Best Director

1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerAll the President's MenAlan J. Pakula"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.Amazon1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesSeven BeautiesLina WertmüllerAmazonTaxi DriverMartin ScorseseAmazon

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

1935 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe InformerJohn FordIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.Amazon1935 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesThe Man Who Knew Too MuchAlfred HitchcockAmazon

1936 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Gay DesperadoRouben MamoulianChivo, a singer who works in a movie theater providing live entertainment, is and apprehended by a music-loving Mexican bandit Braganza who wants to make Chivo part of his band. Braganza, who admires American gangsters, also kidnaps Jane and her rich boyfrAmazon1936 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesDodsworthWilliam WylerAmazonFuryFritz LangAmazon

1937 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerStage DoorGregory La CavaA chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.Amazon1937 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesCaptains CourageousVictor FlemingAmazon

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

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

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

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

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