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Why Great Directors Don’t Win Oscars – Erick Weber

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September 11, 2022

Film Courage: How many Oscars has Quentin Tarantino won for best director?

Erick Weber, Editor-in-Chief of Awards Ace/YouTuber: That’s a great question. I should absolutely have this down. I can say without answering the question, Quentin Tarantino, there’s an example of a director who is very singular with his vision and knows exactly what he wants to give you as an audience. He’s going to give you the film that he has in his head that is going to be the product and that’s the challenge for filmmakers. What’s in the head doesn’t always come out into the end product. I think Tarantino maximizes his vision to actual completed product, maybe better than any director. I think Denis Villeneuve is up there but Tarantino is one for sure and certainly as a director/writer, I don’t know if there’s a better combination?

Film Courage: How many Oscars has he won for best director?

Erick: Well, okay…I don’t have the exact…I’m going to throw a number out and say obviously we know that he was not happy with Bong [Bong Joon Ho] winning instead of him. That’s an interesting story by the way. We can get into that or not but there’s a very interesting story with Quentin Tarantino and Bong (very interesting) that I’ve never told. First of all, Tarantino would probably come after me. I’ll hold it, but it’s a good one. For me I can say this, he should have won for…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).

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Erick Weber is Editor-in-Chief of AWARDS ACE. He is also founder of Midnight Movie Talk with Erick Weber on Youtube where discusses the movie industry every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday night at Midnight.

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