2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Director Winner
![12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/12-years-a-slave-steve-mcqueen-image.jpg)
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Director Nominees
![All Is Lost J.C. Chandor](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/all-is-lost-j.c.-chandor-image.jpg)
All Is Lost
J.C. Chandor
![Mud Jeff Nichols](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mud-jeff-nichols-image.jpg)
Mud
Jeff Nichols
![Nebraska Alexander Payne](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/nebraska-image.jpg)
Nebraska
Alexander Payne
![Upstream Color Shane Carruth](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/upstream-color-shane-carruth-image.jpg)