Multiple Wins and Nominations
My Oscar Book:
Six foreign directors have won the award more than once.
Wins Director Films
4
Italy Vittorio De Sica Shoe-Shine, Bicycle Thieves, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, The Garden of the Finzi Continis
Italy Federico Fellini, Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, 8½, Amarcord
3
Sweden, Ingmar Bergman, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Fanny and Alexander
2
France René Clément, The Walls of Malapaga, Forbidden Games
Iran Asghar Farhadi, A Separation, The Salesman
Japan Akira Kurosawa Rashomon and Dersu Uzala
Multiple nominations
Nominations Director Films
5 Nominations
Italy Vittorio De Sica Shoe-Shine, Bicycle Thieves, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Marriage Italian Style and The Garden of the Finzi Continis
4 Nominations
Italy Federico Fellini Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, 8½ and Amarcord
Japan Akira Kurosawa Rashomon, Dodes’ka-den, Dersu Uzala, Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
Spain José Luis Garci To Begin Again, Double Feature, Course Completed and The Grandfather
Italy Mario Monicelli, The Usual Unidentified Thieves, The Great War, The Girl with the Pistol and Viva Italia!
Italy Ettore Scola A Special Day, Viva Italia!, Le Bal and The Family
Hungary István Szabó, Confidence, Mephisto, Colonel Redl, Hanussen
Poland Andrzej Wajda, The Promised Land, The Maids of Wilko, Man of Iron. Katyń
3 Nominations
Spain Almodóvar Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Pain and Glory
Canada Denys Arcand The Decline of the American Empire, Jesus of Montreal and The Barbarian Invasions
Sweden Ingmar Bergman The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly and Fanny and Alexander
France Rachid Bouchareb, Dust of Life, Days of Glory, Outside the Law
Spain Luis Buñuel Tristana, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire
France René Clément The Walls of Malapaga, Forbidden Games and Gervaise
Taiwan Ang Lee The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Russia Nikita Mikhalkov Close to Eden, Burnt by the Sun, 12
Israel Moshé Mizrahi I Love You Rosa, House on Chelouche Street, Madame Rosa
Spain Carlos Saura, Mama Turns 100, Carmen, Tango
Sweden Jan Troell The Emigrants, The New Land, Flight of the Eagle
France François Truffaut Stolen Kisses, Day for Night, The Last Metro
Sweden Bo Widerberg Raven’s End, Ådalen 31, All Things Fair
China Zhang Yimou Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, Hero
2 Nominations
Palestine Hany Abu-Assad Paradise Now and Omar
France Jacques Audiard: A Prophet, Emilia Pérez
Denmark Susanne Bier After the Wedding, In a Better World
Russia Sergei Bodrov Prisoner of the Mountains, Mongol
Greece Michael Cacoyannis, Electra, Iphigenia
Israel: Joseph Cedar, Beaufort, Footnote
Belgium Gérard Corbiau The Music Teacher, Farinelli: Il Castrato
Spain Jaime de Armiñán My Dearest Senorita, The Nest
Hungary Zoltán Fábri The Boys of Paul Street, Hungarians
Iran Asghar Farhadi A Separation, The Salesman
Czechoslovakia Miloš Forman, Loves of a Blonde, The Firemen’s Ball
Greece Vasilis Georgiadis The Red Lanterns, Blood on the Land
Mexico Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amores perros, Biutiful
Austria Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon, Amour
Germany: Florian H Donnersmarck, The Lives of Others, Never Look Away
Poland Agnieszka Holland, Angry Harvest, In Darkness
Argentina Juan José Campanella, Son of the Bride, The Secret in Their Eyes
Israel Ephraim Kishon Sallah Shabati, The Policeman
France Claude Lelouch A Man and a Woman, Live for Life
Germany Caroline Link Beyond Silence, Nowhere in Africa
Chile Miguel Littin Letters from Marusia and Alsino and the Condor
France Louis Malle Lacombe, Lucien, Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye Children)
Czechoslovakia Jiří Menzel Closely Watched Trains and My Sweet Little Village
Japan Noboru Nakamura Twin Sisters of Kyoto and Portrait of Chieko
Poland: Paweł Pawlikowski Ida, Cold War
Socialist Yugoslavia Aleksandar Petrović, Three, I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Italy Gillo Pontecorvo, Kapo, The Battle of Algiers
Netherlands Fons Rademakers The Village on the River and The Assault
Italy Dino Risi, Scent of a Woman, Viva Italia!
Soviet: Stanislav Rostotsky, The Dawns Here Are Quiet, White Bim Black Ear
Spain Francisco Rovira Beleta Los Tarantos, Bewitched Love
Brazil Walter Salles Central Station and I’m Still Here
Switzerland Maximilian Schell, First Love, The Pedestrian
Italy: Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty, The Hand of God
Czechoslovakia: Jan Svěrák The Elementary School and Kolya
Italy Giuseppe Tornatore: Cinema Paradiso, The Star Maker
Denmark Thomas Vinterberg: The Hunt, Another Round
France Régis Wargnier: Indochine, East-West
Russia: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Leviathan, Loveless
