Richard Linklater

American film director, producer and screenwriter (born 1960)

Richard Linklater

Linklater in 2015

Born|

Richard Stuart Linklater

(1960-07-30) July 30, 1960 (age 63)

Houston, Texas, U.S.

Occupation(s)| Director, producer, writer
Years active| 1985–present[1]
Notable work| Boyhood, Dazed and Confused, Before trilogy, School of Rock, Waking Life, Slacker
Spouse| Christina Harrison
Children| 3, including Lorelei
Website| detourfilm.com

Richard Stuart Linklater (/ˈlɪŋkleɪtər/; born July 30, 1960)[2] is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for making films that deal thematically with suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. His films include the comedies Slacker (1990) and Dazed and Confused (1993); the Before trilogy of romance films: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013); the music-themed comedy School of Rock (2003); the adult animated films Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (2022); the coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014); and the comedy film Everybody Wants Some!! (2016).

Linklater is known to have a distinct style and method of filmmaking. Many of his films are noted for their loosely structured narrative. The Before trilogy and Boyhood both feature the same actors filmed over an extended period of years. He has received several Academy Award nominations and won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for his work on Before Sunrise. He also won a Golden Globe Award for directing Boyhood, which is one of only nine movies to receive a perfect score on Metacritic. In 2015, Linklater was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.[3]

## Early life[edit]

Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Diane Margaret (née Krieger), who taught at Sam Houston State University, and Charles W. Linklater, III.[4][5] He attended Huntsville High School in Huntsville, Texas, during grades 9–11, where he played football for Joe Clements as a backup quarterback for the #1 ranked team in the state. For his senior year, he moved to Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas because he was better at baseball than football and Bellaire had a better baseball coach. As a teen, Linklater won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award.[6][7]

Linklater studied at Sam Houston State University (where he also played baseball),[8] until dropping out to work on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. He frequently read novels on the rig, and upon returning to land, developed a love of film through repeated visits to a repertory cinema in Houston. At this point, Linklater realized he wanted to be a filmmaker. He used his savings to buy a Super-8 camera, a projector, and editing equipment, and moved to Austin, Texas.

## Career[edit]

### 1985–2000: Early directing[edit]

Linklater founded the Austin Film Society in 1985 with his college professor Chale Nafus, University of Texas professor Charles Ramirez-Berg, SXSW founder Louis Black, and his frequent collaborator Lee Daniel. One of the mentors for the Film Society was former New York City critic for the SoHo Weekly News George Morris, who had relocated to Austin and taught film there.

For several years, Linklater made many short films that were exercises and experiments in film techniques. He finally completed his first feature, It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (which is available in The Criterion Collection edition of his second feature, Slacker), a Super-8 feature that took a year to shoot and another year to edit.

Linklater created Detour Filmproduction (an homage to the 1945 low budget film noir by Edgar G. Ulmer), and subsequently made Slacker for only $23,000. It went on to gross more than $1.25 million. The film shows an aimless day in the life of the city of Austin, Texas showcasing its more eccentric characters.

While gaining a cult following in the independent film world, he made his third film, Dazed and Confused, based on his years at Huntsville High School and the people he encountered there. The film garnered critical praise and grossed $8 million in the United States while becoming a hit on VHS. This film was also responsible for the breakout of fellow Texas native Matthew McConaughey.

In 1995, Linklater won the Silver Bear for Best Director for the film Before Sunrise at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.[9] His next feature, subUrbia, had mixed reviews critically, and did very poorly at the box office. In 1998, he took on his first Hollywood feature, The Newton Boys, which received mixed reviews while tanking at the box office.

### 2001–2013: Wider recognition[edit]

With the rotoscope films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, and his mainstream comedies, School of Rock and the remake of Bad News Bears, he gained wider recognition.

In 2003, he wrote and directed a pilot for HBO with Rodney Rothman called $5.15/hr, about several minimum wage restaurant workers. The pilot deals with themes later examined in Fast Food Nation.

The British television network Channel 4 produced a documentary about Linklater, in which the filmmaker discussed the personal and philosophical ideas behind his films. St Richard of Austin was presented by Ben Lewis and directed by Irshad Ashraf and broadcast on Channel 4 in December 2004 in the UK.

Linklater was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film Before Sunset.

Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly both used rotoscoping animation techniques. Working with Bob Sabiston and Sabiston's program Rotoshop to create this effect, Linklater shot and edited both movies completely as live-action features, then employed a team of artists to "trace over" individual frames. The result is a distinctive "semi-real" quality, praised by such critics as Roger Ebert (in the case of Waking Life) as being original and well-suited to the aims of the film.

Fast Food Nation (2006) is an adaptation of the best selling book that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry. The film was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival[10] before being released in North America on November 17, 2006 and in Europe on March 23, 2007. The film received mixed reviews.

Linklater fared better with the critics with A Scanner Darkly (released in the same year), Me and Orson Welles (2009), and Bernie (2011).[11]

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Before Midnight, the third film in the Before... trilogy.[12]

### 2014–present: Boyhood and other works[edit]

In 2014 he released the film Boyhood, which had been 12 years in the making.[13] Boyhood received overwhelming critical acclaim. Linklater won the Golden Globes, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. He also received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, along with nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture.

