Awards & Winners

New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

New York Film Critics Circle

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 decades the New York Film Critics have rarely made the same choice as the Academy. 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, 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.

Check all the winners of New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director presented under New York Film Critics Circle since 1964 .


Kathryn Bigelow

Honored for : Zero Dark Thirty

Michel Hazanavicius

Honored for : The Artist

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lars von Trier Melancholia

David Fincher

Honored for : The Social Network

Kathryn Bigelow

Honored for : The Hurt Locker

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker

Mike Leigh

Honored for : Happy-Go-Lucky

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Honored for : No Country for Old Men

Martin Scorsese

Honored for : The Departed

Ang Lee

Honored for : Brokeback Mountain

Clint Eastwood

Honored for : Million Dollar Baby

Sofia Coppola

Honored for : Lost in Translation

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation

Todd Haynes

Honored for : Far from Heaven

Robert Altman

Honored for : Gosford Park

Steven Soderbergh

Honored for : Erin Brockovich

Steven Soderbergh

Honored for : Traffic

Mike Leigh

Honored for : Topsy Turvy

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mike Leigh Topsy Turvy

Terrence Malick

Honored for : The Thin Red Line

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Terrence Malick The Thin Red Line

Curtis Hanson

Honored for : L.A. Confidential

Lars von Trier

Honored for : Breaking the Waves

Ang Lee

Honored for : Sense and Sensibility

Quentin Tarantino

Honored for : Pulp Fiction

Jane Campion

Honored for : The Piano

Robert Altman

Honored for : The Player

Jonathan Demme

Honored for : The Silence of the Lambs

Martin Scorsese

Honored for : Goodfellas

Paul Mazursky

Honored for : Enemies, A Love Story

Chris Menges

Honored for : A World Apart

James L. Brooks

Honored for : Broadcast News

Woody Allen

Honored for : Hannah and Her Sisters

John Huston

Honored for : Prizzi's Honor

David Lean

Honored for : A Passage to India

Ingmar Bergman

Honored for : Fanny and Alexander

Sydney Pollack

Honored for : Tootsie

Sidney Lumet

Honored for : Prince of the City

Jonathan Demme

Honored for : Melvin and Howard

Woody Allen

Honored for : Manhattan

Terrence Malick

Honored for : Days of Heaven

Woody Allen

Honored for : Annie Hall

Alan J. Pakula

Honored for : All the President's Men

Robert Altman

Honored for : Nashville

Federico Fellini

Honored for : Amarcord

François Truffaut

Honored for : Day for Night

Ingmar Bergman

Honored for : Cries and Whispers

Stanley Kubrick

Honored for : A Clockwork Orange

Bob Rafelson

Honored for : Five Easy Pieces

Costa-Gavras

Honored for : Z

Nominations 1969 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Costa-Gavras

Stanley Kubrick

Honored for : Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb