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  • Author: Anna Young
    February 25, 2012

    Best Director, much like Best Picture seems pretty much locked up now that we are exactly one day away from The Academy Awards. Throughout the week, the staff here at The Awards Circuit put together our Will Win/Should Win list, if you followed all of our articles you would have noticed that we were all in agreement that Michel Hazanavicius will be the Director walking away with the Academy Award.

    And the nominees are…

    The Artist- Michel Hazanavicius
    The Descendants -Alexander Payne
    Hugo- Martin Scorsese
    Midnight in Paris- Woody Allen
    The Tree of Life- Terrence Malick

    In the beginning of the Awards Season it seemed like only two of the five nominees were going to have their names announced Oscar morning, those two names being Michel Hazanavicius and Alexander Payne. Both The Artist and The Descendants were head to head as frontrunners but soon the race changed and Martin Scorsese had his name being thrown around for Hugo. Then the Directors Guild released there nominations and to our surprise Woody Allen also found himself joining the race. And then Oscar morning, every Tree of Life fan gasped in excitement when Terrence Malick had his name announced as one of the nominees for Best Director.

    Yet, while we are all excited to see Michel Hazanavicius win Best Director for The Artist, one director seems to be causing quite a stir of talk about a Best Director upset. That man, as well all know is, Martin Scorsese. I don’t see it happening given Hazanavicius has won DGA, and as we’ve seen throughout the years, whoever wins DGA will walk away with Best Director.

    But this race is much like any Best Actress race when Meryl Streep is nominated; we always have the notion somewhere in the back of our heads that the frontrunner will lose to the veteran just because they are the veteran and clearly have more experience.

    But, either way, let’s discuss the nominated directors.

    The Artist- Michel Hazanavicius

    About Anna Young


    I’ve grown up always being able to share my love of film with others. What makes it particularly important to me is that my passion started with my parents and my best friend Caitlin. Whether it has been spending the whole day at the theater with my parents, or sitting on the floor of a movie store for hours with Caitlin, this love of mine has always been a huge part of who I am. This love affair has been going strong for over a decade. My name is Anna and I’m in love with film. Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AYAwardsCircuit

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    6 Comments

    1. Is the Tree of Life diss really necessary?

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      • It wasn’t a diss it was a honest opinion and everyone is entitled to their opinions. She just said it wasn’t her kind of movie which is a fair thing to say. Not everybody has the same opinion on films that’s what makes films interesting is how each individual interprets them.

        I think Hazanavicius will walk away with the gold, I think the DGA win sealed the deal.

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    2. Will Win and Should Win: Michel Hazanavicius. Though I also love Scorsese, I hope to see him get recognized again in the not too far future.

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    3. I fully expect and have no qualms over The Artist winning Best Picture (I like Midnight in Paris better, but you could do worse) but I really want Malick win the direction award. After Drive, The Tree of Life was the best-directed film of 2011. The entire film felt very intentional, no shot was lazy added or poorly executed. Plus, I like it when the Director and Picture awards go separate ways.

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    4. Seems about right to me…

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    5. I’m about as shocked by Woody Allen’s nomination for Best Director as I am by the frontrunner status of Midnight in Paris’ script. That was a hard one to get through.

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