All About My Mother
Pedro Almodóvar holds the record of most wins and nominations for this category, with three wins out of ten nominations, winning for "All About My Mother" (1999), "Volver" (2006) and "Pain and Glory" (2019). Almodóvar also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for "Talk to Her" (2002), a film for which he received a Goya nomination in this category. Directors Fernando Trueba, Alejandro Amenábar, Isabel Coixet, Fernando León de Aranoa and Juan Antonio Bayona have received this award twice.