Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 – July 25, 1986) was an American stage director and film director, famous for directing such classic movie musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Gigi (1958), The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon (1953), and An American in Paris (1951). An American in Paris and Gigi both won the Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Picture, with Minnelli winning Best Director for Gigi. In addition to having directed some of the most famous and well-remembered musicals of his time, Minnelli made many comedies and melodramas.[1] He was married to Judy Garland
Judy Garland from 1945 until 1951; they were the parents of Liza Minnelli.
Contents
1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Death 5 Selected theatre credits 6 Filmography 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links
Early life[edit]
Born and baptized as Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago,[2] he was the
youngest of four known sons, only two of whom survived to adulthood,
born to Marie Émilie Odile Lebeau (stage name: Mina Gennell) and
Vincent Charles Minnelli. His father was musical conductor of Minnelli
Brothers' Tent Theater. His Chicago-born mother was of French Canadian
descent with a strong probability of Native American (Anishinaabe)
lineage included via her Mackinac Island, Michigan born mother.[3] The
family toured small towns primarily in Ohio,
Indiana
Indiana and Illinois
before settling permanently in Delaware, Ohio.
His paternal grandfather Vincenzo Minnelli and great-uncle Domenico
Minnelli, both Sicilian revolutionaries, were forced to leave Sicily
after the collapse of the provisional Sicilian government that arose
from the 1848 revolution against Ferdinand II and Bourbon rule.
Domenico Minnelli had been Vice-Chancellor of the Gran Corte Civile in
Palermo
Palermo at the time he helped organize the January 12, 1848 uprising
there.[4] After the Bourbon return to power Vincenzo reportedly hid in
the catacombs of
Palermo
Palermo for 18 months before being successfully
smuggled onto a New York-bound fruit steamer.[5] While traveling as a
piano demonstrator for Knabe Pianos, Vincenzo met his future wife Nina
Picket during a stop in Delaware, Ohio. Although there is no
confirmation of Vincenzo working at
Ohio
Ohio Wesleyan University, he was
indeed a music teacher and composer. Both the U.S. Library of Congress
and the
Newberry Library
Newberry Library in
Chicago
Chicago have Vincenzo (aka Vincent)
Minnelli compositions in their collections.
Paternal grandmother Nina Picket, with whom Minnelli lived during his
school days while his parents were touring their shows, descended from
a line of teachers and civil servants, most notably early American
educator Albert Picket. Albert Picket, reportedly once a student of
Noah Webster's, conducted a girls' school in 1810s
Manhattan
Manhattan and was
an early member of the New York Historical Society. In 1811 he was an
incorporator of The Society of Teachers of the City of New York. With
his son John W. Picket he published an educational journal, The
Academician, and a number of school books, including The Juvenile
Expositor in 1816. After relocating to Cincinnati he was a founder of
the Western Literary Institute and College of Professional Teachers,
was a contemporary of William McGuffey (educator & author,
McGuffey Readers) and Calvin and
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of
Uncle Tom's Cabin) and played a role in establishing the public school
system in the Mississippi and
Ohio
Ohio River valleys. In his later years
he retired to Delaware,
Ohio
Ohio and died there in 1850.
Career[edit]
Following his high school graduation, Minnelli moved to Chicago, where
he lived briefly with his maternal grandmother and an aunt. His first
job was at
Marshall Field's
Marshall Field's department store as a window dresser. He
later worked as a photographer for Paul Stone, who specialized in
photographing actors from Chicago's theater district. His interest in
the theater grew and he was greatly interested in art and immersed
himself in books on the subject.
