The Misdirection Award goes to the Academy of Motion Picture

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…r. Directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, and Martin Scorsese have revolutionized the art form of direction and made technical breakthroughs that are common practice for the directors of today, despite never winning an Academy Award for best direction. It seems that in the end the real winners of the award for best direction are the Academy, the big studios, and the sentimental favorites who cynically direct whom will receive the award.