New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking.
In the last three (1970s, 1980s and 1990s) decades the New York Film Critics have rarely made the same choice as the Academy (Oscars). Over the period 1970-1999 only in 1977: Woody Allen for Annie Hall and in 1991: Jonathan Demme for The Silence of the Lambs the NYFCC made the same chose for Best Director as the Academy. It's notable that in this decade (2000-2009), the critics group have already agreed with the Oscars on six occasions: 2000 Steven Soderbergh for Traffic, 2004 Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby, 2005 Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain, 2006 Martin Scorsese for The Departed, 2007 Coen brothers for No Country for Old Men and 2009 Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker.
Winners
Oscar winner denoted by *
1930s
| Year | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1935 | John Ford * | The Informer |
| 1936 | Rouben Mamoulian | The Gay Desperado |
| 1937 | Gregory La Cava | Stage Door |
| 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock | The Lady Vanishes |
| 1939 | John Ford | Stagecoach |
1940s
| Year | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | John Ford * | The Grapes of Wrath |
| The Long Voyage Home | ||
| 1941 | John Ford * | How Green Was My Valley |
| 1942 | John Farrow | Wake Island |
| 1943 | George Stevens | The More the Merrier |
| 1944 | Leo McCarey * | Going My Way |
| 1945 | Billy Wilder * | The Lost Weekend |
| 1946 | William Wyler * | The Best Years of Our Lives |
| 1947 | Elia Kazan | Boomerang |
| Gentleman's Agreement * | ||
| 1948 | John Huston * | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| 1949 | Carol Reed | The Fallen Idol |
1950s
| Year | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz * | All About Eve |
| 1951 | Elia Kazan | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| 1952 | Fred Zinnemann | High Noon |
| 1953 | Fred Zinnemann * | From Here to Eternity |
| 1954 | Elia Kazan * | On the Waterfront |
| 1955 | David Lean | Summertime |
| 1956 | John Huston | Moby Dick |
| 1957 | David Lean * | The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| 1958 | Stanley Kramer | The Defiant Ones |
| 1959 | Fred Zinnemann | The Nun's Story |
1960s
| Year | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Jack Cardiff | Sons and Lovers |
| Billy Wilder * | The Apartment | |
| 1961 | Robert Rossen | The Hustler |
| 1962 | No award given (newspaper strike) | |
| 1963 | Tony Richardson * | Tom Jones |
| 1964 | Stanley Kubrick | Dr. Strangelove |
| 1965 | John Schlesinger | Darling |
| 1966 | Fred Zinnemann * | A Man for All Seasons |
| 1967 | Mike Nichols * | The Graduate |
| 1968 | Paul Newman | Rachel, Rachel |
| 1969 | Costa-Gavras | Z |
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
| Year | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh * | Erin Brockovich |
| Traffic | ||
| 2001 | Robert Altman | Gosford Park |
| 2002 | Todd Haynes | Far from Heaven |
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation |
| 2004 | Clint Eastwood * | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2005 | Ang Lee * | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2006 | Martin Scorsese * | The Departed |
| 2007 | Joel and Ethan Coen * | No Country for Old Men |
| 2008 | Mike Leigh | Happy-Go-Lucky |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow * | The Hurt Locker |
2010s
| Year | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | David Fincher | The Social Network |
| 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius * | The Artist |
| 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2013 | Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2015 | Todd Haynes | Carol |
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