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
Filmfare Award for Best Director Tiwari won the award for "Dangal" in 2017 and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari won the award for "Bareilly Ki Barfi" in 2018. Only once have two siblings been nominated in the same year; Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar in 2012. The following Directors have received multiple Best Director nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses). In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. The films are listed by the years when the award was presented. The