Last Updated on 31 January 2024

Directors with the Most Nominations for Best Director

12 Nominations:

• William Wyler (won 3)

10 Nominations:

• Martin Scorsese (won 1)

9 Nominations:

• Steven Spielberg (won 2)

8 Nominations:

• Billy Wilder (won 2)

7 Nominations:

• David Lean (won 2)
• Fred Zinnemann (won 2)
• Woody Allen (won 1)

6 Nominations:

• Clarence Brown (won 0)
• Frank Capra (won 3)

5 Nominations:

• John Ford (won 4)
• Elia Kazan (won 2)
• Frank Lloyd (won 2)
• George Stevens (won 2)
• George Cukor (won 1)
• Michael Curtiz (won 1)
• John Huston (won 1)
• Robert Altman (won 0)
• Alfred Hitchcock (won 0)
• King Vidor (won 0)

4 Nominations:

• Clint Eastwood (won 2)
• Joseph L. Mankiewicz (won 2)
• Francis Ford Coppola (won 1)
• Mike Nichols (won 1)
• Federico Fellini (won 0)
• Stanley Kubrick (won 0)
• Sidney Lumet (won 0)
• Peter Weir (won 0)