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When Best Picture and Best Director split, weird things can happen.

The highly discussed possibility of a Best Picture / Best Director split was given fuel by the results of this year's Independent Spirit Awards.

Since 2000, the winner of Best Director at the Globes has gone on to win Best Picture or Director at the Oscars seven times.This is a year where Picture and Director are either going to split or not, and in almost all instances where Best Director split from Best Picture since 2009, all the winning directors won the Globe first: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro G. Iñarritu, Damien Chazelle.

It will enter the Oscars with a wealth of guild wins and still should easily be able to win Best Director for Guillermo del Toro but in a time of Best Picture / Best Director splits as routine and exception, it doesn't make it Best Picture safe.

It doesn't take much to realize that even in this era of Best Picture / Best Director splits, the majority of the Director winners whose films lost Best Picture still had the # 2 film in the race.

Not exact matches

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David Cronenberg (The Fly) won the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards Best Director honors for melding split - screen techniques, body doubles and Iron's uncanny acting into an eerie, fact - based tale.»

The only time the «Harry Potter» franchise stooped to splitting a book into two (and the book was itself not the longest of the series), while all other credentials are present and correct — David Yates is in his stride as the franchise's most reliable director; the actors are the best they'll be; the visuals are as dramatic as the themes — the installment is let down by ending in mid-air and having a whole inert section where the three kids play house in a forest.

It was the first film to take home all five of the big Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay (before that award was split in two).

The prize for best screenplay was split between Italian writer - director Alice Rohrwacher's time - warped fable about a poor farm boy in rural Italy Happy as Lazzaro and Nader Saeivar and Jafar Panahi's script for Three Faces.

Best Director and Best Picture have tended to split over last several years, so things could tip to Nolan.

Well, The Shape of Water obviously has a lot of fans, but this feels like a year where there will be a Best Director / Picture split, and movies like Dunkirk and Phantom Thread will challenge it in the technical categories.

The lion's share of awards were split between Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea with the former winning Best Director, Supporting Actor and Cinematography and the latter taking Actor, Supporting Actress and Screenplay.

The lion's share of awards were split between Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea with the former winning Best Director, Supporting Actor and Cinematography and the latter taking Actor, Supporting Actress...

That said, historically, it's not uncommon for Best Picture and Best Director to be split, so don't count out Moonlight's Barry Jenkins just yet.

Best Director, by these standards, is split up too, with Guillermo del Toro winning the two biggest so far — the Globes and the Critics Choice.

It's no coincidence that Gravity and 12 Years a Slave are currently the two frontrunners to take home the Best Picture trophy, and it seems highly possible that we could see a split in which one film takes Best Picture and the other takes Best Director.

She dated her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson for four years on and off, but they split for good after reportedly being unable to move on from her affair with married director Rupert Sanders in 2012.

Because of the odd nature of this year, it's conceivable that you might see a three - way split: Best Picture, director, and screenplay all going to different movies.

Orson Welles's jury recognised «L'Argent» as the real deal, and allowed Bresson to split the Best Director prize with an undeserving upstart by the name of Andrei Tarkovsky.

This version of the Academy is increasingly likely to split votes on Best Picture and Best Director.

Sometimes when Picture and Director split, the director goes on to win Best Picture too, like Peter Jackson for Return of tDirector split, the director goes on to win Best Picture too, like Peter Jackson for Return of tdirector goes on to win Best Picture too, like Peter Jackson for Return of the King.

True, some of these very early split vote scenarios are a coin toss — so even if you argue that the Great Ziegfeld vs. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town might have been a good example of 12 Years winning Picture and Cuaron winning director it really isn't — one is a «big» movie.

(Director Karyn Kusama certainly deserves to split some blame with Cody, but since Cody gets all the media play, she gets the razzberries as well.)

The success of Mad Max: Fury Road has put the film into top 5 status and if there was going to be a split season between Best Picture and Best Director (assuming Spotlight is the BP winner) Miller would seem the most likely to benefit.

Ryan Gosling will be a strong presence in the Best Actor category between this and the upcoming «The Place Beyond the Pines» (we'll be covering that film in a later Profile, so stay tuned there), but he could again split his vote or see more votes go to his second collaboration with his «Blue Valentine» director as opposed to here with his «Drive» director.

As Adam Nayman noted last month for The Ringer, «The splitting of the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director has happened 26 times in 89 years, but four times in the past five years.»

According to the report, the split was amicable, and leaves the director on good terms with the studio.

For example, David Fincher looks well positioned to extend the awards» history of film - director splits, even if Tom Hooper is a local son; it's worth noting that BAFTA denied two British directors of Best Film winners, Anthony Minghella and Sam Mendes, in the year of the Oscar victories.

Director Peter Care's adaptation of Chris Fuhrman's cult novel The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys tries to address this essential «Blake - ian» paradox (extolling the virtues of experience in the act of static creation) by splitting its protagonists between the primogenitor (Kieran Culkin as Tim) and the chronicler (a fantastic Emile Hirsch as Francis), with Jena Malone's haunted Margie left a metaphor for the balance between innocence and experience (explored by Blake in his most well - known works («Songs of Innocence,» «Songs of Experience»)-RRB-.

From 2009 through 2013, the BAFTA always agreed with the Academy's choice for Best Picture, even splitting Picture and Director in 2013 the same way, giving Best Picture to 12 Years a Slave and Director to Alfonso Cuaron.

Meanwhile, the jury issued a split decision for Best Director, handing it to former Palme winner Cristian Mungiu (for his reportedly, reliably exacting Romanian drama Graduation) and French filmmaker Oliver Assayas (for his reportedly ambitious, divisive Personal Shopper, starring Kristen Stewart).

The Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society recently decided to split the best director award into male and female categories, but segregation can't really be the answer.

When the vote splits like that — which has only happened twice since Oscar expanded Best Picture — director has gone to the more artistically daring (Gravity, Life of Pi) while Picture went to the more somber (12 Years a Slave) or the crowd pleasing frontrunner (Argo).

How else to explain the fact that Best Picture and Best Director have split as often than they've matched in the aughts?

After a brief tease the night before at the Independent Spirit Awards, where the two big films split (Birdman took Best Feature and Boyhood / Linklater took Best Director), it was basically down the line with Oscar.

It was nice to see arguably the favorite, The Hurt Locker, take Best Picture over the biggest grossing movie of all time, Avatar (I still would've preferred Up in the Air), though I'd have hoped Kathryn Bigelow would've given a better speech and had not been so weirdly gracious to her ex-husband James Cameron, who had won Best Director just minutes before (it was a somewhat rare split for Best Picture and Best Director, but in this case, I actually think it was justified.

What looked like a fairly straightforward split between the nomination leader / technical masterpiece / likely Best Director winner The Shape of Water and the hit - a-nerve acting / story showcase / likely Best Picture winner Three Billboards got thrown into chaos when Martin McDonagh, the Three Billboards director, was left off the Best DirectorDirector winner The Shape of Water and the hit - a-nerve acting / story showcase / likely Best Picture winner Three Billboards got thrown into chaos when Martin McDonagh, the Three Billboards director, was left off the Best Directordirector, was left off the Best DirectorDirector ballot.

Scorsese was heavily tapped to win Best Director (much the same as Guillermo Del Toro is this year), but Best Picture was a four - way race, with two - time champ Clint Eastwood as a dark horse possibility with Letters From Iwo Jima if the other four split.

Director Katsuhiro Harada explains: «We don't want to split these communities, so a good window in which to release is something that's become difficult recently»