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
Tan Tarn How Box, Fort Canning by Theatreworks. Tan won Best Script in Singapore’s premier theatre award, The 3rd DBS Life! Theatre Awards, for Machine in 2003. Staged by Theatreworks, with Ong Keng Sen as Director and an all-female cast. In 2015, "Fear of Writing" was selected by "The Business Times" as one of the "finest plays in 50 years" alongside productions by Goh Poh Seng, Michael Chiang and Alfian Sa'at and others. Some articles Tan Tarn How wrote for "The Straits Times": Tan Tarn How Tan Tarn How ()) is a Singaporean playwright and senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy