| Best Director |
| Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) | 36 (11) |
| Ethan and Joel Coen (No Country for Old Men) | 30 (9) |
| Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) | 30 (9) |
| Sidney Lumet (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead) | 23 (9) |
| Todd Haynes (I’m Not There) | 6 (4) |
| Sean Penn (Into the Wild) | 6 (4) |
| Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) | 4 (4) |
| Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others) | 4 (3) |
| Brad Bird (Ratatouille) | 4 (4) |
| Julie Taymor (Across the Universe) | 3 (3) |
| Joe Wright (Atonement) | 3 (3) |
| Tim Burton (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) | 2 (3) |
