Poll: Favorite Most Oscar-Nominated Director?

Results of 1,094 votes:

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   Martin Scorsese

    

   9 Nominations for Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Hugo (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (…
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   Steven Spielberg

    

   7 Nominations for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. (1982), Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Munich (2005) and Lincoln (2012).
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   Stanley Kubrick

    

   4 Nominations for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Barry Lyndon (1975).
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   Alfred Hitchcock

    

   5 Nominations for Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960).
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   Billy Wilder

    

   8 Nominations for Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Blvd. (1950), Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Apartment…
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   William Wyler

    

   12 Nominations for Dodsworth (1936), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Heiress (1949), Detective Story …
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   Clint Eastwood

    

   4 Nominations for Unforgiven (1992), Mystic River (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006).
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   Woody Allen

    

   7 Nominations for Annie Hall (1977), Interiors (1978), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Bullets Over Broadway (1994) and Midnight in Paris (20…
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   Francis Ford Coppola

    

   4 Nominations for The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Godfather Part III (1990).
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    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).
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    Frank Capra

     

    6 Nominations for Lady for a Day (1933), It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and It's a Wonderful Life (…
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    Federico Fellini

     

    4 Nominations for La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Fellini Satyricon (1969) and Amarcord (1973).
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    David Lean

     

    7 Nominations for Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), Summertime (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (19…
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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).
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    Sidney Lumet

     

    4 Nominations for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982).
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    Peter Weir

     

    4 Nominations for Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989), The Truman Show (1998) and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).
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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).
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    Elia Kazan

     

    5 Nominations for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), East of Eden (1955) and America America (1963).
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    Fred Zinnemann

     

    7 Nominations for The Search (1948), High Noon (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sundowners (1960), A Man for All Seasons (1966) and Julia (1977).
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    Michael Curtiz

     

    5 Nominations for Captain Blood (1935), Four Daughters (1938), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and Casablanca (1942).
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    John Huston

     

    5 Nominations for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952) and Prizzi's Honor (1985).
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    Joseph L. Mankiewicz

     

    4 Nominations for A Letter to Three Wives (1949), All About Eve (1950), 5 Fingers (1952) and Sleuth (1972).
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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).
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    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).
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    King Vidor

     

    5 Nominations for The Crowd (1928), Hallelujah (1929), The Champ (1931), The Citadel (1938) and War and Peace (1956).
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    Mike Nichols

     

    4 Nominations for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The Graduate (1967), Silkwood (1983) and Working Girl (1988).
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    George Cukor

     

    5 Nominations for Little Women (1933), The Philadelphia Story (1940), A Double Life (1947), Born Yesterday (1950) and My Fair Lady (1964).