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
James B. Clark (director) in 1941, which won Academy Awards for both best picture and best director, and for which Clark received a nomination for best editing. In 1942 he edited Henry Hathaway's Oscar-nominated "Ten Gentlemen from West Point", and the musical film "Stormy Weather" (which featured an all-African American cast) in 1943. Throughout the 1940s and the 1950s, he was one of Hollywood's most reliable film editors, working on such high-profile projects as Nunnally Johnson's Oscar-nominated "Holy Matrimony" (1943), the religious epic "The Keys of the Kingdom" (1944), John M. Stahl's Oscar-winning "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945), Howard Hawks' comedy "I Was a