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2019 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
1917
Sam Mendes
2019 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Parasite
Bong Joon Ho
2018 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Roma
Alfonso Cuarn
2017 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro
2016 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
La La Land
Damien Chazelle
2016 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller
2015 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
2014 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarn
2013 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Argo
Ben Affleck
2012 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius
2011 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
The Social Network
David Fincher
2010 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
2009 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle
2008 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
No Country for Old Men
Ethan Coen
2007 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
The Departed
Martin Scorsese
2006 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2005 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
The Aviator
Martin Scorsese
2004 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Jackson
2003 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Catch Me If You Can
Steven Spielberg
2002 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
A Beautiful Mind
Ron Howard
2002 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Moulin Rouge!
Baz Luhrmann
2001 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
Traffic
Steven Soderbergh
2000 Critics Choice Awards – Best Director
