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 S. Engel as a Department Head with responsibilities for a broad range of projects. Engel later joined Satellite Business Systems (1983–86) as VP of engineering, and became VP of research and development at MCI Communications (1986–87), when MCI acquired SBS. He was VP of technology and Chief Technology Officer at Ameritech (1987–97). Joel S. Engel Joel Stanley Engel (February 4, 1936) is an American engineer, known for fundamental contributions to the development of cellular network. Born in New York City, he obtained a B.Sc. in engineering at City College of New York (1957). While working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in