Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

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The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Director is an annual award given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

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Winners

2000s

YearDirector(s)Film
2002 Spike Jonze Adaptation .
Sam Mendes Road to Perdition
Denzel Washington Antwone Fisher
2003 Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 Michel Gondry Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005 Steven Spielberg Munich
2006 Martin Scorsese The Departed
2007 Joel Coen and Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men
2008 Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire
2009 [1] Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker

2010s

YearDirector(s)Film
2010 David Fincher The Social Network
2011 Martin Scorsese Hugo
2012 Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark Thirty
2013 Alfonso Cuarón Gravity
2014 Richard Linklater Boyhood
2015 [2] George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 Damien Chazelle La La Land
2017 Christopher Nolan Dunkirk
2018 Alfonso Cuarón Roma
2019 Bong Joon-ho Parasite

2020s

YearDirector(s)Film
2020 [3] Chloé Zhao Nomadland
2021 Jane Campion The Power of the Dog
2022 [4] Daniels Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023 Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer

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