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
Oscar bait make it eligible for the awards. However, it was not nominated for any. Second and third were "", the 2003 Best Picture winner, and "The People vs. Larry Flynt", released in 1996. At the low end, as the movie in that period which least qualified as Oscar bait, was the 2006 remake of "When a Stranger Calls", which indeed was not nominated for any Oscars. It was followed by 2009's "Hotel for Dogs" and "", from 2004. Rossman and Schilke used their data to develop an algorithm that could predict how many Oscar nominations a film would get, based on