![]() ![]() Summer movies “Oppenheimer” (Universal), a biopic starring Cillian Murphy, and Mattel toy-inspired comedy “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) are eschewing festival launches in favor of intense marketing directing nominees Christopher Nolan (“Dunkirk”) and Greta Gerwig (“Lady Bird”) have never won the Oscar for Best Directing. The increasingly international Academy voters could push these films into contention in multiple categories, as they did “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Parasite,” and “Drive My Car.” ![]() Never-nominated British director Jonathan Glazer won the grand prize for German-language “Zone of Interest” (A24), a hard-hitting holocaust movie starring Sandra Huller, who also toplines French director Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning courtroom thriller “Anatomy of a Fall” (Neon), which is about 50 percent in English. Anderson wouldn’t mind another crack at a Directing Oscar. Emerging from Cannes as a box-office hit is Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” (Focus), the auteur’s most accessible (and American) entry since “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” which earned nine nominations including Picture and Director and won four craft Oscars. Haynes has yet to land a directing Oscar nod. “Maestro” NetflixĬannes launched several veteran directors into the race, including “The Departed” Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese with his gangster epic “Killers of the Flower Moon” (AppleTV+/Paramount), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, and Lily Gladstone and Todd Haynes, with his bizarre truer-than-fiction “May December” (Netflix) starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. Still, older male Academy members are a ripe target demo. And Ben Affleck could score the directing nomination denied him on Best Picture-winner “Argo,” although “Air” (Amazo n Studios/MGM) was neither as popular or critically hailed - it grossed as much as it cost ($90 million) at the worldwide box office. This season, “A Star is Born” director-star Bradley Cooper has a chance to land his first directing nod for “Maestro” (Netflix), in which he directs himself as composer Leonard Bernstein. Brooks came from television with “Terms of Endearment” (1983), and movie stars Robert Redford (“Ordinary People,” 1980) and Kevin Costner (“Dances with Wolves” 1990) won directing Oscars their first time behind the camera. It’s not unusual for a first-time director to get nominated or even to win: two stage-to-screen directors accomplished that feat with Delbert Mann (“Marty,” 1955) and Sam Mendes (“American Beauty,” 1999). ![]()
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