who won the most oscars for best director
List of directors with two or more Academy Awards for Best Director Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, there have been directors that have received multiple Academy Awards for Best Directing. As of 2015 (88th Academy Awards), 20 directors have received two or more Academy Awards for Best Directing. Three of these directors have received more than two Academy Awards for Best Directing: John Ford (four Best Directing awards),[4] Frank Capra (three Best Directing awards),[5] and William Wyler (three Best Directing awards).[6]
Academy Award for Best Director For the first eleven years of the Academy Awards, directors were allowed to be nominated for multiple films in the same year. However, after the nomination of Michael Curtiz for two films, Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters, at the 11th Academy Awards, the rules were revised so that an individual could only be nominated for one film at each ceremony.[6] That rule has since been amended, although the only director who has received multiple nominations in the same year was Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000, winning the award for the latter. The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 89 films that have been awarded Best Picture, 63 have also been awarded Best Director.[7] Since its inception, the award has been given to 69 directors or directing teams. John Ford has received the most awards in this category with four. William Wyler was nominated on twelve occasions, more than any other individual. Martin Scorsese is currently the most nominated living director with 8 Academy Award nominations. As of the 2017 ceremony, Damien Chazelle is the most recent winner in this category for his work on La La Land.Chazelle also became the youngest director in history to receive this award, at the age of 32. Two directing teams have shared the award; Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for West Side Story in 1961 and Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men in 2007. The Coen brothers are the only siblings to have won the award.[8] Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to have won the award, for 2009's The Hurt Locker.
John Addison John Mervyn Addison (16 March 1920 – 7 December 1998) was a British composer best known for his film scores.[1]
William Daniels William David Daniels (born March 31, 1927) is an American actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1999 to 2001.