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7 Oscar-winning directors who are working with Netflix, including Martin Scorsese and Guillermo del Toro

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7 Oscar-winning directors who are working with Netflix, including Martin Scorsese and Guillermo del Toro

Joel and Ethan Coen

Joel and Ethan Coen

Oscar wins: Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay — 2008 ("No Country for Old Men"); Best Original Screenplay — 1997 ("Fargo")

Netflix project: The Coens debuted "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" at this year's Venice Film Festival. Originally a Netflix series, it became an anthology film with six stories. It comes to Netflix November 16.

Description: "Saddle up for six tales about the American frontier from the unique minds of Joel and Ethan Coen, who wrote and directed this anthology."

Alfonso Cuarón

Alfonso Cuarón

Oscar wins: Best Director and Film Editing — 2014 ("Gravity")

Netflix project: Netflix's best chance at entering the Oscar race, "Roma," will arrive on the streaming service and on over 100 screens worldwide later this year. It's one of Netflix's biggest pushes yet for theatrical distribution as it tries to raise its Oscar chances.

Description: "A story that chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s."

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro

Oscar wins: Best Picture and Director — 2018 ("The Shape of Water")

Netflix project: Del Toro will write, direct, and produce a stop-motion musical version of the classic "Pinocchio" for Netflix, Variety reported this week.

Morgan Neville

Morgan Neville

Oscar win: Best Documentary — 2014 ("20 Feet From Stardom")

Netflix project: Netflix will release Neville's next documentary, "They'll Love Me When I'm Dead," on November 2 along with its subject matter, "The Other Side of the Wind," which is Orson Welles' final film. Neville also directed the hit Fred Rogers documentary, "Won't You Be My Neighbor?," this year.

Description: "Actors, crew members and others who were there discuss the tumultuous creation of Orson Welles's final, unfinished film, 'The Other Side of the Wind."

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

Oscar win: Best Director — 2007 ("The Departed")

Netflix project: Scorsese is directing one of Netflix's most ambitious movies yet, mob drama "The Irishman," which is set to debut in 2019. With a cost of $140 million, according to Deadline, it's the director's most expensive movie. The production costs have increased due to a star-studded cast of Scorsese favorites like Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and special effects to de-age De Niro in his role as the title character. The movie also stars Al Pacino, Bobby Cannavale, and Harvey Keitel.

Steven Soderbergh

Steven Soderbergh

Oscar win: Best Director — 2001 ("Traffic")

Netflix project: Netflix bought the global rights to Soderbergh's sports drama, "High Flying Bird," Deadline reported last month. The movie stars André Holland ("Castle Rock"), Zazie Beetz ("Deadpool 2"), and Zachary Quinto ("Star Trek"). According to Deadline, the movie is about a sports agent who pitches a rookie basketball player on an intriguing business idea.

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