The Ambassador Hotel was a hotel in Los Angeles, California, and location of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub until it was demolished in 2005.
 The hotel began operation formally on January 1, 1921, and subsequently was the site of the 2nd Academy Awards, the 3rd Academy Awards, the 5th Academy Awards, the 6th Academy Awards, the 12th Academy Awards, the 15th Academy Awards, and the June 1968 assassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
 The hotel closed to guests in 1989.
West Side Story is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.
 The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was inspired by William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet".
 It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and George Chakiris, and was photographed by Daniel L. Fapp, A.S.C., in Super Panavision 70.
 Released on October 18, 1961 through United Artists, the film received high praise from critics and viewers, and became the second highest grossing film of the year in the United States.
 The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 10, including Best Picture (as well as a special award for Robbins), becoming the record holder for the most wins for a movie musical.
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American film director, producer and editor.
 He won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for both "West Side Story" (1961) and "The Sound of Music" (1965).
 He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for "Citizen Kane" (1941) and directed and produced "The Sand Pebbles" (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.
The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton.
 This film, which was then-film editor Robert Wise's first directing credit, is the sequel to "Cat People" (1942) and has many of the same characters.
 However, the movie has a completely different story, and no visible cat people, only the ghost of a character established as a cat-person in the previous film.
 The screenplay was again written by DeWitt Bodeen.
Executive Suite is a 1954 American MGM drama film directed by Robert Wise and written by Ernest Lehman, based on the novel of the same name by Cameron Hawley.
 The film stars William Holden, June Allyson, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, Shelley Winters, and Nina Foch.
 The plot depicts the internal struggle for control of a furniture manufacturing company after the unexpected death of the company's CEO.
 "Executive Suite" was nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including for Nina Foch's performance, which earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination.
David Owen Russell (born August 20, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
 His early directing career includes the comedy films "Spanking the Monkey" (1994), "Flirting with Disaster" (1996), "Three Kings" (1999) and "I ♥ Huckabees" (2004).
The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter.
 The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 narrative poem written by Joseph Moncure March.
 "The Set-Up" was the last film Wise made for RKO, and he named it his favorite among the pictures he directed for the studio, as well as one of his top ten during his entire career.
A Storm in Summer is a 2000 telemovie directed by Robert Wise and starring Peter Falk, Andrew McCarthy, Nastassja Kinski and Ruby Dee.
 This is the last film to be directed by Wise before his death.
Born to Kill is a 1947 American film noir starring Lawrence Tierney and directed by Robert Wise.
 It was the first film noir to be directed by Wise, who later directed "The Set-Up" (1949), "The Captive City" (1952), and "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959).
 The film also features Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak, and Elisha Cook Jr.
Jerome Robbins (October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American choreographer, director, dancer, and theater producer who worked in classical ballet, on Broadway, and in films and television.
 Among his numerous stage productions he worked on were "On the Town", "Peter Pan", "High Button Shoes", "The King And I", "The Pajama Game", "Bells Are Ringing", "West Side Story", "", and "Fiddler on the Roof"; Robbins was a five time Tony Award winner and a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
 He received two Academy Awards, including the 1961 Academy Award for Best Director with Robert Wise for "West Side Story".
 A documentary about his life and work, "Something to Dance About", featuring excerpts from his journals, archival performance and rehearsal footage, and interviews with Robbins and his colleagues, premiered on PBS in 2009 and won both an Emmy and a Peabody Award the same year.

Question: Who won more Academy Awards, David O. Russell or Robert Wise?
Answer: Robert Earl Wise