Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2019 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Atlantics
2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Eighth Grade
Bo Burnham
2017 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Get Out
Jordan Peele
2016 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Krisha
Trey Edward Shults
2016 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
The Edge of Seventeen
Kelly Fremon Craig
2015 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Son of Saul
László Nemes
2014 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
The Babadook
Jennifer Kent
2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Fruitvale Station
Ryan Coogler
2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
How to Survive a Plague
David France
2011 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Margin Call
J.C. Chandor
2010 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Animal Kingdom
David Michôd
2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Hunger
Steve McQueen
2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Frozen River
Courtney Hunt
2007 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Away from Her
Sarah Polley
2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Half Nelson
Ryan Fleck
2005 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Capote
Bennett Miller
2004 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Maria Full of Grace
Joshua Marston
2003 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
American Splendor
Shari Springer Berman
2002 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Roger Dodger
Dylan Kidd
2001 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
In the Bedroom
Todd Field
2000 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
George Washington
David Gordon Green
1999 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Being John Malkovich
Spike Jonze
1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Love and Death on Long Island
Richard Kwietniowski
1997 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
In the Company of Men
Neil LaBute
1996 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
Big Night
Stanley Tucci
1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best First Film
