In winning best director, the Daniels — both 35 years old — are just the third directing pair to win the award, following Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins (“West Side Story”) and Joel and Ethan Coen (“No Country for Old Men”).

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Joel and Ethan Coen wrote, produced, and directed this surreal comedy that casts George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson as a trio of prison inmates who escape from a chain gang in order to track down a hidden treasure.

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Michael Mann is only the latest among a long line of high-profile directors Driver has worked with, as he previously collaborated with Joel and Ethan Coen ).

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The previously nominated pairs are Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story, Warren Beatty and Buck Henry for Heaven Can Wait, and Joel and Ethan Coen (aka the Coen Brothers) for No Country for Old Men and True Grit.

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