All All. Sign In. My Best Director Oscar Winners My best directors who should've won the Academy Award for Best Director in the s and s. List activity. Martin Scorsese. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later provided the inspiration for several of his films. Scorsese earned a B. During this time, he made numerous prize-winning short films including The Big Shave , and directed his first feature film, Who's That Knocking at My Door He served as assistant director and an editor of the documentary Woodstock and won critical and popular acclaim for Mean Streets , which first paired him with actor and frequent collaborator Robert De Niro.
Scorsese's documentary of the Rolling Stones in concert, Shine a Light , followed, with the successful thriller Shutter Island two years later.
Scorsese also serves as executive producer on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire for which he directed the pilot episode. DeMille Award Raging Bull Mark Rydell. He was previously married to Esther Jacobs and Joanne Linville. On Golden Pond Sidney Lumet. Director Writer Producer 12 Angry Men Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York.
He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although his politics were somewhat left-leaning and he often treated socially relevant themes in his films, Lumet didn't want to make political movies in the first place. He played many roles on Broadway in the s and also in the film One Third of a Nation After starting an off-Broadway acting troupe in the late s, he became the director of many television shows in the s. The courtroom drama, which takes place almost entirely in a jury room, is justly regarded as one of the most auspicious directorial debuts in film history.
The first half of the s was one of Lumet's most artistically successful periods. Long Day's Journey Into Night , a masterful, brilliantly photographed adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play, is one of several Lumet films about families.
