The Resume

(September 10, 1914-September 14, 2005)
Won the 1961 Best Director Oscar ('West Side Story')
Won the 1965 Best Director Oscar ('The Sound of Music')
Directed 'The Body Snatcher,' 'The Day the Earth Stood Still,' 'I Want To Live,' 'The Sand Pebbles,' Star Trek: The Motion Picture'
Died at 91 (September 15, 2005)

Why he might be annoying:

He won the only shared Best Director Oscar, splitting it with Jerome Robbins for 'West Side Story.'
He only agreed to direct 'The Sound of Music' if the studio would finance 'The Sand Pebbles.'

Why he might not be annoying:

His sci-fi classic, 'The Day the Earth Stood Still,' brilliantly discussed nuclear power and non-violence.
He edited many classic films before he became a director, including 'Citizen Kane.'
He won the Irving Thalberg Award.
He won the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award.

Credit: Professor Moriarty

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Academy Awards: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (Ranked: 1967)
• AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Passions Commentators
• AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Thrills [Directors] (Ranked: 82)
• AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies [Directors] (Ranked: 41)
• AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies [Directors] (Ranked: 55)
• AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award (Ranked: 1998)
• Best Director Oscar Winners (Ranked: 1961)
• Best Director Oscar Winners (Ranked: 1965)
• Citizen Kane [1941]
• Critic's Choice's Lifetime Achievement (Ranked: 1997)
• Designing Women
• Director's Guild Award (Ranked: 1961)
• Director's Guild Award (Ranked: 1965)
• I Accepted an Oscar as a Surrogate (Ranked: 1986)
• I Attended the Premiere of ‘Citizen Kane’ [1941]
• I Died in 2005 (Ranked: 91)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[U-Z]
• Look at Me, I Got a Microphone
• Look at Me, I'm a Man in Shades
• My Oscar was Accepted by a Surrogate (Ranked: 1965)
• Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
• Presidents of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ranked: 25)
• Professor Moriarty's Profiles [Series 1]
• Profiles 7751-8000 (Ranked: 7839)
• Sound of Music [1965]
• Star Trek
• Val Lewton Films
• West Side Story [1961]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 90 Votes: 65.56% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 31 Votes: 83.87% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 24 Votes: 95.83% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 19 Votes: 42.11% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 23 Votes: 39.13% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 25 Votes: 44.00% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 51 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 39 Votes: 43.59% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 62 Votes: 61.29% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 114 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 341 Votes: 43.99% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 396 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 401 Votes: 54.11% Annoying