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The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle to honor the finest achievements in film-making.
| Year | Winner | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | The Pianist | Roman Polanski |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola |
| 2004 | Sideways | Alexander Payne |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee |
| 2006 | Little Children | Todd Field |
| 2007 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [1] | Andrew Dominik |
| 2008 | Milk | Gus Van Sant |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Year | Winner | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Social Network | David Fincher |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick |
| 2012 | The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy |
| 2016 | Moonlight | Barry Jenkins |
| 2017 | The Florida Project | Sean Baker |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuaron |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino |
| Year | Winner | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion |
| 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin [2] | Martin McDonagh |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan |
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