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2019 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Uncut Gems Josh Safdie](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/uncut-gems-image.jpg)
Uncut Gems
Josh Safdie
2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Roma Alfonso Cuarón](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/roma-image.jpg)
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2017 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Florida Project Sean Baker](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-florida-project-sean-baker-image.jpg)
The Florida Project
Sean Baker
2016 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Moonlight Barry Jenkins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/moonlight-image.jpg)
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
2015 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Carol Todd Haynes](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/carol-todd-haynes-image.jpg)
Carol
Todd Haynes
2014 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Boyhood Richard Linklater](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/boyhood-richard-linklater-image.jpg)
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![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
2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![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
2011 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Artist Michel Hazanavicius](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-artist-michel-hazanavicius-image.jpg)
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius
2010 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Social Network David Fincher](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-social-network-david-fincher-image.jpg)
The Social Network
David Fincher
2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-image.jpg)
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Happy-Go-Lucky Mike Leigh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-go-lucky-mike-leigh-image.jpg)
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mike Leigh
2007 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![No Country for Old Men Joel Coen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-country-for-old-men-ethan-coen-joel-coen-image.jpg)
No Country for Old Men
Joel Coen
2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Departed Martin Scorsese](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-departed-martin-scorsese-image.jpg)
The Departed
Martin Scorsese
2005 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/brokeback-mountain-image.jpg)
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2004 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Million Dollar Baby Clint Eastwood](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/million-dollar-baby-clint-eastwood-image.jpg)
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood
2003 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lost-in-translation-sofia-coppola-image.jpg)
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola
2002 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Far from Heaven Todd Haynes](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/far-from-heaven-todd-haynes-image.jpg)
Far from Heaven
Todd Haynes
2001 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Gosford Park Robert Altman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gosford-park-robert-altman-image.jpg)
Gosford Park
Robert Altman
2000 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Erin Brockovich Steven Soderbergh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/erin-brockovich-steven-soderbergh-image.jpg)
Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh
1999 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Topsy-Turvy Mike Leigh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/topsy-turvy-mike-leigh-image.jpg)
Topsy-Turvy
Mike Leigh
1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-thin-red-line-terrence-malick-image.jpg)
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick
1997 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![L.A. Confidential Curtis Hanson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/l.a.-confidential-curtis-hanson-image.jpg)
L.A. Confidential
Curtis Hanson
1996 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Breaking the Waves Lars von Trier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/breaking-the-waves-lars-von-trier-image.jpg)
Breaking the Waves
Lars von Trier
1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Sense and Sensibility Ang Lee](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sense-and-sensibility-image.jpg)
Sense and Sensibility
Ang Lee
1994 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pulp-fiction-quentin-tarantino-image.jpg)
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
1993 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Piano Jane Campion](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-piano-jane-campion-image.jpg)
The Piano
Jane Campion
1992 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Player Robert Altman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-player-robert-altman-image.jpg)
The Player
Robert Altman
1991 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Silence of the Lambs Jonathan Demme](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-silence-of-the-lambs-jonathan-demme-image.jpg)
The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme
1990 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Goodfellas Martin Scorsese](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/goodfellas-martin-scorsese-image.jpg)
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese
1989 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Enemies: A Love Story Paul Mazursky](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/enemies-a-love-story-paul-mazursky-image.jpg)
Enemies: A Love Story
Paul Mazursky
1988 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![A World Apart Chris Menges](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-world-apart-chris-menges-image.jpg)
A World Apart
Chris Menges
1987 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Broadcast News James L. Brooks](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/broadcast-news-james-l.-brooks-image.jpg)
Broadcast News
James L. Brooks
1986 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Hannah and Her Sisters Woody Allen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hannah-and-her-sisters-woody-allen-image.jpg)
Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen
1985 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Prizzi's Honor John Huston](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/prizzis-honor-john-huston-image.jpg)
Prizzi’s Honor
John Huston
1984 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![A Passage to India David Lean](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-passage-to-india-image.jpg)
A Passage to India
David Lean
1983 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Fanny and Alexander Ingmar Bergman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fanny-and-alexander-ingmar-bergman-image.jpg)
Fanny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman
1982 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Tootsie Sydney Pollack](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/tootsie-image.jpg)
Tootsie
Sydney Pollack
1981 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Prince of the City Sidney Lumet](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/prince-of-the-city-sidney-lumet-image.jpg)
Prince of the City
Sidney Lumet
1980 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Melvin and Howard Jonathan Demme](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/melvin-and-howard-jonathan-demme-image.jpg)
Melvin and Howard
Jonathan Demme
1979 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Manhattan Woody Allen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/manhattan-woody-allen-image.jpg)
Manhattan
Woody Allen
1978 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Days of Heaven Terrence Malick](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/days-of-heaven-terrence-malick-image.jpg)
Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick
1977 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Annie Hall Woody Allen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/annie-hall-woody-allen-image.jpg)
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![All the President's Men Alan J. Pakula](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/all-the-presidents-men-image.jpg)
