The time period from the 1910s to 1960s is commonly referred to as the "Golden Age of Hollywood", but that should not in any way undermine the achievements of the modern-day cinema industry. In any era, there are always a number of filmmakers and artists who are giving it their all and creating creative masterpieces. The Academy Awards, colloquially called Oscars, first started back in 1929 and over the years has grown into the most prestigious award ceremony in the world of movies.
Although an Oscar isn't an absolute measurement of how good a filmmaker or film is, it can function as a good point of reference when comparing. This list looks at 10 present-day directors with the most number of Oscar wins.
10 Christopher Nolan - 10 Oscars
Christopher Nolan is the only director on this list who has yet to win a "Best Director" or even a "Best Picture" award and its something that baffles almost everyone who is familiar with his writing and directing style.
Nearly all of his films have been critical and commercial hits, and although he has earned a fair share of nominations the Academy Awards always seem to overlook him when it comes to the final stage. But his films have won in other categories, such as Inception and Dunkirk who have 4 and 3 Oscars under their name respectively.
9 Alfonso Cuarón - 10 Oscars
Mexican film director Alfonso Cuarón has won 2 Best Director Oscars in the last decade, one for his 2013 film Gravity and the other for 2018's Roma. The former, a sci-fi thriller about an astronaut stranded in space and her journey back to Earth, won a whopping 7 Oscars and also made the director Alfonso Cuarón the first Mexican filmmaker to win the Oscar for Best Director.
He also holds the record for receiving Oscar nominations in six different categories, an achievement he shares only with Walt Disney and George Clooney.
8 Damien Chazelle - 10 Oscars
Currently 35 years old, Damien Chazelle became the youngest person to win the Academy and Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2016 for his film La La Land, a musical drama starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.
The film went on to receive Oscars in 5 more categories other than Best Director, including Best Picture. His previous work, 2014's Whiplash, another drama related to music, won 3 Oscars. Furthermore, his 2018 biographical film First Man about the life of the first man on the moon Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission also won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
7 Sam Mendes - 12 Oscars
Out of 8 of the films directed by Sam Mendes, 5 have won Oscars in various categories. His directorial debut film American Beauty, earned him the greatest achievement of his career so far, the Academy and Golden Globe Award for Best Director. With 5 wins, it is also his film with the highest number of Oscars won. His latest film 1917 was also a massive critical hit, winning 3 Oscars at the 92nd Academy Awards against 10 nominations.
He also holds the credit for directing two of the latest and highest rated James Bond films of all time, Skyfall and Spectre, which one 2 and 1 Oscars respectively.
6 Ang Lee - 12 Oscars
Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee's 2013 film about a teenage shipwreck survivor stuck drifting across the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, Life of Pi, might be his most famous film with 11 Oscar nominations and 4 wins (including Best Director), but it wasn't the first time the director had cleaned up at the Academy Awards.
His 2000 martial art film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, with the same number of Oscar wins as Life of Pi is considered one of the most influential films of its time. Other than this, his film Brokeback Mountain featuring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal also won 3 Oscars.
5 Clint Eastwood - 13 Oscars
One of the greatest actor-turned-directors of all time, Clint Eastwood gained international acclaim in his career through his roles in various iconic westerns such as The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Over the years, he has not only starred in many classical hits but also directed (and starred himself) in many Academy Award-winning modern blockbusters such as, which won one Oscar and is also his highest-grossing movie.
The directors 2004 sports-drama Million Dollar Baby and 1992 Western Unforgiven have both earned 4 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.
4 Peter Jackson - 20 Oscars
J. R. R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is the single highest-selling book of all time with over 150 million copies sold, but what really took its popularity to astronomical heights is Peter Jackson's original trilogy.
He single-handedly created one of the highest-grossing franchises in present-day Hollywood, big-screen adaptation of a book that was considered too ambitious to be made a movie on. The franchise as a whole has grossed nearly $6 Billion and has won a total of 17 Oscars between them. His 2005 monster movie King Kong also remains one of his most iconic films, which won 3 Oscars and many other awards for its outstanding visual effects.
3 Martin Scorsese - 20 Oscars
While success in the careers of many directors (both critical and commercial) nowadays comes from working on massive Hollywood blockbusters and franchises, Martin Scorsese is a director of artistic means who only deals in singular masterpieces. The fact that he is the living director with the most number of Best Director nominations is proof of this.
His films The Aviator (2004) and Hugo (2011) have both won 5 Oscars, and his 2006 film The Departed bagged him the Academy Award for Best Director and 3 more Oscars.
2 James Cameron - 21 Oscars
James Cameron has had a legendary career as a director, creating one of the most iconic franchises of modern-day cinema such as the Terminator franchise, not to mention Titanic and Avatar which have broken a multitude of records both in terms of box office records and awards received.
Earning over $2 billion dollars worldwide, both the movies remained the highest-grossing movie of all time for many years, and Titanic also holds the record for the most number of Oscars won by a single movie (alongside 2 other movies). His film Terminator 2: Judgment Day is known among many as the ultimate action movie and also earned 4 Oscars.
1 Steven Spielberg - 32 Oscars
In sheer terms of Oscar wins, no director currently working in the industry comes even close to the achievements of Steven Spielberg. His influence on the modern-day cinema industry is undeniable, and it is no surprise that he is also the highest-grossing director of all time.
His 1975 film Jaws introduced the very concept of "summer blockbusters" and won 3 Oscars. Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan absolutely defined what heights the war-drama genre could reach, winning 7 and 5 Oscars respectively including Best Director in both cases. 4 Oscars were earned by both Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T., and 3 by Jurassic Park.
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