Best Director 2004?

Heard the oscars are coming up and this thought came. Your free to post up any directors you think will have a great chance for grabbing the glorious award.
Out of all the movies I have seen in 2004, I believe Wolfgang Peterson will get it for "Troy"(not really the best movie ever; quite some flaws but a brilliant movie and much, much more superior among other epic disasters like "Alexander"

Others I may have overlooked so just let me know on your insights.

Update

CRAP!!!!! I'm REALLY SORRY! I posted in wrong place.

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That's HYSTERICAL! Yeah, it's either going to be Wolfgang Peterson or whoever directed 50 First Dates. Can't hardly wait to find out!!!

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Thats a good one, If this he gets nominated I would like to see Michel Gondry get it for Eternal Sunshine.

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I would like to see Scorsese get it.

I have yet to see Troy so i can't say that Peterson doesn't deserve it but from the movies i have seen i would love to see Michel Gondry win it because Enternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a great movie.

The realistic short list for possible nominees has to be Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, Mike Nichols, Alexander Payne, Bill Condon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Mike Leigh, Pedro Almodovar, Mel Gibson, Michael Moore and maybe Taylor Hackford. Walter Salles, Marc Forster and Josh Marston have very outside chances too, though I wouldn't bet on any of 'em making the cut.

Believe me, I'd love to see Michel Gondry get a nomination...I just don't think it's very likely. Hell, I'd really LOVE to see Lars von Trier get nominated too...but Wolfgang Peterson and whoever helmed The Whole Ten Yards have a better chance (and to be clear, they don't have any chance at all).


I'll be shocked if the five eventual nominees aren't found in the first eleven names I listed. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find Scorsese, Eastwood, Nichols and Payne be four of them.

Wolfgang Peterson winning best director of the year? ya right, i thought his Troy tied with Alexander as some of the worst movies of the years. but that's my opinion.

Forget the Oscars. The best directors of the year were Linklater and Gondry and neither of them are going to win it.

[I've not yet seen The Aviator, Sideways or The Life Aquatic.]

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Yeah I'd love to see Lars up as well the academy has to notcie these films because there amazing compared to some of the crap they put up.

The Director's Guild Nominations were announced today:
Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby), Martin Scorsese (The Aviator), Alexander Payne (Sideways), Taylor Hackford (Ray) and Marc Forster (Finding Neverland).



I expect the Oscar nominees will be those first three names for absolute sure, with Mike Nichols, Bill Condon, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Pedro Almodóvar, Terry George or Mike Leigh replacing one or both of the other two.

For a frame of reference, in recent years the DGA vs. Oscar breakdown was (with winners in boldface)...

2004
DGA: Clint Eastwood, Sofia Coppola, Gary Ross, Peter Weir and Peter Jackson
OSCARS: Clint Eastwood, Sofia Coppola, Fernando Meirelles, Peter Weir and Peter Jackson

2003
DGA: Stephen Daldry, Martin Scorsese, Peter Jackson, Rob Marshall and Roman Polanski
OSCARS: Stephen Daldry, Martin Scorsese, Rob Marshall, Pedro Almodóvar and Roman Polanski

2002
DGA: Peter Jackson, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott, Ron Howard and Baz Luhrmann
OSCARS: Peter Jackson, Robert Altman, Ridley Scott, Ron Howard and David Lynch

2001
DGA: Ang Lee, Cameron Crowe, Ridley Scott, Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich) and Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)
OSCARS: Ang Lee, Stephen Daldry, Ridley Scott, Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich) and Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)

Foster should be taken ou for either Gibson or Nichols.

Yes I have Love for Eternal Sunshine and I am A Jackass haha Holden. No Hard feelings. But I am really thinking that Mel Gibson and Michel Gondry are the two who deserve it most but thats not what the academy cares about. Hasnt Clint eastwood been nominated numerous times over the years?

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Me too, they are both so diverse and different, like to oppsoing ends of a prism of color.

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hahahaha thats funny

Not counting his almost sure nomination this year for Million Dollar Baby, Clint Eastwood has been nominated twice as Best Director: for 1992's Unforgiven (which he won) and last year for Mystic River (which he lost, to Peter Jackson).

What I don't understand is why Jean-Pierre Jeunet wasn't nominated in 1997 for Alien: Resurrection....

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Jeunet and Almodóvar are overrated, and very much so...

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Pedro Almodóvar are brilliant, and very much so.

This is horse****.

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sorry i don't feel sorry for not liking them.
for me, they didn't improve with time, and i prefer a lot their first movies.