Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, John Ford, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese are listed. Here are the 42 most honored directors in the history of motion pictures.
There are a few surprises. Not on the list are recent powerhouses such as Quentin Tarantino (with only three nominations), Joel Coen (with three nominations and one win), David Fincher (with three nominations), Paul Thomas Anderson (with three nominations), and Wes Anderson (with only one nomination). Look for them to join the list sometime in the future.
The Oscar nomination/win is for BEST DIRECTOR unless otherwise specified.
Federico Fellini (4 Wins: 8 Nominations)
La Strada 1956*
The Nights of Cabiria 1957*
La Dolce Vita 1961
81/2 1963*
81/2 1963
Satyricon 1970
Amarcord 1974*
Amaracord 1975
Highlighted/Italicized: Oscar win.
* Best International Film.
John Ford (4 Wins: 5 Nominations)
The Informer 1935
Stagecoach 1939
The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
How Green is My Valley, 1941
The Quiet Man 1952
Highlighted/Italicized: Oscar win.
William Wyler (3 Wins: 12 Nominations)
Dodsworth 1936
Wuthering Heights 1939
The Letter 1940
The Little Foxes 1941
Mrs. Miniver 1942
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
The Heiress 1949
Detective Story 1951
Roman Holiday 1953
Friendly Persuasion 1956
Ben Hur 1959
The Collector 1965
Highlighted/Italicized: Oscar win.
Ingmar Bergman (3 Wins: 6 Nominations)
The Virgin Spring 1960*
Through a Glass Darkly 1961*
Cries and Whispers 1973
Face to Face 1976
Fanny and Alexander 1983*
Fanny and Alexander, 1983
Italics: Oscar win
*Best International Film
Ang Lee (3 Wins: 6 Nominations)
The Wedding Banquet 1993*
Eat Drink Man Woman 1994*
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000*
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000
Brokeback Mountain 2005
The Life of Pi 2012
Italics: Oscar win.
*Best International Film
Frank Capra (3 Wins: 5 Nominations)
It Happened One Night 1934
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936
You Can’t Take It With You 1938
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in 1939
It’s a Wonderful Life 1946
Italics: Oscar win
Vittorio De Sica (3 Oscars: 2 **Special Oscars, 1 win and 3 Nominations)
Shoe-Shine 1947**
Bicycle Thieves 1949**
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 1964*
Marriage Italian Style 1965*
The Garden of the Finzi-Cortinis 1971 *
Italics: Oscar win – special award
*Best International Film
** Before 1954, no nominations existed for Best International Film. This was a special award.
Alfonso Cuaron (3 Wins: 3 Nominations)
Gravity 2013
Roma 2018
Roma 2018*
Italics: Oscar win
*Best International Film
Steven Spielberg (2 Wins: 9 Nominations)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
Riders of the Lost Ark 1981
ET 1982
Schindler’s List 1993
Saving Private Ryan 1998
Munich 2005
Lincoln 2012
West Side Story 2021
The Fabelmans 2022
Italics: Oscar win
Billy Wilder (2 Wins: 8 Nominations)
Double Indemnity 1944
The Lost Weekend 1945
Sunset Boulevard 1950
Stalag 17 1953
Sabrina 1954
Witness for the Prosecution 1957
Some Like It Hot 1959
The Apartment 1960
Italics: Oscar win
David Lean ( 2 Wins: 7 Nominations)
Brief Encounter 1946
Great Expectations 1947
Summertime 1955
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Doctor Zhivago 1965
A Passage to India 1984
Italics: Oscar win
Fred Zinnemann (2 Wins: 7 Nominations)
The Search 1948
High Noon 1952
From Here to Eternity 1953
The Nun’s Story 1959
The Sundowners 1960
A Man For All Seasons 1966
Julia 1977
Italics: Oscar win
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu (2 Wins: 5 Nominations)
Amores Perros 2000*
Babel 2006
Biutiful 2010*
Birdman 2014
The Revenant 2015
Italics: Oscar win
*Best International Film
Elia Kazan (2 Wins: 5 Nominations)
Gentleman’s Agreement 1947
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
On the Waterfront 1954
East of Eden, 1955
America America 1963
Italics: Oscar win
George Stevens (2 Wins: 5 Nominations)
The More the Merrier 1943
A Place in the Sun 1951
Shane 1953
Giant 1956
The Diary of Anne Frank, 1959
Italics: Oscar win
Clint Eastwood (2 Wins: 4 Nominations)
The Unforgiven 1992
Mystic River 2003
Million Dollar Baby 2004
Letters from Iwo Jima 2006
Italics: Oscar win
Milos Foreman (2 Wins: 4 Nominations)
Loves of a Blonde 1966*
The Fireman’s Ball 1968*
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975
Amadeus 1984
Italics: Oscar win
*Best International Film
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (2 Wins: 4 Nominations)
A Letter to Three Wives 1949
All About Eve 1950
The Five Fingers 1952
Sleuth 1972
Italics: Oscar win
Akira Kurosawa (2 Oscars: 1 Special Oscar, 1 win and 3 Nominations)
