# Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Film

The Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Film is an annual award given by the Detroit Film Critics Society to honor the best film made that year.

## Winners

Legend:
    indicates the winners.

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel and Ethan Coen |
| 2007 | Juno | Jason Reitman |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Sean Penn |
| 2007 | Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) | Julian Schnabel |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan |
| 2008 | Frost/Nixon | Ron Howard |
| 2008 | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton |
| 2008 | The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2009 | Up | Pete Docter |
| 2009 | (500) Days of Summer | Marc Webb |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 2010 | The Social Network | David Fincher |
| 2010 | 127 Hours | Danny Boyle |
| 2010 | Inception | Christopher Nolan |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | Tom Hooper |
| 2010 | Winter's Bone | Debra Granik |
| 2011 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne |
| 2011 | Hugo | Martin Scorsese |
| 2011 | Take Shelter | Jeff Nichols |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell |
| 2012 | Argo | Ben Affleck |
| 2012 | The Impossible | Juan Antonio Bayona |
| 2012 | Take This Waltz | Sarah Polley |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2013 | Her | Spike Jonze |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen |
| 2013 | Before Midnight | Richard Linklater |
| 2013 | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2013 | Short Term 12 | Destin Daniel Cretton |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2014 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson |
| 2014 | Under the Skin | Jonathan Glazer |
| 2014 | Whiplash | Damien Chazelle |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy |
| 2015 | Brooklyn | John Crowley |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Pete Docter |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller |
| 2015 | The Revenant | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2015 | Sicario | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2015 | Youth | Paolo Sorrentino |
| 2016 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle |
| 2016 | The Edge of Seventeen | Kelly Fremon Craig |
| 2016 | Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2016 | Moonlight | Barry Jenkins |
| 2017 | The Florida Project | Sean Baker |
| 2017 | The Disaster Artist | James Franco |
| 2017 | Get Out | Jordan Peele |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh |
| 2018 | Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham |
| 2018 | First Reformed | Paul Schrader |
| 2018 | Green Book | Peter Farrelly |
| 2018 | A Quiet Place | John Krasinski |
| 2018 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2019 | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Martin Scorsese |
| 2019 | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi |
| 2019 | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2020 | First Cow | Kelly Reichardt |
| 2020 | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 2020 | Sound of Metal | Darius Marder |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2021 | Cyrano | Joe Wright |
| 2021 | Belfast | Kenneth Branagh |
| 2021 | CODA | Sian Heder |
| 2021 | Don't Look Up | Adam McKay |
| 2021 | King Richard | Reinaldo Marcus Green |