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Poll: Favorite Most Oscar-Nominated Director?
Martin Scorsese with his ninth Oscar directing nomination for his work on The Irishman (2019) moves one step closer to unseating William Wyler as the individual with the most Academy Award for Best Director nominations in Oscars history. Which of these individuals with four or more Oscar-nominations for directing is your favorite?
Make Your Choice
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Martin Scorsese
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Billy Wilder
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Woody Allen
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David Lean
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Steven Spielberg
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Fred Zinnemann
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Clarence Brown
6 Nominations for Romance (1930), Anna Christie (1930), A Free Soul (1931), The Human Comedy (1943), National Velvet (1944) and The Yearling (1946). -
Frank Capra
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Robert Altman
5 Nominations for M*A*S*H (1970), Nashville (1975), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993) and Gosford Park (2001). -
George Cukor
5 Nominations for Little Women (1933), The Philadelphia Story (1940), A Double Life (1947), Born Yesterday (1950) and My Fair Lady (1964). -
Michael Curtiz
5 Nominations for Captain Blood (1935), Four Daughters (1938), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and Casablanca (1942). -
John Ford
5 Nominations for The Informer (1935), Stagecoach (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and The Quiet Man (1952). -
Alfred Hitchcock
5 Nominations for Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960). -
John Huston
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Elia Kazan
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Frank Lloyd
5 Nominations for Drag (1929), Weary River (1929), The Divine Lady (1928), Cavalcade (1933) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). -
George Stevens
5 Nominations for The More the Merrier (1943), A Place in the Sun (1951), Shane (1953), Giant (1956) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). -
King Vidor
5 Nominations for The Crowd (1928), Hallelujah (1929), The Champ (1931), The Citadel (1938) and War and Peace (1956). -
Francis Ford Coppola
4 Nominations for The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Godfather Part III (1990). -
Clint Eastwood
4 Nominations for Unforgiven (1992), Mystic River (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). -
Federico Fellini
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Stanley Kubrick
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Sidney Lumet
4 Nominations for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982). -
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
4 Nominations for A Letter to Three Wives (1949), All About Eve (1950), 5 Fingers (1952) and Sleuth (1972). -
Mike Nichols
4 Nominations for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The Graduate (1967), Silkwood (1983) and Working Girl (1988). -
Peter Weir