10 Best Directors Who Haven't Won An Oscar

The Tramp himself somehow never won a Best Director Oscar.

Chaplin's work as a performer is widely-lauded, but his work as a director is unfairly overlooked. The man defined our perception of physical comedy and proved that funny films could be about so much more. One need look no further than his seminal classic, The Great Dictator, to see exactly why this man should have won an Oscar several times over.

He tackled complex and politically-charged themes with the kind of delicacy and poignancy that other filmmakers would kill for, yet he is still able to keep us laughing.

The sheer fact that he was able to fit the barber bit, a Hitler impression, and a real impassioned plea for peace and justice in our real world given directly to camera, and not have the movie feel like a complete mess is a testament to what a master of tone and balance he was.