Alexander Payne(I)

Everytime he was nominated for the Best Director Oscar, Martin Scorsese was nominated in the same category alongside him: first in 2005 when Payne was nominated for Sideways - In viaggio con Jack (2004) and Scorsese for The Aviator (2004), then in 2012 when Payne was nominated for Paradiso amaro (2011) and Scorsese for Hugo Cabret (2011) and finally in 2014 when Payne was nominated for Nebraska (2013) and Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

[on Reese Witherspoon in Election (1999)] She inhabited that role fully, but she can do all these other roles. You see a woman in her, not a girl. She's going to be interesting for a long time.