The director -
picture nominations correspond with one exception: Atonement's Joe Wright was inexplicably snubbed in favor of Julian Schnabel, whose The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a great story but not a great film.
Not exact matches
choosing an elegant and princess - like gown to
correspond with her
nomination for Best Actress in a motion
picture.
As usual, if our familiar rules apply, almost all of the Best Director nominees will very likely have a
corresponding Best
Picture nomination.
MacLaine's win is also one of only three Best Actress wins by a film that won Best
Picture and did not have a
corresponding Best Actor
nomination.
The five films nominated for Best
Picture had
corresponding Best Director
nominations.
The difference is that when Todd Haynes was named Best Director for Far From Heaven, and Best
Picture, it was not acknowledged with
corresponding nominations by the Academy.