Oscar Nominated Movie Directors since 1980

Can you name movie directors that were nominated for Academy Award at least 2 times since 1980?

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Movies	Director
A Beautiful Mind / Frost/Nixon	Ron Howard
A Room with a View / Howards End / The Remains of the Day	James Ivory
Amadeus / The People vs. Larry Flynt	Miloš Forman
American Beauty / 1917	Sam Mendes
Babel / Birdman / The Revenant	Alejandro González Iñárritu
Billy Elliot / The Hours / The Reader	Stephen Daldry
Braveheart / Hacksaw Ridge	Mel Gibson
Broadway Danny Rose / Hannah and Her Sisters / Crimes and Misdemeanors	Woody Allen
Capote / Foxcatcher	Bennett Miller
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Brokeback Mountain / Life of Pi	Ang Lee
Dunkirk / Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan
Good Will Hunting / Milk	Gus Van Sant
Gravity / Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
Henry V / Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
Juno / Up in the Air	Jason Reitman
My Left Foot / In the Name of the Father	Jim Sheridan
My Life as a Dog / The Cider House Rules	Lasse Hallström
No Country for Old Men / True Grit	Coen Brothers
Ordinary People / Quiz Show	Robert Redford
Platoon / Born on the Fourth of July / JFK	Oliver Stone
Pulp Fiction / Inglourious Basterds / Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino
Raging Bull / The Last Temptation of Christ / Goodfellas / Gangs of New York	Martin Scorsese
Raiders of the Lost Ark / E.T. / Schindler's List / Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg
Rain Man / Bugsy	Barry Levinson
Secrets & Lies / Vera Drake	Mike Leigh
Sideways / The Descendants / Nebraska	Alexander Payne
Silkwood / Working Girl	Mike Nichols
Tess / The Pianist	Roman Polanski
The Big Short / Vice	Adam McKay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button / The Social Network / Mank	David Fincher
The Elephant Man / Blue Velvet / Mulholland Drive	David Lynch
The Favourite / Poor Things	Yorgos Lanthimos
The Fighter / Silver Linings Playbook / American Hustle	David O. Russell
The Grifters / The Queen	Stephen Frears
The Killing Fields / The Mission	Roland Joffé
The Lord of the Rings I / The Lord of the Rings III	Peter Jackson
The Piano / The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
The Player / Short Cuts / Gosford Park	Robert Altman
The Thin Red Line / The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
Thelma & Louise / Gladiator / Black Hawk Down	Ridley Scott
There Will Be Blood / Phantom Thread / Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
Titanic / Avatar	James Cameron
Tootsie / Out of Africa	Sydney Pollack
Traffic / Erin Brockovich	Steven Soderbergh
Unforgiven / Mystic River / Million Dollar Baby / Letters from Iwo Jima	Clint Eastwood
Witness / Dead Poets Society / The Truman Show / Master and Commander	Peter Weir

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