# Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.

## Winners
### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Film |
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Traffic |
| 2000 | Darren Aronofsky | Requiem for a Dream |
| 2000 | Ang Lee | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
| 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | Moulin Rouge! |
| 2001 | Robert Altman | Gosford Park |
| 2001 | Wes Anderson | The Royal Tenenbaums |
| 2001 | David Lynch | Mulholland Drive |
| 2001 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
| 2002 | Stephen Daldry | The Hours |
| 2002 | Roman Polanski | The Pianist |
| 2002 | Martin Scorsese | Gangs of New York |
| 2003 | Peter Jackson | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
| 2003 | Sofia Coppola | Lost in Translation |
| 2003 | Clint Eastwood | Mystic River |
| 2004 | Clint Eastwood | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2004 | Alexander Payne | Sideways |
| 2004 | Martin Scorsese | The Aviator |
| 2005 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2005 | George Clooney | Good Night, and Good Luck. |
| 2005 | David Cronenberg | A History of Violence |
| 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Children of Men |
| 2006 | Clint Eastwood | Letters from Iwo Jima |
| 2006 | Martin Scorsese | The Departed |
| 2007 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
| 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson | There Will Be Blood |
| 2007 | Jason Reitman | Juno |
| 2008 | David Fincher | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| 2008 | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 2008 | Gus Van Sant | Milk |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker |
| 2009 | Jason Reitman | Up in the Air |
| 2009 | Quentin Tarantino | Inglourious Basterds |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Film |
| 2010 | David Fincher | The Social Network |
| 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan |
| 2010 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | True Grit |
| 2011 | Terrence Malick | The Tree of Life |
| 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist |
| 2011 | Martin Scorsese | Hugo |
| 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2012 | Ang Lee | Life of Pi |
| 2012 | Steven Spielberg | Lincoln |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuaron | Gravity |
| 2013 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | Inside Llewyn Davis |
| 2013 | Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2014 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2014 | Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| 2015 | George Miller | Mad Max: Fury Road |
| 2015 | Todd Haynes | Carol |
| 2015 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | The Revenant |
| 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2016 | Damien Chazelle | La La Land |
| 2016 | Denis Villeneuve | Arrival |
| 2017 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Phantom Thread |
| 2017 | Greta Gerwig | Lady Bird |
| 2017 | Christopher Nolan | Dunkirk |
| 2018 | Paul Schrader | First Reformed |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma |
| 2018 | Yorgos Lanthimos | The Favourite |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho | Parasite |
| 2019 | Sam Mendes | 1917 |
| 2019 | Martin Scorsese | The Irishman |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Film |
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland |
| 2020 | David Fincher | Mank |
| 2020 | Thomas Vinterberg | Another Round |
| 2021 | Denis Villeneuve | Dune |
| 2021 | Kenneth Branagh | Belfast |
| 2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog |
| 2022 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sceinert | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2022 | Todd Field | Tár |
| 2022 | Martin McDonagh | The Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2023 | Christopher Nolan | Oppenheimer |
| 2023 | Jonathan Glazer | The Zone of Interest |
| 2023 | Martin Scorsese | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| 2024 | Denis Villeneuve | Dune: Part Two |
| 2024 | Sean Baker | Anora |
| 2024 | RaMell Ross | Nickel Boys |