Best Director

1943 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe More the MerrierGeorge StevensDuring the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.Amazon1943 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesHangmen Also Die!Fritz LangAmazonThe Ox-Bow IncidentWilliam A. WellmanAmazon

1944 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerGoing My WayLeo McCareyFather Charles O'Malley, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior.Amazon1944 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesDouble IndemnityBilly WilderAmazonHail the Conquering HeroPreston SturgesAmazon

1977 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerAnnie HallWoody AllenNeurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.Amazon1977 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesClose Encounters of the Third KindSteven SpielbergAmazonThat Obscure Object of DesireLuis BuñuelAmazon

1946 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Best Years of Our LivesWilliam WylerThree World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.Amazon1946 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesA Matter of Life and DeathMichael PowellAmazonHenry VLaurence OlivierAmazonIt's a Wonderful LifeFrank CapraAmazon

1947 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerGentleman's AgreementElia KazanA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.Amazon1947 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesCrossfireEdward DmytrykAmazonThe FugitiveJohn FordAmazon

1948 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Treasure of the Sierra MadreJohn HustonTwo Americans searching for work in Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.Amazon1948 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesHamletLaurence OlivierAmazon

1949 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerThe Fallen IdolCarol ReedA butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.Amazon1949 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesIntruder in the DustClarence BrownAmazon

1950 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerAll About EveJoseph L. MankiewiczAn ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.Amazon1950 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesSunset BoulevardBilly WilderAmazonThe Asphalt JungleJohn HustonAmazon

1951 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerA Streetcar Named DesireElia KazanDisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.Amazon1951 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesA Place in the SunGeorge StevensAmazon

1952 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director WinnerHigh NoonFred ZinnemannA town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train.Amazon1952 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director NomineesLimelightCharles ChaplinAmazonThe African QueenJohn HustonAmazonThe Greatest Show on EarthCecil B. DeMilleAmazonThe Sound BarrierDavid LeanAmazon