Minnelli's first job in the theater was at the
Chicago
Chicago
Theatre
Theatre where
he worked as a costume and set designer. Owned by Balaban and Katz,
the theater chain soon merged with a bigger national chain of
Paramount-Publix and Minnelli sometimes found himself assigned to work
on shows in New York City. He soon left
Chicago
Chicago and rented a tiny
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village apartment. He was eventually employed at Radio City
Music Hall shortly after its 1932 opening as a set designer and worked
his way up to stage director – he was also tasked to serve as a
color consultant for the original interior design of the Rainbow
Room.[6]
After leaving Radio City Music Hall, the first play Minnelli directed
was a musical revue for the Shuberts titled
At Home Abroad
At Home Abroad which
opened in October 1935 and starred Beatrice Lillie, Ethel Waters, and
Eleanor Powell. The revue was well received and enjoyed a two-year
run. Minnelli later worked on The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, Hooray for
What!, Very Warm for May, and The Show is On. Minnelli's reputation
grew and he was offered a job at
MGM
MGM in 1940 by producer Arthur
Freed.[7]
With his background in theatre, Minnelli was known as an auteur who
always brought his stage experience to his films. The first film that
he directed, Cabin in the Sky (1943), was visibly influenced by the
theater. Shortly after that, he directed
I Dood It
I Dood It with Red Skelton[8]
and
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), during which he fell in love with the
film's star, Judy Garland. They had first met on the set of Strike Up
the Band (1940), a
Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley film for which Minnelli was asked to
design a musical sequence performed by Garland and Mickey Rooney.[9]
They began a courtship that eventually led to their marriage in June
1945. Their one child together, Liza Minnelli, grew up to become an
Academy Award-winning singer and actress. The Minnelli family is thus
unique in that father, mother and child all won Oscars.[10]
Though widely known for directing musicals, including An American in
Paris (1951), Brigadoon (1954), Kismet (1955), and Gigi (1958), he
also directed comedies and melodramas, including Madame Bovary (1949),
Father of the Bride (1950),
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Lust for
Life (1956),
Designing Woman
Designing Woman (1957), and The
Courtship
Courtship of Eddie's
Father (1963). His last film was A Matter of Time (1976). During the
course of his career he directed seven different actors in
Oscar-nominated performances: Spencer Tracy, Gloria Grahame, Kirk
Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy,
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine and Martha
Hyer. Grahame and Quinn won Oscars for their performances in one of
Minnelli's movies. He received an Oscar nomination as Best Director
for An American in Paris (1951) and later won the Best Director Oscar
for Gigi (1958). According to
Peter Bart in his book The Gross,
Minnelli is among the most successful film directors of all time and
unquestionably the most successful director in the 1940s and 50s, his
films having 11 first-place finishes on Variety's opening release box
office rankings.[11] He was awarded France's highest civilian honor,
Commandeur of the Legion of Honor, only weeks before his death in
1986.
Minnelli's critical reputation has known a certain amount of
fluctuation, being admired (or dismissed) in America as a "pure
stylist" who, in Andrew Sarris' words, "believes more in beauty than
in art."[12]
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (of Lerner and Loewe) described Minnelli
as, "the greatest director of motion picture musicals the screen has
ever seen."[13] His work reached a height of critical attention during
the late 1950s and early 1960s in
France
France with extensive studies in the
Cahiers du Cinéma magazine, especially in the articles by Jean
Douchet and Jean Domarchi, who saw in him "a cinematic visionary
obsessed with beauty and harmony", and "an artist who could give
substance to the world of dreams". Minnelli served as a juror at the
1967 Cannes Film Festival. The
MGM
MGM compilation film That's
Entertainment! showed clips from many of his films.
On February 8, 1960, Minnelli received a star on the
Hollywood
Hollywood Walk of
Fame for his contributions to the motion pictures industry at 6676
Hollywood
Hollywood Boulevard.[14][15]
Personal life[edit]
Minnelli's marriages were as follows:
Judy Garland
Judy Garland (June 15, 1945 – March 29, 1951), the marriage ended in
divorce – one child, Liza May Minnelli (born 1946)
Georgette Magnani (February 1, 1954 – January 1, 1958), the marriage
ended in divorce – one child, Christiane Nina Minnelli (born 1955)
Danica "Denise" Radosavljevic (January 15, 1962 – August 1, 1971),
the marriage ended in divorce
Margaretta Lee Anderson (April 1, 1980 – July 25, 1986), his fourth
and final marriage; they remained married for six years until
Minnelli's death in 1986. Anderson died in 2009 at the age of 100.
