# Golden Globe Award for Best Director

The Golden Globe Award for Best Director – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award that has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943.
Having won all four of his nominations, Elia Kazan has been honored most often in this category. Clint Eastwood, Miloš Forman, David Lean, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Oliver Stone tie for second place with three wins each. Steven Spielberg has had the most nominations (fourteen). Barbra Streisand, Chloé Zhao and Jane Campion are the only women to have won the award.
Receiving the award in 1984 for Yentl, Barbra Streisand became the first woman to win the Golden Globe for Best Director.
She remained the only woman to win a Golden Globe for directing for 37 years until Chloé Zhao won the award for Nomadland in 2021 and became the second woman and the first Asian woman to do so.
In the following lists, the first names, listed in bold type against a blue background, are the winners, and the following names are the remaining nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which takes place in January of the following year.

## Winners and nominees
### 1940s

| Year | Name | Film |
| 1943 | Henry King | The Song of Bernadette |
| 1944 | Leo McCarey | Going My Way |
| 1945 | Billy Wilder | The Lost Weekend |
| 1946 | Frank Capra | It's a Wonderful Life |
| 1947 | Elia Kazan | Gentleman's Agreement |
| 1948 | John Huston | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 1949 | Robert Rossen | All the King's Men |

### 1950s

| Year | Name | Film |
| 1950 | Billy Wilder | Sunset Boulevard |
| 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | All About Eve |
| 1950 | John Huston | The Asphalt Jungle |
| 1950 | George Cukor | Born Yesterday |
| 1951 | László Benedek | Death of a Salesman |
| 1951 | Vincente Minnelli | An American in Paris |
| 1951 | George Stevens | A Place in the Sun |
| 1952 | Cecil B. DeMille | The Greatest Show on Earth |
| 1952 | Richard Fleischer | The Happy Time |
| 1952 | John Ford | The Quiet Man |
| 1953 | Fred Zinnemann | From Here to Eternity |
| 1954 | Elia Kazan | On the Waterfront |
| 1955 | Joshua Logan | Picnic |
| 1956 | Elia Kazan | Baby Doll |
| 1956 | Michael Anderson | Around the World in 80 Days |
| 1956 | George Stevens | Giant |
| 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | Lust for Life |
| 1956 | King Vidor | War and Peace |
| 1957 | David Lean | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 1957 | Sidney Lumet | 12 Angry Men |
| 1957 | Fred Zinnemann | A Hatful of Rain |
| 1957 | Joshua Logan | Sayonara |
| 1957 | Billy Wilder | Witness for the Prosecution |
| 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | Gigi |
| 1958 | Richard Brooks | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| 1958 | Stanley Kramer | The Defiant Ones |
| 1958 | Robert Wise | I Want to Live! |
| 1958 | Delbert Mann | Separate Tables |
| 1959 | William Wyler | Ben-Hur |
| 1959 | Otto Preminger | Anatomy of a Murder |
| 1959 | George Stevens | The Diary of Anne Frank |
| 1959 | Fred Zinnemann | The Nun's Story |
| 1959 | Stanley Kramer | On the Beach |