For a while Linklater was attached to direct a remake of The Incredible Mr. Limpet for Warner Bros.[14] However, he dropped the project in favor of working on a spiritual successor to Dazed and Confused, titled Everybody Wants Some!!,[14] with backing from Annapurna Pictures and Paramount distributing the film in North America.[15] The film was released in March 2016 and was well received by critics, but it failed to recoup its budget of 10 million dollars, grossing only 4.6 million.[16][17]

In the second half of the 2010s, Linklater wrote and directed the drama film Last Flag Flying, starring Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, and Steve Carell. A sequel to Hal Ashby's 1973 film The Last Detail, it began filming in November 2016, and was released on November 3, 2017.[18] Linklater then directed Where'd You Go, Bernadette, based on the novel by Maria Semple and produced by Annapurna Pictures.[19]

Linklater was attached to direct an adaptation of Graeme Simsion's novel The Rosie Project that would have starred Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role, but he dropped out of directing when Lawrence dropped out of the project.[20]

In 2019, it was announced that Linklater would be filming an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical Merrily We Roll Along. Like Boyhood, it will be filmed over the course of several years, but, like the musical and the play it is based on, will be presented in reverse chronology.[21]

In 2024, Linklater directed an episode of God Save Texas for HBO, focusing on the prison industrial complex in Huntsville, Texas.[22]

### Directorial style[edit]

Inspiration for Linklater's work was largely based on his experience viewing the film Raging Bull.[23][24]

> It made me see movies as a potential outlet for what I was thinking about and hoping to express. At that point I was an unformed artist. At that moment, something was simmering in me, but Raging Bull brought it to a boil.[25]

He was also influenced by Robert Bresson, Yasujirō Ozu, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Josef Von Sternberg, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.[26][27]

Many of Linklater's films, including Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Tape, and all three installments of the Before Trilogy, take place in a single day. They are less plot driven and more about human interactions.[28]

Ethan Hawke and Matthew McConaughey have appeared in many of his films. Other actors who have appeared in more than one film include Jack Black, Julie Delpy, Ellar Coltrane, Adam Goldberg, Parker Posey, Glen Powell, Rory Cochrane, Bill Wise, Greg Kinnear, Patricia Arquette, and Laurence Fishburne.

## Personal life[edit]

Linklater lives in Austin, Texas, and refuses to live or work in Hollywood for any extended period of time.

Linklater has been partnered with Christina Harrison since the 1990s.[29] In 1994 they had a daughter, and twin girls in 2004. The oldest, Lorelei Linklater, co-starred in Boyhood as the sister of the main character.

Linklater has been a vegetarian since his early 20s.[30] In 2015, he explained the dietary lifestyle in a Boyhood-style documentary for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.[31]

## Filmography[edit]

### Feature films[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes

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1990  | Slacker | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Also stars in it
1993  | Dazed and Confused | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
1995  | Before Sunrise | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Co-written with Kim Krizan
1996  | SubUrbia | Yes  | No  | No  |
1998  | The Newton Boys | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Co-written with Claude Stanush and Clark Lee Walker
2001  | Waking Life | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Also cinematographer
Tape | Yes  | No  | No  |
2003  | School of Rock | Yes  | No  | No  |
2004  | Before Sunset | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Co-screenplay writer with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke
Co-story writer with Kim Krizan
2005  | Bad News Bears | Yes  | No  | Yes  |
2006  | A Scanner Darkly | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
Fast Food Nation | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Co-written with Eric Schlosser
2008  | Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach | Yes  | No  | No  | Documentary film
Me and Orson Welles | Yes  | No  | Yes  |
2011  | Bernie | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Co-written with Skip Hollandsworth
2013  | Before Midnight | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Co-written with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy
2014  | Boyhood | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2016  | Everybody Wants Some!! | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2017  | Last Flag Flying | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Co-written with Darryl Ponicsan
2019  | Where'd You Go, Bernadette | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Co-written with Holly Gent and Vince Palmo
2022  | Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2023  | Hit Man | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
TBA  | Merrily We Roll Along | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Filming. Principal photography will continue for the next 20 years.
New Wave | Yes  | Yes  | —  | Filming

#### Acting roles[edit]

Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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1988  | It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books | Unnamed character  | Independent film which wasn't given a wide release.
1990  | Slacker | "Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station"  |
1995  | The Underneath | Ember Doorman  |
1995  | Before Sunrise | Foosball player  |
1996  | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | Tour Bus Driver  | Voice role
1998  | Scotch and Milk  | Cab Passenger  |
2001  | Spy Kids | Cool Spy  |
Chelsea Walls | Crony #2  |
Waking Life | Pinball Playing Man / Man on Back of Boat  |
2006  | The Hottest State | John Wayne Enthusiast  |
2008  | RSO (Registered Sex Offender) | Principal Mallard  |
2018  | Blaze | Oilman #3  |
2019  | Another Day at the Office | Rick  |

### Short films[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer

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1985  | Woodshock | Yes  | No  | No
2003  | Live from Shiva's Dance Floor | Yes  | No  | No
2019  | Another Day at the Office | Yes  | Yes  | Yes

### Television[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer  | Notes

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2004  | $5.15/Hr. | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | TV pilot
2012  | Up to Speed | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
2016–2018  | School of Rock[32] | No  | No  | Executive  |
2020  | That Animal Rescue Show | No  | No  | Executive  |
2024  | God Save Texas | Yes  | No  | Executive  | Episode: "Hometown Prison"

### Other works[edit]

Year  | Title  | Director  | Writer  | Producer  | Notes

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1988  | It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Experimental indpendent film that wasn't given a wide release and was included n the DVD of Slacker
Also actor, cinematographer and editor
1991  | Heads I Win/Tails You Lose | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Experimental video project
2015  | I Dream Too Much | No  | No  | Executive  |

