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Best Director

Directing · 97 ceremonies · 1929-present



































































































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1Woody Allen71244
2Steven Spielberg92243
3Billy Wilder82216
4Martin Scorsese101161
5Joel Coen31154
6Ethan Coen21154
7Francis Coppola41145
8Paul Thomas Anderson41143
9William Wyler123143
10John Huston51142
11Warren Beatty21141
12Stanley Kubrick40131
13Federico Fellini40120
14Clint Eastwood42114
15Alfonso Cuarón22114
16Oliver Stone32113
17David Lean72112
18Laurence Olivier10111
19Fred Zinnemann72104
20Joseph L. Mankiewicz4294
21Peter Jackson2193
22George Stevens5292
23Ingmar Bergman3090
24Stanley Kramer3090
25James L. Brooks1183
26Guillermo del Toro1183
27Leo McCarey3283
28Christopher Nolan2182
29George Clooney1082
30Quentin Tarantino3082
31Wes Anderson1081
32Kenneth Branagh2081
33Richard Brooks3081
34Alejandro G. Iñárritu3274
35Robert Wise3274
36James Cameron2173
37Robert Benton2173
38Alexander Payne3072
39Elia Kazan5272
40Sydney Pollack3172
41Martin McDonagh1071
42Adam McKay2071
43Norman Jewison3070
44Robert Altman5070
45Mike Leigh2070
46John Ford5464
47Frank Capra6363
48Chloé Zhao2162
49Barry Levinson2161
50George Miller1061
51Robert Rossen2061
52Todd Field1060
53Yorgos Lanthimos2060
54Peter Weir4060
55Jim Sheridan2060
56George Seaton1052
57Ang Lee3252
58Jane Campion2152
59Paul Haggis1052
60Sam Mendes2151
61Spike Lee1051
62George Cukor5151
63Mike Nichols4151
64Ryan Coogler1051
65Roman Polanski3151
66Clarence Brown5050
67James Mangold1050
68Alfred Hitchcock5050
69Richard Linklater1050
70Sidney Lumet4050
71John Boorman2050
72King Vidor4050
73David O. Russell3050
74Sean Baker1144
75Bernardo Bertolucci2142
76Ron Howard2142
77Kenneth Lonergan1041
78Cecil B. DeMille1041
79William A. Wellman3041
80James Ivory3041
81Spike Jonze1041
82Anthony Minghella1141
83Jordan Peele1041
84Robert Redford2141
85Bob Fosse3141
86Jack Cardiff1041
87Michael Curtiz4141
88Jacques Audiard1041
89Josh Safdie1040
90Greta Gerwig1040
91George Lucas2040
92Peter Yates2040
93David Lynch3040
94Ridley Scott3040
95Michael Mann1040
96Todd Phillips1040
97Jason Reitman2040
98Denis Villeneuve1040
99Daniel Scheinert1133
100Daniel Kwan1133
101Bong Joon Ho1133
102Milos Forman3232
103Michael Cimino1132
104Frank Lloyd3232
105Kathryn Bigelow1132
106Mel Gibson2132
107Lewis Milestone2132
108Kevin Costner1132
109Barry Jenkins1031
110Damien Chazelle1131
111Costa-Gavras1031
112Michel Hazanavicius1131
113Tom McCarthy1031
114Steven Soderbergh2131
115Danny Boyle1131
116Sofia Coppola1031
117Orson Welles1031
118Roberto Benigni1031
119Curtis Hanson1031
120Taylor Hackford1031
121John Schlesinger3131
122Emerald Fennell1031
123Claude Lelouch1031
124Carol Reed3131
125Hal Ashby1031
126Coralie Fargeat1030
127Alan J. Pakula1030
128John Cassavetes1030
129Arthur Penn3030
130Francois Truffaut1030
131Louis Malle1030
132Joshua Logan2030
133Lasse Hallström2030
134Otto Preminger2030
135Terrence Malick2030
136Brady Corbet1030
137Sam Wood3030
138Stephen Daldry3030
139David Fincher3030
140Joachim Trier1030
141Michael Cacoyannis1030
142Frank Borzage1122
143Richard Attenborough1122
144Tony Richardson1122
145John Farrow1021
146George Roy Hill2121
147Tim Robbins1021
148Vincente Minnelli2121
149Pedro Almodóvar1021
150Pietro Germi1021
151William Friedkin2121
152Robert Zemeckis1121
153Steve McQueen1021
154Norman Taurog2121
155John G. Avildsen1121
156Neil Jordan1021
157Justine Triet1021
158Bruce Beresford1020
159Charles Crichton1020
160Richard Rush1020
161Franco Zeffirelli1020
162Henry King2020
163Scott Hicks1020
164Lee Isaac Chung1020
165Gillo Pontecorvo1020
166Alan Parker2020
167Herbert Ross1020
168Mark Robson2020
169Edouard Molinaro1020
170Ruben Östlund1020
171Gus Van Sant2020
172Atom Egoyan1020
173Lina Wertmüller1020
174Peter Bogdanovich1020
175Wolfgang Petersen1020
176Stephen Frears2020
177Josef Von Sternberg2020
178Roland Joffé2020
179Krzysztof Kieslowski1020
180Jonathan Glazer1020
181Robert Leonard2020
182Buck Henry1020
183Tony Gilroy1020
184Jules Dassin1020
185Michelangelo Antonioni1020
186Chris Noonan1020
187Lee Daniels1020
188Mike Figgis1020
189Ernst Lubitsch2020
190Michael Haneke1020
191Benh Zeitlin1020
192Michael Radford1020
193John Singleton1020
194Jan Troell1020
195Gregory La Cava2020
196Anatole Litvak1020
197Martin Brest1020
198W. S. Van Dyke2020
199Bennett Miller2020
200Ryusuke Hamaguchi1020
201M. Night Shyamalan1020
202Peter Cattaneo1020
203Jerome Robbins1111
204Franklin J. Schaffner1111
205Delbert Mann1111
206Tom Hooper1111
207Jonathan Demme1111
208Victor Fleming1111
209Lionel Barrymore0011
210Hugh Hudson1010
211Hector Babenco1010
212Akira Kurosawa1010
213John Sturges1010
214Adrian Lyne1010
215Charles Walters1010
216Jack Clayton1010
217Barbet Schroeder1010
218Jean Negulesco1010
219Edward Dmytryk1010
220Henry Koster1010
221Robert Siodmak1010
222Jean Renoir1010
223Peter Glenville1010
224Mervyn LeRoy1010
225Howard Hawks1010
226John Madden1010
227Robert Stevenson1010
228Alexander Hall1010
229Martin Ritt1010
230Robert Mulligan1010
231Hiroshi Teshigahara1010
232William Dieterle1010
233Sidney Franklin1010
234Rob Marshall1010
235Henry Hathaway1010
236Fernando Meirelles1010
237J. Lee Thompson1010
238Victor Schertzinger1010
239Wesley Ruggles1010
240Paul Greengrass1010
241Julian Schnabel1010
242Ken Russell1010
243Frank Perry1010
244Arthur Hiller1010
245Darren Aronofsky1010
246Morten Tyldum1010
247Lenny Abrahamson1010
248Pawel Pawlikowski1010
249Anthony Harvey1010
250Thomas Vinterberg1010
251Walter Lang1010
252Michael Anderson1010
253Mark Rydell1010
254Irving Cummings0000
255Harry Beaumont0000
Known as
Best Director
1929-present