# DGC Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film

The DGC Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film is an annual Canadian award, presented by the Directors Guild of Canada to honour the year's best direction in feature films in Canada.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | Rare Birds | Sturla Gunnarsson |
| 2002 | A Nero Wolfe Mystery: "The Christmas Party" | Holly Dale |
| 2002 | Queer as Folk: "French Fried" | Jeremy Podeswa |
| 2002 | Twice in a Lifetime: "Moonshine Over Harlem" | David Winning |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | Spider | David Cronenberg |
| 2003 | Ararat | Atom Egoyan |
| 2003 | Marion Bridge | Wiebke von Carolsfeld |
| 2003 | Savage Messiah | Mario Azzopardi |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) | Denys Arcand |
| 2004 | The Blue Butterfly (Le papillon bleu) | Léa Pool |
| 2004 | Falling Angels | Scott Smith |
| 2004 | The Saddest Music in the World | Guy Maddin |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Saint Ralph | Michael McGowan |
| 2005 | Blood | Jerry Ciccoritti |
| 2005 | The Confessor | Lewin Webb |
| 2005 | Pure | Jim Donovan |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg |
| 2006 | 3 Needles | Thom Fitzgerald |
| 2006 | Niagara Motel | Gary Yates |
| 2006 | Where the Truth Lies | Atom Egoyan |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Away from Her | Sarah Polley |
| 2007 | Bon Cop, Bad Cop | Érik Canuel |
| 2007 | Fido | Andrew Currie |
| 2007 | Poor Boy's Game | Clement Virgo |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg |
| 2008 | Fugitive Pieces | Jeremy Podeswa |
| 2008 | My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin |
| 2008 | The Stone Angel | Kari Skogland |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | Fifty Dead Men Walking | Kari Skogland |
| 2009 | Kit Kittredge: An American Girl | Patricia Rozema |
| 2009 | One Week | Michael McGowan |
| 2009 | Passchendaele | Paul Gross |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | Leslie, My Name Is Evil | Reginald Harkema |
| 2010 | Chloe | Atom Egoyan |
| 2010 | Faith, Fraud, & Minimum Wage | George Mihalka |
| 2010 | A Wake | Penelope Buitenhuis |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | Barney's Version | Richard J. Lewis |
| 2011 | Gunless | William Phillips |
| 2011 | Score: A Hockey Musical | Michael McGowan |
| 2011 | Splice | Vincenzo Natali |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | A Dangerous Method | David Cronenberg |
| 2012 | Goon | Michael Dowse |
| 2012 | The Samaritan | David Weaver |
| 2012 | Take This Waltz | Sarah Polley |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Still Mine | Michael McGowan |
| 2013 | Home Again | Sudz Sutherland |
| 2013 | Moving Day | Mike Clattenburg |
| 2013 | Whitewash | Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | The Grand Seduction | Don McKellar |
| 2014 | Cas & Dylan | Jason Priestley |
| 2014 | Empire of Dirt | Peter Stebbings |
| 2014 | The F Word | Michael Dowse |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | Elephant Song | Charles Binamé |
| 2015 | The Calling | Jason Stone |
| 2015 | Fall | Terrance Odette |
| 2015 | Preggoland | Jacob Tierney |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Hyena Road | Paul Gross |
| 2016 | Born to Be Blue | Robert Budreau |
| 2016 | Remember | Atom Egoyan |
| 2016 | The Saver | Wiebke von Carolsfeld |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Weirdos | Bruce McDonald |
| 2017 | Awakening the Zodiac | Jonathan Wright |
| 2017 | Mean Dreams | Nathan Morlando |
| 2017 | Two Lovers and a Bear | Kim Nguyen |
| 2017 | Undercover Grandpa | Érik Canuel |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | The Grizzlies | Miranda de Pencier |
| 2018 | Adventures in Public School | Kyle Rideout |
| 2018 | Giant Little Ones | Keith Behrman |
| 2018 | Mary Goes Round | Molly McGlynn |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | Mouthpiece | Patricia Rozema |
| 2019 | Stockholm | Robert Budreau |
| 2019 | Firecrackers | Jasmin Mozaffari |
| 2019 | Freaks | Zach Lipovsky, Adam Stein |
| 2019 | Red Snow | Marie Clements |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | In the Tall Grass | Vincenzo Natali |
| 2020 | Akilla's Escape | Charles Officer |
| 2020 | Our Own (Les Nôtres) | Jeanne Leblanc |
| 2020 | Rustic Oracle | Sonia Boileau |
| 2020 | Target Number One | Daniel Roby |
| 2021 |
| 2021 | Sugar Daddy | Wendy Morgan |
| 2021 | All My Puny Sorrows | Michael McGowan |
| 2021 | Brother, I Cry | Jessie Anthony |
| 2021 | Cinema of Sleep | Jeffrey St. Jules |
| 2021 | Come True | Anthony Scott Burns |
| 2021 | The Righteous | Mark O'Brien |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg |
| 2022 | Delia's Gone | Robert Budreau |
| 2022 | Donkeyhead | Agam Darshi |
| 2022 | Night Raiders | Danis Goulet |
| 2022 | Run Woman Run | Zoe Leigh Hopkins |
| 2022 | You Can Live Forever | Sarah Watts, Mark Slutsky |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | Women Talking | Sarah Polley |
| 2023 | Brother | Clement Virgo |
| 2023 | Days of Happiness (Les Jours heureux) | Chloé Robichaud |
| 2023 | Fitting In | Molly McGlynn |
| 2023 | Infinity Pool | Brandon Cronenberg |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | The Queen of My Dreams | Fawzia Mirza |
| 2024 | We Forgot to Break Up | Karen Knox |
| 2024 | Code 8: Part II | Jeff Chan |
| 2024 | Really Happy Someday | J Stevens |
| 2024 | Village Keeper | Karen Chapman |