Broadcast_Film_Critics_Association_Award_for_Best_Director

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director

Annual Movie Awards

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director is one of the awards given to film directors working in the film industry by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. It was first given out to Mel Gibson for Braveheart in 1996 as a juried award. Until 2001, only the winner was presented; since then, a set of nominees is announced every year.

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Only four directors have received the award more than once with two wins each: Alfonso Cuarón, Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The latter also holds the record of most nominations in the category with eight. Kathryn Bigelow, Jane Campion, and Chloé Zhao are the only female winners of the award.

Winners and nominees

Mel Gibson is the first recipient of this award
Steven Spielberg won this award twice for his films Saving Private Ryan (1998) and Catch Me if You Can / Minority Report (2002)
Martin Scorsese won this award twice for The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006)
Ang Lee won for Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Joel and Ethan Coen won for No Country for Old Men (2007)
Kathryn Bigelow won for The Hurt Locker, becoming the first female to win this award
David Fincher won for The Social Network (2010)
Ben Affleck won for Argo (2012)
Alfonso Cuarón won for his films Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018)
George Miller won for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Damien Chazelle won for his film La La Land (2016)
Guillermo del Toro won for his film The Shape of Water (2017)
Bong Joon-ho won for his film Parasite (2019)
Chloe Zhao won for her film Nomadland (2020)
Jane Campion won for The Power of the Dog (2021)
Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan won for their film Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Christopher Nolan won for Oppenheimer (2023)

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Awards breakdown

Multiple winners

2 wins

Multiple nominees

See also

References

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