Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director is an award presented by the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association. It is given in honor of a film director who has delivered an outstanding directing while working in the film industry.

Winners † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director

1990s YearWinnerFilm 1990 Kevin Costner † Dances with Wolves 1991 Oliver Stone JFK 1992 Clint Eastwood † Unforgiven 1993 Steven Spielberg † Schindler's List 1994 Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction 1995 Mike Figgis Leaving Las Vegas 1996 Joel Coen Fargo 1997 James Cameron † Titanic 1998 Steven Spielberg † Saving Private Ryan 1999 Sam Mendes † American Beauty

2000s YearWinner(s)Film 2000 Steven Soderbergh † Traffic 2001 Ron Howard † A Beautiful Mind 2002 Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King † 2004 Martin Scorsese The Aviator 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 Jason Reitman Up in the Air

2010s YearWinnerFilm 2010 David Fincher The Social Network 2011 Alexander Payne The Descendants 2012 Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark Thirty 2013 Alfonso Cuarón † Gravity 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu Birdman † 2015 The Revenant † 2016 Barry Jenkins Moonlight 2017 Guillermo del Toro † The Shape of Water 2018 Alfonso Cuarón † Roma 2019 Sam Mendes 1917

2020s YearWinner(s)Film 2020 Chloé Zhao † Nomadland 2021 Jane Campion † The Power of the Dog 2022 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert † Everything Everywhere All at Once 2023 Christopher Nolan † Oppenheimer 2024 Sean Baker † Anora 2025 Paul Thomas Anderson One Battle After Another

References

External links Official website