## Reception[edit]

### Critical reception[edit]

Film  | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic

|
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Slacker | 85%[33] | 69[34]
Dazed and Confused | 94%[35] | 78[36]
Before Sunrise | 100%[37] | 77[38]
SubUrbia | 64%[39] | 62[40]
The Newton Boys | 62%[41] | 57[42]
Waking Life | 80%[43] | 82[44]
Tape | 78%[45] | 71[46]
School of Rock | 92%[47] | 82[48]
Before Sunset | 95%[49] | 90[50]
Bad News Bears | 48%[51] | 65[52]
Fast Food Nation | 50%[53] | 64[54]
A Scanner Darkly | 69%[55] | 73[56]
Me and Orson Welles | 85%[57] | 73[58]
Bernie | 90%[59] | 75[60]
Before Midnight | 98%[61] | 94[62]
Boyhood | 97%[63] | 100[64]
Everybody Wants Some!! | 88%[65] | 83[66]
Last Flag Flying | 73%[67] | 65[68]
Where'd You Go, Bernadette | 48%[69] | 51[70]
Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood | 91%[71] | 79[72]
Average | 81% | 75

### Box office[edit]

Film  | Release date  | Revenue  | Budget  | Ref.

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United States  | Outside US  | Worldwide
Slacker | July 27, 1990 (1990-07-27) | $1,228,208  | —  | $1,228,208  | $23,000  | [73]
Dazed and Confused | September 24, 1993 (1993-09-24) | $7,993,039  | —  | $7,993,039  | $6,900,000  | [74]
Before Sunrise | January 27, 1995 (1995-01-27) | $5,535,405  | —  | $5,535,405  | $2,500,000  | [75]
SubUrbia | February 7, 1997 (1997-02-07) | $656,747  | —  | $656,747  | —  | [76]
The Newton Boys | March 27, 1998 (1998-03-27) | $10,452,012  | —  | $10,452,012  | $27,000,000  | [77]
Waking Life | October 19, 2001 (2001-10-19) | $2,901,447  | $275,433  | $3,176,880  | —  | [78]
Tape | November 2, 2001 (2001-11-02) | $490,475  | $25,425  | $515,900  | $100,000  | [79]
School of Rock | October 3, 2003 (2003-10-03) | $81,261,177  | $50,021,772  | $131,282,949  | $35,000,000  | [80]
Before Sunset | July 2, 2004 (2004-07-02) | $5,820,649  | $10,171,966  | $15,992,615  | $2,700,000  | [81]
Bad News Bears | July 22, 2005 (2005-07-22) | $32,868,349  | $1,384,498  | $34,252,847  | $35,000,000  | [82]
A Scanner Darkly | July 7, 2006 (2006-07-07) | $5,501,616  | $2,158,302  | $7,659,918  | $8,700,000  | [83][84]
Fast Food Nation | November 17, 2006 (2006-11-17) | $1,005,539  | $1,203,783  | $2,209,322  | —  | [85]
Me and Orson Welles | November 25, 2009 (2009-11-25) | $1,190,003  | $1,146,169  | $2,336,172  | $25,000,000  | [86]
Bernie | April 27, 2012 (2012-04-27) | $9,206,470  | $884,171  | $10,090,641  | $6,000,000  | [87]
Before Midnight | May 24, 2013 (2013-05-24) | $8,114,627  | $3,061,842  | $23,376,973  | $3,000,000  | [88][89]
Boyhood | July 11, 2014 (2014-07-11) | $25,352,281  | $22,785,385  | $48,137,666  | $4,000,000  | [90]
Total  | $198,132,207  | $89,476,361  | $287,608,568  | $155,923,000  |

## Awards and nominations[edit]

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Richard Linklater

Year  | Title  | Academy Awards  | BAFTA Awards  | Golden Globe Awards

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Nominations  | Wins  | Nominations  | Wins  | Nominations  | Wins
2003  | School of Rock |  |  |  |  | 1  |
2004  | Before Sunset | 1  |  |  |  |  |
2008  | Me and Orson Welles |  |  | 1  |  |  |
2011  | Bernie |  |  |  |  | 1  |
2013  | Before Midnight | 1  |  |  |  | 1  |
2014  | Boyhood | 6  | 1  | 5  | 3  | 5  | 3
2019  | Where'd You Go, Bernadette |  |  |  |  | 1  |
Total  | 8  | 1  | 6  | 3  | 9  | 3

* Slacker (1991) was nominated for Best Director at the Independent Spirit Awards.
* Before Sunrise (1995) won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival.
* Waking Life (2001) was nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.
* Before Sunset (2004) was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.
* A Scanner Darkly (2006) – Named Best Austin Film by the Austin Film Critics Association.
* Me and Orson Welles (2008) – Named Best Austin Film by the Austin Film Critics Association.
* Bernie (2011) – Named Best Austin Film by the Austin Film Critics Association.
* Before Midnight (2013) was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.
* Boyhood (2014) was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and won Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette. It also won Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Motion Picture – Drama, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.[91] Received Best Film and Best Director honors from Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Online.
* Linklater was made Honorary Associate of London Film School.