For years, there was speculation in the entertainment community that Minnelli was gay or bisexual.[16][17][18] A biography by Emanuel Levy, Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer, claims evidence that Minnelli did, in fact, live as an openly gay man in New York prior to his arrival in Hollywood, where the town that made him a film legend also pressured him back into the closet.[19] According to Levy: "He was openly gay in New York – we were able to document names of companions and stories from Dorothy Parker. But when he came to Hollywood, I think he made the decision to repress that part of himself or to become bisexual."[20][21] Lester Gaba, a retail display designer who knew Minnelli in New York, was reported to have frequently claimed having an affair with Minnelli, although the same person who related Gaba's claim also admitted that Gaba "was known to embroider quite a bit."[22] Death[edit] Minnelli died in his Beverly Hills home, on July 25, 1986, aged 83, of emphysema and pneumonia, which had caused him to be repeatedly hospitalized in his final year.[23] He reportedly also suffered from Alzheimer's disease.[24][25] He was survived by his two daughters, two grandchildren, and his fourth wife, Lee (1909–2009). He is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.[26] Selected theatre credits[edit]
At Home Abroad
At Home Abroad (1935) (director, set designer)
The Show Is On (1936) (director, set designer)
Hooray for What! (1937) (director, set designer)
Filmography[edit]
Cabin in the Sky (1943), musical film
I Dood It
I Dood It (1943), musical film
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), musical film
The Clock (1945), romantic drama
Yolanda and the Thief
Yolanda and the Thief (1945), musical-comedy film
Ziegfeld Follies (1945), musical-comedy film
Undercurrent (1946), film noir
Till the Clouds Roll By
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) (
Judy Garland
Judy Garland segments), musical film
The Pirate (1948), musical film
Madame Bovary (1949), romantic drama
Father of the Bride (1950), comedy film
Father's Little Dividend
Father's Little Dividend (1951), comedy film
An American in Paris (1951), musical film
Lovely to Look At
Lovely to Look At (1952) (fashion show sequences), musical film
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), melodrama
The Story of Three Loves
The Story of Three Loves (1953) (segment "Madamoiselle"), anthology
film
The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon (1953), comedy film
The Long, Long Trailer
The Long, Long Trailer (1954), comedy film
Brigadoon (1954), musical film
The Cobweb (1955), drama film
Kismet (1955), musical-comedy film
Lust for Life (1956), drama-biographical film
Tea and Sympathy (1956), drama film, LGBT film
Designing Woman
Designing Woman (1957), comedy film
The Seventh Sin
The Seventh Sin (1957) (uncredited), drama film
Gigi (1958), musical-romance film
The Reluctant Debutante (1958), comedy film
Some Came Running (1958), drama film
Home from the Hill (1960), drama film
Bells Are Ringing (1960), romantic comedy film
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962), drama film
Two Weeks in Another Town
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), drama film
The
Courtship
Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), romantic comedy film
Goodbye Charlie
Goodbye Charlie (1964), comedy film
The Sandpiper
The Sandpiper (1965), drama film
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), comedy-drama fantasy film
A Matter of Time (1976), musical fantasy film
See also[edit]
Biography portal
References[edit]
^ Obituary Variety, July 30, 1986.
^ Church records, 1864–1929, Catholic Church. Notre Dame (Chicago,
Illinois), Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of
Utah, 1990 FHL US/CAN Film 1704688
^ Griffin, Mark (2010). A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and
Films of Vincente Minnelli. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
ISBN 978-0-7867-2099-6.
^ Cospirazioni e rivolte di Francesco Bentivegna e compagni.
tipografia del "Giornale di Sicilia". 1891. pp. 23–24.
^ "A Delaware Saga Moves From Torchlit Tent Show to Broadway",
Columbus Dispatch; November 10, 1935
^ Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center. New York: Viking.
2003. p. 368. ISBN 978-0-670-03169-6.
^ Minnelli's early years are described in Minnelli, Vincente; Hector
Arce (1974). I Remember It Well. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
ISBN 978-0-385-09522-8.
^ Crowther, Bosley (November 11, 1943). "
I Dood It
I Dood It (1943) THE SCREEN;
'I Dood It,' a One-Man Comedy, the Same Being Red Skelton, With an
Assist From Eleanor Powell, Opens at Paramount". The New York
Times.
^ Levy, Emanuel (2009). Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer.
New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 81.
ISBN 978-0-312-32925-9.
^ Noted by
Robert Osborne
Robert Osborne in an interview with Liza Minnelli,
broadcast on TCM, December 11, 2010
^ Bart, Peter (1999). The Gross: The Hits, The Flops (First ed.). St.
Martins Press. p. 257. ISBN 0312198949.
^ Sarris, Andrew (1998). You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet. New York: Oxford
University Press. p. 55. ISBN 0-19-503883-5.
^ Minnelli, Vincente (1974). "I remember it well" (First ed.) Angus
and Robertson publishers. Foreword. ISBN 978-0-207-95638-6.
^ "
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli
Hollywood
Hollywood Walk of Fame". www.walkoffame.com.
Retrieved 2016-06-27.
^ "Vincente Minnelli". latimes.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
^ Musto, Michael. "
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli and Gene Kelly Had an Affair?".
Village Voice. Village Voice. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
^ Musto, Michael. "Was
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli A Gay?". Village Voice.
Village Voice. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
^ McElhaney, Joe. "Images of Magic and Transformation". Senses of
Cinema. Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
^ Levy, Emanuel (2009). Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer.
New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0312329253.
^ "The Real Vincente Minnelli". Advocate.com. Here Media, Inc.
Retrieved 7 July 2012.
