M.I.A is an English recording artist, songwriter, painter and director of Tamil descent.
 Her compositions combine elements of electronic, dance, alternative, hip hop and world music.
 She has been nominated for various awards including Academy Award, MOBO Award, MTV Video Music Award, MTV Europe Music Award, Grammy Award and the prestigious Mercury Prize.
 She is the only artist in history to be nominated for an Academy Award, Grammy Award, Brit Award, Mercury Prize and Alternative Turner Prize, and the first artist of Asian descent to be nominated for an Academy and Grammy Award in the same year.
 Her award-winning career spans 13 years.
 This is the list of awards and nominations received by her.
Morten Tyldum (born 19 May 1967) is a Norwegian film director.
 He is best known for directing internationally successful films such as "Headhunters" (2011), a thriller based on a novel by Jo Nesbø, and "The Imitation Game" (2014), a historical drama for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
Guy Hendrix Dyas (born 20 August 1968) is a British production designer for feature films.
 He collaborated with Christopher Nolan on his science fiction thriller "Inception" which earned him an Academy Award nomination as well as a BAFTA Award for Best Production Design.
 In 2017, Dyas was nominated for another Academy Award, this time for his work on Passengers.
 In 2010, Dyas became the first British designer to win a Goya Award for Best Production Design for his work on Alejandro Amenábar's historical epic "Agora" which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
 Dyas previously received three consecutive Art Directors Guild Award nominations for his production design work on Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", Shekhar Kapur's "" and "Superman Returns" for Bryan Singer.
 He won an ADG award in 2011 for "Inception".
 He also earned a BAFTA Award nomination in 2007 for Best Production Design for "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" and for four years in a row Dyas has been named by "The Sunday Times" as one of the top ten Brits working behind the camera in Hollywood.
Sam Shepard was an American actor, screenwriter, playwright, director, and author.
 The following is his screen filmography as an actor, screenwriter, and director.
 Shepard was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film "The Right Stuff".
 The following year, he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing "Paris, Texas" (1984).
 For his role in the 1999 television film "Dash and Lilly", he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film.
This is a list of Polish Academy Award winners and nominees.
 This list details the performances of Polish actors, actresses, and films that have either been submitted or nominated for, or have won, an Academy Award.
 This list is current as of the 80th Academy Awards ceremony held on February 24, 2008.
 There were 12 Academy Awards given to Polish filmmakers or their work (see Foreign Film category), including two Honorary Academy Awards and a Technical Achievement Award.
 The category of Cinematography has the strongest presence of Polish filmmakers, with two wins (both by Janusz Kamiński) and five other nominations (including two noms for Kamiński).
 As of that, the cinematographer Janusz Kamiński is the most Oscar-awarded Polish filmmaker.
 The second most-awarded Pole was designer Anton Grot, who won one Academy Award and was nominated to the Oscars five times more.
 The director Roman Polanski won an Oscar and was nominated four more times (additionally, "Knife in the Water", film directed and written by him was also nominated).
 The composer Bronislau Kaper was awarded an Oscar and was nominated three times more.
Gene Serdena is a set decorator.
 Serdena, along with production designer K. K. Barrett, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Production Design for the 2013 film "Her".
 He was nominated again for Best Production Design, alongside production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, for their work in 2016 film "Passengers at the 89th Academy Awards.
Ava Marie DuVernay ( ; born August 24, 1972) is an American director, screenwriter, film marketer, and film distributor.
 At the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, DuVernay won the Best Director Prize for her second feature film "Middle of Nowhere", becoming the first African-American woman to win the award.
 For her work in "Selma" (2014), DuVernay was the first black female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
 With "Selma", she was also the first black female director to have her film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
 In 2017, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for her film "13th" (2016).
Loveleen Tandan is an Indian film director and casting director.
 She is the "Co-Director: India" of the four time Golden Globe, seven time BAFTA Award and eight Academy Award winning (including best picture) "Slumdog Millionaire" (2008), for which she shared a New York Film Critics Online Award, Rotterdam International Film Festival Award and Amanda Awards, Norway, of "Best Director" with Danny Boyle.
 She has also been the Casting Director for several other films, including the Golden Lion winning and Golden Globe nominated "Monsoon Wedding" (2001) and the BAFTA Award nominated "Brick Lane" (2007).
 She has been a Casting Consultant for the Gotham Award and Independent Spirit Award nominated film "The Namesake" (2007).
Passengers is a 2016 American science fiction film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts.
 It stars Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, and Laurence Fishburne.
 The story depicts two people who are awakened some 90 years too soon from an induced hibernation on a spaceship bound for a new planet.
Nathan Crowley (born 1966) is an English production designer and a former art director.
 He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Production Design for "The Prestige" (2006), "The Dark Knight" (2008), and "Interstellar" (2014).
 For "The Prestige", he was nominated with set decorator Julie Ochipinti, for "The Dark Knight", he was nominated with set decorator Peter Lando, and for "Interstellar", he was nominated with set decorator Gary Fettis.
 Crowley was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design for "Batman Begins" (2005) and "The Dark Knight" (2008).

Question: What award was the director of Passengers nominated for?
Answer: Academy Award for Best Director