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Films directed by Richard Linklater

* It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
* Slacker (1990)
* Dazed and Confused (1993)
* Before Sunrise (1995)
* SubUrbia (1996)
* The Newton Boys (1998)
* Waking Life (2001)
* Tape (2001)
* School of Rock (2003)
* Before Sunset (2004)
* Bad News Bears (2005)
* A Scanner Darkly (2006)
* Fast Food Nation (2006)
* Me and Orson Welles (2008)
* Bernie (2011)
* Before Midnight (2013)
* Boyhood (2014)
* Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
* Last Flag Flying (2017)
* Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
* Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
* Hit Man (2023)
* Merrily We Roll Along (TBA)

Awards for Richard Linklater

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AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Director

* Robert Altman (2001)
* Roman Polanski (2002)
* Joel Schumacher (2003)
* Mike Nichols (2004)
* Steven Spielberg (2005)
* Clint Eastwood (2006)
* Tony Gilroy (2007)
* Gus Van Sant (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* Danny Boyle (2010)
* Stephen Daldry (2011)
* Steven Spielberg (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Ridley Scott (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Spike Lee (2018)
* Martin Scorsese (2019)
* Aaron Sorkin (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Baz Luhrmann (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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AARP Movies for Grownups Award for Best Screenwriter

* David Hare (2002)
* Jim Sheridan (2003)
* Alvin Sargent (2004)
* Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)
* William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis (2006)
* Ronald Harwood (2007)
* J. Michael Straczynski (2008)
* Nancy Meyers (2009)
* John Wells (2010)
* Woody Allen (2011)
* Ben Lewin (2012)
* Richard Linklater with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke (2013)
* Nick Hornby and Cheryl Strayed (2014)
* David O. Russell (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Aaron Sorkin (2017)
* Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018)
* Noah Baumbach (2019)
* Aaron Sorkin (2020)
* Tony Kushner (2021)
* Kazuo Ishiguro (2022)
* Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig (2023)

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Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

* Paul Haggis (2005)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2006)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
* Christopher Nolan (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* Darren Aronofsky (2010)
* Nicolas Winding Refn (2011)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* Barry Jenkins (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Barry Jenkins (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Lee Isaac Chung (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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BAFTA Award for Best Film

1940s

* The Best Years of Our Lives (1947)
* Hamlet (1948)
* Bicycle Thieves (1949)

1950s

* All About Eve (1950)
* La Ronde (1951)
* The Sound Barrier (1952)
* Forbidden Games (1953)
* The Wages of Fear (1954)
* Richard III (1955)
* Gervaise (1956)
* The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
* Room at the Top (1958)
* Ben-Hur (1959)

1960s

* The Apartment – Billy Wilder (1960)
* Ballad of a Soldier – Grigori Chukhrai / The Hustler – Robert Rossen (1961)
* Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
* Tom Jones (1963)
* Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
* My Fair Lady (1965)
* Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols (1966)
* A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann (1967)
* The Graduate – Mike Nichols (1968)
* Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger (1969)

1970s

* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970)
* Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
* Cabaret (1972)
* Day for Night (1973)
* Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
* Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975)
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976)
* Annie Hall – Charles H. Joffe and Jack Rollins (1977)
* Julia – Richard Roth (1978)
* Manhattan (1979)

1980s

* The Elephant Man – David Lynch (1980)
* Chariots of Fire – David Puttnam (1981)
* Gandhi – Richard Attenborough (1982)
* Educating Rita – Lewis Gilbert (1983)
* The Killing Fields – David Puttnam (1984)
* The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen and Robert Greenhut (1985)
* A Room with a View – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1986)
* Jean de Florette – Claude Berri (1987)
* The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas (1988)
* Dead Poets Society – Peter Weir, Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, and Tony Thomas (1989)

1990s

* Goodfellas – Martin Scorsese, Robert Chartoff, and Irwin Winkler (1990)
* The Commitments – Alan Parker, Lynda Myles, and Roger Randall-Cutler (1991)
* Howards End – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1992)
* Schindler's List – Steven Spielberg, Branko Lustig, and Gerald R. Molen (1993)
* Four Weddings and a Funeral – Mike Newell and Duncan Kenworthy (1994)
* Sense and Sensibility – Ang Lee and Lindsay Doran (1995)
* The English Patient – Anthony Minghella and Saul Zaentz (1996)
* The Full Monty – Peter Cattaneo and Uberto Pasolini (1997)
* Shakespeare in Love – Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick (1998)
* American Beauty – Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)

2000s

* Gladiator – David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, and Douglas Wick (2000)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Sanders, and Fran Walsh (2001)
* The Pianist – Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, and Alain Sarde (2002)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003)
* The Aviator – Sandy Climan, Charles Evans Jr., Graham King, and Michael Mann (2004)
* Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana and James Schamus (2005)
* The Queen – Andy Harries, Christine Langan, and Tracey Seaward (2006)
* Atonement – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster (2007)
* Slumdog Millionaire – Christian Colson (2008)
* The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro (2009)

2010s

* The King's Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin (2010)
* The Artist – Thomas Langmann (2011)
* Argo – Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012)
* 12 Years a Slave – Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Brad Pitt (2013)
* Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland (2014)
* The Revenant – Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon (2015)
* La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt (2016)
* Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh (2017)
* Roma – Nicolás Celis, Alfonso Cuarón, and Gabriela Rodríguez (2018)
* 1917 – Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, and Jayne-Ann Tenggren (2019)

2020s

* Nomadland – Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Chloé Zhao (2020)
* The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, and Emile Sherman (2021)
* All Quiet on the Western Front – Malte Grunert (2022)
* Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, and Emma Thomas (2023)

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BAFTA Award for Best Direction

