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1999 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerSaving Private RyanSteven SpielbergFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.Amazon

2000 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerAmerican BeautySam MendesA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.Amazon

2001 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerTrafficSteven SoderberghA conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the fAmazon2001 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesGladiatorRidley ScottAmazon

2002 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerA Beautiful MindRon HowardAfter John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.AmazonMoulin Rouge!Baz LuhrmannA poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.Amazon2002 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingPeter JacksonAmazon

2003 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerCatch Me If You CanSteven SpielbergA seasoned FBI agent pursues Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully forged millions of dollars' worth of checks while posing as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, and a legal prosecutor.Amazon2003 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesGangs of New YorkMartin ScorseseAmazonThe PianistRoman PolanskiAmazon

2004 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingPeter JacksonGandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.Amazon2004 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesBig FishTim BurtonAmazonIn AmericaJim SheridanAmazonLost in TranslationSofia CoppolaAmazonMystic RiverClint EastwoodAmazon

2005 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerThe AviatorMartin ScorseseA biopic depicting the early years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.Amazon2005 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesFinding NeverlandMarc ForsterAmazonMillion Dollar BabyClint EastwoodAmazonRayTaylor HackfordAmazonSidewaysAlexander PayneAmazon

2006 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerBrokeback MountainAng LeeThe story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.Amazon2006 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesCinderella ManRon HowardAmazonCrashPaul HaggisAmazonGood Night, and Good Luck.George ClooneyAmazonKing KongPeter JacksonAmazonMunichSteven SpielbergAmazon

2007 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerThe DepartedMartin ScorseseAn undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.Amazon2007 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesDreamgirlsBill CondonAmazonLetters from Iwo JimaClint EastwoodAmazonThe QueenStephen FrearsAmazonUnited 93Paul GreengrassAmazon

2008 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerNo Country for Old MenEthan CoenViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.Amazon2008 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesAtonementJoe WrightAmazonBefore the Devil Knows You're DeadSidney LumetAmazonInto the WildSean PennAmazonSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetTim BurtonAmazonThe Diving Bell and the ButterflyJulian SchnabelAmazon