur - The Blue Bird 

D.W. Griffith - Broken Blossoms (Nominees: Intolerance) 

Robert Wiene - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Victor Sjöström - A Man There Was (Nominees: Ingeborg Holm, The Outlaw and His Wife, Ingmarssönerna, Love's Crucible, Phantom Carriage, He Who Gets Slapped, The Scarlet Letter, The Wind)

F.W. Murnau - Nosferatu (Nominees: Sunrise, City Girl, Tabu)

Abel Gance - La Roue (Nominees: J'accuse, Napoleon, Blind Venus)

Buster Keaton - Sherlock Jr. (Nominees: The Navigator, Seven Chances, Go West, The General, Steamboat Bill Jr. The Cameraman)

Erich von Stroheim - Greed (Nominees: Blind Husbands, Foolish Wives, The Wedding March)

Sergei M. Eisenstein - Battleship Potemkin (Nominees: Strike)

Fritz Lang - Metropolis (Nominees: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Die Nibelungen pts 1 & 2, M, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, You Only Live Once, Fury, Woman in the Window, Scarlet Street, The Big Heat)

Carl Th. Dreyer - The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ordet (Nominees: The Parson's Widow, Vampyr, Day of Wrath) 

Dziga Vertov - Man With a Movie Camera

Robert Siodmak - People on Sunday (Nominees: The Killers)

Edgar G. Ulmer - People on Sunday

Howard Hawks - Scarface, Bringing Up Baby (Nominees: His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire, Red River, Rio Bravo)

Erle C. Kenton - Island of Lost Souls

Jean Vigo - L’Atalante

Alfred Hitchcock - The 39 Steps, Vertigo (Nominees: The Lodger, Sabotage, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Shadow of a Doubt, Lifeboat, Notorious, Strangers on a Train, Rear Window, The Wrong Man, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie)

George Stevens - Swing Time (Nominees: A Place In The Sun, Shane, The More The Merrier, Talk of the Town)

David Hand - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Nominees: Bambi)

John Ford - Grapes of Wrath, The Searchers (Nominees: 3 Bad Men, Stagecoach, My Darling Clementine, The Quiet Man)

Orson Welles - Citizen Kane (Nominees: The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, The Trial, Chimes at Midnight, The Other Side of the Wind)

Kenji Mizoguchi - The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Nominees: The Water Magician, Sisters of the Gion, Flame of My Love, Ugetsu, Sansho the Bailiff, A Story from Chikamatsu, Street of Shame)

Robert Bresson - Diary of a Country Priest (Nominees: Au Hasard Balthazar)

Michael Curtiz - Casablanca (Nominees: Captain Blood)
William A. Wellman - The Ox-Bow Incident (Nominees: Public Enemy)
Laurence Olivier - Henry V
Marcel Carné - Children of Paradise (Nominees: Port of Shadows)

William Wyler - The Best Years of Our Lives (Nominees: Roman Holiday, Dodsworth, The Good Fairy, Little Foxes)
Michael Powell - Black Narcissus (Nominees: A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes)
Vittorio De Sica - Bicycle Thieves (Nominees: Umberto D, Shoeshine, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
Carol Reed - The Third Man (Nominees: Odd Man Out)

Nicholas Ray - In a Lonely Place (Nominees: Johnny Guitar)
Elia Kazan – On The Waterfront (Nominees: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Face in the Crowd, Wild River, America, America)
Akira Kurosawa - Ikiru (Nominees: Stray Dog, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, High and Low, Red Beard, Dersu Uzala, Kagemusha, Ran)
Yasujirō Ozu - Tokyo Story (Nominees: A Story of Floating Weeds, Late Spring, Floating Weeds, The Only Son)

Satyajit Ray - Pather Panchali (Nominees: Aparajito, Apur Sansar, The Music Room, Devi, Kanchenjungha, The Big City, Charulata, Days and Nights in the Forest, Jana Aranya)
Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal (Nominees: Smiles of a Summer Night, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Persona, Fanny and Alexander)
Alain Resnais - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad (Nominees: Muriel, The War Is Over, Providence, Mon Oncle d’Amérique, Love Unto Death)
Billy Wilder - The Apartment (Nominees: Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, Ace in the Hole. Witness For the Prosecution. Some Like it Hot)

Masaki Kobayashi - Harakiri (Nominees: The Human Condition, Samurai Rebellion, The Inheritance)
Federico Fellini - 8½ (Nominees: I Vitelloni, La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vita, Amarcord, The Ship Sails On, Orchestral Rehersal)
Grigori Kozintsev - Hamlet (Nominees: King Lear, The New Babylon)
Seijun Suzuki - The Story of a Prostitute

Luis Buñuel - L'Age d'Or, Belle de Jour (Nominees: Él, Viridiana, Young and Damned, Wuthering Heights, Nazarin, The Young One, Simon of the Desert, The Exterminating Angel, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, That Obscure Object of Desire)
Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in the West (Nominees: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America)
Costa-Gavras - Z (Nominees: The Confession)
Bob Rafelson - Five Easy Pieces

