The only director of a Best Picture winner to never have been nominated for an Oscar, for
Grand Hotel (1932). Additionally, Goulding was the only director of a Best Picture winner to never receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Director in its 85-year history, until
Ben Affleck for
Argo (2012). Since then,
Peter Farrelly and
Sian Heder have directed
Green Book (2018) and
कोडा (2021) respectively, both of which went on to win Best Picture without either filmmaker ever receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Director.