2013 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director Winner and Nominees

Argo

Ben Affleck

Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.

Les Misérables

Tom Hooper

Life of Pi

Ang Lee

Lincoln

Steven Spielberg

Silver Linings Playbook

David O. Russell

Zero Dark Thirty

Kathryn Bigelow