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Daughters: Amy Brooks; born 1971 and Chloe Brooks. Son: Cooper Brooks. He is among an elite group of 7 Directors who have won best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Original/Adapted) for the same film. In 1984 he won all three for Terms of Endearment (1983). The other directors are Leo McCarey (for Going My Way (1944)), Billy Wilder (for The Apartment (1960)), Francis Ford Coppola (for The Godfather: Part II (1974)), Peter Jackson (for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (the brothers co-produced, co-directed and co-wrote No Country for Old Men (2007) with each other). Brooks is the only one to do so with his directorial debut and the only one to do so without collaborators in any of the three categories. Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Writers Branch) [2006-] Was best man at Norman Pearlstine's and Nancy Friday's wedding.