Steven Spielberg Breaks Oscar Nomination Record

He's the first to be nominated for Best Director over 6 different decades.

Spielberg breaking Oscar history becoming the first to be nominated for Best Director over 6 different decades. The legendary film maker earned his eight category nod Tuesday morning for West Side Story. His first best director nomination came in 1978’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The 75-year-old has received individual recognition in at least one of the academy’s best director lineups for his work each decade since, including Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Lincoln, Schindler’s List, and Saving Private Ryan.