### 1960s

| Year | Name | Film |
| 1960 | Jack Cardiff | Sons and Lovers |
| 1960 | Billy Wilder | The Apartment |
| 1960 | Richard Brooks | Elmer Gantry |
| 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | Spartacus |
| 1960 | Fred Zinnemann | The Sundowners |
| 1961 | Stanley Kramer | Judgment at Nuremberg |
| 1961 | William Wyler | The Children's Hour |
| 1961 | Anthony Mann | El Cid |
| 1961 | J. Lee Thompson | The Guns of Navarone |
| 1961 | Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise | West Side Story |
| 1962 | David Lean | Lawrence of Arabia |
| 1962 | George Cukor | The Chapman Report |
| 1962 | Blake Edwards | Days of Wine and Roses |
| 1962 | John Huston | Freud: The Secret Passion |
| 1962 | Mervyn LeRoy | Gypsy |
| 1962 | Martin Ritt | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man |
| 1962 | Stanley Kubrick | Lolita |
| 1962 | John Frankenheimer | The Manchurian Candidate |
| 1962 | Morton DaCosta | The Music Man |
| 1962 | Ismael Rodríguez | My Son, the Hero (Los Hermanos Del Hierro) |
| 1962 | Robert Mulligan | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 1963 | Elia Kazan | America America |
| 1963 | Otto Preminger | The Cardinal |
| 1963 | Hall Bartlett | The Caretakers |
| 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Cleopatra |
| 1963 | Robert Wise | The Haunting |
| 1963 | Martin Ritt | Hud |
| 1963 | Tony Richardson | Tom Jones |
| 1963 | George Englund | The Ugly American |
| 1964 | George Cukor | My Fair Lady |
| 1964 | Peter Glenville | Becket |
| 1964 | John Huston | The Night of the Iguana |
| 1964 | John Frankenheimer | Seven Days in May |
| 1964 | Michael Cacoyannis | Zorba the Greek |
| 1965 | David Lean | Doctor Zhivago |
| 1965 | William Wyler | The Collector |
| 1965 | John Schlesinger | Darling |
| 1965 | Guy Green | A Patch of Blue |
| 1965 | Robert Wise | The Sound of Music |
| 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | A Man for All Seasons |
| 1966 | Lewis Gilbert | Alfie |
| 1966 | Claude Lelouch | A Man and a Woman |
| 1966 | Robert Wise | The Sand Pebbles |
| 1966 | Mike Nichols | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| 1967 | Mike Nichols | The Graduate |
| 1967 | Arthur Penn | Bonnie and Clyde |
| 1967 | Mark Rydell | The Fox |
| 1967 | Stanley Kramer | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
| 1967 | Norman Jewison | In the Heat of the Night |
| 1968 | Paul Newman | Rachel, Rachel |
| 1968 | William Wyler | Funny Girl |
| 1968 | Anthony Harvey | The Lion in Winter |
| 1968 | Carol Reed | Oliver! |
| 1968 | Franco Zeffirelli | Romeo and Juliet |
| 1969 | Charles Jarrott | Anne of the Thousand Days |
| 1969 | Gene Kelly | Hello, Dolly! |
| 1969 | John Schlesinger | Midnight Cowboy |
| 1969 | Stanley Kramer | The Secret of Santa Vittoria |
| 1969 | Sydney Pollack | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |

### 1970s

| Year | Name | Film |
| 1970 | Arthur Hiller | Love Story |
| 1970 | Bob Rafelson | Five Easy Pieces |
| 1970 | Robert Altman | M*A*S*H |
| 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Patton |
| 1970 | Ken Russell | Women in Love |
| 1971 | William Friedkin | The French Connection |
| 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | A Clockwork Orange |
| 1971 | Norman Jewison | Fiddler on the Roof |
| 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | The Last Picture Show |
| 1971 | Robert Mulligan | Summer of '42 |
| 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather |
| 1972 | Billy Wilder | Avanti! |
| 1972 | Bob Fosse | Cabaret |
| 1972 | John Boorman | Deliverance |
| 1972 | Alfred Hitchcock | Frenzy |
| 1973 | William Friedkin | The Exorcist |
| 1973 | George Lucas | American Graffiti |
| 1973 | Fred Zinnemann | The Day of the Jackal |
| 1973 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Last Tango in Paris |
| 1973 | Peter Bogdanovich | Paper Moon |
| 1974 | Roman Polanski | Chinatown |
| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Conversation |
| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Part II |
| 1974 | Bob Fosse | Lenny |
| 1974 | John Cassavetes | A Woman Under the Influence |
| 1975 | Miloš Forman | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| 1975 | Stanley Kubrick | Barry Lyndon |
| 1975 | Sidney Lumet | Dog Day Afternoon |
| 1975 | Steven Spielberg | Jaws |
| 1975 | Robert Altman | Nashville |
| 1976 | Sidney Lumet | Network |
| 1976 | Alan J. Pakula | All the President's Men |
| 1976 | Hal Ashby | Bound for Glory |
| 1976 | John Schlesinger | Marathon Man |
| 1976 | John G. Avildsen | Rocky |
| 1977 | Herbert Ross | The Turning Point |
| 1977 | Woody Allen | Annie Hall |
| 1977 | Steven Spielberg | Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| 1977 | Fred Zinnemann | Julia |
| 1977 | George Lucas | Star Wars |
| 1978 | Michael Cimino | The Deer Hunter |
| 1978 | Hal Ashby | Coming Home |
| 1978 | Terrence Malick | Days of Heaven |
| 1978 | Woody Allen | Interiors |
| 1978 | Alan Parker | Midnight Express |
| 1978 | Paul Mazursky | An Unmarried Woman |
| 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | Apocalypse Now |
| 1979 | Hal Ashby | Being There |
| 1979 | Peter Yates | Breaking Away |
| 1979 | James Bridges | The China Syndrome |
| 1979 | Robert Benton | Kramer vs. Kramer |

