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Best Director Fact Sheet

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ANG LEE BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Focus Features This is his third nomination, and the second in this category. He was also nominated for directing and producing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Three films he directed were nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award, all representing Taiwan. They were The Wedding Banquet (1993), Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which won the Oscar for Taiwan.

BENNETT MILLER CAPOTE UA/Sony Pictures Classics This is his first nomination.

PAUL HAGGIS CRASH Lions Gate Films This is his first nomination in this category. He was nominated last year for his Adapted Screenplay for Million Dollar Baby, and is also nominated this year for this film in the Best Picture and Original Screenplay categories.

GEORGE CLOONEY GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK Warner Independent Pictures All of his three nominations this year are his first.

STEVEN SPIELBERG MUNICH Universal and DreamWorks This is Steven Spielberg’s eleventh Academy Award nomination and the sixth in this category. His other Directing nominations are for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998), these last two resulting in Oscars. His Best Picture nominations were for E.T., The Color Purple (1985), Schindler’s List, for which he took home an Oscar, Saving Private Ryan and this film. He also received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1986 for “consistently high quality of motion picture production.”