2013 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director Winner
![Argo Ben Affleck](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/argo-image.jpg)
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.
2013 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director Nominees
![Les Misérables Tom Hooper](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/les-miserables-tom-hooper-image.jpg)
Les Misérables
Tom Hooper
![Life of Pi Ang Lee](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/life-of-pi-image.jpg)
Life of Pi
Ang Lee
![Lincoln Steven Spielberg](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lincoln-steven-spielberg-image.jpg)
Lincoln
Steven Spielberg
![Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/silver-linings-playbook-david-o.-russell-image.jpg)
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell
![Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zero-dark-thirty-kathryn-bigelow-image.jpg)