Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

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The Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Director has been annually honored the best film of the year since 2005.

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Winners

YearWinnerDirector(s)
2005 Crash Paul Haggis
2006 Children of Men Alfonso Cuarón
2007 There Will Be Blood Paul Thomas Anderson
2008 The Dark Knight Christopher Nolan
2009 The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow
2010 Black Swan Darren Aronofsky
2011 Drive Nicolas Winding Refn
2012 The Master Paul Thomas Anderson
2013 Gravity Alfonso Cuarón
2014 Boyhood [1] Richard Linklater
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road [2] George Miller
2016 Moonlight [3] [4] Barry Jenkins
2017 The Shape of Water [5] Guillermo del Toro
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk [6] Barry Jenkins
2019 Parasite Bong Joon-ho
2020 Minari Lee Isaac Chung
2021 The Power of the Dog [7] [8] Jane Campion
2022 Everything Everywhere All At Once [9] [10] Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
2023 Oppenheimer [11] Christopher Nolan

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