As the 2026 Oscars race heats up a few lucky performers have found themselves to have secured multiple nominations.

American filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir who has received two Oscar nominations this year is one of the rare filmmakers in this group.

Geeta who is an Indian filmmaker has received two Oscar nominations for her work in two separate films.

Her film The Perfect Neighbor has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category while The Devil Is Busy is up for Best Documentary Short.

Geeta expected to win because the Academy had already selected both films for their shortlist of 15 movies before they announced the nominations. The situation took her by surprise because she did not expect it to happen.

“Don't judge me. I slept through the nominations. I was so anxious the night before. I planned to go to bed early and sleep well but I was awake until three in the morning staring at the ceiling. I literally slept through the announcements,” she told Reuters at the Independent Spirit Awards.

Geeta Gandbhir secures double Oscar nod

The Academy Awards at this year's show two of Geeta's movies as contenders for the main award.

The Devil is Busy distributed by HBO Max offers a gripping ground level look at a day inside an abortion clinic in Atlanta, Georgia highlighting the dangers that staff and patients face amid America’s shifting political landscape.

The Perfect Neighbor which Netflix distributes, investigates the sequence of events that resulted in Ajike Owens murder through police calls and body camera footage from the incident.

All about Geeta Gandbhir

Geeta Gandbhir entered the world in Boston during the year 1970. Her father Sharad came to America from India in the 1960s to pursue engineering studies and established his life there.

Her mother Lalita arrived in the United States to be with him after 1965. Geeta spent her childhood in Boston together with her two brothers and sisters. She first met Spike Lee when she studied at Harvard University and she started her career by working for him before she began making documentary films. 

She received two Emmy Awards for her work as a film editor in the Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming category.