In the category for Best Director , Elia Kazan leads with four wins , followed by Clint Eastwood , Oliver Stone , Miloš Forman , David Lean and Martin Scorsese with three wins each . Steven Spielberg holds the record for most nominations with twelve ( as of the 2017 nominations ) . Francis Ford Coppola , Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh are the only directors to receive two nominations in the same year . As of the 75th Golden Globe Awards , Barbra Streisand is the only woman to have won an award for best director ; she won for '' Yentl '' in 1983
75th Golden Globe Awards
75th Golden Globe Awards
Golden Globe Awards