John Ford holds the record for most Academy Awards given to a director, with four for The Informer, The Grapes Of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man. William Wyler won 3 times for Best Director, for Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives and Ben-Hur. Frank Capra won 3 times for Best Direction, for It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and They Can't Take It with You.
Francis Ford Coppola has 5 Academy Awards on his name. Director Billy Wilder has 6 Oscars for directing, producing and writing.
John Ford won four Academy Awards as a director. He won the Oscars for "The Informer" (1935), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) and "The Quiet Man" (1952).
Here are the winners of the Academy Award for Best Director since the Oscars were first issued:
John Ford, who was well known for his Westerns, won a record four Academy Awards for directing non-Westerns: "The Informer" (1935), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) and "The Quiet Man" (1952).
John Ford, who was well known for his Westerns, won a record four Academy Awards for directing non-Westerns: "The Informer" (1935), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) and "The Quiet Man" (1952).
In the 1929 Academy Awards, the very first ceremony, "Best Director" was actually two different awards. Lewis Milestone won Best Director, Comedy Picture for Two Arabian Knights, while Frank Borzage won Best Director, Dramatic Picture for 7th Heaven.
The legendary filmmaker John Ford won four Academy Awards for Best Director during his 50-year career. He received Oscars for "The Informer" (1935), "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) and "The Quiet Man" (1952). Only "How Green Was My Valley" was named Best Picture.
John Ford won four Academy Awards during his distinguished career.
John Ford earned the most Oscars: 4 wins. He won for directing The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and The Quiet Man.
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Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for Best Director for the film Out of Africa.
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Viva Villa! won the Oscar for Assistant Director in 1934.
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Bernardo Bertolucci for The Last Emperor.
James Cameron won the Oscar for Best Director for Titanic (1997).
Sydney Pollack won the Oscar for Best Director for the film Out of Africa.
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Robert Redford won the 1980 Oscar for "Ordinary People," which marked his debut as a director.
Martin Scorsese won the Best Director Oscar for "The Departed".
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He won an Oscar for Best Director for Ordinary People (1980).
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In Old Chicago won the Oscar for Assistant Director in 1937.
Viva Villa! won the Oscar for Assistant Director in 1934.
James Cameron won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1997 for directing "Titanic".