Golden Globes Best Director award winner is Julian Schnabel

In the category of Best Director, the 2008 Golden Globe winner is:

Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Julian Schnabel has been nominated for the Best Director award for the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly at the 2008 Golden Globes. Julian Schnabel is the director of Basquiat (1996) and Before Night Falls (2000).

The other 2008 Golden Globe Best Director nominees were:

1. Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Burton has been nominated for the Best Director award for the movie Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the 2008 Golden Globes. Tim Burton is the award-winning director of movies like Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman, Batman Returns. Tim Burton has been nominated for Best Director award at the 2008 Golden Globes. Tim Burton has been nominated for the Oscars and the Golden Globe awards before.

.2. Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

Joel and Ethan Coen have been nominated for the 2008 Golden Globes Best Director award for the movie No Country for Old Men. The Coen Brothers, have directed movies like The Big Lebowski, O Brother, where art thou? and Intolerable Cruelty. Joel and Ethan Coen have also won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for 1996 movie Fargo.

3. Ridley Scott, American Gangster

Ridley Scott is the Best Director nominee of the 2008 Golden Globe award for the movie American Gangster. Ridley Scott has been nominated for three Oscars for Direction for Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down.

4. Joe Wright, Atonement

Joe Wright has been nominated for Best Director at the 2008 Golden Globe awards for the movie Atonement. Joel Wright is also the director of Pride and Prejudice for which he was nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globe awards.