2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director Winner
![Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zero-dark-thirty-kathryn-bigelow-image.jpg)
Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director Nominees
![Argo Ben Affleck](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/argo-image.jpg)
Argo
Ben Affleck
![The Master Paul Thomas Anderson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-master-paul-thomas-anderson-image.jpg)