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Oscars Statistics - Directors

Here is a list of Oscars statistics I felt were worthwhile to compute.

Films
Directors
Actors
Countries
Categories
Precursors
Directors with most wins
4 John Ford
3 Frank Capra
3 William Wyler
2 Frank Borzage
2 Alejandro G. Iñárritu
2 Elia Kazan
2 Joseph L. Mankiewicz
2 David Lean
2 Leo McCarey
2 Frank Lloyd
2 Oliver Stone
2 Clint Eastwood
2 Steven Spielberg
2 George Stevens
2 Milos Forman
2 Billy Wilder
2 Fred Zinnemann
2 Robert Wise
2 Ang Lee
2 Alfonso Cuarón
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Directors with most nominations
12 William Wyler
10 Martin Scorsese
9 Steven Spielberg
8 Billy Wilder
7 Woody Allen
7 Fred Zinnemann
7 David Lean
6 Frank Capra
6 Clarence Brown
5 John Ford
5 Alfred Hitchcock
5 John Huston
5 George Cukor
5 King Vidor
5 George Stevens
5 Michael Curtiz
5 Elia Kazan
5 Robert Altman
5 Frank Lloyd
4 Clint Eastwood
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Directors with most nominations without a single win
6 Clarence Brown
5 King Vidor
5 Robert Altman
5 Alfred Hitchcock
4 Sidney Lumet
4 Federico Fellini
4 Peter Weir
4 Stanley Kubrick
3 David O. Russell
3 David Fincher
3 Ridley Scott
3 Quentin Tarantino
3 Paul Thomas Anderson
3 David Lynch
3 Ernst Lubitsch
3 Ingmar Bergman
3 Arthur Penn
3 James Ivory
3 Alexander Payne
3 Sam Wood
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