1968–2000|

* Mike Nichols (1968)
* John Schlesinger (1969)
* George Roy Hill (1970)
* John Schlesinger (1971)
* Bob Fosse (1972)
* François Truffaut (1973)
* Roman Polanski (1974)
* Stanley Kubrick (1975)
* Miloš Forman (1976)
* Woody Allen (1977)
* Alan Parker (1978)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
* Akira Kurosawa (1980)
* Louis Malle (1981)
* Richard Attenborough (1982)
* Bill Forsyth (1983)
* Wim Wenders (1984)
* No Award (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* Oliver Stone (1987)
* Louis Malle (1988)
* Kenneth Branagh (1989)
* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Alan Parker (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Mike Newell (1994)
* Michael Radford (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Baz Luhrmann (1997)
* Peter Weir (1998)
* Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
* Ang Lee (2000)

2001–present|

* Peter Jackson (2001)
* Roman Polanski (2002)
* Peter Weir (2003)
* Mike Leigh (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Paul Greengrass (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Ben Affleck (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Sam Mendes (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Edward Berger (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director

1980–2000|

* Roman Polanski (1980)
* Steven Spielberg (1981)
* Steven Spielberg (1982)
* Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani (1983)
* Bertrand Tavernier (1984)
* John Huston (1985)
* David Lynch / Oliver Stone (1986)
* Stanley Kubrick (1987)
* Stephen Frears (1988)
* Woody Allen (1989)
* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Jonathan Demme (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Ang Lee (1995)
* Mike Leigh (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* John Boorman (1998)
* David O. Russell (1999)
* Cameron Crowe (2000)

2001–present|

* David Lynch (2001)
* Roman Polanski (2002)
* Sofia Coppola (2003)
* Zhang Yimou (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Julian Schnabel (2007)
* Gus Van Sant (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Martin Scorsese (2011)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2012)
* Steve McQueen (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Todd Haynes (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2017)
* Lynne Ramsay (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)

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Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay

Screenplay
(1980–2021)|

* Bo Goldman (1980)
* Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn (1981)
* Barry Levinson (1982)
* Éric Rohmer (1983)
* Alex Cox (1984)
* Woody Allen (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* James L. Brooks (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Woody Allen (1989)
* Nicholas Kazan (1990)
* David Cronenberg (1991)
* Neil Jordan (1992)
* Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt (1993)
* Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Emma Thompson (1995)
* Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Scott Frank (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Cameron Crowe / Steve Kloves (2000)
* Christopher Nolan (2001)
* Charlie and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Dan Futterman (2005)
* William Monahan (2006)
* Brad Bird (2007)
* Dustin Lance Black (2008)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (2011)
* Tony Kushner (2012)
* Nicole Holofcener (2013)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo / Richard Linklater (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018)
* Quentin Tarantino (2019)
* Charlie Kaufman (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)

Original Screenplay
(2022–present)|

* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* David Hemingson (2023)

Adapted Screenplay
(2022–present)|

* Kogonada (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)

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Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

1980s|

* Robert Zemeckis (1988)
* Spike Lee (1989)

1990s|

* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Jonathan Demme (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Oliver Stone (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* Terrence Malick (1998)
* Sam Mendes (1999)

2000s|

* Steven Soderbergh (2000)
* David Lynch (2001)
* Todd Haynes (2002)
* Peter Jackson (2003)
* Clint Eastwood (2004)
* David Cronenberg (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)

2010s|

* David Fincher (2010)
* Terrence Malick (2011)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2012)
* Steve McQueen (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* Barry Jenkins (2016)
* Christopher Nolan (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)

2020s|

* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director

* Mel Gibson (1995)
* Anthony Minghella (1996)
* James Cameron (1997)
* Steven Spielberg (1998)
* Sam Mendes (1999)
* Steven Soderbergh (2000)
* Ron Howard / Baz Luhrmann (2001)
* Steven Spielberg (2002)
* Peter Jackson (2003)
* Martin Scorsese (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Ben Affleck (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho / Sam Mendes (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Director

* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Pete Docter (2009)
* Danny Boyle (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* David O. Russell (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Sean Baker (2017)
* Adam McKay (2018)
* Martin Scorsese (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Lin-Manuel Miranda (2021)

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Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay

Screenplay
(2011–2019)|

* Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian (2011)
* David O. Russell (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Martin McDonagh (2017)
* Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie and Peter Farrelly / Adam McKay (2018)
* Noah Baumbach (2019)

Original Screenplay
(2020–present)|

* Lee Isaac Chung (2020)
* Adam McKay (2021)

Adapted Screenplay
(2020–present)|

* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)

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Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

* Joel Coen (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* Peter Weir (1998)
* Sam Mendes (1999)
* Steven Soderbergh (2000)
* Peter Jackson (2001)
* Martin Scorsese (2002)
* Peter Jackson (2003)
* Alexander Payne (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Jason Reitman (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Martin Scorsese (2011)
* Ben Affleck (2012)
* Steve McQueen (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Christopher Nolan (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Céline Sciamma (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Park Chan-wook (2022)
* Todd Haynes (2023)

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Golden Globe Award for Best Director

1943–1975|

* Henry King (1943)
* Leo McCarey (1944)
* Billy Wilder (1945)
* Frank Capra (1946)
* Elia Kazan (1947)
* John Huston (1948)
* Robert Rossen (1949)
* Billy Wilder (1950)
* László Benedek (1951)
* Cecil B. DeMille (1952)
* Fred Zinnemann (1953)
* Elia Kazan (1954)
* Joshua Logan (1955)
* Elia Kazan (1956)
* David Lean (1957)
* Vincente Minnelli (1958)
* William Wyler (1959)
* Jack Cardiff (1960)
* Stanley Kramer (1961)
* David Lean (1962)
* Elia Kazan (1963)
* George Cukor (1964)
* David Lean (1965)
* Fred Zinnemann (1966)
* Mike Nichols (1967)
* Paul Newman (1968)
* Charles Jarrott (1969)
* Arthur Hiller (1970)
* William Friedkin (1971)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
* William Friedkin (1973)
* Roman Polanski (1974)
* Miloš Forman (1975)