Robert Altman - McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Nominees: The Player, Short Cuts)
Bernardo Bertolucci - Last Tango in Paris (Nominees: The Conformist, The Last Emperor)
François Truffaut - Day For Night (Nominees: The 400 Blows)
Roman Polanski - Chinatown (Nominees: Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby)

Steven Spielberg - Schindler’s List (Nominees: Jaws, Munich, Saving Private Ryan, War of the Worlds)
Carlos Saura - Cria Cuervos (Nominees: Cousin Angelica, Elisa My Love, Deprisa, Deprisa, Ana and the Wolves)
Woody Allen - Annie Hall (Nominees: Crimes and Misdemeanors, Purple Rose of Cairo, Radio Days, Midnight in Paris, Hanna and Her Sisters, Love and Death, Blue Jasmine)
Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven (Nominees: Badlands, Thin Red Line)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - The Marriage of Maria Braun (Nominations: Veronika Voss, Lola, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Chinese Roulette, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fear of Fear)

Robert Redford - Ordinary People (Nominees: Quiz Show)
Wolfgang Petersen - Das Boot
Werner Herzog - Fitzcarraldo (Nominees: Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Every Man For Himself, and God Against All, Stroszek, Grizzly Man)

Chris Marker - Sans Soleil (Nominees: The Last Bolshevik, Remembrance of Things to Come)
Terry Gilliam - Brazil (Nominees: Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Neil Jordan - Mona Lisa (Nominees: The Crying Game)
Miloš Forman - Amadeus: Directors Cut (Nominees: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest)

Wim Wenders - Wings of Desire (Nominees: Paris, Texas)
Isao Takahata - Graves of the Fireflies (Nominees: Only Yesterday)
Michael Verhoeven - The Nasty Girl
Zhang Yimou - Raise the Red Lantern (Nominees: Ju Dou, Hero)

Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven (Nominees: Million Dollar Baby, In A Perfect World, High Plains Drifter, Outlaw Josey Wales, Letters from Iwo Jima, Gran Torino, The Bridges of Madison County)

Krzysztof Kieslowski - Three Colors: Red (Nominees: The Double Life of Veronique, 3 Colors: Blue, 3 Colors: White)
Hirokazu Kore-eda - Maborosi (Nominees: Still Walking, Nobody Knows, Our Little Sister)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf – A Moment of Innocence (Nominees: The Silence, Gabbeh, Marriage of the Blessed, The President)

Hayao Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke (Nominees: Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Porko Roso)
Alex Proyas - Dark City
Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia (Nominees: Hard Eight, There Will Be Blood, Inherent Vice, Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza)
Edward Yang - Yi Yi

Wes Anderson – The Royal Tenenbaums (Nominees: Rushmore, Fantastic Mr. Fox. Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Moonrise Kingdom)
Pedro Almodóvar – Talk to Her (Nominees: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Flowers of my Secret, Broken Embraces, All About My Mother, Volver, Pain & Glory)
Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation (Nominees: The Bling Ring)
Michel Gondry – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Cristi Puiu – The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Guillermo del Toro - Pan’s Labyrinth (Nominees: The Devil's Backbone)
John Carney - Once (Nominees: Sing Street)
Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York

Jason Reitman - Up in the Air (Nominees: Juno)
Debra Granik - Winter’s Bone (Nominees: Leave No Trace)
Martin Scorsese – Hugo 3D (Nominees: The Last Waltz, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Age of Innocence, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Aviator, The Departed, The Irishman)
Christian Petzold - Barbara (Nominees: Yella, Phoenix, Transit, Afire)

Andrei Tarkovsky - Andrei Rublev (Nominees: Ivan's Childhood, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia)
Theo Angelopoulos - The Travelling Players (Nominees: Eternity and a Day, Landscape in the Mist)
Yermek Shinarbayev - Revenge
Craig Gillespie - I, Tonya

Alexander Payne - Nebraska (Nominees: About Schmidt, Sideways)
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Birdman (Nominees: Babel, Amores Perros)
Alex Garland - Ex Machina
Pablo Larraín - Jackie (Nominees: Spencer)

Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk
Bong Joon-ho - Parasite (Nominees: Memories of Murder, The Host, Mother, Snowpiercer)

Florian Zeller - The Father 

Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog (Nominees: The Piano)

Todd Field - TÁR
Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things (Nominees: The Favourite)


Top Nominated Directors Without a Win...

Mikio Naruse: 7 titles - The Sound of the Mountain, Lightning, Scattered Clouds, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Mother, Wife! Be Like a Rose! Yearning
Joel Coen: 6 titles - Fargo, Miller’s Crossing, Blood Simple, O’ Brother Where Art Thou, True Grit, A Serious Man

Ernst Lubitsch: 6 titles - The Oyster Princess, The Doll, Trouble in Paradise, Ninotchka, Shop Around the Corner, To Be or Not to Be

David Lean: 5 titles - Doctor Zhivago, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Brief Encounter, Lawrence of Arabia

Stanley Kubrick: 5 titles - Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, 2001 a Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, The Shining

Other greats whose films never won a Felix include? Wong Kar Wai, Ang Lee, Hal Ashby, Mrinal Sen, Sidney Lumet, František Vláčil, Jean Luc Godard

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