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
Filmfare Award for Best Director Zoya Akhtar won it for "Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara" in 2012.Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari won it for "Bareilly Ki Barfi" in 2018. Other women Directors to have been nominated are Mira Nair for "Salaam Bombay!" in 1990, Farah Khan for "Main Hoon Na" in 2005 and for "Om Shanti Om" in 2008, Gauri Shinde for "English Vinglish" in 2013 and Meghna Gulzar for "Talvar in 2016 Rajkumar Santoshi remains the only Director to have won the Award for his first two films, Ghayal and Damini Nitesh Tiwari and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari are the only married couple to win the award. Nitesh