Oscars 2024: Who should win best director?

Have your say on the most remarkable film director of the last year

Oscars 2024: Who should win best director?

The 96th Academy Awards take place on March 10, 2024, and as ever the Best Director award will take its position as one of the so-called “Big Five”.

It makes sense. These are the masterminds, auteurs, and benevolent dictators behind our favourite flicks. Without the director, there is no cinema.

After a year that allowed a little martial arts madness into the stuffy Oscars party with Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2024 has gone back to scratching its chin and furrowing its brow – at least when it comes to the Best Director shortlist.

Would we have liked to have seen a splash of fun and colour in there with a Greta Gerwig nomination for Barbie? Quite possibly, but there’s no denying the following five selections are absolute bangers in their own right – and pretty darned varied at that.

Oscars 2024: Who should win best director?

Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
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Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall)
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Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)
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Jon Mundy is a freelance writer with more than a dozen years of experience writing for leading tech websites such as TechRadar and Trusted Reviews.