I been reading articles about how the directors of Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Les Miserables, Django Unchained were over looked for Best Director.
Well There are 9 (or is it 10) films nominated and only five slots for directors of course people will be looked over.
In the past where there was only 5 films usually 1 director of the best picture nominees was always over looked. And there was chatter about the overlooked helmer.
It was very rare that all five directors matched the five best pictures. The "odd director" out who got a nominations usually was the director of a foreign language film or at that time when a director could only be nomimated once but had two Best Picture nominees another director would sneek in.