Golden Globe Award for Best Director Golden Globe Award for Best Director The Golden Globe Award for Best Director 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. Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, David Lean, Miloš Forman, and Oliver Stone tie for second place with three wins each. Steven Spielberg has had the most nominations (twelve) and has received the award twice. Barbra Streisand is the only woman to
Nastro d'Argento for Best Director Nastro d'Argento for Best Director The Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) is a film award assigned annually, since 1946, by "Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani" ("Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists") the association of Italian film critics. This is the list of Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Director. Federico Fellini is the record holder with seven Nastro d'Argento awards for Best Director received from 1954 to 1984 (also the only one awarded in two consecutive editions, in 1954 in 1955 for the films "I vitelloni" and "La Strada"), followed by Luchino Visconti, Gianni Amelio and Giuseppe Tornatore, with four awards