There are also a number
of younger directors still making
plenty of films that have yet to get a best directing award — Ridley Scott has been nominated 3 times (Thelma and Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down), Terrence Malick has been nominated 2 times (Tree
of Life, The Thin Red Line, Paul Thomas Anderson has been nominated once (There Will Be
Blood) and Tim Burton has never received a directing nomination.
In Amman Abbasi's debut, Dayveon has
plenty of big reasons to believe that everything is stupid: His older brother was recently killed in gang - related violence and there isn't much
of a chance Dayveon will be able to avoid a similar fate, both because he's already facing hazing rituals with the
Bloods in town, and because Abbasi reflects the milieu
of a
young African American male growing up in the impoverished South in tones
of unmitigated naturalism shot through with shreds
of magical realism.