"Where do you go after you've reached the top? It's a question more than 70 filmmakers have had a noodle on over the past century after winning a best director Oscar. I mean, how do you follow that up? Some want to astound us even more with their next act. Think of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu who followed up his first Oscar for the backstage satire "Birdman" with the historical epic "The Revenant.""
"Other times, Oscar-winning directors just want to lighten up. That was the case for the Coen Brothers who followed up their best directing win for the brooding "No Country For Old Men" with the silliness of "Burn After Reading." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BURN AFTER READING") JOHN MALKOVICH: (As Osborne Cox) You have no idea what you're doing. And I warn you... FRANCES MCDORMAND: (As Linda Litzke) You warn us. You warn us?"
More than seventy filmmakers have faced choices about their careers after winning the Best Director Oscar over the past century. Some pursue larger-scale or riskier projects to astonish audiences, exemplified by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who followed Birdman with the historical epic The Revenant, which achieved greater box-office success and earned him a second best-director Oscar. Other directors shift tonal registers, as the Coen Brothers moved from the brooding No Country for Old Men to the sillier Burn After Reading. Post-win decisions range from scaling up scope to lightening tone or exploring different kinds of storytelling.
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