The biopic, starring Peter O'Toole, which followed the life of Pu Yi- the last of the Emperors of China - was the first and only Italian film to win the Academy Award for best director.
My guess is that this is the movie that takes home the award for Best Picture and Best Director, winning by a hair-thin margin.
After Dersu Uzala was Kagemusha (Shadow Warrior), winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or in 1980, and Ran (Chaos, 1985), an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear which won him an Academy Award nomination for best director - a feat almost unheard of for a foreign-language film.
The most successful director of all time, at least financially, Steven Spielberg was finally honoured by the Academy in 1994 for a best director award for his film Schindler's List.
Paul Thomas Anderson picked up the best director award for The Master, his film about a Scientology-like group.
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Michael Sheen and Bill Mitchell shared the best director award for their epic 72-hour performance of The Passion in Port Talbot.
It is now considered a front-runner for the best picture award at the Oscars on Feb. 24, even though Affleck was not nominated for best director there.
Meanwhile, National Theatre artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner, who won two awards - for best director and a special award for his leadership at the NT - said further cuts to theatre budgets made "no economic sense whatsoever".
Ben Affleck, coming off winning Golden Globe Awards for best motion picture drama and director for the real-life drama, received the award handed out at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The director of Padre Nuestro, which won the award for best drama by a US film-maker, said the film wanted to highlight New York as a city of immigrants.
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Eventually his luck changed with the success of the movie Baazigar (1993), winning him his first Filmfare Best Music Director Award, which he won again in 2004 for Main Hoon Na.
The film earned Campion a best director nomination at the Oscars and she won the Academy Award for best original screenplay.
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