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
Ethan Brooks Paisley Ethan Brooks Paisley Ethan Brooks Paisley is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. Ethan Brooks Paisley was born on August 1, 2000 in Petaluma, California. He began his filmmaking career at the age of twelve when he gained county-wide fame for his humorous YouTube spoof-style series entitled "ethanpaisley". In 2015, Paisley wrote and directed "The Art of Escape". The film premiered at the Singapore International Film Festival and won distribution with Universal Markets [UK]. The same year, he began his production company Take18 Entertainment. Under Take18 Entertainment, Paisley wrote and directed "Point 453" (2016). "Point 453" screened at