Cimino won the film's only Golden Globe for Best Director.

It won one award, the Silver Iris for Best Director.

Bigelow was the first, and to date the only, female director to win the Academy Award for Best Director.

He won the Award for Best Director at the 2011 Huabiao Awards.

The film won for Best Director at the Alberta Film Awards.

In 2010, he won the award for Best Director.

Nicholas Winter won the award for Best Director.

The film won the Award for Most Promising Director at the Critics' awards in 1994.

He went on to win the Academy Award for Best Director.

Xanadu won the first Razzie for Worst Director and was nominated for six other awards.