RANK

DIRECTOR

NOMINATIONS

WINS

FILMS

1

Steven Spielberg

13

3

The Color Purple (1985)

Schindler’s List (1993)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

2

Fred Zinnemann

7

2

From Here to Eternity (1953)

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

3

Robert Wise

5

2

West Side Story (1961)

The Sound of Music (1965)

4

Francis Ford Coppola

5

2

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

5

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

4

2

A Letter to Three Wives (1948)

All About Eve (1950)

6

George Stevens

4

2

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Giant (1956)

7

David Lean

4

2

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

8

Clint Eastwood

4

2

Unforgiven (1992)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)

9

Ron Howard

4

2

Apollo 13 (1995)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

10

Ang Lee

4

2

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

11

Oliver Stone

3

2

Platoon (1986)

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

12

Alejandro González Iñárritu

3

2

Birdman (2014)

The Revenant (2015)

13

Miloš Forman

2

2

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

Amadeus (1984)

14

Alfonso Cuarón

2

2

Gravity (2014)

Roma (2018)

15

Sam Mendes

2

2

American Beauty (1999)

1917 (2019)