September 21, 2020 Jeremy Irons Career Summary: Occupational Inheritance: No Nationality: Social Class: middle; father accountant Race/Ethnicity/Religion Family: Education: Training: Teacher/Inspirational Figure: Radio Debut: TV Debut: Stage Debut: Broadway Debut: Film Debut: Breakthrough Role: Oscar Role: Other Noms: Other Awards: Frequent Collaborator: Screen Image: character actor Last Film: Career Output: Film Career Span: Marriage: Politics: […]

He was nominated for the Best Director Oscar for The Divorcee and The Great Ziegfeld. Both were nominated for Best Picture, and the latter won.

September 12, 2020 Claude Lelouch Career Summation Occupational Inheritance: Nationality: Social Class: Race/Ethnicity: Family: Formal Education: Training: First Film: Le Propre de l’homme Breakthrough: A Man and A Woman, 1966; aged 33 First Oscar Nomination: A Man and A Woman, 1966; aged 33 Gap between First Film and First Nom: Other Oscars: Other Oscar Nominations: […]

Leigh’s most notable works are the black comedy-drama Naked (1993), for which he won the Best Director Award at Cannes, the Oscar-nominated, BAFTA- and Palme d’Or-winning drama Secrets & Lies (1996), the Golden Lion-winning working-class drama Vera Drake (2004), and the Palme d’Or-nominated biopic Mr. Turner (2014).

Lee has been nominated for nine Oscar Awards, of which he has won three: Best Foreign Language Film for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Best Director for Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi, becoming the first non-white director to win the latter.