Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
Aronofsky is a very respected director with great movies like Requiem for a Dream and The Wrestler in his amazing body of work and, now, it seems that he finally has a great chance to be recognized by the Academy. Black Swan was a sensation in Venice Film Festival and it's becoming a box-office sucess in spite of being a kind of "alternative" kind of movie. The movie seems by far one of the best movies of the year and has a nod in the Best Picture category almost guaranteed, but everyone knows that behind a good movie is a good director and the awards organizations know this too, nominating Aronofsky for a Golden Globe, a Critics' Choice and a Directors Guild of America Award nominations, among a big couple of critics' organizations nods and wins. So, let's see if it is in this race that Aronofsky will get his Best Director Oscar nod, but he has to face a strong competition with a couple of a-long-time-overdue-for-a-win directors... Let's see if he will be one of the five choosen by the Academy... I would vote for him.
David Fincher for The Social Network
The same director who brought to the audiences incredible movies like Se7en, Fight Club or The Curious Case of Benjamin Button seems to be on fire in this Oscar race in the directing category due to his critically acclaimed masterpiece The Social Network, known also as "The Facebook Movie". At the first time, The Social Network was seen as a joke for some people who don't understand about cinema, because they couldn't think one simple think: David Fincher is directing it. In fact, Fincher's direction was raved by the critics and the movie also received commercial sucess and he have been recognized has the Best Director of 2010 by a lot of awards, winning a Critics' Choice Award, a lot of critics organizations awards and the National Board of Review Award of Best Director, and he's nominated for the Golden Globe and Directors Guild of America Award of Best Director. At the moment, Fincher has a place between the Oscar's nominees and an almost-guaranteed win!
Debra Granik for Winter's Bone
She's maybe the strongest female contender to an Oscar nomination in the Best Director category, specially after the lack of recognizment of Lisa Cholodenko's work in The Kids Are All Right. Granik brought us Winter's Bone, a novel turned movie work that was a critical sucess and one of the best reviewed movies of the year, by far. Granik missed a lot of important nominations like a Golden Globe, a Critics' Choice and a Directors Guild of America one, but she benefits from the fact of being a woman and for being an indie director, in the way that Oscar voters may not look to her awards race to vote for her and she may be a "surprise nominee". I would like seeing Granik as an Oscar nominee, but I know I should say "I hope seeing Granik as an Oscar nominee", because, unfortunatly, it seems a little bit difficult.
Tom Hooper for The King's Speech
To be completly honest, I didn't know Hooper's work until the day I heard that The King's Speech got a lot of critical praise. In fact, Mr. Hooper may benefit from all the buzz his latest work is getting in the Best Picture category and it may give him an Oscar nod of Best Director. He has no GREAT body of work and he isn't overdue for a nod or for a win, so, I can say that if he will get nominated it won't happen because of the things he did in the past but only because of his work in one movie. He have been nominated for a lot of awards, including a Golden Globe, a Critics' Choice Award, a Directors Guild of America Award and a lot of critics organizations awards and he seems to be a lock for the nominations of the Academy Award of Best Director.
Christopher Nolan for Inception
The director of the Summer movie of the year - Inception - Nolan is overdue for an Oscar nod for directing after such amazing movies like Memento, Insomnia, The Prestige or The Dark Knight and Inception rules as an high-grossing and highly critically acclaimed movie with an amazing directing work! He is already an Oscar nominee man in the Best Screenplay category thanks to the disturbing/strange/innovative Memento. This year, Nolan's directing work won't be snubed by the Academy, almost for sure, specially when his work received both commercial, crittical sucess and a great awards race. In fact, Nolan was nominated for the Golden Globe, the Critics' Choice Award and the Directors Guild of America Award of Best Director and he also received a lot of nominations and wins from a lot of critics associations, being named as the major competition to Fincher's Best Director Oscar win. The Academy won't be able to snub him from the Best Director nominees list...
in serious consideration: Danny Boyle (127 Hours); David O. Russell (The Fighter);
in consideration: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (True Grit)
in serious consideration: Danny Boyle (127 Hours); David O. Russell (The Fighter);
in consideration: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (True Grit)
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