Film Awards By Year

1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerRachel, RachelPaul NewmanRachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.Amazon1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesFacesJohn CassavetesAmazonOliver!Carol ReedAmazon

1967 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe GraduateMike NicholsA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.Amazon1967 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesBonnie and ClydeArthur PennAmazonIn the Heat of the NightNorman JewisonAmazon

1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerA Man for All SeasonsFred ZinnemannThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.Amazon1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesBlow-UpMichelangelo AntonioniAmazonMorgan!Karel ReiszAmazonThe Shop on Main StreetJán KadárAmazon

1965 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerDarlingJohn SchlesingerBeautiful, but amoral, model Diana Scott (Julie Christie) sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.Amazon1965 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesDoctor ZhivagoDavid LeanAmazonRepulsionRoman PolanskiAmazon

1964 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombStanley KubrickAn insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.Amazon1964 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesMy Fair LadyGeorge CukorAmazonThe ServantJoseph LoseyAmazon

1963 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerTom JonesTony RichardsonThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England.Amazon1963 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesHudMartin RittAmazon

1961 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe HustlerRobert RossenAn up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.Amazon1961 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesWest Side StoryJerome RobbinsAmazon

1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerSons and LoversJack CardiffIn the early twentieth century, an artistically talented young man living in an English coal mining town is inhibited by his domineering and emotionally manipulative mother.Amazon1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesThe ApartmentBilly WilderAmazonThe SundownersFred ZinnemannAmazon

1959 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Nun's StoryFred ZinnemannAfter leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.Amazon1959 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesBen-HurWilliam WylerAmazonRoom at the TopJack ClaytonAmazonSapphireBasil DeardenAmazon

1958 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Defiant OnesStanley KramerTwo escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.Amazon1958 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesCat on a Hot Tin RoofRichard BrooksAmazon