William Wyler "Mrs. Miniver". He is tied with Frank Capra and behind John Ford, who won four Oscars in this category. He is also only director in Academy history to direct three Best Picture-winning films (the three for which he won Best Director), and directed more Best Picture nominees than anyone else (thirteen). He has the distinction of having directed more actors to Oscar-nominated performances than any other director in history: thirty-six. Out of these nominees, fourteen went on to win Oscars, also a record. He received the fourth AFI Life Achievement Award in 1976. Among those who thanked him for directing
Howard Shore scores for "M. Butterfly" (another collaboration with Cronenberg), "Philadelphia" (his second collaboration with Jonathan Demme), and "Mrs. Doubtfire", directed by Chris Columbus. The latter two films were highly successful, "Philadelphia" winning Tom Hanks his first Oscar. Shore scored another three films in 1994: "The Client", "Ed Wood", and "Nobody's Fool". "Ed Wood" is notable for being one of the three films directed by Tim Burton that did not feature a score by Danny Elfman. Shore continued to score numerous films from 1995 to 2001, including two David Fincher films, "Seven" (1995) and "The Game" (1997), and "The Truth About Cats