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"Oscar Trivia: Day 19"
Directors Who Have Won More Than One Oscar For Best Director
by Tim Nasson
February 19, 2008

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More interesting, in some cases, with the list below, are the movies for which the directors did not win the Best Director Oscar, yet for which they were nominated.

Especially: Billy Wilder. Although nominated for the Best Director Oscar, he did not win for Sunset Boulevard or Some Like It Hot, both, arguably, more popular than the two movies for which he did win the Best Director Oscar.

And Frank Capra. He won three Best Director Oscars but even though he was nominated for the Best Director Oscar for one of the most popular movies of all time, "It's A Wonderful Life," he lost to William Wyler, who won that year for "The Best Years of Our Lives."

Can you recall the two movies for which Clint Eastwood was nominated for the Best Director Oscar but didn't win for? "Letters From Iwo Jima" and "Mystic River."

And the one Oscar that evaded Oliver Stone, for which he was nominated for Best Director? "JFK."

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DIRECTORS WITH 2 OR MORE OSCARS FOR BEST DIRECTING
* Indicates number of Best Director Oscar Nominations



Winner of 4 Best Director Oscars

John Ford *5
1935 - The Informer
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath
1941 - How Green Was My Valley
1952 - The Quiet Man

Winners of 3 Best Director Oscars

Frank Capra *6
1934 - It Happened One Night
1936 - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1938 - You Can't Take It with You

William Wyler *12
1942 - Mrs. Miniver
1946 - The Best Years of Our Lives
1959 - Ben-Hur

Winners of 2 Best Director Oscars

Lewis Milestone *3
1927/28 - Two Arabian Knights (Directing - Comedy Picture)
1929/30 - All Quiet on the Western Front

Frank Borzage *2
1927/28 - 7th Heaven (Directing - Dramatic Picture)
1931/32 - Bad Girl

Frank Lloyd *2
1928/29 - The Divine Lady
1932/33 - Cavalcade

Leo McCarey *2
1937 - The Awful Truth
1944 - Going My Way

Joseph L. Mankiewicz *4
1949 - A Letter to Three Wives
1950 - All about Eve

Elia Kazan *5
1947 - Gentleman's Agreement
1954 - On the Waterfront

George Stevens *5
1951 - A Place in the Sun
1956 - Giant

Billy Wilder *8
1945 - The Lost Weekend
1960 - The Apartment

David Lean *7
1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia

Robert Wise *3
1961 - West Side Story (co-directed with Jerome Robbins)
1965 - The Sound of Music

Fred Zinnemann *7
1953 - From Here to Eternity
1966 - A Man for All Seasons

Milos Forman *3
1975 - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
1984 - Amadeus

Oliver Stone *3
1986 - Platoon
1989 - Born on the Fourth of July

Steven Spielberg *6
1993 - Schindler's List
1998 - Saving Private Ryan

Clint Eastwood *4
1992 - Unforgiven
2004 - Million Dollar Baby

We're predicting that Oliver Stone, Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood each have an opportunity to climb the list before they die.




For the complete list of this year's, the "2008 Oscar Nominations" - click here!

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