Live Poll: Face-Off: Oscar-Nominated Director Duos

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In the history of the Oscars, ...

Your question is 100% accurate and perfectly worded, and the same time totally misleading. I suspect the number of films that were Oscar-nominated in director's category and actually had dual directors is much higher than the reported number over the past 95 years.

In the history of Oscars, only five director duos have been nominated for the 'Best Director' award with only Joel and Ethan Coen winning it for 'No Country for Old Men.

Fargo (1996) was jointly directed by Ethan and Joel Coen, yet only Joel's name was listed on the Oscar nomination.

The slight was a function of the AMPAS policy that nominees had to be officially credited in the film. The film's credits were a function of guild rules at the time. In this case, the DGA prevented more than one person from getting credit for directing Fargo and denied their dual credit, on the basis that not more than one person gets a director's credit on a film, unless they were established directing team. Since, the rule plays out as a catch-22 that you never become a credited team until you credited as such in the first place. Which the rule prevented from every happening in the first place (with the exception non-union and non-guild sanctioned work).

FYI, I just noticed there at least two images each in the galleries of these films for their respective director duos. So, if you wanted to do an image poll you could. It is probably easier to leave it as is, but I wanted to point it out as an option.