Critics' Choice Awards, Best Director - TheTVDB.com

2026

Joachim Trier / Affeksjonsverdi

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

Guillermo del Toro / Frankenstein

2025

Denis Villeneuve / Dune: Part Two

Sean Baker / Anora

Jon M. Chu / Wicked

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

Edward Berger / Conclave

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

RaMell Ross / Nickel Boys

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

2024

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Alexander Payne / The Holdovers

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Greta Gerwig / Barbie

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

2023

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Baz Luhrmann / Elvis

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

James Cameron / Avatar: The Way of Water

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

S.S. Rajamouli / ఆర్ఆర్ఆర్

Sarah Polley / Women Talking

Todd Field / TÁR

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Damien Chazelle / Babylon

Gina Prince-Bythewood / The Woman King

2022

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

Guillermo del Toro / Nightmare Alley

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Denis Villeneuve / Dune: Part One

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

2021

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

David Fincher / Mank

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Aaron Sorkin / The Trial of the Chicago 7

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Regina King / One Night in Miami...

2020

Bong Joon-ho / 기생충

Sam Mendes / 1917

Benny Safdie / Uncut Gems

Josh Safdie / Uncut Gems

2019

Alfonso Cuarón / Roma

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

2018

Luca Guadagnino / Call Me by Your Name

Guillermo del Toro / The Shape of Water

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

2017

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

2016

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

2015

Ava DuVernay / Selma

David Fincher / Gone Girl

2014

Martin Scorsese / The Wolf of Wall Street

Spike Jonze / Her

2013

Ang Lee / Life of Pi

2012

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

Nicolas Winding Refn / Drive

2011

David Fincher / The Social Network

Danny Boyle / 127 Hours

2010

James Cameron / Avatar

Clint Eastwood / Invictus

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

2009

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Gus Van Sant / Milk

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

2008

Tim Burton / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

2007

Bill Condon / Dreamgirls

Clint Eastwood / Letters from Iwo Jima

2006

Ang Lee / Brokeback Mountain

2005

Clint Eastwood / Million Dollar Baby

2004

Tim Burton / Big Fish

Clint Eastwood / Mystic River

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