### 1980s

| Year | Name | Film |
| 1980 | Robert Redford | Ordinary People |
| 1980 | David Lynch | The Elephant Man |
| 1980 | Martin Scorsese | Raging Bull |
| 1980 | Richard Rush | The Stunt Man |
| 1980 | Roman Polanski | Tess |
| 1981 | Warren Beatty | Reds |
| 1981 | Louis Malle | Atlantic City |
| 1981 | Mark Rydell | On Golden Pond |
| 1981 | Sidney Lumet | Prince of the City |
| 1981 | Miloš Forman | Ragtime |
| 1981 | Steven Spielberg | Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| 1982 | Richard Attenborough | Gandhi |
| 1982 | Steven Spielberg | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
| 1982 | Constantin Costa-Gavras | Missing |
| 1982 | Sydney Pollack | Tootsie |
| 1982 | Sidney Lumet | The Verdict |
| 1983 | Barbra Streisand | Yentl |
| 1983 | Peter Yates | The Dresser |
| 1983 | Ingmar Bergman | Fanny and Alexander |
| 1983 | Mike Nichols | Silkwood |
| 1983 | Bruce Beresford | Tender Mercies |
| 1983 | James L. Brooks | Terms of Endearment |
| 1984 | Miloš Forman | Amadeus |
| 1984 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Cotton Club |
| 1984 | Roland Joffé | The Killing Fields |
| 1984 | Sergio Leone | Once Upon a Time in America |
| 1984 | David Lean | A Passage to India |
| 1985 | John Huston | Prizzi's Honor |
| 1985 | Richard Attenborough | A Chorus Line |
| 1985 | Steven Spielberg | The Color Purple |
| 1985 | Sydney Pollack | Out of Africa |
| 1985 | Peter Weir | Witness |
| 1986 | Oliver Stone | Platoon |
| 1986 | Woody Allen | Hannah and Her Sisters |
| 1986 | Roland Joffé | The Mission |
| 1986 | James Ivory | A Room with a View |
| 1986 | Rob Reiner | Stand by Me |
| 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | The Last Emperor |
| 1987 | James L. Brooks | Broadcast News |
| 1987 | Richard Attenborough | Cry Freedom |
| 1987 | Adrian Lyne | Fatal Attraction |
| 1987 | John Boorman | Hope and Glory |
| 1988 | Clint Eastwood | Bird |
| 1988 | Fred Schepisi | A Cry in the Dark |
| 1988 | Alan Parker | Mississippi Burning |
| 1988 | Barry Levinson | Rain Man |
| 1988 | Sidney Lumet | Running on Empty |
| 1988 | Mike Nichols | Working Girl |
| 1989 | Oliver Stone | Born on the Fourth of July |
| 1989 | Peter Weir | Dead Poets Society |
| 1989 | Spike Lee | Do the Right Thing |
| 1989 | Edward Zwick | Glory |
| 1989 | Rob Reiner | When Harry Met Sally... |

