San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director | |
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Awarded for | Excellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement |
Country | United States |
Presented by | San Francisco Film Critics Circle |
First awarded | Todd Haynes Far from Heaven (2002) |
Currently held by | Jane Campion ' The Power of the Dog (2021) |
Website | sffcc |
The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an award given by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle to honor a film director who has delivered an outstanding directing while working in the film industry.
Year | Winner | Film |
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2002 | Todd Haynes | Far from Heaven |
2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
2004 | Alexander Payne | Sideways |
2005 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain |
2006 | Paul Greengrass | United 93 |
2007 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
2008 | Gus Van Sant | Milk |
2009 | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker |
Year | Winner | Film |
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2010 | Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan |
David Fincher | The Social Network | |
2011 | Terrence Malick | The Tree of Life |
2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty |
2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity |
2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
2015 | George Miller | Mad Max: Fury Road |
2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water |
2018 | Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman |
2019 | Bong Joon-ho | Parasite |
Year | Winner | Film |
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2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland |
2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog |
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