1976–2000|

* Sidney Lumet (1976)
* Herbert Ross (1977)
* Michael Cimino (1978)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
* Robert Redford (1980)
* Warren Beatty (1981)
* Richard Attenborough (1982)
* Barbra Streisand (1983)
* Miloš Forman (1984)
* John Huston (1985)
* Oliver Stone (1986)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (1987)
* Clint Eastwood (1988)
* Oliver Stone (1989)
* Kevin Costner (1990)
* Oliver Stone (1991)
* Clint Eastwood (1992)
* Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Robert Zemeckis (1994)
* Mel Gibson (1995)
* Miloš Forman (1996)
* James Cameron (1997)
* Steven Spielberg (1998)
* Sam Mendes (1999)
* Ang Lee (2000)

2001–present|

* Robert Altman (2001)
* Martin Scorsese (2002)
* Peter Jackson (2003)
* Clint Eastwood (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Julian Schnabel (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* James Cameron (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Martin Scorsese (2011)
* Ben Affleck (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Sam Mendes (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Steven Spielberg (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Director

* Tim Burton (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Nicolas Winding Refn (2011)
* Ben Affleck (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay

* Diablo Cody (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash (2011)
* Tony Kushner (2012)
* John Ridley (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Taylor Sheridan (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (2018)
* Rian Johnson (2019)
* Emerald Fennell (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* Cord Jefferson (2023)

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Independent Spirit Award for Best Director

1980s|

* Joel Coen / Martin Scorsese (1985)
* Oliver Stone (1986)
* John Huston (1987)
* Ramon Menendez (1988)
* Steven Soderbergh (1989)

1990s|

* Charles Burnett (1990)
* Martha Coolidge (1991)
* Carl Franklin (1992)
* Robert Altman (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Mike Figgis (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Robert Duvall (1997)
* Wes Anderson (1998)
* Alexander Payne (1999)

2000s|

* Ang Lee (2000)
* Christopher Nolan (2001)
* Todd Haynes (2002)
* Sofia Coppola (2003)
* Alexander Payne (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (2006)
* Julian Schnabel (2007)
* Tom McCarthy (2008)
* Lee Daniels (2009)

2010s|

* Darren Aronofsky (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* David O. Russell (2012)
* Steve McQueen (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Tom McCarthy (2015)
* Barry Jenkins (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Barry Jenkins (2018)
* Safdie brothers (2019)

2020s|

* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Maggie Gyllenhaal (2021)
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Celine Song (2023)

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* e

London Film Critics' Circle Award for Director of the Year

1980–2000|

* Nicolas Roeg (1980)
* Andrzej Wajda (1981)
* Costa-Gavras (1982)
* Andrzej Wajda (1983)
* Neil Jordan (1984)
* Roland Joffé (1985)
* Akira Kurosawa (1986)
* Stanley Kubrick (1987)
* John Huston (1988)
* Terence Davies (1989)
* Woody Allen (1990)
* Ridley Scott (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* James Ivory (1993)
* Steven Spielberg (1994)
* Peter Jackson (1995)
* Joel Coen (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* Peter Weir (1998)
* Sam Mendes (1999)
* Spike Jonze (2000)

2001–present|

* Alejandro González Iñárritu (2001)
* Phillip Noyce (2002)
* Clint Eastwood (2003)
* Martin Scorsese (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Paul Greengrass (2006)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
* David Fincher (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Ang Lee (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* László Nemes (2016)
* Sean Baker (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Steve McQueen (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

1975–2000|

* Sidney Lumet (1975)
* Sidney Lumet (1976)
* Herbert Ross (1977)
* Michael Cimino (1978)
* Robert Benton (1979)
* Roman Polanski (1980)
* Warren Beatty (1981)
* Steven Spielberg (1982)
* James L. Brooks (1983)
* Miloš Forman (1984)
* Terry Gilliam (1985)
* David Lynch (1986)
* John Boorman (1987)
* David Cronenberg (1988)
* Spike Lee (1989)
* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Barry Levinson (1991)
* Clint Eastwood (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Mike Figgis (1995)
* Mike Leigh (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* Steven Spielberg (1998)
* Sam Mendes (1999)
* Steven Soderbergh (2000)

2001–present|

* David Lynch (2001)
* Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
* Peter Jackson (2003)
* Alexander Payne (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Paul Greengrass (2006)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* Olivier Assayas / David Fincher (2010)
* Terrence Malick (2011)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* Barry Jenkins (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro / Luca Guadagnino (2017)
* Debra Granik (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)

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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay

1975–2000|

* Joan Tewkesbury (1975)
* Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
* Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
* Paul Mazursky (1978)
* Robert Benton (1979)
* John Sayles (1980)
* John Guare (1981)
* Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal (1982)
* James L. Brooks (1983)
* Peter Shaffer (1984)
* Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown and Tom Stoppard (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* John Boorman (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989)
* Nicholas Kazan (1990)
* James Toback (1991)
* David Webb Peoples (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
* Emma Thompson (1995)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2000)

2001–present|

* Christopher Nolan (2001)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Noah Baumbach / Dan Futterman (2005)
* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Tamara Jenkins (2007)
* Mike Leigh (2008)
* Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Asghar Farhadi (2011)
* Chris Terrio (2012)
* Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018)
* Noah Baumbach (2019)
* Emerald Fennell (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Andrew Haigh (2023)

