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2019 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Uncut Gems
Josh Safdie
2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
2017 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Florida Project
Sean Baker
2016 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
2015 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Carol
Todd Haynes
2014 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen
2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow
2011 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius
2010 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Social Network
David Fincher
2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mike Leigh
2007 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
No Country for Old Men
Joel Coen
2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Departed
Martin Scorsese
2005 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee
2004 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood
2003 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Lost in Translation
Sofia Coppola
2002 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Far from Heaven
Todd Haynes
2001 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Gosford Park
Robert Altman
2000 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Erin Brockovich
Steven Soderbergh
1999 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Topsy-Turvy
Mike Leigh
1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Thin Red Line
Terrence Malick
1997 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
L.A. Confidential
Curtis Hanson
1996 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Breaking the Waves
Lars von Trier
1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Sense and Sensibility
Ang Lee
1994 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
1993 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Piano
Jane Campion
1992 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Player
Robert Altman
1991 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Silence of the Lambs
Jonathan Demme
1990 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese
1989 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Enemies: A Love Story
Paul Mazursky
1988 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
A World Apart
Chris Menges
1987 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Broadcast News
James L. Brooks
1986 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen
1985 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Prizzi’s Honor
John Huston
1984 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
A Passage to India
David Lean
1983 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Fanny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman
1982 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Tootsie
Sydney Pollack
1981 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Prince of the City
Sidney Lumet
1980 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Melvin and Howard
Jonathan Demme
1979 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Manhattan
Woody Allen
1978 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick
1977 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
All the President’s Men
Alan J. Pakula
1975 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Nashville
Robert Altman
1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
1973 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Day for Night
François Truffaut
1972 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Cries & Whispers
Ingmar Bergman
1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
1970 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Five Easy Pieces
Bob Rafelson
1969 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Z
Costa-Gavras
1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Rachel, Rachel
Paul Newman
1967 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Graduate
Mike Nichols
1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
A Man for All Seasons
Fred Zinnemann
1965 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Darling
John Schlesinger
1964 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick
1963 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Tom Jones
Tony Richardson
1961 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Hustler
Robert Rossen
1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Sons and Lovers
Jack Cardiff
1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Apartment
Billy Wilder
1959 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Nun’s Story
Fred Zinnemann
1958 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Defiant Ones
Stanley Kramer
1957 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean
1956 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Moby Dick
John Huston
1955 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Summertime
David Lean
1954 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
1953 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
From Here to Eternity
Fred Zinnemann
1952 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
High Noon
Fred Zinnemann
1951 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan
1950 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1949 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Fallen Idol
Carol Reed
1948 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
1947 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Gentleman’s Agreement
Elia Kazan
1946 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler
1945 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Lost Weekend
Billy Wilder
1944 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Going My Way
Leo McCarey
1943 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The More the Merrier
George Stevens
1942 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Wake Island
John Farrow
1941 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
How Green Was My Valley
John Ford
1940 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford
1939 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Stagecoach
John Ford
1938 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Lady Vanishes
Alfred Hitchcock
1937 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
Stage Door
Gregory La Cava
1936 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
The Gay Desperado
Rouben Mamoulian
1935 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Director
