Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director is one of the awards presented by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at their annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed in bold type.

1990s

1995: Mel Gibson – Braveheart
1996: Anthony Minghella – The English Patient
1997: James Cameron – Titanic
1998: Steven Spielberg – Saving Private Ryan
1999: Sam Mendes – American Beauty

2000s

2000: Steven Soderbergh – Erin Brockovich and Traffic
2001: Ron Howard – A Beautiful Mind
- Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Baz Luhrmann – Moulin Rouge!
2002: Steven Spielberg – Catch Me If You Can and Minority Report
- Roman Polanski – The Pianist
- Martin Scorsese – Gangs of New York
2003: Peter Jackson – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Tim Burton – Big Fish
- Sofia Coppola – Lost in Translation
- Clint Eastwood – Mystic River
- Jim Sheridan – In America
2004: Martin Scorsese – The Aviator
- Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
- Marc Forster – Finding Neverland
- Taylor Hackford – Ray
- Alexander Payne – Sideways
2005: Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
- George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck
- Paul Haggis – Crash
- Ron Howard – Cinderella Man
- Steven Spielberg – Munich
2006: Martin Scorsese – The Departed
- Bill Condon – Dreamgirls
- Clint Eastwood – Letters from Iwo Jima
- Stephen Frears – The Queen
- Paul Greengrass – United 93
2007: Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
- Tim Burton – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Sean Penn – Into the Wild
- Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Joe Wright – Atonement
2008: Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
- David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
- Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
- Gus Van Sant – Milk
2009: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
- James Cameron – Avatar
- Lee Daniels – Precious
- Clint Eastwood – Invictus
- Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
- Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

2010s

2010: David Fincher – The Social Network
- Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
- Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
- Joel and Ethan Coen – True Grit
- Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
- Christopher Nolan – Inception
2011: Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
- Stephen Daldry – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Alexander Payne – The Descendants
- Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
- Martin Scorsese – Hugo
- Steven Spielberg – War Horse
2012: Ben Affleck – Argo
- Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
- Tom Hooper – Les Misérables
- Ang Lee – Life of Pi
- David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
- Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
2013: Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity
- Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips
- Spike Jonze – Her
- Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
- David O. Russell – American Hustle
- Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street
2014: Richard Linklater – Boyhood
- Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Ava DuVernay – Selma
- David Fincher – Gone Girl
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman
- Angelina Jolie – Unbroken
2015: George Miller – Mad Max: Fury Road
- Todd Haynes – Carol
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu – The Revenant
- Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
- Ridley Scott – The Martian
- Steven Spielberg – Bridge of Spies

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director

Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA)

Current awards (Film)	Acting Ensemble Action Movie Actor Actor in an Action Movie Actor in a Comedy Actress Actress in an Action Movie Actress in a Comedy Animated Feature Art Direction Cinematography Comedy Composer (Score) Costume Design Director Editing Documentary Feature Foreign Language Film Makeup Best Picture Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Screenplay Song Sound Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Visual Effects Young Performer (Actor & Actress)

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