### 1990s

| Year | Name | Film |
| 1990 | Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves |
| 1990 | Francis Ford Coppola | The Godfather Part III |
| 1990 | Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas |
| 1990 | Barbet Schroeder | Reversal of Fortune |
| 1990 | Bernardo Bertolucci | The Sheltering Sky |
| 1991 | Oliver Stone | JFK |
| 1991 | Barry Levinson | Bugsy |
| 1991 | Terry Gilliam | The Fisher King |
| 1991 | Barbra Streisand | The Prince of Tides |
| 1991 | Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs |
| 1992 | Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven |
| 1992 | Rob Reiner | A Few Good Men |
| 1992 | James Ivory | Howards End |
| 1992 | Robert Altman | The Player |
| 1992 | Robert Redford | A River Runs Through It |
| 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List |
| 1993 | Martin Scorsese | The Age of Innocence |
| 1993 | Andrew Davis | The Fugitive |
| 1993 | Jane Campion | The Piano |
| 1993 | James Ivory | The Remains of the Day |
| 1994 | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump |
| 1994 | Edward Zwick | Legends of the Fall |
| 1994 | Oliver Stone | Natural Born Killers |
| 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | Pulp Fiction |
| 1994 | Robert Redford | Quiz Show |
| 1995 | Mel Gibson | Braveheart |
| 1995 | Rob Reiner | The American President |
| 1995 | Ron Howard | Apollo 13 |
| 1995 | Martin Scorsese | Casino |
| 1995 | Mike Figgis | Leaving Las Vegas |
| 1995 | Ang Lee | Sense and Sensibility |
| 1996 | Miloš Forman | The People vs. Larry Flynt |
| 1996 | Anthony Minghella | The English Patient |
| 1996 | Alan Parker | Evita |
| 1996 | Joel Coen | Fargo |
| 1996 | Scott Hicks | Shine |
| 1997 | James Cameron | Titanic |
| 1997 | Steven Spielberg | Amistad |
| 1997 | James L. Brooks | As Good as It Gets |
| 1997 | Jim Sheridan | The Boxer |
| 1997 | Curtis Hanson | L.A. Confidential |
| 1998 | Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan |
| 1998 | Shekhar Kapur | Elizabeth |
| 1998 | Robert Redford | The Horse Whisperer |
| 1998 | John Madden | Shakespeare in Love |
| 1998 | Peter Weir | The Truman Show |
| 1999 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty |
| 1999 | Neil Jordan | The End of the Affair |
| 1999 | Norman Jewison | The Hurricane |
| 1999 | Michael Mann | The Insider |
| 1999 | Anthony Minghella | The Talented Mr. Ripley |

