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
Citra Award for Best Director a nomination system in which a committee selected the Citra Award recipients from a shortlist of four to six films. Since 1986 the shortlist has remained at five selections. The Citra Awards, then known as the Indonesian Film Festival Awards, were first given at the IFF in early 1955; that year, Lilik Sudjio won Best Director for his film "Tarmina". The festival was then held intermittently, in 1960 and 1967. In 1973 the festival began to be held annually. This continued uninterrupted until after the 1992 IFF, when a sharp decline in film production led the festival to be discontinued.