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National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director

1966–2000|

* Michelangelo Antonioni (1966)
* Ingmar Bergman (1967)
* Ingmar Bergman (1968)
* François Truffaut (1969)
* Ingmar Bergman (1970)
* Bernardo Bertolucci (1971)
* Luis Buñuel (1972)
* François Truffaut (1973)
* Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
* Robert Altman (1975)
* Martin Scorsese (1976)
* Luis Buñuel (1977)
* Terrence Malick (1978)
* Woody Allen / Robert Benton (1979)
* Martin Scorsese (1980)
* Louis Malle (1981)
* Steven Spielberg (1982)
* Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani (1983)
* Robert Bresson (1984)
* John Huston (1985)
* David Lynch (1986)
* John Boorman (1987)
* Philip Kaufman (1988)
* Gus Van Sant (1989)
* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* David Cronenberg (1991)
* Clint Eastwood (1992)
* Steven Spielberg (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Mike Figgis (1995)
* Lars von Trier (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* Steven Soderbergh (1998)
* Mike Leigh (1999)
* Steven Soderbergh (2000)

2001–present|

* Robert Altman (2001)
* Roman Polanski (2002)
* Clint Eastwood (2003)
* Zhang Yimou (2004)
* David Cronenberg (2005)
* Paul Greengrass (2006)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
* Mike Leigh (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Terrence Malick (2011)
* Michael Haneke (2012)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Todd Haynes (2015)
* Barry Jenkins (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Greta Gerwig (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2021)
* Charlotte Wells (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)

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National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay

1967–2000|

* David Newman and Robert Benton (1967)
* John Cassavetes (1968)
* Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker (1969)
* Éric Rohmer (1970)
* Penelope Gilliatt (1971)
* Ingmar Bergman (1972)
* George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (1973)
* Ingmar Bergman (1974)
* Robert Towne and Warren Beatty (1975)
* Alain Tanner and John Berger (1976)
* Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
* Paul Mazursky (1978)
* Steve Tesich (1979)
* Bo Goldman (1980)
* John Guare (1981)
* Murray Schisgal and Larry Gelbart (1982)
* Bill Forsyth (1983)
* Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman (1984)
* Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1985)
* Hanif Kureishi (1986)
* John Boorman (1987)
* Ron Shelton (1988)
* Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost (1989)
* Charles Burnett (1990)
* David Cronenberg (1991)
* David Webb Peoples (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (1994)
* Amy Heckerling (1995)
* Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson (1996)
* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Scott Frank (1998)
* Charlie Kaufman (1999)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2000)

2001–present|

* Julian Fellowes (2001)
* Ronald Harwood (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Noah Baumbach (2005)
* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Tamara Jenkins (2007)
* Mike Leigh (2008)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Asghar Farhadi (2011)
* Tony Kushner (2012)
* Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy (2013)
* Wes Anderson (2014)
* Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (2019)
* Eliza Hittman (2020)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Samy Burch (2023)

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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

1935–1950|

* John Ford (1935)
* Rouben Mamoulian (1936)
* Gregory La Cava (1937)
* Alfred Hitchcock (1938)
* John Ford (1939)
* John Ford (1940)
* John Ford (1941)
* John Farrow (1942)
* George Stevens (1943)
* Leo McCarey (1944)
* Billy Wilder (1945)
* William Wyler (1946)
* Elia Kazan (1947)
* John Huston (1948)
* Carol Reed (1949)
* Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)

1951–1975|

* Elia Kazan (1951)
* Fred Zinnemann (1952)
* Fred Zinnemann (1953)
* Elia Kazan (1954)
* David Lean (1955)
* John Huston (1956)
* David Lean (1957)
* Stanley Kramer (1958)
* Fred Zinnemann (1959)
* Jack Cardiff / Billy Wilder (1960)
* Robert Rossen (1961)
* No Award (1962)
* Tony Richardson (1963)
* Stanley Kubrick (1964)
* John Schlesinger (1965)
* Fred Zinnemann (1966)
* Mike Nichols (1967)
* Paul Newman (1968)
* Costa-Gavras (1969)
* Bob Rafelson (1970)
* Stanley Kubrick (1971)
* Ingmar Bergman (1972)
* François Truffaut (1973)
* Federico Fellini (1974)
* Robert Altman (1975)

1976–2000|

* Alan J. Pakula (1976)
* Woody Allen (1977)
* Terrence Malick (1978)
* Woody Allen (1979)
* Jonathan Demme (1980)
* Sidney Lumet (1981)
* Sydney Pollack (1982)
* Ingmar Bergman (1983)
* David Lean (1984)
* John Huston (1985)
* Woody Allen (1986)
* James L. Brooks (1987)
* Chris Menges (1988)
* Paul Mazursky (1989)
* Martin Scorsese (1990)
* Jonathan Demme (1991)
* Robert Altman (1992)
* Jane Campion (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Ang Lee (1995)
* Lars von Trier (1996)
* Curtis Hanson (1997)
* Terrence Malick (1998)
* Mike Leigh (1999)
* Steven Soderbergh (2000)

2001–present|

* Robert Altman (2001)
* Todd Haynes (2002)
* Sofia Coppola (2003)
* Clint Eastwood (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Mike Leigh (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Michel Hazanavicius (2011)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2012)
* Steve McQueen (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Todd Haynes (2015)
* Barry Jenkins (2016)
* Sean Baker (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Joshua Safdie and Benjamin Safdie (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* S. S. Rajamouli (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Director

