year; Zoya Akhtar for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Farhan Akhtar for Don 2 in 2012. Multiple nominations The following Directors have received multiple Best Director nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses). 7 : Bimal Roy (7) 4 : Yash Chopra (12) 4 : Sanjay Leela Bhansali (7) 4 : Raj Kapoor (6) 2 : Rakesh Roshan (5) 2 : Rajkumar Santoshi (5) 2 : Karan Johar (5) 2 : Ashutosh Gowariker (3) 2 : Manoj Kumar (3) 2 : Zoya Akhtar (2) 2 : Govind Nihalani (2) 2 : Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (2) 1 : Subhash Ghai (6) 1 : Gulzar (6) 1 : B. R. Chopra (5) 1 : Rajkumar Hirani (5) 1 : Mansoor Khan (4) 1 : Shyam Benegal (3) 1 : Basu Chatterjee (3) 1 : Aditya Chopra (3) 1 : Vidhu Vinod Chopra (3) 1 : Sohanlal Kanwar (3) 1 : Mukul Anand (2) 1 : Sooraj Barjatya (2) 1 : J. P. Dutta (2) 1 : Shekhar Kapur (2) 1 : Mehboob Khan (2) 1 : Sai Paranjpye (2) 1 : Ramanand Sagar (2) 1 : Asit Sen (2) 1 : V. Shantaram (2) 1 : Meghna Gulzar (2) 1 : Nitesh Tiwari (2) 1 : Kunal Kohli (1) 1 : Sujoy Ghosh (1) 1 : Aamir Khan (1) 1 : Vikas Bahl (1) 1 : Om Raut (1) 1 : Vijay Anand (1) 1 : Abrar Alvi (1) 1 : Satyajit Ray (1) 1 : Muzaffar Ali (1) 0 : Mahesh Bhatt (6) 0 : Hrishikesh Mukherjee (5) 0 : Ram Gopal Varma (5) 0 : Shoojit Sircar (4) 0 : Ramesh Sippy (3) 0 : Imtiaz Ali (3) 0 : Anurag Kashyap (3) 0 : Anurag Basu (3) 0 : Vishal Bhardwaj (3) 0 : Farhan Akhtar (3) 0 : Shakti Samanta (3) 0 : Prakash Mehra (2) 0 : Indra Kumar (2) 0 : Rajiv Rai (2) 0 : Dharmesh Darshan (2) 0 : Abbas–Mustan (2) 0 : Abhishek Kapoor (2) 0 : Ayan Mukerji (2) 0 : Aanand L. Rai (2) 0 : Farah Khan (2) 0 : Kabir Khan (2) 0 : Madhur Bhandarkar (2) 0 : Sriram Raghavan (2) 0 : L. V. Prasad (2) 0 : Raj Khosla (2) 0 : David Dhawan (2) 0 : Vikram Bhatt (2) 0 : Rahul