Martin Scorsese stronger than Steven Spielberg: the filmmaker's record at the Oscars

Martin Scorsese stronger than Steven Spielberg: the filmmaker’s record at the Oscars

ByLeila

Martin Scorsese surpasses Steven Spielberg with his 10th nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director.

This week, the Academy nominated the illustrious 81-year-old filmmaker in the category of best director for his film Killers of the Flower Moon. With his recent appointment, Martin Scorsese is now the most nominated living director. Here is the list of the filmmaker’s nominations for the Oscar for Best Director:

  • Raging Bull (nineteen eighty one)
  • The Last Temptation of Christ (1989)
  • The Freedmen (1991)
  • The Time of Innocence (1994)
  • Gangs of New York (2003)
  • Aviator (2005)
  • Infiltrators (2007)
  • Hugo Cabret (2012)
  • The wolf of Wall Street (2014)
  • The Irishman (2020)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon (2024)

Martin Scorsese now has 10 Best Director Oscar nominations under his belt, surpassing Steven Spielberg, which has nine. However, he does not surpass him in terms of awards: the director ofAND the alien has two trophies in this category for Schindler’s List And We have to save the soldier Ryanwhile Martin Scorsese only has one Oscar for Infiltrators (2006).

This year, Martin Scorsese will have to face the avalanche Anatomy of a fall by the French director Justine Trietthe nuclear bomb ofOppenheimer of Christopher Nolan, Poor Creatures of Yorgos Lanthimosas well as The Area of ​​Interest of Jonathan Glazer.

Beyond Martin Scorsese And Steven Spielberg, Billy Wilder was nominated eight times in this same category, Woody Allen And David Lean seven times. Frank Capra (six), John Ford (five), Alfred Hitchcock (five), Francis Ford Coppola (four), Clint Eastwood (four) and Stanley Kubrick (four) are among the other directors multi-nominated for their directing.

For Killers of the Flower Moonpart of the cast is also in the spotlight: Lily Gladstone And Robert DeNiro are in the running for their performances in the best supporting roles category. The great absentee, Leonardo DiCapriohowever, was not selected for his performance.

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