^ The New York Times
^ Griffin 2010, pp. 15-16
^ "Director Vincente Minnelli, 83, dies",
Chicago
Chicago Tribune; July 26,
1986; p. 2
^ Daughter Christiane Minnelli quoted in Wendy Leigh's Liza: Born a
Star. New York: Signet. 1993. p. 270.
ISBN 978-0-451-40406-0.
^ Luft, Lorna (1998). Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir. New York:
Pocket Books. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-671-01899-3.
^ "
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (1903 - 1986) - Find A Grave Memorial".
www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
Further reading[edit]
Casper, Joseph Andrew (1977).
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli and the Film Musical.
South Brunswick, NJ: A.S. Barnes. ISBN 978-0-498-01784-1.
Griffin, Mark (2010). A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and
Films of Vincente Minnelli. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
ISBN 978-0-7867-2099-6.
Harvey, Stephen (1989). Directed by Vincente Minnelli. New York:
Museum of Modern Art; Harper & Row.
ISBN 978-0-87070-474-1.
Levy, Emmanuel (2009). Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer.
New York: St. Martins Press. ISBN 0312329253.
McElhaney, Joe. The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang,
Minnelli. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.
McElhaney, Joe (ed). Vincente Minnelli: The
Art
Art of Entertainment.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009.
Minnelli, Vincente; Hector Arce (1974). I Remember It Well. Garden
City, NY: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-09522-8.
Schickel, Richard (1975). The Men Who Made the Movies. New York:
Atheneum.
Wakeman, John (ed.) (1987). World of Film Directors, Volume One,
1890–1945. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company. CS1 maint: Extra
text: authors list (link)
Naremore, James (1993). The Films of Vincente Minnelli. New York:
Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-38770-5.
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Films directed by Vincente Minnelli
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
I Dood It
I Dood It (1943)
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
The Clock (1945)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Yolanda and the Thief
Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
Undercurrent (1946)
The Pirate (1948)
Madame Bovary (1949)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Father's Little Dividend
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
An American in Paris (1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Story of Three Loves
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon (1953)
The Long, Long Trailer
The Long, Long Trailer (1953)
Brigadoon (1954)
The Cobweb (1955)
Kismet (1955)
Lust for Life (1956)
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
Designing Woman
Designing Woman (1957)
Gigi (1958)
The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
Some Came Running (1958)
Home from the Hill (1960)
Bells Are Ringing (1960)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Two Weeks in Another Town
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
The
Courtship
Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
Goodbye Charlie
Goodbye Charlie (1964)
The Sandpiper
The Sandpiper (1965)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
A Matter of Time (1976)
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Academy Award
Academy Award for Best Director
1927–1950
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage (1927)
Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (1928)
Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd (1929)
Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone (1930)
Norman Taurog
Norman Taurog (1931)
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage (1932)
Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd (1933)
Frank Capra
Frank Capra (1934)
John Ford
John Ford (1935)
Frank Capra
Frank Capra (1936)
Leo McCarey (1937)
Frank Capra
Frank Capra (1938)
Victor Fleming
Victor Fleming (1939)
John Ford
John Ford (1940)
John Ford
John Ford (1941)
William Wyler
William Wyler (1942)
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz (1943)
Leo McCarey (1944)
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1945)
William Wyler
William Wyler (1946)
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (1947)
John Huston
John Huston (1948)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
1951–1975
George Stevens
George Stevens (1951)
John Ford
John Ford (1952)
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (1953)
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (1954)
Delbert Mann
Delbert Mann (1955)
George Stevens
George Stevens (1956)
David Lean
David Lean (1957)
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (1958)
William Wyler
William Wyler (1959)
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1960)
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins and
Robert Wise
Robert Wise (1961)
David Lean
David Lean (1962)
Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson (1963)
George Cukor
George Cukor (1964)
Robert Wise
Robert Wise (1965)
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (1966)
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (1967)
Carol Reed
Carol Reed (1968)
John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger (1969)
Franklin J. Schaffner
Franklin J. Schaffner (1970)
William Friedkin
William Friedkin (1971)
Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse (1972)
George Roy Hill (1973)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman (1975)
1976–2000
John G. Avildsen
John G. Avildsen (1976)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (1977)
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino (1978)
Robert Benton (1979)
Robert Redford
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Robert Redford (1980)
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (1981)
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough (1982)
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (1983)
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman (1984)
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack (1985)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1986)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (1987)
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson (1988)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1989)
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner (1990)
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme (1991)
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (1992)
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg (1993)
Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis (1994)
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson (1995)
Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella (1996)
James Cameron
James Cameron (1997)
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg (1998)
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes (1999)
Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Soderbergh (2000)
2001–present
Ron Howard
Ron Howard (2001)
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski (2002)
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson (2003)
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (2004)
Ang Lee
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Ang Lee (2005)
Martin Scorsese
.jpg/440px-Martin_Scorsese_Berlinale_2010_(cropped).jpg)
Martin Scorsese (2006)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle (2008)
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
Tom Hooper
Tom Hooper (2010)
Michel Hazanavicius
Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (2012)
Alfonso Cuarón
