Film Awards By Year

1957 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Bridge on the River KwaiDavid LeanBritish POWs build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, oblivious of the Allies' plans to destroy it.Amazon1957 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director Nominees12 Angry MenSidney LumetAmazon

1956 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerMoby DickJohn HustonThe sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.Amazon1956 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesBaby DollElia KazanAmazon

1955 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerSummertimeDavid LeanA lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.Amazon1955 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesThe Desperate HoursWilliam WylerAmazonThe Man with the Golden ArmOtto PremingerAmazon

1954 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerOn the WaterfrontElia KazanAn ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.Amazon1954 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesCarmen JonesOtto PremingerAmazonRear WindowAlfred HitchcockAmazonRomeo and JulietRenato CastellaniAmazonThe Caine MutinyEdward DmytrykAmazonThe Country GirlGeorge SeatonAmazon

1953 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerFrom Here to EternityFred ZinnemannIn Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.Amazon1953 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesShaneGeorge StevensAmazon

1952 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerHigh NoonFred ZinnemannA town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train.Amazon1952 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesLimelightCharles ChaplinAmazonThe African QueenJohn HustonAmazonThe Greatest Show on EarthCecil B. DeMilleAmazonThe Sound BarrierDavid LeanAmazon

1951 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerA Streetcar Named DesireElia KazanDisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.Amazon1951 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesA Place in the SunGeorge StevensAmazon

1950 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerAll About EveJoseph L. MankiewiczAn ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.Amazon1950 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesSunset BoulevardBilly WilderAmazonThe Asphalt JungleJohn HustonAmazon

1949 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Fallen IdolCarol ReedA butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.Amazon1949 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesIntruder in the DustClarence BrownAmazon

1948 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Treasure of the Sierra MadreJohn HustonTwo Americans searching for work in Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.Amazon1948 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesHamletLaurence OlivierAmazon