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 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