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Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2014)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
Damien Chazelle
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Damien Chazelle (2016)
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro (2017)
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Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
1948–1975
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1948)
Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen (1949)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
George Stevens
George Stevens (1951)
John Ford
John Ford (1952)
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (1953)
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (1954)
Delbert Mann
Delbert Mann (1955)
George Stevens
George Stevens (1956)
David Lean
David Lean (1957)
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (1958)
William Wyler
William Wyler (1959)
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1960)
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins and
Robert Wise
Robert Wise (1961)
David Lean
David Lean (1962)
Tony Richardson
Tony Richardson (1963)
George Cukor
George Cukor (1964)
Robert Wise
Robert Wise (1965)
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (1966)
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (1967)
Anthony Harvey (1968)
John Schlesinger
John Schlesinger (1969)
Franklin J. Schaffner
Franklin J. Schaffner (1970)
William Friedkin
William Friedkin (1971)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
George Roy Hill (1973)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman (1975)
1976–2000
John G. Avildsen
John G. Avildsen (1976)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (1977)
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino (1978)
Robert Benton (1979)
Robert Redford
Robert Redford (1980)
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (1981)
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough (1982)
James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (1983)
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman (1984)
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg (1985)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1986)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (1987)
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson (1988)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1989)
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner (1990)
Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme (1991)
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (1992)
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg (1993)
Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis (1994)
Ron Howard
Ron Howard (1995)
Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella (1996)
James Cameron
James Cameron (1997)
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg (1998)
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes (1999)
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (2000)
2001–present
Ron Howard
Ron Howard (2001)
Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall (2002)
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson (2003)
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (2004)
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (2005)
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese (2006)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle (2008)
Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
Tom Hooper
Tom Hooper (2010)
Michel Hazanavicius
Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck (2012)
Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2014)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
Damien Chazelle
Damien Chazelle (2016)
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro (2017)
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Golden Globe Award for Best Director
Henry King (1943)
Leo McCarey (1944)
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1945)
Frank Capra
Frank Capra (1946)
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (1947)
John Huston
John Huston (1948)
Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen (1949)
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1950)
László Benedek (1951)
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (1953)
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (1954)
Joshua Logan (1955)
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (1956)
David Lean
David Lean (1957)
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (1958)
William Wyler
William Wyler (1959)
Jack Cardiff
Jack Cardiff (1960)
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer (1961)
David Lean
David Lean (1962)
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan (1963)
George Cukor
George Cukor (1964)
David Lean
David Lean (1965)
Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (1966)
Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (1967)
Paul Newman
Paul Newman (1968)
Charles Jarrott (1969)
Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller (1970)
William Friedkin
William Friedkin (1971)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
William Friedkin
William Friedkin (1973)
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski (1974)
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman (1975)
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet (1976)
Herbert Ross (1977)
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino (1978)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
Robert Redford
Robert Redford (1980)
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty (1981)
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough (1982)
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand (1983)
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman (1984)
John Huston
John Huston (1985)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1986)
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (1987)
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (1988)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1989)
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner (1990)
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone (1991)
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (1992)
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg (1993)
Robert Zemeckis
Robert Zemeckis (1994)
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson (1995)
Miloš Forman
Miloš Forman (1996)
James Cameron
James Cameron (1997)
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg (1998)
Sam Mendes
Sam Mendes (1999)
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (2000)
Robert Altman
Robert Altman (2001)
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese (2002)
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson (2003)
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (2004)
Ang Lee
Ang Lee (2005)
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese (2006)
Julian Schnabel
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Julian Schnabel (2007)
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle (2008)
James Cameron
James Cameron (2009)
David Fincher
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David Fincher (2010)
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese (2011)
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck (2012)
Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater (2014)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
Damien Chazelle
Damien Chazelle (2016)
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro (2017)
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WorldCat Identities VIAF: 17226864 LCCN: n79085042 ISNI: 0000 0000 8096 0714 GND: 118784145 SUDOC: 028110943 BNF: cb11916225d (data) BNE: XX1089058 RKD: 107777 SN