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Nominated for greatest accomplishment in directing three times. He was nominated for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Social Network," a foresightful, well-received film, and "Mank," which appeared to have Oscar aspirations but eventually lost to another. Fincher's perhaps most approachable movie did not win.

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SPIKE LEE

Lee did get an honorary Oscar in 2015 for his decades of innovative cinema, but before the 2019 Oscars, he had never won in a competitive category.

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Scott was nominated for two additional Best Director awards for Gladiator, which won Best Picture in 2001, and Black Hawk Down. He didn't win, and he hasn't been nominated since.

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Quentin Tarantino

After winning two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Tarantino's failure to win the Academy Award for Best Director for his crime thriller Pulp Fiction, one of the best movies of all time, came as a significant surprise.

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christopher nolan

He might be the finest director of his generation. With just three Oscar nominations, none for Best Director, it is frequently assumed that the Academy has a beef with the inspirational director.

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David Lynch

He has three Best Director nominations, including one for the bizarre and macabre "Blue Velvet." Lynch is currently working on a couple of television shows after failing to win the Academy Award for Best Director three times.

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Akira Kurosawa

In 1990, Kurosawa was awarded the Oscar for lifetime achievement. He brought us "Ran," "Rashomon," "Seven Samurai," and other Asian film classics. A Best Director nomination would have been appropriate.

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stanley kubrick

Stan has three 'best picture' nominations but no wins. Furthermore, the picture that should have won the award more than any other, 2001: A Space Odyssey, was not even nominated in 1968.

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alfred hitchcock

The Oscars overlooked Alfred Hitchcock despite the fact that he was nominated for 'best director' five times; the Academy simply did not follow their own script.

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The Italian director and screenwriter is regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest and most important filmmakers. His greatness may be attributed to the astounding 12 Academy Award nominations he got for various categories during his career; four of them were for Best Director, although Fellini never won any of them.

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Charlie Chaplin's enigmatic theatricality may never be reproduced by any man, having directed seventy-seven films with generally creative comic subjects. As strange as it may sound, Charlie Chaplin never won an Academy Award for Best Director, and he was never nominated even once during his remarkable career spanning over eight decades.

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