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 YearNomineeFilm 2004 Martin Scorsese – (Drama) The Aviator Clint Eastwood – (Drama) Million Dollar Baby Terry George – (Drama) Hotel Rwanda Mike Leigh – (Drama) Vera Drake Quentin Tarantino – (Drama) Kill Bill: Volume 2 Alexander Payne – (Comedy / Musical) Sideways Taylor Hackford – (Comedy / Musical) Ray Michael Gondry – (Comedy / Musical) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Zach Braff – (Comedy / Musical) Garden State 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 YearNomineeFilm 2010 David Fincher The Social Network 2011 Michel Hazanavicius The Artist Terrence Malick The Tree of Life Alexander Payne The Descendants David Fincher The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Nicolas Winding Refn Drive 2012 Ben Affleck Argo Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark Thirty Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained Benh Zeitlin Beasts of the Southern Wild Ang Lee Life of Pi 2013 Alfonso Cuaron Gravity Spike Jonze Her Steve McQueen 12 Years a Slave Alexander Payne Nebraska David O. Russell American Hustle 2014 Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel David Fincher Gone Girl Alejandro G. Iñárritu Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Richard Linklater Boyhood Morten Tyldum The Imitation Game 2015 Todd Haynes Carol Alejandro González Iñárritu The Revenant Tom McCarthy Spotlight George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road Ridley Scott The Martian 2016 Damien Chazelle La La Land Barry Jenkins Moonlight Kenneth Lonergan Manchester by the Sea David Mackenzie Hell or High Water Denis Villeneuve Arrival 2017 Guillermo del Toro The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig Lady Bird Jordan Peele Get Out Steven Spielberg The Post Denis Villeneuve Blade Runner 2049 2018 Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born Alfonso Cuarón Roma Yorgos Lanthimos The Favourite Spike Lee BlacKkKlansman Adam McKay Vice 2019 Bong Joon-Ho Parasite Sam Mendes 1917 Martin Scorsese The Irishman Quentin Tarantino Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Taika Waititi Jojo Rabbit
2020s YearNomineeFilm 2020 Emerald Fennell Promising Young Woman Lee Isaac Chung Minari Spike Lee Da 5 Bloods Aaron Sorkin The Trial of the Chicago 7 Chloé Zhao Nomadland 2021 Paul Thomas Anderson Licorice Pizza Wes Anderson The French Dispatch Kenneth Branagh Belfast Jane Campion The Power of the Dog Steven Spielberg West Side Story Denis Villeneuve Dune 2022 Daniels (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) Everything Everywhere All at Once Baz Luhrmann Elvis Martin McDonagh Banshees of Inisherin Sarah Polley Women Talking Steven Spielberg The Fabelmans 2023 Greta Gerwig Barbie Todd Haynes May December Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer Martin Scorsese Killers of the Flower Moon Celine Song Past Lives 2024 Edward Berger Conclave Brady Corbet The Brutalist Mohammad Rasoulof The Seed of the Sacred Fig RaMell Ross Nickel Boys Denis Villeneuve Dune: Part Two 2025 Paul Thomas Anderson One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler Sinners Jafar Panahi One Battle After Another Josh Safdie Marty Supreme Chloé Zhao Hamnet
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