The Resume

(April 29, 1907-March 14, 1997)
Directed 'That Mothers Might Live (1938),' 'The Seventh Cross (1944),' 'The Search (1948),' 'The Men (1950),' 'The Member of the Wedding (1952),''High Noon (1952),' 'Oklahoma (1955),' 'A Hatful of Rain (1957),' 'The Nun's Story (1959),' 'The Sundowners (1960),' 'The Day of the Jackal (1973),' 'Julia (1976)'
Won the 1953 Best Director Oscar ('From Here to Eternity')
Won the 1966 Best Director Oscar ('A Man for All Seasons')

Why he might be annoying:

He wrote an autobiography.
He had a huge forehead.

Why he might not be annoying:

He directed Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando in their film debuts.
He won two Best Director Oscars.
He won the 1938 Best Short Subject Oscar for 'That Mothers Might Live.'
He won two Directors Guild Awards and two Golden Globes.

Credit: Professor Moriarty

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• AFI’s 100 Years … 100 Thrills [Directors] (Ranked: 20)
• AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies [Directors] (Ranked: 33)
• AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies [Directors] (Ranked: 52)
• Best Director Oscar Winners (Ranked: 1953)
• Best Director Oscar Winners (Ranked: 1966)
• Director's Guild Award (Ranked: 1953)
• Director's Guild Award (Ranked: 1966)
• Golden Globe: Best Director (Ranked: 1953)
• Golden Globe: Best Director (Ranked: 1966)
• Golden Globe: Special Appreciation Award (Ranked: 1959)
• Golden Globe: Special Appreciation Award (Ranked: 1960)
• I am from Vienna, Austria
• I Died in 1997 (Ranked: 90)
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[U-Z]
• My Forehead is Huge [Fiveheads]
• National Board of Review Award for Best Director (Ranked: 1959)
• National Board of Review Award for Best Director (Ranked: 1966)
• New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director (Ranked: 1952)
• New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director (Ranked: 1953)
• New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director (Ranked: 1959)
• New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director (Ranked: 1966)
• Professor Moriarty's Profiles [Series 1]
• Profiles 11751-12000 (Ranked: 11871)
• The Circle Of Life Comes To An End: Died On Pi Day (March 14th) (Ranked: 1997)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 10 Votes: 30.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 20 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 22 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 31 Votes: 41.94% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 60 Votes: 55.00% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 90 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 171 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 87 Votes: 36.78% Annoying