It was the first time since 1961 (when Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise won for West Side Story) that two directors received the Academy Award for Best Director at the same time.
自1961年（杰羅姆·羅賓斯和羅伯特·懷斯）以來，這是第一次由兩名導演同時獲得最佳導演獎。