Sinkie Award for Best Director

The Sinkie Award for Best Director is an award presented annually by the Everything But the Kitchen Sink podcast since the awards debuted in 2018. Seven individuals or directing teams are nominated every year for this award. Since the beginning of the Sinkies, the awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked. Of the seven films that won Best Picture, five also won Best Director. The only nominated director for a Best Picture winner to lose this award is Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon; at the 2022 awards honoring the 2021 film year, Ryusuke Hamaguchi was not nominated for his work on Drive My Car, but the film went on to win Best Picture.
There have been 49 individuals or directing teams nominated for this award, and eight winners (at the 2022 awards, Jane Campion and Steven Spielberg tied for their direction of The Power of the Dog and West Side Story, respectively).
==Correlation to the Academy Awards==
The Sinkie Awards have a mixed correlation with the Academy Awards, but this category is one of the more closely aligned, at least as far as wins are concerned. Of the 49 directors nominated for the Sinkie for Best Picture, 23 were also nominated for the Oscar. Of the eight Sinkie Best Director winners thus far, five went on to win the Oscar as well: Alfonso Cuaron for Roma, Bong Joon-ho for Parasite, Chloe Zhao for Nomadland, Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog, and Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All At Once. No Sinkie winner for Best Director has ever won without also being nominated at the Oscars, and in the brief history of the Sinkies, no Oscar winners for Best Director have missed Sinkie nods.
==Winners and nominees==
In the list below, winners are listed first, bolded with asterisks around them, followed by the other nominees. The year shown is the one in which the film premiered - the year of release. This is also the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2021 was eligible for consideration for the 2021 Best Director Sinkie, awarded in 2022. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony.
Nominees with an asterisk* were also nominated at the Oscars. Nominees with a + won the Oscar.
Year	Director(s) 	Film
2017
(1st)	*Jordan Peele** 	*Get Out**
2017
(1st)	Sean Baker 	The Florida Project
2017
(1st)	Guillermo del Toro*+ 	The Shape of Water*+
2017
(1st)	Greta Gerwig* 	Lady Bird*
2017
(1st)	Luca Guadagnino 	Call Me By Your Name
2017
(1st)	Christopher Nolan* 	Dunkirk*
2017
(1st)	Denis Villeneuve 	Blade Runner 2049
2018
(2nd)	*Alfonso Cuaron**+ 	*Roma**+
2018
(2nd)	Ari Aster 	Hereditary
2018
(2nd)	Bo Burnham 	Eighth Grade
2018
(2nd)	Ryan Coogler 	Black Panther
2018
(2nd)	Bradley Cooper 	A Star is Born
2018
(2nd)	John Krasinski 	A Quiet Place
2018
(2nd)	Adam McKay* 	Vice*
2019
(3rd)	*Bong Joon-ho**+ 	*Parasite**+
2019
(3rd)	Ari Aster 	Midsommar
2019
(3rd)	Greta Gerwig 	Little Women
2019
(3rd)	Sam Mendes* 	1917*
2019
(3rd)	Josh & Benny Safdie 	Uncut Gems
2019
(3rd)	Quentin Tarantino* 	Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood*
2019
(3rd)	Lulu Wang 	The Farewell
2020
(4th)	*Chloe Zhao**+ 	*Nomadland**+
2020
(4th)	Lee Isaac Chung* 	Minari*
2020
(4th)	David Fincher* 	Mank*
2020
(4th)	Charlie Kaufman 	I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020
(4th)	Spike Lee 	Da 5 Bloods
2020
(4th)	Darius Marder 	Sound of Metal
2020
(4th)	Kelly Reichardt 	First Cow
2021
(5th)	*TIE: Jane Campion**+ 	*The Power of the Dog**+
2021
(5th)	*TIE: Steven Spielberg** 	*West Side Story**
2021
(5th)	Paul Thomas Anderson* 	Licorice Pizza*
2021
(5th)	Leos Carax 	Annette
2021
(5th)	David Lowery 	The Green Knight
2021
(5th)	Lin-Manuel Miranda 	tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
(5th)	Denis Villeneuve 	Dune
2022
(6th)	*Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert**+	*Everything Everywhere All At Once**+
2022
(6th)	Todd Field* 	Tár*
2022
(6th)	Martin McDonagh* 	The Banshees of Inisherin*
2022
(6th)	Jordan Peele 	Nope
2022
(6th)	S.S. Rajamouli 	RRR
2022
(6th)	Steven Spielberg* 	The Fabelmans*
2022
(6th)	Charlotte Wells 	Aftersun
2023
(7th)	*Jonathan Glazer* 	*The Zone of Interest**
2023
(7th)	Greta Gerwig 	Barbie
2023
(7th)	Todd Haynes 	May December
2023
(7th)	Christopher Nolan* 	Oppenheimer*+
2023
(7th)	Alexander Payne 	The Holdovers
2023
(7th)	Martin Scorsese 	Killers of the Flower Moon*
2023
(7th)	Justine Triet 	Anatomy of a Fall*
== Multiple wins and nominations ==
There has not been a repeat winner in this category as of yet. Here are the directors/directing teams with multiple nominations:
# of Nominations	Director
3 	Greta Gerwig
2 	Ari Aster
2 	Jordan Peele
2 	Steven Spielberg
2 	Denis Villeneuve
== Jimmy & Kyle's Votes ==
Each year, hosts Jimmy Nicholas and Kyle Wilson announce their vote before they announce the winner. In this category, Jimmy's pick has won once and Kyle's pick has won four times. There is only one year where Jimmy and Kyle chose the same film, and it also was the winner: 2019 with Bong Joon-ho, for Parasite.
Year of Film Release	Jimmy 	Kyle 	Winner
2017 (1st) 	Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049 	Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk 	Jordan Peele, Get Out
2018 (2nd) 	Ryan Coogler, Black Panther 	Alfonso Cuaron, Roma 	Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
2019 (3rd) 	Bong Joon-ho, Parasite 	Bong Joon-ho, Parasite 	Bong Joon-ho, Parasite
2020 (4th) 	Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods 	Chloe Zhao, Nomadland 	Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
2021 (5th) 	Lin-Manuel Miranda, tick, tick... BOOM!	Leos Carax, Annette 	TIE: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog &
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story
2022 (6th) 	S.S. Rajamouli, RRR 	Todd Field, Tár 	Daniels, Everything Everywhere All At Once
2023 (7th) 	Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer 	Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest