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2009 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerSlumdog MillionaireDanny BoyleA Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"Amazon2009 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesFrost/NixonRon HowardAmazonMilkGus Van SantAmazonThe Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonDavid FincherAmazonThe Dark KnightChristopher NolanAmazon

2010 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Hurt LockerKathryn BigelowDuring the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.Amazon2010 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesAvatarJames CameronAmazonInglourious BasterdsQuentin TarantinoAmazonInvictusClint EastwoodAmazonPreciousLee DanielsAmazonUp in the AirJason ReitmanAmazon

2011 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Social NetworkDavid FincherAs Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.Amazon2011 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director Nominees127 HoursDanny BoyleAmazonBlack SwanDarren AronofskyAmazonInceptionChristopher NolanAmazonThe King's SpeechTom HooperAmazonTrue GritJoel CoenAmazon

2012 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerThe ArtistMichel HazanaviciusAn egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era.Amazon2012 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesDriveNicolas Winding RefnAmazonExtremely Loud & Incredibly CloseStephen DaldryAmazonHugoMartin ScorseseAmazonThe DescendantsAlexander PayneAmazonWar HorseSteven SpielbergAmazon

2013 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerArgoBen AffleckActing 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.Amazon2013 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesLes MisérablesTom HooperAmazonLife of PiAng LeeAmazonLincolnSteven SpielbergAmazonSilver Linings PlaybookDavid O. RussellAmazonZero Dark ThirtyKathryn BigelowAmazon

2014 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerGravityAlfonso CuarónTwo astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.Amazon2014 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director Nominees12 Years a SlaveSteve McQueenAmazonAmerican HustleDavid O. RussellAmazonCaptain PhillipsPaul GreengrassAmazonHerSpike JonzeAmazonThe Wolf of Wall StreetMartin ScorseseAmazon

2015 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerBoyhoodRichard LinklaterThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.Amazon2015 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)Alejandro G. IñárrituAmazonGone GirlDavid FincherAmazonSelmaAva DuVernayAmazonThe Grand Budapest HotelWes AndersonAmazonUnbrokenAngelina JolieAmazon

2016 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerLa La LandDamien ChazelleWhile navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.AmazonMad Max: Fury RoadGeorge MillerIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.Amazon2016 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesArrivalDenis VilleneuveAmazonBridge of SpiesSteven SpielbergAmazonCarolTodd HaynesAmazonFencesDenzel WashingtonAmazonHacksaw RidgeMel GibsonAmazonHell or High WaterDavid MackenzieAmazonManchester by the SeaKenneth LonerganAmazonMoonlightBarry JenkinsAmazonSpotlightTom McCarthyAmazonThe Mar...

2017 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Shape of WaterGuillermo del ToroAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.Amazon2017 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesCall Me by Your NameLuca GuadagninoAmazonDunkirkChristopher NolanAmazonGet OutJordan PeeleAmazonLady BirdGreta GerwigAmazonThe PostSteven SpielbergAmazonThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriMartin McDonaghAmazon

2018 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director WinnerRomaAlfonso CuarónA year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.Amazon2018 Critics Choice Awards - Best Director NomineesA Star Is BornBradley CooperAmazonBlacKkKlansmanSpike LeeAmazonFirst ManDamien ChazelleAmazonGreen BookPeter FarrellyAmazonThe FavouriteYorgos LanthimosAmazonViceAdam McKayAmazon