Below you will find example sentences with "best director". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Best Director in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: best
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 50
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 0 start, 14 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "best director" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as best picture best director best adapted, best picture best director best original, film, picture and screenplay stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with athletic director, best pittsburgh, executive director, best picture, best original and best actor, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with best director
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Other nominations for Roma are Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Cinematography. (16 words)
The musical won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score of a Musical, Best Director, and Best Choreographer. (20 words)
For its success, “The Departed” won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay Writing. (21 words)
The film was considered one of the greatest films about the Holocaust, and it swept the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction. (38 words)
It’s up for six Oscars in total on Sunday, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Gerwig as well as Best Actress () and Supporting Actress (), but Gerwig was notably shut out of the Best Director race. (38 words)
This film was originally supposed to arrive here in January and now comes with several major nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best International Feature (it’s a German-language British film). (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The film was considered one of the greatest films about the Holocaust, and it swept the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, and Best Art Direction.
The film won Best Picture, Best Lead Actress, Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor.
Yet it won 7 Academy Awards; best movie, best actress, best supporting actress, best director, best supporting actor, best film editing and best original screenplay.
Bong Joon-ho apologises for Oscars success The 'Parasite' director - whose film won gongs in four categories, including Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature, Best Director and Best.
The writer/director of won four Oscars that night, including Best Oiriginal Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, Best Director and Best Picture.
Visionary director Bong Joon-ho, took home four Oscar wins including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film.
Writer-director Bong Joon Ho four Oscars for the film -- Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film.
This film was originally supposed to arrive here in January and now comes with several major nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best International Feature (it’s a German-language British film).
The musical won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score of a Musical, Best Director, and Best Choreographer.
The film was nominated for five Academy Awards : Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.
The writer-director earned the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for her debut feature, and was nominated in the Best Director and Best Picture categories.
Polanski won France's César Awards for Best Picture and Best Director and received his fourth Academy Award nomination (and his second nomination for Best Director).
For its success, “The Departed” won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay Writing.
In addition to Bogart’s nomination-turned-win for Best Actor, received three Oscar nods that include Best Actress for Katharine Hepburn, Best Director for John Huston, and Best Screenplay for Huston and James Agee.
It's the favorite to win best picture, best director, best actress for Michelle Yeoh and best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan.
Oppenheimer also won the awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director for Nolan, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr and Best Original Score – Motion Picture for Ludwig Göransson.
The IC noted that there will be awards for the Best Short Film, Best Technical Contribution, Best Director, Innovative Narrative Award, and Best Short from Macau.
It’s up for six Oscars in total on Sunday, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Gerwig as well as Best Actress () and Supporting Actress (), but Gerwig was notably shut out of the Best Director race.
Other nominations for Roma are Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Cinematography.
The film, which won top prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year, earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best International Feature, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.