Academy Award For Best Director - Multiple Nominations

Multiple Nominations

The following 88 directors have received multiple Best Director nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).

  • 4 : John Ford (5)
  • 3 : William Wyler (12)
  • 3 : Frank Capra (6)
  • 2 : Billy Wilder (8)
  • 2 : David Lean (7)
  • 2 : Fred Zinnemann (7)
  • 2 : Steven Spielberg (6)
  • 2 : Elia Kazan (5)
  • 2 : George Stevens (5)
  • 2 : Clint Eastwood (4)
  • 2 : Frank Lloyd (4)
  • 2 : Joseph L. Mankiewicz (4)
  • 2 : Miloš Forman (3)
  • 2 : Leo McCarey (3)
  • 2 : Lewis Milestone (3)
  • 2 : Oliver Stone (3)
  • 2 : Robert Wise (3)
  • 2 : Frank Borzage (2)
  • 1 : Woody Allen (7)
  • 1 : Martin Scorsese (7)
  • 1 : George Cukor (5)
  • 1 : Michael Curtiz (5)
  • 1 : John Huston (5)
  • 1 : Francis Ford Coppola (4)
  • 1 : Mike Nichols (4)
  • 1 : Joel Coen (3)
  • 1 : Bob Fosse (3)
  • 1 : Roman Polanski (3)
  • 1 : Sydney Pollack (3)
  • 1 : Carol Reed (3)
  • 1 : John Schlesinger (3)
  • 1 : Warren Beatty (2)
  • 1 : Robert Benton (2)
  • 1 : Bernardo Bertolucci (2)
  • 1 : James Cameron (2)
  • 1 : Ethan Coen (2)
  • 1 : William Friedkin (2)
  • 1 : Ron Howard (2)
  • 1 : Peter Jackson (2)
  • 1 : Ang Lee (2)
  • 1 : Barry Levinson (2)
  • 1 : Vincente Minnelli (2)
  • 1 : Robert Redford (2)
  • 1 : George Roy Hill (2)
  • 1 : Steven Soderbergh (2)
  • 1 : Norman Taurog (2)
  • 0 : Robert Altman (5)
  • 0 : Clarence Brown (5)
  • 0 : Alfred Hitchcock (5)
  • 0 : King Vidor (5)
  • 0 : Federico Fellini (4)
  • 0 : Stanley Kubrick (4)
  • 0 : Sidney Lumet (4)
  • 0 : Peter Weir (4)
  • 0 : Ingmar Bergman (3)
  • 0 : Richard Brooks (3)
  • 0 : Stephen Daldry (3)
  • 0 : James Ivory (3)
  • 0 : Norman Jewison (3)
  • 0 : Stanley Kramer (3)
  • 0 : Ernst Lubitsch (3)
  • 0 : David Lynch (3)
  • 0 : Arthur Penn (3)
  • 0 : Ridley Scott (3)
  • 0 : William A. Wellman (3)
  • 0 : Sam Wood (3)
  • 0 : John Boorman (2)
  • 0 : David Fincher (2)
  • 0 : Stephen Frears (2)
  • 0 : Lasse Hallström (2)
  • 0 : Roland Joffé (2)
  • 0 : Henry King (2)
  • 0 : Gregory La Cava (2)
  • 0 : Mike Leigh (2)
  • 0 : Robert Z. Leonard (2)
  • 0 : Joshua Logan (2)
  • 0 : George Lucas (2)
  • 0 : Terrence Malick (2)
  • 0 : Alan Parker (2)
  • 0 : Alexander Payne (2)
  • 0 : Otto Preminger (2)
  • 0 : Jason Reitman (2)
  • 0 : Mark Robson (2)
  • 0 : Robert Rossen (2)
  • 0 : Jim Sheridan (2)
  • 0 : Josef von Sternberg (2)
  • 0 : Quentin Tarantino (2)
  • 0 : W. S. Van Dyke (2)
  • 0 : Gus Van Sant (2)
  • 0 : Peter Yates (2)

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