### 2000s

| Year | Name | Film |
| 2000 | Ang Lee | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Erin Brockovich |
| 2000 | Ridley Scott | Gladiator |
| 2000 | István Szabó | Sunshine |
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffic |
| 2001 | Robert Altman | Gosford Park |
| 2001 | Steven Spielberg | A.I. Artificial Intelligence |
| 2001 | Ron Howard | A Beautiful Mind |
| 2001 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
| 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | Moulin Rouge! |
| 2001 | David Lynch | Mulholland Drive |
| 2002 | Martin Scorsese | Gangs of New York |
| 2002 | Alexander Payne | About Schmidt |
| 2002 | Spike Jonze | Adaptation. |
| 2002 | Rob Marshall | Chicago |
| 2002 | Stephen Daldry | The Hours |
| 2002 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
| 2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 2003 | Anthony Minghella | Cold Mountain |
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation |
| 2003 | Peter Weir | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
| 2003 | Clint Eastwood | Mystic River |
| 2004 | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2004 | Martin Scorsese | The Aviator |
| 2004 | Mike Nichols | Closer |
| 2004 | Marc Forster | Finding Neverland |
| 2004 | Alexander Payne | Sideways |
| 2005 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2005 | Fernando Meirelles | The Constant Gardener |
| 2005 | George Clooney | Good Night, and Good Luck. |
| 2005 | Peter Jackson | King Kong |
| 2005 | Woody Allen | Match Point |
| 2005 | Steven Spielberg | Munich |
| 2006 | Martin Scorsese | The Departed |
| 2006 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel |
| 2006 | Clint Eastwood | Flags of Our Fathers |
| 2006 | Clint Eastwood | Letters from Iwo Jima |
| 2006 | Stephen Frears | The Queen |
| 2007 | Julian Schnabel | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
| 2007 | Ridley Scott | American Gangster |
| 2007 | Joe Wright | Atonement |
| 2007 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
| 2007 | Tim Burton | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| 2008 | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 2008 | David Fincher | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| 2008 | Ron Howard | Frost/Nixon |
| 2008 | Stephen Daldry | The Reader |
| 2008 | Sam Mendes | Revolutionary Road |
| 2009 | James Cameron | Avatar |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker |
| 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds |
| 2009 | Clint Eastwood | Invictus |
| 2009 | Jason Reitman | Up in the Air |

### 2010s

| Year | Name | Film |
| 2010 | David Fincher | The Social Network |
| 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan |
| 2010 | David O. Russell | The Fighter |
| 2010 | Christopher Nolan | Inception |
| 2010 | Tom Hooper | The King's Speech |
| 2011 | Martin Scorsese | Hugo |
| 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist |
| 2011 | Alexander Payne | The Descendants |
| 2011 | George Clooney | The Ides of March |
| 2011 | Woody Allen | Midnight in Paris |
| 2012 | Ben Affleck | Argo |
| 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | Django Unchained |
| 2012 | Ang Lee | Life of Pi |
| 2012 | Steven Spielberg | Lincoln |
| 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity |
| 2013 | Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2013 | David O. Russell | American Hustle |
| 2013 | Paul Greengrass | Captain Phillips |
| 2013 | Alexander Payne | Nebraska |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| 2014 | David Fincher | Gone Girl |
| 2014 | Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| 2014 | Ava DuVernay | Selma |
| 2015 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | The Revenant |
| 2015 | Todd Haynes | Carol |
| 2015 | George Miller | Mad Max: Fury Road |
| 2015 | Ridley Scott | The Martian |
| 2015 | Tom McCarthy | Spotlight |
| 2016 | Damien Chazelle | La La Land |
| 2016 | Mel Gibson | Hacksaw Ridge |
| 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
| 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2016 | Tom Ford | Nocturnal Animals |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water |
| 2017 | Ridley Scott | All the Money in the World |
| 2017 | Christopher Nolan | Dunkirk |
| 2017 | Steven Spielberg | The Post |
| 2017 | Martin McDonagh | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma |
| 2018 | Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman |
| 2018 | Peter Farrelly | Green Book |
| 2018 | Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born |
| 2018 | Adam McKay | Vice |
| 2019 | Sam Mendes | 1917 |
| 2019 | Martin Scorsese | The Irishman |
| 2019 | Todd Phillips | Joker |
| 2019 | Quentin Tarantino | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho | Parasite |

### 2020s

| Year | Name | Film |
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland |
| 2020 | David Fincher | Mank |
| 2020 | Regina King | One Night in Miami... |
| 2020 | Emerald Fennell | Promising Young Woman |
| 2020 | Aaron Sorkin | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog |
| 2021 | Kenneth Branagh | Belfast |
| 2021 | Denis Villeneuve | Dune |
| 2021 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | The Lost Daughter |
| 2021 | Steven Spielberg | West Side Story |
| 2022 | Steven Spielberg | The Fabelmans |
| 2022 | James Cameron | Avatar: The Way of Water |
| 2022 | Martin McDonagh | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Baz Luhrmann | Elvis |
| 2022 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2023 | Christopher Nolan | Oppenheimer |
| 2023 | Greta Gerwig | Barbie |
| 2023 | Martin Scorsese | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| 2023 | Bradley Cooper | Maestro |
| 2023 | Celine Song | Past Lives |
| 2023 | Yorgos Lanthimos | Poor Things |
| 2024 | Brady Corbet | The Brutalist |
| 2024 | Payal Kapadia | All We Imagine as Light |
| 2024 | Sean Baker | Anora |
| 2024 | Edward Berger | Conclave |
| 2024 | Jacques Audiard | Emilia Pérez |
| 2024 | Coralie Fargeat | The Substance |

