Alejandro González Iñárritu is the third person to join that club, with a win for The Revenant*following 2015's Birdman. It's the first time in more than 60 years that a Director has posted back-to-back wins.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz was the last back-to-back Best Director winner, for A Letter to Three Wives*(1949) and All About Eve (1950). John Ford had accomplished the same feat for the first time in Academy history only a few years earlier, with wins for The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and How Green Was My Valley*(1941). Read more...