Who Won? Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant) The Revenant is a masterpiece. Iñárritu is one of the greats. But, f*ck me, he should not have won Best Director for "Leo Is Cold For A Bit Then Kills Tom Hardy". And it has nothing to do with his direction of The Revenant. That movie lives and dies off him; the construction of the sequences is as masterful as Leonardo DiCaprio's performance. It's just, if not right, that he was the best director this year. Who Should Have Won? George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road) Mad Max: Fury Road swept the technical part of the awards, which gave hope to it winning Best Director, the most technical of the big awards. It was certainly my pick (if, admittedly a wild card, and with the assumption of a different Best Picture win) and Miller fully deserved it. He made that movie, in every meaning of the word, constructing a world we'd never seen before (even in his other Mad Max movies) and telling a character-driven story almost entirely through action. I called it "action as art" when it first came out and I stand by that.
