Film Awards By Year

1947 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerGentleman's AgreementElia KazanA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.Amazon1947 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesCrossfireEdward DmytrykAmazonThe FugitiveJohn FordAmazon

1946 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Best Years of Our LivesWilliam WylerThree World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.Amazon1946 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesA Matter of Life and DeathMichael PowellAmazonHenry VLaurence OlivierAmazonIt's a Wonderful LifeFrank CapraAmazon

1945 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Lost WeekendBilly WilderThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.Amazon1945 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesStory of G.I. JoeWilliam A. WellmanAmazon

1944 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerGoing My WayLeo McCareyFather Charles O'Malley, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior.Amazon1944 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesDouble IndemnityBilly WilderAmazonHail the Conquering HeroPreston SturgesAmazon

1943 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe More the MerrierGeorge StevensDuring the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.Amazon1943 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesHangmen Also Die!Fritz LangAmazonThe Ox-Bow IncidentWilliam A. WellmanAmazon

1942 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerWake IslandJohn FarrowDecember, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.Amazon1942 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesIn Which We ServeDavid LeanAmazonYankee Doodle DandyMichael CurtizAmazon

1941 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerHow Green Was My ValleyJohn FordAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.Amazon1941 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesCitizen KaneOrson WellesAmazon

1940 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Grapes of WrathJohn FordA poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.Amazon1940 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesNight Train to MunichCarol ReedAmazonThe LetterWilliam WylerAmazon

1939 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerStagecoachJohn FordA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.Amazon1939 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesGone with the WindVictor FlemingAmazonNinotchkaErnst LubitschAmazon

1938 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Lady VanishesAlfred HitchcockWhile travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.Amazon1938 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesA Man to RememberGarson KaninAmazonAlgiersJohn CromwellAmazonFour DaughtersMichael CurtizAmazonThe Great WaltzJulien DuvivierAmazonYou Can't Take It with YouFrank CapraAmazon