Rashomon 1951**
Derzu Uzula 1975*
Kagemusha 1980*
Ran 1985
Italics: Oscar win – special award
*Best International Film
** Before 1954, no nominations existed for Best International Film. This was a special award.
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Frank Lloyd (2 Wins: 3 Nominations)
The Divine Lady 1928/1929
Cavalcade 1932/1933
Mutiny on the Bounty 1935
Italics: Oscar win
Leo McCarey (2 Wins: 3 Nominations)
The Awful Truth 1937
Going My Way 1944
The Bells of Saint Mary’s 1945
Italics: Oscar win
Oliver Stone (2 Wins: 3 Nominations)
Platoon 1986
Born on the Fourth of July, 1989
JFK 1991
Italics: Oscar win
Robert Wise (2 Wins: 3 Nominations)
I Want to Live 1958
West Side Story 1961
The Sound of Music 1965
Italics: Oscar win
Frank Borzage (2 Wins: 2 Nominations)
7th Heaven 1927/1928
Bad Girl 1931/1932
Italics: Oscar win
René Clément (2 Special Oscars: 0 Nominations)
The Walls of Malapaga 1950**
Forbidden Games 1952**
Italics: Oscar win – special award
** Before 1954, no nominations existed for Best International Film. This was a special award.
Asghar Farhadi ( 2 Wins: 2 Nominations)
A Separation 2011*
The Salesman 2016*
Italics: Oscar win.
*Best International Film
Lewis Milestone (Two Wins: 2 Nominations)
Two Arabian Nights 1927/1928
All Quiet on the Western Front 1929/1930
Italics: Oscar win
Martin Scorsese (1 Win: 10 nominations)
Raging Bull 1980
The Last Temptation of Christ 1988
Goodfellas (1990)
Gangs of New York 2002
The Aviator 2004
The Departed 2006
Hugo 2011
The Wolf of Wall Street 2013
The Irishman 2019
Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Italics: Oscar win.
Woody Allen (1 Win: 7 nominations)
Annie Hall 1977
Interiors 1978
Broadway Danny Rose 1984
Hannah and Her Sisters 1986
Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989
Bullets Over Broadway 1994
Midnight in Paris 2011
Italics: Oscar
George Cukor (1 Win: 5 nominations)
Little Women 1932/1933
The Philadelphia Story 1940
A Double Life 1947
Born Yesterday 1950
My Fair Lady 1964
Italics: Oscar win.
John Huston (1 Win: 5 nominations)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madré 1948
The Asphalt Jungle 1950
The African Queen 1951
Moulin Rouge 1952
Prizzi’s Honor 1985
Italics: Oscar win.
Pedro Almodovar (1 Win: 4 Nominations)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988*
All About My Mother 1999*
Talk to Her 2002
Pain and Glory 2019*
Italics: Oscar win
*Best International Film
Francis Ford Coppola (1 Win: 4 Nominations)
The Godfather 1972
The Godfather, Part II 1974
Apocalypse Now 1979
The Godfather, Part III, 1990
Italics: Oscar win
Mike Nichols (1 Win: 4 Nominations)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1966
The Graduate 1967
Silkwood 1983
Working Girl 1988
Italics: Oscar win
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Francois Truffaut (1 Win: 4 Nominations)
Stolen Kisses 1968*
Day For Night 1973*
Day For Night 1974
The Last Metro 1980*
Italics: Oscar win
*Best International Film
Robert Altman (0 Wins: 5 nominations)
M*A*S*H 1970
Nashville 1975
The Player 1992
Shortcuts 1993
Gosford Park 2001
Clarence Brown (0 Wins: 5 Nominations)
Anna Christie and Romance 1929/1930
A Free Soul 1930/1931
The Human Comedy 1943
The Yearling 1946
Alfred Hitchcock (0 Wins: 5 nominations)
Rebecca 1940
Lifeboat 1944
Spellbound 1945
Rear Window 1954
Psycho 1960
King Vidor (0 Wins: 5 nominations)
The Crowd 1927/1928
Hallelujah 1929/1930
The Champ 1931/1932
The Citadel 1938
War and Peace 1956
Stanley Kubrick (0 Wins, 4 Nominations)
Dr. Strangelove 1964
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
A Clockwork Orange 1971
Barry Lyndon 1975
Sidney Lumet (0 Wins: 4 Nominations)
Twelve Angry Men 1957
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Network 1976
The Verdict 1982
Peter Weir (0 Wins: 4 Nominations)
Witness 1985
Dead Poets Society 1989
The Truman Show 1998
Master and Commander of the World 2003
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