Golden Globe Award for Best Director Golden Globe Award for Best Director The Golden Globe Award for Best Director has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943. Having won all four of his nominations, Elia Kazan has been honored most often in this category. Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, David Lean, Miloš Forman, and Oliver Stone tie for second place with three wins each. Steven Spielberg has had the most nominations (twelve) and has received the award twice. Barbra Streisand is the only woman to
The Anderson Platoon documentary. The French war cameraman and First Indochina War veteran Schoendoerffer (38), already famous for his celebrated masterpiece "The 317th Platoon" (1965), returns to Vietnam. On 1 August 1965, the 1st Cavalry Division (United States) is sent to South Vietnam. The following year in September, Schoendoerffer joins it and follows a 33-man platoon of GIs led by Black West Pointer Lieutenant Joseph B. Anderson (24) until October 1966. The "Anderson Platoon" has been shown in more than 20 countries and won several prizes, including an Oscar on April 10, 1968, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Some time after the