The Anomaly of Best Director

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Most of this thread was eliminated along with my pre-February posts. However, I did have a list of those directors who won two or more oscars:

Multiple wins

4 John Ford

3 Frank Capra
William Wyler

2 Ang Lee
Frank Borzage
Alfonso Cuarón
Clint Eastwood
Miloš Forman
Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Elia Kazan
David Lean
Frank Lloyd
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Leo McCarey
Lewis Milestone
Steven Spielberg
George Stevens
Oliver Stone
Billy Wilder
Robert Wise[f]
Fred Zinnemann


And here's my list of directors who should have won more than once:

Terrence Malick 4
Jean Renoir 4
Ingmar Bergman 3
Francis Ford Coppola 2
Carl Theodor Dreyer 2
Sergei Eisenstein 2
Jean-Luc Godard 2
Alfred Hitchcock 2
Stanley Kubrick 2
Hayao Miyazaki 2
Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger 2
Raul Ruiz 2
Steven Spielberg 2
Orson Welles 2