Multiple Nominations
The following 47 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).
- 7 : Bimal Roy (7)
- 4 : Yash Chopra (12)
- 4 : Raj Kapoor (6)
- 3 : Sanjay Leela Bhansali (4)
- 2 : Rakesh Roshan (5)
- 2 : Rajkumar Santoshi (5)
- 2 : Karan Johar (4)
- 2 : Ashutosh Gowariker (3)
- 2 : Manoj Kumar (3)
- 2 : Govind Nihalani (2)
- 1 : Subhash Ghai (6)
- 1 : Gulzar (6)
- 1 : B. R. Chopra (5)
- 1 : Mansoor Khan (4)
- 1 : Shyam Benegal (3)
- 1 : Basu Chatterjee (3)
- 1 : Aditya Chopra (3)
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- 1 : Vidhu Vinod Chopra (3)
- 1 : Rajkumar Hirani (3)
- 1 : Sohanlal Kanwar (3)
- 1 : Mukul Anand (2)
- 1 : Sooraj Barjatya (2)
- 1 : J. P. Dutta (2)
- 1 : Shekhar Kapur (2)
- 1 : Mehboob Khan (2)
- 1 : Sai Paranjpye (2)
- 1 : Ramanand Sagar (2)
- 1 : Asit Sen (2)
- 1 : V. Shantaram (2)
- 0 : Mahesh Bhatt (6)
- 0 : Hrishikesh Mukherjee (5)
- 0 : Ram Gopal Varma (5)
- 0 : Shakti Samanta (3)
- 0 : Ramesh Sippy (3)
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- 0 : Farhan Akhtar (3)
- 0 : Imtiaz Ali (3)
- 0 : Vikram Bhatt (2)
- 0 : Vishal Bhardwaj (2)
- 0 : Madhur Bhandarkar (2)
- 0 : Satyen Bose (2)
- 0 : Abbas-Mustan (2)
- 0 : Dharmesh Darshan (2)
- 0 : David Dhawan (2)
- 0 : Farah Khan (2)
- 0 : Raj Khosla (2)
- 0 : Indra Kumar (2)
- 0 : Prakash Mehra (2)
- 0 : L. V. Prasad (2)
- 0 : Rajiv Rai (2)
- 0 : Rahul Rawail (2)
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