# St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

The St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Director is one of the annual awards given by the St. Louis Film Critics Association.

## Winners

Winners are in bold.

### 2000s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 2004 | Martin Scorsese – (Drama) | The Aviator |
| 2004 | Clint Eastwood - (Drama) | Million Dollar Baby |
| 2004 | Terry George - (Drama) | Hotel Rwanda |
| 2004 | Mike Leigh - (Drama) | Vera Drake |
| 2004 | Quentin Tarantino - (Drama) | Kill Bill: Volume 2 |
| 2004 | Alexander Payne – (Comedy / Musical) | Sideways |
| 2004 | Taylor Hackford - (Comedy / Musical) | Ray |
| 2004 | Michael Gondry - (Comedy / Musical) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| 2004 | Zach Braff - (Comedy / Musical) | Garden State |
| 2004 | Brad Bird - (Comedy / Musical) | The Incredibles |
| 2005 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain |
| 2006 | Martin Scorsese | The Departed |
| 2007 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | No Country for Old Men |
| 2008 | Danny Boyle | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker |

### 2010s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 2010 | David Fincher | The Social Network |
| 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | The Artist |
| 2011 | Terrence Malick | The Tree of Life |
| 2011 | Alexander Payne | The Descendants |
| 2011 | David Fincher | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| 2011 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Drive |
| 2012 | Ben Affleck | Argo |
| 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2012 | Quentin Tarantino | Django Unchained |
| 2012 | Benh Zeitlin | Beasts of the Southern Wild |
| 2012 | Ang Lee | Life of Pi |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuaron | Gravity |
| 2013 | Spike Jonze | Her |
| 2013 | Steve McQueen | 12 Years a Slave |
| 2013 | Alexander Payne | Nebraska |
| 2013 | David O. Russell | American Hustle |
| 2014 | Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| 2014 | David Fincher | Gone Girl |
| 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2014 | Morten Tyldum | The Imitation Game |
| 2015 | Todd Haynes | Carol |
| 2015 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | The Revenant |
| 2015 | Tom McCarthy | Spotlight |
| 2015 | George Miller | Mad Max: Fury Road |
| 2015 | Ridley Scott | The Martian |
| 2016 | Damien Chazelle | La La Land |
| 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
| 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea |
| 2016 | David Mackenzie | Hell or High Water |
| 2016 | Denis Villeneuve | Arrival |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water |
| 2017 | Greta Gerwig | Lady Bird |
| 2017 | Jordan Peele | Get Out |
| 2017 | Steven Spielberg | The Post |
| 2017 | Denis Villeneuve | Blade Runner 2049 |
| 2018 | Bradley Cooper | A Star Is Born |
| 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Roma |
| 2018 | Yorgos Lanthimos | The Favourite |
| 2018 | Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman |
| 2018 | Adam McKay | Vice |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-Ho | Parasite |
| 2019 | Sam Mendes | 1917 |
| 2019 | Martin Scorsese | The Irishman |
| 2019 | Quentin Tarantino | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
| 2019 | Taika Waititi | Jojo Rabbit |

### 2020s

| Year | Nominee | Film |
| 2020 | Emerald Fennell | Promising Young Woman |
| 2020 | Lee Isaac Chung | Minari |
| 2020 | Spike Lee | Da 5 Bloods |
| 2020 | Aaron Sorkin | The Trial of the Chicago 7 |
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland |
| 2021 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Licorice Pizza |
| 2021 | Wes Anderson | The French Dispatch |
| 2021 | Kenneth Branagh | Belfast |
| 2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog |
| 2021 | Steven Spielberg | West Side Story |
| 2021 | Denis Villeneuve | Dune |
| 2022 | Daniels (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) | Everything Everywhere All at Once |
| 2022 | Baz Luhrmann | Elvis |
| 2022 | Martin McDonagh | Banshees of Inisherin |
| 2022 | Sarah Polley | Women Talking |
| 2022 | Steven Spielberg | The Fabelmans |
| 2023 | Greta Gerwig | Barbie |
| 2023 | Todd Haynes | May December |
| 2023 | Christopher Nolan | Oppenheimer |
| 2023 | Martin Scorsese | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| 2023 | Celine Song | Past Lives |
| 2024 | Edward Berger | Conclave |
| 2024 | Brady Corbet | The Brutalist |
| 2024 | Mohammad Rasoulof | The Seed of the Sacred Fig |
| 2024 | RaMell Ross | Nickel Boys |
| 2024 | Denis Villeneuve | Dune: Part Two |