Oscars 2014: Who Is Winning The Best Director Race?

by Christopher Lominac

Dark Horse Contenders

1. Joel and Ethan Coen for Inside Llweyn Davis2. Spike Jonze for Her3. Woody Allen for Blue Jasmine4. Alexander Payne for Nebraska5. John Lee Hancock for Saving Mr. Banks

Long Shot Contenders

Richard Linklater1. J.C. Chandor for All Is Lost2. Lee Daniels for Lee Daniels' The Butler3. Richard Linklater for Before Midnight4. Stephen Frears for Philomena5. Jean-Marc Vallee for Dallas Buyers Club
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A film fanatic at a very young age, starting with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies and gradually moving up to more sophisticated fare, at around the age of ten he became inexplicably obsessed with all things Oscar. With the incredibly trivial power of being able to chronologically name every Best Picture winner from memory, his lifelong goal is to see every Oscar nominated film, in every major category, in the history of the Academy Awards.