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Academy Awards

Does anyone know the following fact / statistic? Which individual film director has directed the most Academy Award-winning acting performances? Thanks. (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 06:37, 24 February 2009 (UTC))

Interesting question! After a bit of heavy munging of IMDB data, I find that the answer is William Wyler, with Elia Kazan second. Altogether there are 8 people who have directed 5 or more Oscar-winning acting performances:

• William Wyler (13 over 31 years)
  • Jezebel (1938) — Bette Davis, Fay Bainter
  • The Westerner (1940) — Walter Brennan
  • Mrs. Miniver (1942) — Greer Garson, Teresa Wright
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) — Fredric March, Harold Russell
  • The Heiress (1949) — Olivia de Havilland
  • Roman Holiday (1953) — Audrey Hepburn
  • The Big Country (1958) — Burl Ives
  • Ben-Hur (1959) — Charlton Heston, Hugh Griffith
  • Funny Girl (1968) — Barbra Streisand
• Elia Kazan (9 over 11 years)
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) — James Dunn
  • Gentleman's Agreement (1947) — Celeste Holm
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) — Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Vivien Leigh
  • Viva Zapata! (1952) — Anthony Quinn
  • On the Waterfront (1954) — Eva Marie Saint, Marlon Brando
  • East of Eden (1955) — Jo Van Fleet
• Woody Allen (6 over 32 years)
  • Annie Hall (1977) — Diane Keaton
  • Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) — Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine
  • Bullets Over Broadway (1994) — Dianne Wiest
  • Mighty Aphrodite (1995) — Mira Sorvino
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) — Penélope Cruz
• Fred Zinnemann (6 over 26 years)
  • High Noon (1952) — Gary Cooper
  • From Here to Eternity (1953) — Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
  • A Man for All Seasons (1966) — Paul Scofield
  • Julia (1977) — Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave
• Clint Eastwood (5 over 13 years)
  • Unforgiven (1992) — Gene Hackman
  • Mystic River (2003) — Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
  • Million Dollar Baby (2004) — Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
• John Ford (5 over 21 years)
  • The Informer (1935) — Victor McLaglen
  • Stagecoach (1939) — Thomas Mitchell
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1940) — Jane Darwell
  • How Green Was My Valley (1941) — Donald Crisp
  • Mister Roberts (1955) — Jack Lemmon
• George Cukor (5 over 25 years)
  • The Philadelphia Story (1940) — James Stewart
  • Gaslight (1944) — Ingrid Bergman
  • A Double Life (1947) — Ronald Colman
  • Born Yesterday (1950) — Judy Holliday
  • My Fair Lady (1964) — Rex Harrison
• Martin Scorsese (5 over 31 years)
  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) — Ellen Burstyn
  • Raging Bull (1980) — Robert De Niro
  • The Color of Money (1986) — Paul Newman
  • Goodfellas (1990) — Joe Pesci
  • The Aviator (2004) — Cate Blanchett

--Anonymous, 09:50 UTC, February 24, 2009.

Nice work, Anon. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 18:11, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Wow! You did a ton of work on this! Thanks, I really do appreciate the information ... and the research / work. Thank you! (Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 05:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC))