Director Oscar Statistics

Winner

Other Nominees

Frank Borzage (7th Heaven) & Lewis Milestone (Two Arabian Knights)

Herbert Brenon (Sorrell and Son) | King Vidor (The Crowd) | Ted Wilde (Speedy)

Frank Lloyd (The Divine Lady)

Ernst Lubitsch (The Patriot) | Frank Lloyd (Drag) | Frank Lloyd (Weary River) | Harry Beaumont (The Broadway Melody) | Irving Cummings (In Old Arizona) | Lionel Barrymore (Madame X)

Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)

Clarence Brown (Anna Christie) | Clarence Brown (Romance) | Ernst Lubitsch (The Love Parade) | King Vidor (Hallelujah!) | Robert Z. Leonard (The Divorcée)

Norman Taurog (Skippy)

Clarence Brown (A Free Soul) | Josef von Sternberg (Morocco) | Lewis Milestone (The Front Page) | Wesley Ruggles (Cimarron)

Frank Borzage (Bad Girl)

Josef von Sternberg (Shanghai Express) | King Vidor (The Champ)

Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade)

Frank Capra (Lady for a Day) | George Cukor (Little Women)

Frank Capra (It Happened One Night)

Victor Schertzinger (One Night of Love) | W.S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man)

John Ford (The Informer)

Frank Lloyd (Mutiny on the Bounty) | Henry Hathaway (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer) | Michael Curtiz (Captain Blood)

Frank Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town)

Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey) | Robert Z. Leonard (The Great Ziegfeld) | W.S. Van Dyke (San Francisco) | William Wyler (Dodsworth)

Leo McCarey (The Awful Truth)

Gregory La Cava (Stage Door) | Sidney Franklin (The Good Earth) | William A. Wellman (A Star Is Born) | William Dieterle (The Life of Emile Zola)

Frank Capra (You Can't Take It with You)

King Vidor (The Citadel) | Michael Curtiz (Angels with Dirty Faces) | Michael Curtiz (Four Daughters) | Norman Taurog (Boys Town)

Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind)

Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) | John Ford (Stagecoach) | Sam Wood (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) | William Wyler (Wuthering Heights)

John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath)

Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca) | George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) | Sam Wood (Kitty Foyle) | William Wyler (The Letter)

John Ford (How Green Was My Valley)

Alexander Hall (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) | Howard Hawks (Sergeant York) | Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) | William Wyler (The Little Foxes)

William Wyler (Mrs. Miniver)

John Farrow (Wake Island) | Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest) | Michael Curtiz (Yankee Doodle Dandy) | Sam Wood (Kings Row)

Michael Curtiz (Casablanca)

Clarence Brown (The Human Comedy) | Ernst Lubitsch (Heaven Can Wait) | George Stevens (The More the Merrier) | Henry King (The Song of Bernadette)

Leo McCarey (Going My Way)

Alfred Hitchcock (Lifeboat) | Billy Wilder (Double Indemnity) | Henry King (Wilson) | Otto Preminger (Laura)

Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)

Alfred Hitchcock (Spellbound) | Clarence Brown (National Velvet) | Jean Renoir (The Southerner) | Leo McCarey (The Bells of St. Mary's)

William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives)

Clarence Brown (The Yearling) | David Lean (Brief Encounter) | Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life) | Robert Siodmak (The Killers)

Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement)

David Lean (Great Expectations) | Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire) | George Cukor (A Double Life) | Henry Koster (The Bishop's Wife)

John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

Anatole Litvak (The Snake Pit) | Fred Zinnemann (The Search) | Jean Negulesco (Johnny Belinda) | Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives)

Carol Reed (The Fallen Idol) | Robert Rossen (All the King's Men) | William A. Wellman (Battleground) | William Wyler (The Heiress)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve)

Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard) | Carol Reed (The Third Man) | George Cukor (Born Yesterday) | John Huston (The Asphalt Jungle)

George Stevens (A Place in the Sun)

Elia Kazan (A Streetcar Named Desire) | John Huston (The African Queen) | Vincente Minnelli (An American in Paris) | William Wyler (Detective Story)

John Ford (The Quiet Man)

Cecil B. DeMille (The Greatest Show on Earth) | Fred Zinnemann (High Noon) | John Huston (Moulin Rouge) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (5 Fingers)

Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity)

Billy Wilder (Stalag 17) | Charles Walters (Lili) | George Stevens (Shane) | William Wyler (Roman Holiday)

Elia Kazan (On the Waterfront)

Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window) | Billy Wilder (Sabrina) | George Seaton (The Country Girl) | William A. Wellman (The High and the Mighty)

Delbert Mann (Marty)

David Lean (Summertime) | Elia Kazan (East of Eden) | John Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock) | Joshua Logan (Picnic)

George Stevens (Giant)

King Vidor (War and Peace) | Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days) | Walter Lang (The King and I) | William Wyler (Friendly Persuasion)

David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai)

Billy Wilder (Witness for the Prosecution) | Joshua Logan (Sayonara) | Mark Robson (Peyton Place) | Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men)

Vincente Minnelli (Gigi)

Mark Robson (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness) | Richard Brooks (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) | Robert Wise (I Want to Live!) | Stanley Kramer (The Defiant Ones)

William Wyler (Ben-Hur)

Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot) | Fred Zinnemann (The Nun's Story) | George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank) | Jack Clayton (Room at the Top)

Billy Wilder (The Apartment)

Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho) | Fred Zinnemann (The Sundowners) | Jack Cardiff (Sons and Lovers) | Jules Dassin (Never on Sunday)

Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins (West Side Story)

Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) | J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) | Robert Rossen (The Hustler) | Stanley Kramer (Judgment at Nuremberg)

David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia)

Arthur Penn (The Miracle Worker) | Frank Perry (David and Lisa) | Pietro Germi (Divorce Italian Style) | Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)

Elia Kazan (America, America) | Federico Fellini (8½) | Martin Ritt (Hud) | Otto Preminger (The Cardinal)

George Cukor (My Fair Lady)

Mihalis Kakogiannis (Zorba the Greek) | Peter Glenville (Becket) | Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins) | Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)

Robert Wise (The Sound of Music)

David Lean (Doctor Zhivago) | Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman of the Dunes) | John Schlesinger (Darling) | William Wyler (The Collector)

Fred Zinnemann (A Man for All Seasons)

Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman) | Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-Up) | Mike Nichols (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) | Richard Brooks (The Professionals)

Mike Nichols (The Graduate)

Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) | Norman Jewison (In the Heat of the Night) | Richard Brooks (In Cold Blood) | Stanley Kramer (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)

Carol Reed (Oliver!)

Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter) | Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet) | Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers) | Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey)

John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy)

Arthur Penn (Alice's Restaurant) | Costa-Gavras (Z) | George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) | Sydney Pollack (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?)

Franklin J. Schaffner (Patton)

Arthur Hiller (Love Story) | Federico Fellini (Fellini - Satyricon) | Ken Russell (Women in Love) | Robert Altman (MASH)

William Friedkin (The French Connection)

John Schlesinger (Sunday Bloody Sunday) | Norman Jewison (Fiddler on the Roof) | Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show) | Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange)

Bob Fosse (Cabaret)

Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) | Jan Troell (The Emigrants) | John Boorman (Deliverance) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Sleuth)

George Roy Hill (The Sting)

Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris) | George Lucas (American Graffiti) | Ingmar Bergman (Cries & Whispers) | William Friedkin (The Exorcist)

Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather: Part II)

Bob Fosse (Lenny) | François Truffaut (Day for Night) | John Cassavetes (A Woman Under the Influence) | Roman Polanski (Chinatown)

Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Federico Fellini (Amarcord) | Robert Altman (Nashville) | Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon) | Stanley Kubrick (Barry Lyndon)

John G. Avildsen (Rocky)

Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men) | Ingmar Bergman (Face to Face) | Lina Wertmüller (Seven Beauties) | Sidney Lumet (Network)

Woody Allen (Annie Hall)

Fred Zinnemann (Julia) | George Lucas (Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope) | Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) | Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)

Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter)

Alan Parker (Midnight Express) | Hal Ashby (Coming Home) | Warren Beatty & Buck Henry (Heaven Can Wait) | Woody Allen (Interiors)

Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer)

Bob Fosse (All That Jazz) | Edouard Molinaro (La Cage aux Folles) | Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now) | Peter Yates (Breaking Away)

