1961's West Side Story had co-winners
Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise split the director award.
Neither thanked the other in their acceptance speeches.
Joel
and Ethan Cohen equaled that accomplishment in 2007 when they
shared the Oscar for directing No Country for Old Men.They were also nominated together in 2010 for True Grit. They were joined by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert in 2022 when they won the award for their co-directon of Everything Everywhere All at Once.
No
other film has had co-winners as Best Director, although
films that were nominated as Best Picture with multiple credited
directors include:
- The
Adventures of Robin Hood (1938; Michael Curtiz and William
Keighly)
- Pygmalion (1938; Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard)
- Mister
Roberts (1955; John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy)
- The
Longest Day (1962; Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, and Bernhard
Wicki)
- How
the West Was Won (1963; John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George
Marshall, and Richard Thorpe)
- Heaven
Can Wait (1978; Warren Beatty and Buck Henry)
- Little
Miss Sunshine (2006; Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)
Only Heaven
Can Wait received a Best Director nomination to go with
its Best Picture nod, losing both awards to The Deer Hunter.
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