Academy Award for Best Director multiple Best Director awards: The following directors have received four or more Best Director nominations (* indicates no wins): As of the 90th Academy Awards, four Asian directors have been nominated a total of six times in this category, and one director has won the award twice. As of the 90th Academy Awards, five black directors have been nominated in this category one time each, and none have won the award. As of the 90th Academy Awards, five female directors have been nominated in this category one time each, and one has won the award. As of the 90th Academy
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director 2009, the critics’ group have agreed with the Academy on six occasions: Steven Soderbergh for "Traffic" (2000), Clint Eastwood for "Million Dollar Baby" (2004), Ang Lee for "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), Martin Scorsese for "The Departed" (2006), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for "No Country for Old Men" (2007), and Kathryn Bigelow for "The Hurt Locker" (2009). Oscar winner denoted by * New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking.