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Poll: Favorite Most Oscar-Nominated Director?

A poll by Eagles90.
Martin Scorsese with his ninth Oscar directing nomination for his work on The Irishman (2019) moves one step closer to unseating William Wyler as the individual with the most Academy Award for Best Director nominations in Oscars history. Which of these individuals with four or more Oscar-nominations for directing is your favorite?

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    William Wyler

    12 Nominations for Dodsworth (1936), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Letter (1940), The Little Foxes (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Heiress (1949), Detective Story (1951), Roman Holiday (1953), Friendly Persuasion (1956), Ben-Hur (1959) and The Collector (1965).
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    Martin Scorsese

    9 Nominations for Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Hugo (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and The Irishman (2019).
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    Billy Wilder

    8 Nominations for Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Blvd. (1950), Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960).
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    Woody Allen

    7 Nominations for Annie Hall (1977), Interiors (1978), Broadway Danny Rose (1984), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), Bullets Over Broadway (1994) and Midnight in Paris (2011).
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    David Lean

    7 Nominations for Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations (1946), Summertime (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984).
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    Steven Spielberg

    7 Nominations for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T. (1982), Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Munich (2005) and Lincoln (2012).
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    Fred Zinnemann

    7 Nominations for The Search (1948), High Noon (1952), From Here to Eternity (1953), The Nun's Story (1959), The Sundowners (1960), A Man for All Seasons (1966) and Julia (1977).
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    Clarence Brown

    6 Nominations for Romance (1930), Anna Christie (1930), A Free Soul (1931), The Human Comedy (1943), National Velvet (1944) and The Yearling (1946).
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    Frank Capra

    6 Nominations for Lady for a Day (1933), It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
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    Robert Altman

    5 Nominations for M*A*S*H (1970), Nashville (1975), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993) and Gosford Park (2001).
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    George Cukor

    5 Nominations for Little Women (1933), The Philadelphia Story (1940), A Double Life (1947), Born Yesterday (1950) and My Fair Lady (1964).
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    Michael Curtiz

    5 Nominations for Captain Blood (1935), Four Daughters (1938), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and Casablanca (1942).
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    John Ford

    5 Nominations for The Informer (1935), Stagecoach (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and The Quiet Man (1952).
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    Alfred Hitchcock

    5 Nominations for Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954) and Psycho (1960).
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    John Huston

    5 Nominations for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952) and Prizzi's Honor (1985).
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    Elia Kazan

    5 Nominations for Gentleman's Agreement (1947), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), East of Eden (1955) and America America (1963).
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    Frank Lloyd

    5 Nominations for Drag (1929), Weary River (1929), The Divine Lady (1928), Cavalcade (1933) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
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    George Stevens

    5 Nominations for The More the Merrier (1943), A Place in the Sun (1951), Shane (1953), Giant (1956) and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959).
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    King Vidor

    5 Nominations for The Crowd (1928), Hallelujah (1929), The Champ (1931), The Citadel (1938) and War and Peace (1956).
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    Francis Ford Coppola

    4 Nominations for The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Godfather Part III (1990).
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    Clint Eastwood

    4 Nominations for Unforgiven (1992), Mystic River (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006).
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    Federico Fellini

    4 Nominations for La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Fellini Satyricon (1969) and Amarcord (1973).
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    Stanley Kubrick

    4 Nominations for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Barry Lyndon (1975).
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    Sidney Lumet

    4 Nominations for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982).
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    Joseph L. Mankiewicz

    4 Nominations for A Letter to Three Wives (1949), All About Eve (1950), 5 Fingers (1952) and Sleuth (1972).
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    Mike Nichols

    4 Nominations for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The Graduate (1967), Silkwood (1983) and Working Girl (1988).
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    Peter Weir

    4 Nominations for Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989), The Truman Show (1998) and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).

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