Critics' Choice Awards, Best Director - TheTVDB.com

2025

Edward Berger / Conclave

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

Sean Baker / Anora

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Jon M. Chu / Wicked

Denis Villeneuve / Dune: Part Two

RaMell Ross / Nickel Boys

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

2024

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Bradley Cooper / Maestro

Alexander Payne / The Holdovers

Greta Gerwig / Barbie

Yorgos Lanthimos / Poor Things

2023

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

James Cameron / Avatar: The Way of Water

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Baz Luhrmann / Elvis

Damien Chazelle / Babylon

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

S.S. Rajamouli / ఆర్ఆర్ఆర్

Gina Prince-Bythewood / The Woman King

Sarah Polley / Women Talking

Steven Spielberg / The Fabelmans

Todd Field / TÁR

2022

Denis Villeneuve / Dune: Part One

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Guillermo del Toro / Nightmare Alley

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Steven Spielberg / West Side Story

2021

David Fincher / Mank

Regina King / One Night in Miami...

Aaron Sorkin / The Trial of the Chicago 7

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

2020

Benny Safdie / Uncut Gems

Josh Safdie / Uncut Gems

2019

BlacKkKlansman

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

Luca Guadagnino / Call Me by Your Name

2017

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

2016

Mel Gibson / Hacksaw Ridge

Denis Villeneuve / Arrival

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

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

Nicolas Winding Refn / Drive

Michel Hazanavicius / The Artist

2011

Danny Boyle / 127 Hours

David Fincher / The Social Network

2010

Clint Eastwood / Invictus

James Cameron / Avatar

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

2009

Danny Boyle / Slumdog Millionaire

Gus Van Sant / Milk

David Fincher / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

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

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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