* James Cameron (1997)
* Steven Spielberg (1998)
* Sam Mendes (1999)
* Darren Aronofsky (2000)
* David Lynch (2001)
* Peter Jackson (2002)
* Peter Jackson (2003)
* Michel Gondry (2004)
* David Cronenberg (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Christopher Nolan (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Terrence Malick (2011)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* Barry Jenkins (2016)
* Christopher Nolan (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

* Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997)
* Scott Smith (1998)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999)
* Robert Nelson Jacobs (2000)
* Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff (2001)
* Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002)
* Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Dan Futterman (2005)
* Jason Reitman (2006)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (2011)
* Chris Terrio (2012)
* Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke (2013)
* Gillian Flynn (2014)
* Emma Donoghue (2015)
* Whit Stillman (2016)
* Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (2017)
* Peter Fellows, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, and David Schneider (2018)
* J.C. Lee and Julius Onah (2019)
* Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell (2022)
* Kelly Fremon Craig and Judy Blume (2023)

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San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

* Todd Haynes (2002)
* Peter Jackson (2003)
* Alexander Payne (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Paul Greengrass (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Gus Van Sant (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* Darren Aronofsky / David Fincher (2010)
* Terrence Malick (2011)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* Barry Jenkins (2016)
* Guillermo del Toro (2017)
* Spike Lee (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Todd Field (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)

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Satellite Award for Best Director

1990s|

* Joel Coen (1996)
* James Cameron (1997)
* Terrence Malick (1998)
* Michael Mann (1999)

2000s|

* Steven Soderbergh (2000)
* Baz Luhrmann (2001)
* Todd Haynes (2002)
* Jim Sheridan (2003)
* Mel Gibson (2004)
* Ang Lee (2005)
* Bill Condon / Clint Eastwood (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)

2010s|

* David Fincher (2010)
* Nicolas Winding Refn (2011)
* David O. Russell (2012)
* Steve McQueen (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Tom McCarthy (2015)
* Kenneth Lonergan (2016)
* Jordan Peele (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* James Mangold (2019)

2020s|

* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* James Cameron (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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Silver Bear for Best Director

1956–1975|

* Robert Aldrich (1956)
* Mario Monicelli (1957)
* Tadashi Imai (1958)
* Akira Kurosawa (1959)
* Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
* Bernhard Wicki (1961)
* Francesco Rosi (1962)
* Nikos Koundouros (1963)
* Satyajit Ray (1964)
* Satyajit Ray (1965)
* Carlos Saura (1966)
* Živojin Pavlović (1967)
* Carlos Saura (1968)
* Jean-Pierre Blanc (1972)
* Sergei Solovyov (1975)

1976–2000|

* Mario Monicelli (1976)
* Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (1977)
* Georgi Djulgerov (1978)
* Astrid Henning-Jensen (1979)
* István Szabó (1980)
* Mario Monicelli (1982)
* Éric Rohmer (1983)
* Costas Ferris / Ettore Scola (1984)
* Robert Benton (1985)
* Georgiy Shengelaya (1986)
* Oliver Stone (1987)
* Norman Jewison (1988)
* Dušan Hanák (1989)
* Michael Verhoeven (1990)
* Jonathan Demme / Ricky Tognazzi (1991)
* Jan Troell (1992)
* Andrew Birkin (1993)
* Krzysztof Kieślowski (1994)
* Richard Linklater (1995)
* Richard Loncraine / Yim Ho (1996)
* Eric Heumann (1997)
* Neil Jordan (1998)
* Stephen Frears (1999)
* Miloš Forman (2000)

2001–present|

* Lin Cheng-sheng (2001)
* Otar Iosseliani (2002)
* Patrice Chéreau (2003)
* Kim Ki-duk (2004)
* Marc Rothemund (2005)
* Mat Whitecross / Michael Winterbottom (2006)
* Joseph Cedar (2007)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2008)
* Asghar Farhadi (2009)
* Roman Polanski (2010)
* Ulrich Köhler (2011)
* Christian Petzold (2012)
* David Gordon Green (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Radu Jude / Małgorzata Szumowska (2015)
* Mia Hansen-Løve (2016)
* Aki Kaurismäki (2017)
* Wes Anderson (2018)
* Angela Schanelec (2019)
* Hong Sang-soo (2020)
* Dénes Nagy (2021)
* Claire Denis (2022)
* Philippe Garrel (2023)
* Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias (2024)

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Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

* Atom Egoyan (1997)
* Steven Spielberg (1998)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (1999)
* Steven Soderbergh (2000)
* David Lynch (2001)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)
* Peter Jackson (2003)
* Michel Gondry (2004)
* David Cronenberg (2005)
* Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne / Stephen Frears (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Jonathan Demme (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Terrence Malick (2011)
* Paul Thomas Anderson (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* Todd Haynes (2015)
* Maren Ade (2016)
* Greta Gerwig (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Charlotte Wells (2022)
* Jonathan Glazer (2023)

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Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

* Spike Jonze / Sam Mendes / Denzel Washington (2002)
* Peter Jackson (2003)
* Michel Gondry (2004)
* Steven Spielberg (2005)
* Martin Scorsese (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Danny Boyle (2008)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
* David Fincher (2010)
* Martin Scorsese (2011)
* Kathryn Bigelow (2012)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
* Richard Linklater (2014)
* George Miller (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Christopher Nolan (2017)
* Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
* Bong Joon-ho (2019)
* Chloé Zhao (2020)
* Jane Campion (2021)
* Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022)
* Christopher Nolan (2023)

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