New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

## Winners

Names and titles in **bold** indicate directors that won the Academy Award for Best Director. Names and titles with an asterisk (\*) indicate films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, but did not win.

* **1935 - John Ford, *The Infomer***
* 1936 - Rouben Mamoulian, *The Gay Desperado*
* 1937 - Gregory La Cava\*, *Stage Door*
* 1938 - Alfred Hitchcock, *The Lady Vanishes*
* 1939 - John Ford\*, *Stagecoach*
* **1940 - John Ford, *The Grapes of Wrath*** / *The Long Voyage Home*
* **1941****- John Ford, *How Green Was My Valley***
* 1942 - John Farrow\*, *Wake Island*
* 1943 - George Stevens\*, *The More the Merrier*
* **1944 - Leo McCarey, *Going My Way***
* **1945 - Billy Wilder, *The Lost Weekend***
* **1946 - William Wyler, *The Best Years of Our Lives***
* **1947 - Elia Kazan, *Gentleman's Agreement*** / *Boomerang*
* **1948 - John Huston, *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre***
* 1949 - Carol Reed\*, *The Fallen Idol*
* **1950 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, *All About Eve***
* 1951 - Elia Kazan\*, *A Streetcar Named Desire*
* 1952 - Fred Zinnemann\*, *High Noon*
* **1953 - Fred Zinnemann, *From Here to Eternity***
* **1954 - Elia Kazan, *On the Waterfront***
* 1955 - David Lean\*, *Summertime*
* 1956 - John Huston, *Moby Dick*
* **1957 - David Lean, *The Bridge on the River Kwai***
* 1958 - Stanley Kramer\*, *The Defiant Ones*
* 1959 - Fred Zinnemann\*, *The Nun's Story*
* **1960 - Billy Wilder, *The Apartment*** / Jack Cardiff\*, *Sons and Lovers*
* 1961 - Robert Rossen\*, *The Hustler*
* 1962 - none
* **1963 - Tony Richardson, *Tom Jones***
* 1964 - Stanley Kubrick\*, *Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb*
* 1965 - John Schlesinger\*, *Darling*
* **1966 - Fred Zinnemann, *A Man for All Seasons***
* **1967 - Mike Nichols, *The Graduate***
* 1968 - Paul Newman, *Rachel, Rachel*
* 1969 - Costa-Gavras\*, *Z*
* 1970 - Bob Rafelson\*, *Five Easy Pieces*
* 1971 - Stanley Kubrick\*, *A Clockwork Orange*
* 1972 - Ingmar Bergman\*, *Cries and Whispers*
* 1973 - François\_Truffaut\*, *Day for Night*
* 1974 - Federico Fellini\*, *Amarcord*
* 1975 - Robert Altman\*, *Nashville*
* 1976 - Alan J. Pakula\*, *All the President's Men*
* **1977 - Woody Allen, *Annie Hall***
* 1978 - Terrence Malick, *Days of Heaven*
* 1979 - Woody Allen, *Manhattan*
* 1980 - Jonathan Demme\*, *Melvin and Howard*
* 1981 - Sidney Lumet, *Prince of the City*
* 1982 - Sydney Pollack\*, *Tootsie*
* 1983 - Ingmar Bergman\*, *Fanny and Alexander*
* 1984 - David Lean\*, *A Passage to India*
* 1985 - John Huston\*, *Prizzi's Honor*
* 1986 - Woody Allen\*, *Hannah and Her Sisters*
* 1987 - James L. Brooks, *Broadcast News*
* 1988 - Chris Menges, *A World Apart*
* 1989 - Paul Mazursky, *Enemies, A Love Story*
* 1990 - Martin Scorsese\*, *Goodfellas*
* **1991 - Jonathan Demme\*, *The Silence of the Lambs***
* 1992 - Robert Altman\*, *The Player*
* 1993 - Jane Campion\*, *The Piano*
* 1994 - Quentin Tarantino\*, *Pulp Fiction*
* 1995 - Ang Lee, *Sense and Sensibility*
* 1996 - Lars von Trier, *Breaking the Waves*
* 1997 - Curtis Hanson\*, *L.A. Confidential*
* 1998 - Terrence Malick\*, *The Thin Red Line*
* 1999 - Mike Leigh, *Topsy-Turvy*
* **2000 - Steven Soderbegh, *Traffic*** / *Erin Brockovich*
* 2001 - Robert Altman\*, *Gosford Park*
* 2002 - Todd Haynes, *Far from Heaven*
* 2003 - Sofia Coppola\*, *Lost in Translation*
* **2004 - Clint Eastwood, *Unforgiven***
* **2005 -Ang Lee,*Brokeback Mountain***
* **2006 - Martin Scorsese, *The Departed***
* **2007 - Joel and Ethan Coen, *No Country for Old Men***
* 2008 - Mike Leigh, *Happy-Go-Lucky*
* **2009 - Kathryn Bigelow, *The Hurt Locker***
* 2010 - David Fincher\*, *The Social Network*
* **2011 - Michel Hazanavicius, *The Artist***
* 2012 - Kathryn Bigelow, *Zero Dark Thirty*
* 2013 - Steve McQueen\*, *12 Years a Slave*
* 2014 - Richard Linklater\*, *Boyhood*
* 2015 - Todd Haynes, *Carol*
* 2016 - Barry Jenkins\*, *Moonlight*
* 2017 - Sean Baker, *The Florida Project*
* **2018 - Alfonso Cuarón, *Roma***

## Most wins

* **4** - John Ford, Fred Zinnemann
* **3**- Woody Allen, Robert Altman, John Huston, Elia Kazan, David Lean
* **2**- Ingmar Bergman, Jonathan Demme, Todd Haynes, Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, Martin Scorsese, Billy Wilder