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Films whose director won the Best Director Golden Globe

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingThe Return of the King won all eleven Oscars it was nominated for. No fantasy film had won Best Picture before it.
  • Ben-Hur (1959 film)MGM bet its future on Ben-Hur, a 1959 epic whose budget more than doubled to $15.175 million.
  • Oppenheimer (film)The teaser for the film Oppenheimer, released on the 28th of July 2022, carried a live countdown to 5:29 a.m. Mountain time on the 16th of July 2023. That hour marked the 78th anniversary of the first detonation of an atomic weapon.…
  • Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola bet his house and car on Apocalypse Now. He also put up his Godfather profits as security.
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed in a working psychiatric hospital. Real patients joined the crew.
  • Avatar (2009 film)Avatar, the 2009 science fiction film from director James Cameron, began with a dream he had when he was 19 years old. In the dream, he saw a bioluminescent forest. Its trees were made of fiber-optic strands, fan lizards moved through the…
  • Titanic (1997 film)Rather than cut Titanic, James Cameron gave up his $8 million director's salary.
  • The GodfatherMarlon Brando stuffed cotton balls in his cheeks to audition for The Godfather. Paramount resisted casting him.
  • Anne of the Thousand DaysUniversal served champagne and filet mignon to Oscar voters after each screening of Anne of the Thousand Days.
  • One Battle After AnotherOne Battle After Another, written, directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, sent about 1.5 million feet of film through its cameras. Those were VistaVision cameras, and cinematographer Michael Bauman said the system had not seen that…
  • Ordinary PeopleMichael J. Fox auditioned for Ordinary People and lost the role to Timothy Hutton. Hutton won an Oscar for it at age 20.

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