The Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Director has been annually honored the best film of the year since 2005.
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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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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The Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Film has been annually honored the best film of the year since its' first inception in 2005.
The Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Film has been annually honored the best film of the year since 2005.