## Multiple nominations
### More than 5 nominations

* Steven Spielberg (14/3)
* Martin Scorsese (10/3)
* Clint Eastwood (7/3)
* Fred Zinnemann (7/2)
* Francis Ford Coppola (6/2)
* Sidney Lumet (6/1)

### 5 nominations

* Woody Allen (5/0)
* John Huston (5/2)
* Stanley Kramer (5/1)
* Mike Nichols (5/1)
* Billy Wilder (5/2)
* Robert Wise (5/0)

### 4 nominations

* Robert Altman (4/1)
* David Fincher (4/1)
* Miloš Forman (4/3)
* Peter Jackson (4/1)
* Elia Kazan (4/4)
* Stanley Kubrick (4/0)
* David Lean (4/3)
* Ang Lee (4/2)
* Alexander Payne (4/0)
* Robert Redford (4/1)
* Rob Reiner (4/0)
* Ridley Scott (4/0)
* Oliver Stone (4/3)
* Quentin Tarantino (4/0)
* Peter Weir (4/0)
* William Wyler (4/1)

### 3 nominations

* Hal Ashby (3/0)
* Richard Attenborough (3/1)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (3/1)
* James L. Brooks (3/0)
* James Cameron (3/2)
* George Cukor (3/1)
* Ron Howard (3/0)
* Alejandro González Iñárritu (3/1)
* James Ivory (3/0)
* Norman Jewison (3/0)
* Sam Mendes (3/2)
* Anthony Minghella (3/0)
* Vincente Minnelli (3/1)
* Christopher Nolan (3/1)
* Alan Parker (3/0)
* Sydney Pollack (3/0)
* John Schlesinger (3/0)
* George Stevens (3/0)

### 2 nominations

* Kathryn Bigelow (2/0)
* Peter Bogdanovich (2/0)
* John Boorman (2/0)
* Richard Brooks (2/0)
* Jane Campion (2/1)
* George Clooney (2/0)
* Bradley Cooper (2/0)
* Joel Coen (2/0)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2/2)
* Stephen Daldry (2/0)
* Bob Fosse (2/0)
* William Friedkin (2/2)
* John Frankenheimer (2/0)
* Mel Gibson (2/1)
* Roland Joffé (2/0)
* Spike Lee (2/0)
* Barry Levinson (2/0)
* Joshua Logan (2/1)
* George Lucas (2/0)
* Baz Luhrmann (2/0)
* David Lynch (2/0)
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz (2/0)
* Martin McDonagh (2/0)
* Robert Mulligan (2/0)
* Roman Polanski (2/1)
* Otto Preminger (2/0)
* Martin Ritt (2/0)
* David O. Russell (2/0)
* Mark Rydell (2/0)
* Steven Soderbergh (2/0)
* Barbra Streisand (2/1)
* Peter Yates (2/0)
* Edward Zwick (2/0)

## Multiple winners
### 4 awards

* Elia Kazan

### 3 awards

* Clint Eastwood
* Miloš Forman
* David Lean
* Martin Scorsese
* Steven Spielberg
* Oliver Stone

### 2 awards

* James Cameron
* Francis Ford Coppola
* Alfonso Cuarón
* William Friedkin
* John Huston
* Ang Lee
* Sam Mendes
* Billy Wilder
* Fred Zinnemann