The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director is an annual award given by National Society of Film Critics to honor the best film director of the year.
American director Martin Scorsese and Swedish director Ingmar Bergman won this award a record 3 times. Scorsese for 1976 Taxi Driver, 1980 Raging Bull and 1990 GoodFellas; Bergman for 1967 Persona, 1968 Skammen & Vargtimmen and 1970 En passion. François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel Portolés, Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, Mike Leigh, Clint Eastwood, Terence Malick, and David Cronenberg each won the award twice.
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