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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:

--Anonymous, 09:50 UTC, February 24, 2009.
 * William Wyler (13 over 31 years)
 * Jezebel (1938) &mdash; Bette Davis, Fay Bainter
 * The Westerner (1940) &mdash; Walter Brennan
 * Mrs. Miniver (1942) &mdash; Greer Garson, Teresa Wright
 * The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) &mdash; Fredric March, Harold Russell
 * The Heiress (1949) &mdash; Olivia de Havilland
 * Roman Holiday (1953) &mdash; Audrey Hepburn
 * The Big Country (1958) &mdash; Burl Ives
 * Ben-Hur (1959) &mdash; Charlton Heston, Hugh Griffith
 * Funny Girl (1968) &mdash; Barbra Streisand
 * Elia Kazan (9 over 11 years)
 * A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) &mdash; James Dunn
 * Gentleman's Agreement (1947) &mdash; Celeste Holm
 * A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) &mdash; Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Vivien Leigh
 * Viva Zapata! (1952) &mdash; Anthony Quinn
 * On the Waterfront (1954) &mdash; Eva Marie Saint, Marlon Brando
 * East of Eden (1955) &mdash; Jo Van Fleet
 * Woody Allen (6 over 32 years)
 * Annie Hall (1977) &mdash; Diane Keaton
 * Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) &mdash; Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine
 * Bullets Over Broadway (1994) &mdash; Dianne Wiest
 * Mighty Aphrodite (1995) &mdash; Mira Sorvino
 * Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) &mdash; Penélope Cruz
 * Fred Zinnemann (6 over 26 years)
 * High Noon (1952) &mdash; Gary Cooper
 * From Here to Eternity (1953) &mdash; Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
 * A Man for All Seasons (1966) &mdash; Paul Scofield
 * Julia (1977) &mdash; Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave
 * Clint Eastwood (5 over 13 years)
 * Unforgiven (1992) &mdash; Gene Hackman
 * Mystic River (2003) &mdash; Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
 * Million Dollar Baby (2004) &mdash; Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
 * John Ford (5 over 21 years)
 * The Informer (1935) &mdash; Victor McLaglen
 * Stagecoach (1939) &mdash; Thomas Mitchell
 * The Grapes of Wrath (1940) &mdash; Jane Darwell
 * How Green Was My Valley (1941) &mdash; Donald Crisp
 * Mister Roberts (1955) &mdash; Jack Lemmon
 * George Cukor (5 over 25 years)
 * The Philadelphia Story (1940) &mdash; James Stewart
 * Gaslight (1944) &mdash; Ingrid Bergman
 * A Double Life (1947) &mdash; Ronald Colman
 * Born Yesterday (1950) &mdash; Judy Holliday
 * My Fair Lady (1964) &mdash; Rex Harrison
 * Martin Scorsese (5 over 31 years)
 * Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) &mdash; Ellen Burstyn
 * Raging Bull (1980) &mdash; Robert De Niro
 * The Color of Money (1986) &mdash; Paul Newman
 * Goodfellas (1990) &mdash; Joe Pesci
 * The Aviator (2004) &mdash; Cate Blanchett
 * 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))