Power Rankings for 11/16/15
Best Director
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| P/R |
Last |
C/R
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Person/Film |
| 1 |
2 |
75 |
Tom McCarthy - Spotlight |
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If there is a race with very little consensus right now it is Director, so I will go with the statistics and pick McCarthy as long as Spotlight remains ahead. |
| 2 |
1 |
70 |
David O. Russell - Joy |
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He really has a wide open chance to steal this one, but more people have to see the movie first before the race can be declared over. |
| 3 |
-- |
65 |
Ridley Scott - The Martian |
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He missed out for Gladiator when it won Best Picture, so a career Oscar is not out of the question. |
| 4 |
8 |
60 |
Todd Haynes - Carol |
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With others losing steam, it seems like the Academy finally has a chance to recognize this brilliant filmmaker. |
| 5 |
-- |
55 |
Carey Fukunaga - Beasts of No Nation |
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It's doing well enough in Netflix, and the handsome director is well-known because of the immensely popular True Detective. |
| 6 |
6 |
50 |
Lenny Abrahamson - Room |
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It's not a director's movie by any means, but the film may be popular enough. |
| 7 |
10 |
40 |
Steven Spielberg - Bridge of Spies |
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The solid reviews the movie has received have increased Spielberg's chances of yet another nod. |
| 8 |
3 |
35 |
Danny Boyle - Steve Jobs |
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How the mighty have fallen. As goes the Picture, goes the nation--er, the Director. |
| 9 |
5 |
30 |
Alejandro Gonzalez-Inarritu - The Revenant |
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It's hard to place him much higher right now. The movie is just too big a question mark. |
| 10 |
4 |
20 |
Quentin Tarantino - The Hateful Eight |
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His chances drop proportional to every time the N word appears in the movie. |
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