Directors with Multiple "Best Film of the Year"s for you

From 1940 on...

Alfred Hitchcock: Rebecca / Shadow of a Doubt / Rear Window / The Wrong Man / Vertigo

Ingmar Bergman: The Seventh Seal / The Virgin Spring / Winter Light / Persona

Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Double Life of Veronique / Three Colors: Blue / Three Colors: White

Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey / A Clockwork Orange / Eyes Wide Shut

Terrence Malick: Days of Heaven / The New World / The Tree of Life

Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity / Sunset Blvd. / Ace in the Hole

Henri-Georges Clouzot: The Wages of Fear / Les Diaboliques

The Coen Brothers: Fargo / No Country for Old Men

David Cronenberg: The Fly / Dead Ringers

David Fincher: Se7en / The Social Network

Werner Herzog: Aguirre, the Wrath of God / Lessons of Darkness

Christopher Nolan: The Prestige / Dunkirk

Alain Resnais: Hiroshima, Mon Amour / Last Year at Marienbad

Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver / Silence

Ridley Scott: Blade Runner / Gladiator

Peter Weir: Picnic at Hanging Rock / Witness

Orson Welles: Citizen Kane / Chimes at Midnight

Out of my head:

Sergio Leone (4): A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West
Peter Jackson (3): Lord of the Rings I, LOTR II, LOTR III
Steven Spielberg (3): Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Francis Ford Coppola (2): The Godfather, The Godfather II
Clint Eastwood (2): Unforgiven, Letters from Iwo Jima

Nolan will likely join them this year with Inception and Dunkirk as I don't think anything else will top Dunkirk.

Also I'm only doing line-ups since 1952. If I'd go further back the likes of Howard Hawks (Rio Bravo, The Big Sleep) and Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood) would probably be included.

Charles Chaplin (6)
The Immigrant, The Kid, The Circus, Modern Times, Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight


Martin Scorsese (5)
Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York


F.W. Murnau (4)
Nosferatu, Faust, Sunrise, The Last Laugh


Akira Kurosawa (4)
Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Red Beard, Ran


Terrence Malick (4)
Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life


D.W. Griffith (3)
Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Broken Blossoms


Fritz Lang (3)
Frau Im Mond, M, Scarlet Street


Coens (3)
Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou?, A Serious Man


Howard Hawks (2)
Scarface, Bringing Up Baby


Alfred Hitchcock (2)
Rebecca, North by Northwest


Billy Wilder (2)
Double Indemnity, The Apartment


David Lean (2)
Great Expectations, Lawrence of Arabia


Robert Altman (2)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Nashville


Francis Coppola (2)
The Godfather, The Godfather Part II


Woody Allen (2)
Annie Hall, Manhattan

Steven Spielberg: Jaws, ET, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan

Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove, 2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange
Quentin Tarantino: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds

David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago
Ingmar Bergman: Winter Light, Persona
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II
Sidney Lumet: 12 Angry Men, Network
David Lynch: Eraserhead, Blue Velvet
Paul Thomas Anderson: There Will Be Blood, The Master
Martin McDonagh: In Bruges, Three Billboards

Edit: just finished A Brighter Summer Day; so Barton Fink is no longer 1991's best

Interesting.

Martin Scorsese - 6
Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Aviator, The Departed, The Wolf of Wall Street

Alfred Hitchcock - 5
Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho

Steven Speilberg - 3
Jaws, Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can

David Fincher - 2
Zodiac, The Social Network

Kathryn Bigelow - 2
The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty

Quentin Tarantino - 2
Reservior Dogs, Pulp Fiction

Christopher Nolan - 9
Following (1999), Memento (2001), Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017)

Alfred Hitchcock - 5
Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Strangers on a Train (1951), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960)

Michael Curtiz - 4
The Mayor of Hell (1933), Captain Blood (1935), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Mildred Pierce (1945)

Stanley Kubrick - 4
Paths of Glory (1957), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980)

D.W. Griffith - 3
The Avenging Conscience (1914), The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916)

Sergio Leone - 3
A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Martin Scorsese - 3
Taxi Driver (1976), Goodfellas (1990), Hugo (2011)

Victor Sjostrom - 2
A Man There Was (1917), The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)

Fritz Lang - 2
Metropolis (1927), M (1931)

Frank Capra - 2
It Happened One Night (1934), It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Vittorio De Sica - 2
Bicycle Thieves (1948), Umberto D (1952)

Carl Theodor Dreyer - 2
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Ordet (1955)

John Hughes - 2
The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

James Cameron - 2
The Terminator (1984), T2 (1991)

Steven Spielberg - 2
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Schindler's List (1993)

Quentin Tarantino - 2
Reservoir Dogs (1992), Jackie Brown (1997)

Damien Chazelle - 2
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), La La Land (2016)

Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs. Miller; Nashville).

Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal; Persona; Shame; Fanny and Alexander).

Luis Buñuel (Las Hurdes; Los Olvidados; Simon of the Desert).

Francis Ford Coppola (The Conversation; Apocalypse Now).

Vittorio De Sica (Shoeshine; Umberto D).

Carl Th. Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc; Vampyr; Day of Wrath).

John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; The Dead).

Buster Keaton (Our Hospitality; Sherlock Jr).

Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai; Ran).

David Lynch (Eraserhead; The Elephant Man; Blue Velvet).

Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion; The Rules of the Game).

Peter Weir (The Year of Living Dangerously; Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World).

Going back to 1930

Martin Scorsese
The Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas
The King of Comedy
Mean Streets

James Cameron
Titanic
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Aliens
The Terminator

Steven Spielberg
Saving Private Ryan
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho
Vertigo
Rear Window
Notorious

Roman Polanski
Chinatown
Rosemary's Baby
Repulsion

David Fincher
Gone Girl
The Social Network

Michael Haneke
Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
Caché

Lars von Trier
Dogville
Breaking the Waves

Ridley Scott
Gladiator
Alien

Stanley Kubrick
Barry Lyndon
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Billy Wilder
Some Like It Hot
Double Indemnity

Sidney Lumet
Network
12 Angry Men

William Wyler
Roman Holiday
The Heiress

John Huston
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Maltese Falcon

Michael Curtiz
Casablanca
The Adventures of Robin Hood

1916-2016

Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander)

Jean Renoir (Partie de Campagne, La Grande Illusion, La Bête Humaine, The Rules of the Game)

D.W.Griffith(Intolerance, Broken Blossoms, Orphans of the Storm)
Charlie Chaplin (The Immigrant, A Dog's Life, City Lights)
Carl Theodor Dreyer (The Passion of Joan of Arc, Day of Wrath, Ordet)
Yasujiro Ozu (I Was Born But..., Late Spring, Tokyo Story)
Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Amarcord)
David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Mulholland Dr.)
Richard Linklater (Before Sunset, Before Midnight, Boyhood)

F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Sunrise)
Buster Keaton (Sherlock Jr., The General)
Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps, Vertigo)
David Lean (Brief Encounter, Lawrence of Arabia)
Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Ran)
Billy Wilder (Double Idemnity, Sunset Blvd)
Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon)
Louis Malle (Murmur of the Heart, Au Revoir Les Enfants)
Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, Goodfellas)
Krzysztof Kieślowski (The Double Life of Veronique, Three Colors: Red)
Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Certified Copy)
Michael Haneke (Cache, Amour)
Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men)
Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, About Elly)