# Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture

The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.

## Winners
### 2000s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Director(s) |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2007 | Atonement | Joe Wright |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Sean Penn |
| 2007 | Juno | Jason Reitman |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | David Fincher |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan |
| 2008 | Milk | Gus Van Sant |
| 2008 | WALL-E | Andrew Stanton |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2009 | (500) Days of Summer | Marc Webb |
| 2009 | Avatar | James Cameron |
| 2009 | District 9 | Neill Blomkamp |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2009 | Invictus | Clint Eastwood |
| 2009 | Precious | Lee Daniels |
| 2009 | Star Trek | J. J. Abrams |
| 2009 | Up | Pete Docter |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Director(s) |
| 2010 | The Social Network | David Fincher |
| 2010 | 127 Hours | Danny Boyle |
| 2010 | Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2010 | Inception | Christopher Nolan |
| 2010 | Kick-Ass | Matthew Vaughn |
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | Tom Hooper |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich |
| 2010 | True Grit | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2010 | Winter's Bone | Debra Granik |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne |
| 2011 | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2011 | Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| 2011 | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Stephen Daldry |
| 2011 | The Help | Tate Taylor |
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris | Woody Allen |
| 2011 | Take Shelter | Jeff Nichols |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick |
| 2011 | War Horse | Steven Spielberg |
| 2011 | Win Win | Tom McCarthy |
| 2012 | Argo | Ben Affleck |
| 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin |
| 2012 | Cloud Atlas | Tom Tykwer and Lana & Lilly Wachowski |
| 2012 | Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Steven Spielberg |
| 2012 | Les Misérables | Tom Hooper |
| 2012 | The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2012 | Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen |
| 2013 | All Is Lost | J. C. Chandor |
| 2013 | American Hustle | David O. Russell |
| 2013 | Before Midnight | Richard Linklater |
| 2013 | Dallas Buyers Club | Jean-Marc Vallée |
| 2013 | Fruitvale Station | Ryan Coogler |
| 2013 | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2013 | Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| 2013 | Nebraska | Alexander Payne |
| 2013 | Saving Mr. Banks | John Lee Hancock |
| 2014 | Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| 2014 | Birdman | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson |
| 2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy | James Gunn |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum |
| 2014 | Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2014 | A Most Violent Year | J. C. Chandor |
| 2014 | Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy |
| 2014 | Selma | Ava DuVernay |
| 2014 | Whiplash | Damien Chazelle |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy |
| 2015 | The Big Short | Adam McKay |
| 2015 | Carol | Alex Garland |
| 2015 | Inside Out | Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen |
| 2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller |
| 2015 | The Martian | Ridley Scott |
| 2015 | The Revenant | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 2015 | Room | Lenny Abrahamson |
| 2015 | Sicario | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs | Danny Boyle |
| 2016 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle |
| 2016 | Arrival | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2016 | The Handmaiden | Chan-wook Park |
| 2016 | Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie |
| 2016 | Jackie | Pablo Larraín |
| 2016 | Lion | Garth Davis |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2016 | Moonlight | Barry Jenkins |
| 2016 | The Nice Guys | Shane Black |
| 2016 | Nocturnal Animals | Tom Ford |
| 2017 | Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig |
| 2017 | The Big Sick | Michael Showalter |
| 2017 | Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino |
| 2017 | Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan |
| 2017 | The Florida Project | Sean Baker |
| 2017 | Get Out | Jordan Peele |
| 2017 | Logan | James Mangold |
| 2017 | The Post | Steven Spielberg |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh |
| 2018 | The Favourite' | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 2018 | Black Panther | Ryan Coogler |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman | Spike Lee |
| 2018 | Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham |
| 2018 | First Reformed | Paul Schrader |
| 2018 | Green Book | Peter Farrelly |
| 2018 | Hereditary | Ari Aster |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins |
| 2018 | A Star Is Born | Bradley Cooper |
| 2018 | Vice | Adam McKay |
| 2019 | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho |
| 2019 | 1917 | Sam Mendes |
| 2019 | The Farewell | Lulu Wang |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Martin Scorsese |
| 2019 | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi |
| 2019 | Joker | Todd Phillips |
| 2019 | Knives Out | Rian Johnson |
| 2019 | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2019 | Uncut Gems | Joshua Safdie and Benjamin Safdie |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Director(s) |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Spike Lee |
| 2020 | The Father | Florian Zeller |
| 2020 | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 2020 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Eliza Hittman |
| 2020 | One Night in Miami... | Regina King |
| 2020 | Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell |
| 2020 | Soul | Pete Docter and Kemp Powers |
| 2020 | Sound of Metal | Darius Marder |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion |
| 2021 | Belfast | Kenneth Branagh |
| 2021 | CODA | Sian Heder |
| 2021 | Don't Look Up | Adam McKay |
| 2021 | Dune | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2021 | King Richard | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| 2021 | Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 2021 | Parallel Mothers | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 2021 | tick, tick... BOOM! | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Joel Coen |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
| 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh |
| 2022 | Elvis | Baz Luhrmann |
| 2022 | The Fabelmans | Steven Spielberg |
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2022 | RRR | S. S. Rajamouli |
| 2022 | TÁR | Todd Field |
| 2022 | Till | Chinonye Chukwu |
| 2022 | Top Gun: Maverick | Joseph Kosinski |
| 2022 | Women Talking | Sarah Polley |
| 2023 | Poor Things | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 2023 | American Fiction | Cord Jefferson |
| 2023 | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. | Kelly Fremon Craig |
| 2023 | Barbie | Greta Gerwig |
| 2023 | The Color Purple | Blitz Bazawule |
| 2023 | Godzilla Minus One | Takashi Yamazaki |
| 2023 | The Holdovers | Alexander Payne |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan |
| 2023 | Past Lives | Celine Song |
| 2024 | Anora | Sean Baker |
| 2024 | The Brutalist | Brady Corbet |
| 2024 | A Complete Unknown | James Mangold |
| 2024 | Conclave | Edward Berger |
| 2024 | Dune: Part Two | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2024 | Nickel Boys | RaMell Ross |
| 2024 | A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg |
| 2024 | Sing Sing | Greg Kwedar |
| 2024 | The Substance | Coralie Fargeat |
| 2024 | Wicked | Jon M. Chu |