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.
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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2005 | Crash | Paul Haggis |
2006 | United 93 | Paul Greengrass |
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 | Hugo | Martin Scorsese |
2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow |
2013 | Her | Spike Jonze |
2014 | Boyhood [1] | Richard Linklater |
2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road [2] | George Miller |
2016 | Moonlight [3] [4] | Barry Jenkins |
2017 | Get Out [5] | Jordan Peele |
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 |
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The Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Film has been annually honored the best film of the year since 2005.
The Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Film has been annually honored the best film of the year since 2005.