Editing Academy Award for Best Director (section)

==Multiple wins and nominations==
=== Multiple wins ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col" width="55"     | Wins
! scope="col" align="center" | Director
|-
| {{center|4}}
| [[John Ford]]
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | 3
| [[Frank Capra]]
|-
| [[William Wyler]]
|-
| rowspan=18 style="text-align:center;" | 2
| [[Frank Borzage]]
|-
| [[Alfonso Cuarón]]
|-
| [[Clint Eastwood]]
|-
| [[Miloš Forman]]
|-
| [[Alejandro González Iñárritu|Alejandro G. Iñárritu]]
|-
| [[Elia Kazan]]
|-
| [[David Lean]]
|-
| [[Ang Lee]]
|-
| [[Frank Lloyd]]{{efn|name=2nd}}
|-
| [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]
|-
| [[Leo McCarey]]
|-
| [[Lewis Milestone]]
|-
| [[Steven Spielberg]]
|-
| [[George Stevens]]
|-
| [[Oliver Stone]]
|-
| [[Billy Wilder]]
|-
| [[Robert Wise]]{{efn|name=wise}}
|-
| [[Fred Zinnemann]]
|-
|}

===Three or more nominations===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col" width="55"     | Nominations
! scope="col" align="center" | Director
|-
|rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 12
| [[William Wyler]]
|-
|rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 10
| [[Martin Scorsese]]<!--This is ONLY for his DIRECTOR nominations. Do not factor his writing (Screenplay) or producing (Best Picture) nominations into this tally.-->
|- 
|rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 9
| [[Steven Spielberg]]<!--This is ONLY for his DIRECTOR nominations. Do not factor his writing (Screenplay) or producing (Best Picture) nominations into this tally.-->
|-
|rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 8
| [[Billy Wilder]]
|-
|rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | 7
| [[Woody Allen]]<!--This is ONLY for his DIRECTOR nominations. Do not factor his writing (Screenplay) or producing (Best Picture) nominations into this tally.-->
|-
| [[David Lean]]
|-
| [[Fred Zinnemann]]
|-
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 6
| [[Frank Capra]]
|-
| rowspan="9" style="text-align:center;" | 5
| [[Robert Altman]]
|-
| [[Clarence Brown]]{{efn|name=clarence}}
|-
| [[George Cukor]]
|-
| [[John Ford]]
|-
| [[Alfred Hitchcock]]
|-
| [[John Huston]]
|-
| [[Elia Kazan]]
|-
| [[George Stevens]]
|-
| [[King Vidor]]
|-
| rowspan="10" style="text-align:center;" | 4
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
|-
| [[Michael Curtiz]]{{efn|name=write-in}}
|-
| [[Clint Eastwood]]
|-
| [[Federico Fellini]]
|-
| [[Stanley Kubrick]]
|-
| [[Frank Lloyd]]{{efn|name=2nd}}
|-
| [[Sidney Lumet]]
|-
| [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]
|-
| [[Mike Nichols]]
|-
| [[Peter Weir]]
|-
| rowspan="30" style="text-align:center;" | 3
| [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]
|-
| [[Ingmar Bergman]]
|-
| [[Richard Brooks]]
|-
| [[Coen brothers|Joel Coen]]{{efn|name=Coens|While the [[Coen brothers|Coen Brothers]], as a directing duo, earned two nominations, their work on ''[[Fargo (1996 film)|Fargo]]'' was credited as being split apart: Ethan was given [[Academy Award for Best Picture|sole producer credit]], while Joel was listed as the sole director. Joel thus has one additional directing nomination combined with his work as part of their dual efforts.}}
|-
| [[Stephen Daldry]]
|-
| [[David Fincher]]
|-
| [[Miloš Forman]]
|-
| [[Bob Fosse]]
|-
| [[Alejandro González Iñárritu]]
|-
| [[James Ivory]]
|-
| [[Norman Jewison]]
|-
| [[Stanley Kramer]]
|-
| [[Ang Lee]]
|-
| [[Ernst Lubitsch]]
|-
| [[David Lynch]]
|-
| [[Leo McCarey]]
|-
| [[Lewis Milestone]]
|-
| [[Alexander Payne]]
|-
| [[Arthur Penn]]
|-
| [[Roman Polanski]]
|-
| [[Sydney Pollack]]
|-
| [[Carol Reed]]
|-
| [[David O. Russell]]
|-
| [[John Schlesinger]]
|-
| [[Ridley Scott]]
|-
| [[Oliver Stone]]
|-
| [[Quentin Tarantino]]
|-
| [[William A. Wellman]]
|-
| [[Robert Wise]]{{efn|name=wise|Wise earned two individual nominations (resulting in one win); and one joint nomination with [[Jerome Robbins]], which also resulted in the pair of them winning.}}
|-
| [[Sam Wood]]
|}