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 Conroy "Waveriders" won the 2008 Audience Choice Award from the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, the 2009 Irish Film and Television Awards inaugural George Morrison Feature Documentary Award and the Best Documentary Award at the 2009 SURFER Poll & Video Awards. Margo Harkin (Producer) and Joel Conroy (Director) were awarded Outstanding Achievement in film making for "Waveriders" at the 2009 Newport Beach Film Festival. Joel Conroy Joel Conroy is an Irish filmmaker. Joel previously worked with MTV in America and Australia. He made his first surfing documentary "Eye of the Storm", which was first screened on RTÉ television in 2002 and