Academy Award for Best Director director in history to receive this award, at the age of 32 for his work on "La La Land". Two directing teams have shared the award; Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for "West Side Story" in 1961 and Joel and Ethan Coen for "No Country for Old Men" in 2007. The Coen brothers are the only siblings to have won the award. Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to have won the award, for 2009's "The Hurt Locker". As of the 2018 ceremony, Guillermo del Toro is the most recent winner in this category for his work on "The Shape
Joel Trussell Joel Trussell Joel Trussell is a director and artist based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently an executive producer at Disney Television Animation for the Disney XD show "Pickle and Peanut" which he helped develop alongside the creator Noah Z. Jones. Before Disney, Trussell directed the 20 episode, award winning, animated series "Electric City" which is created, written by and starring Tom Hanks. Trussell is additionally well known for directing several award winning music videos, and many animated segments for "Yo Gabba Gabba!" on Nickelodeon. In 2008 he was selected by Mike Judge to direct the intro for "The