All the President’s Men
Alan J. Pakula
1975 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Nashville Robert Altman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/nashville-robert-altman-image.jpg)
Nashville
Robert Altman
1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Amarcord Federico Fellini](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/amarcord-federico-fellini-image.jpg)
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
1973 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Day for Night François Truffaut](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/day-for-night-françois-truffaut-image.jpg)
Day for Night
François Truffaut
1972 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Cries & Whispers Ingmar Bergman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cries-and-whispers-ingmar-bergman-image.jpg)
Cries & Whispers
Ingmar Bergman
1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-clockwork-orange-stanley-kubrick-image.jpg)
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
1970 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Five Easy Pieces Bob Rafelson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/five-easy-pieces-bob-rafelson-image.jpg)
Five Easy Pieces
Bob Rafelson
1969 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Z Costa-Gavras](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/z-costa-gavras-image.jpg)
Z
Costa-Gavras
1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Rachel, Rachel Paul Newman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/rachel-rachel-paul-newman-image.jpg)
Rachel, Rachel
Paul Newman
1967 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Graduate Mike Nichols](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-graduate-mike-nichols-image.jpg)
The Graduate
Mike Nichols
1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![A Man for All Seasons Fred Zinnemann](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-man-for-all-seasons-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)
A Man for All Seasons
Fred Zinnemann
1965 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Darling John Schlesinger](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/darling-john-schlesinger-image.jpg)
Darling
John Schlesinger
1964 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dr.-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb-stanley-kubrick-image.jpg)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick
1963 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Tom Jones Tony Richardson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/tom-jones-tony-richardson-image.jpg)
Tom Jones
Tony Richardson
1961 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Hustler Robert Rossen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-hustler-robert-rossen-image.jpg)
The Hustler
Robert Rossen
1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Sons and Lovers Jack Cardiff](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sons-and-lovers-jack-cardiff-image.jpg)
Sons and Lovers
Jack Cardiff
1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Apartment Billy Wilder](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-apartment-billy-wilder-image.jpg)
The Apartment
Billy Wilder
1959 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Nun's Story Fred Zinnemann](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-nuns-story-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)
The Nun’s Story
Fred Zinnemann
1958 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Defiant Ones Stanley Kramer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-defiant-ones-stanley-kramer-image.jpg)
The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kramer
1957 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Bridge on the River Kwai David Lean](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-bridge-on-the-river-kwai-david-lean-image.jpg)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean
1956 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Moby Dick John Huston](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/moby-dick-john-huston-image.jpg)
Moby Dick
John Huston
1955 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Summertime David Lean](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/summertime-david-lean-image.jpg)
Summertime
David Lean
1954 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![On the Waterfront Elia Kazan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/on-the-waterfront-elia-kazan-image.jpg)
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
1953 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![From Here to Eternity Fred Zinnemann](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/from-here-to-eternity-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)
From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann
1952 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![High Noon Fred Zinnemann](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/high-noon-fred-zinnemann-image.jpg)
High Noon
Fred Zinnemann
1951 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![A Streetcar Named Desire Elia Kazan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-streetcar-named-desire-elia-kazan-image.jpg)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan
1950 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/all-about-eve-joseph-l.-mankiewicz-image.jpg)
All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1949 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Fallen Idol Carol Reed](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-fallen-idol-carol-reed-image.jpg)
The Fallen Idol
Carol Reed
1948 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Treasure of the Sierra Madre John Huston](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-treasure-of-the-sierra-madre-john-huston-image.jpg)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
1947 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Gentleman's Agreement Elia Kazan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gentlemans-agreement-elia-kazan-image.jpg)
Gentleman’s Agreement
Elia Kazan
1946 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Best Years of Our Lives William Wyler](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-best-years-of-our-lives-william-wyler-image.jpg)
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler
1945 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-lost-weekend-billy-wilder-image.jpg)
The Lost Weekend
Billy Wilder
1944 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Going My Way Leo McCarey](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/going-my-way-leo-mccarey-image.jpg)
Going My Way
Leo McCarey
1943 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The More the Merrier George Stevens](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-more-the-merrier-george-stevens-image.jpg)
The More the Merrier
George Stevens
1942 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Wake Island John Farrow](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/wake-island-john-farrow-image.jpg)
Wake Island
John Farrow
1941 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![How Green Was My Valley John Ford](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/how-green-was-my-valley-john-ford-image.jpg)
How Green Was My Valley
John Ford
1940 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Grapes of Wrath John Ford](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-grapes-of-wrath-john-ford-image.jpg)
The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford
1939 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Stagecoach John Ford](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/stagecoach-john-ford-image.jpg)
Stagecoach
John Ford
1938 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Lady Vanishes Alfred Hitchcock](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-lady-vanishes-alfred-hitchcock-image.jpg)
The Lady Vanishes
Alfred Hitchcock
1937 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![Stage Door Gregory La Cava](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/stage-door-gregory-la-cava-image.jpg)
Stage Door
Gregory La Cava
1936 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Gay Desperado Rouben Mamoulian](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-gay-desperado-rouben-mamoulian-image.jpg)
The Gay Desperado
Rouben Mamoulian
1935 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
![The Informer John Ford](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-informer-john-ford-image.jpg)