American film director David Fincher has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Director: for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Social Network (2010), and Mank (2020).

He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director and the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for The Social Network.

He is also known for having directed the psychological thrillers Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Fight Club (1999), and Gone Girl (2014) and the mystery thrillers Zodiac (2007) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), as well as being instrumental in the creation of the U.S. television series House of Cards.

His films Zodiac and The Social Network are ranked in BBC's 2016 poll of the greatest motion pictures since 2000.

[1] Directed Academy Award performances