Robert Redford (Ordinary People)

David Lynch (The Elephant Man) | Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull) | Richard Rush (The Stunt Man) | Roman Polanski (Tess)

Warren Beatty (Reds)

Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire) | Louis Malle (Atlantic City) | Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) | Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Richard Attenborough (Gandhi)

Sidney Lumet (The Verdict) | Steven Spielberg (E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial) | Sydney Pollack (Tootsie) | Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot)

James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)

Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies) | Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander) | Mike Nichols (Silkwood) | Peter Yates (The Dresser)

Milos Forman (Amadeus)

David Lean (A Passage to India) | Robert Benton (Places in the Heart) | Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) | Woody Allen (Broadway Danny Rose)

Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)

Akira Kurosawa (Ran) | Héctor Babenco (Kiss of the Spider Woman) | John Huston (Prizzi's Honor) | Peter Weir (Witness)

Oliver Stone (Platoon)

David Lynch (Blue Velvet) | James Ivory (A Room with a View) | Roland Joffé (The Mission) | Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters)

Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor)

Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction) | John Boorman (Hope and Glory) | Lasse Hallström (My Life as a Dog) | Norman Jewison (Moonstruck)

Barry Levinson (Rain Man)

Alan Parker (Mississippi Burning) | Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda) | Martin Scorsese (The Last Temptation of Christ) | Mike Nichols (Working Girl)

Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July)

Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot) | Kenneth Branagh (Henry V) | Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society) | Woody Allen (Crimes and Misdemeanors)

Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)

Barbet Schroeder (Reversal of Fortune) | Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather: Part III) | Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas) | Stephen Frears (The Grifters)

Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)

Barry Levinson (Bugsy) | John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) | Oliver Stone (JFK) | Ridley Scott (Thelma & Louise)

Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)

James Ivory (Howards End) | Martin Brest (Scent of a Woman) | Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) | Robert Altman (The Player)

Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List)

James Ivory (The Remains of the Day) | Jane Campion (The Piano) | Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) | Robert Altman (Short Cuts)

Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)

Krzysztof Kieslowski (Trois Couleurs: Rouge) | Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) | Robert Redford (Quiz Show) | Woody Allen (Bullets Over Broadway)

Mel Gibson (Braveheart)

Chris Noonan (Babe) | Michael Radford (Il Postino (The Postman)) | Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) | Tim Robbins (Dead Man Walking)

Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)

Joel Coen (Fargo) | Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies) | Milos Forman (The People vs. Larry Flynt) | Scott Hicks (Shine)

James Cameron (Titanic)

Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) | Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) | Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) | Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty)

Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)

John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) | Peter Weir (The Truman Show) | Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful) | Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line)

Sam Mendes (American Beauty)

Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules) | M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) | Michael Mann (The Insider) | Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich)

Steven Soderbergh (Traffic)

Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) | Ridley Scott (Gladiator) | Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) | Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich)

Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)

David Lynch (Mulholland Drive) | Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) | Ridley Scott (Black Hawk Down) | Robert Altman (Gosford Park)

Roman Polanski (The Pianist)

Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York) | Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her) | Rob Marshall (Chicago) | Stephen Daldry (The Hours)

Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)

Clint Eastwood (Mystic River) | Fernando Meirelles (City of God) | Peter Weir (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World) | Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)

Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)

Alexander Payne (Sideways) | Martin Scorsese (The Aviator) | Mike Leigh (Vera Drake) | Taylor Hackford (Ray)

Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

Bennett Miller (Capote) | George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck) | Paul Haggis (Crash) | Steven Spielberg (Munich)

Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel) | Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima) | Paul Greengrass (United 93) | Stephen Frears (The Queen)

Ethan Coen & Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men)

Jason Reitman (Juno) | Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) | Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) | Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton)

Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) | Gus Van Sant (Milk) | Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon) | Stephen Daldry (The Reader)

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

James Cameron (Avatar) | Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) | Lee Daniels (Previous) | Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

Tom Hooper (The King's Speech)

Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) | David Fincher (The Social Network) | David O. Russell (The Fighter) | Ethan Coen & Joel Coen (True Grit)

Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)

Alexander Payne (The Descendants) | Martin Scorsese (Hugo) | Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) | Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)

Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild) | David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) | Michael Haneke (Amour) | Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)

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Oscar Nominations

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