Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Film

The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Film is one of the annual awards given by the Chicago Film Critics Association.

Year	Winner	Director(s)
1988	Mississippi Burning	Alan Parker
1989	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
	Batman	Tim Burton
	Born on the Fourth of July	Oliver Stone
	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Woody Allen
	Drugstore Cowboy	Gus Van Sant
	A Dry White Season	Euzhan Palcy
	Henry V	Kenneth Branagh
	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Steven Soderbergh

Year	Winner and nominees	Director(s)
1990	Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme
	Barton Fink	Joel Coen
	Beauty and the Beast	Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
	Boyz n the Hood	John Singleton
	Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott
1992	Malcolm X	Spike Lee
	The Crying Game	Neil Jordan
	The Player	Robert Altman
	Reservoir Dogs	Quentin Tarantino
	Unforgiven	Clint Eastwood
1993	Schindler's List	Steven Spielberg
	The Fugitive	Andrew Davis
	The Piano	Jane Campion
	Short Cuts	Robert Altman
1994	Hoop Dreams	Steve James
	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis
	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino
	Quiz Show	Robert Redford
	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont
1995	Apollo 13	Ron Howard
	Crumb	Terry Zwigoff
	Exotica	Atom Egoyan
	Heat	Michael Mann
	Nixon	Oliver Stone
1996	Fargo	Joel Coen
	Dead Man	Jim Jarmusch
	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella
	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Miloš Forman
	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh
1997	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson
	As Good as It Gets	James L. Brooks
	Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan
	Titanic	James Cameron
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg
	The Butcher Boy	Neil Jordan
	Life Is Beautiful	Roberto Benigni
	Shakespeare in Love	John Madden
	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick
	The Truman Show	Peter Weir
1999	American Beauty	Sam Mendes
	Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze
	The Insider	Michael Mann
	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Straight Story	David Lynch

Year	Winner and nominees	Director(s)
2000	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Ang Lee
	Traffic	Steven Soderbergh
	Wonder Boys	Curtis Hanson
	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan
2001	Mulholland Drive	David Lynch
	A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard
	In the Bedroom	Todd Field
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Peter Jackson
	Waking Life	Richard Linklater
2002	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
	About Schmidt	Alexander Payne
	Adaptation.	Spike Jonze
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Peter Jackson
	The Pianist	Roman Polanski
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Peter Jackson
	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
	Finding Nemo	Andrew Stanton
	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	Mystic River	Clint Eastwood
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne
2005	Crash	Paul Haggis
	Brokeback Mountain	Ang Lee
	Good Night, and Good Luck.	George Clooney
	A History of Violence	David Cronenberg
	King Kong	Peter Jackson
2006	The Departed	Martin Scorsese
	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Little Miss Sunshine	Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
	The Queen	Stephen Frears
	United 93	Paul Greengrass
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Into the Wild	Sean Penn
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy
	Once	John Carney
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson
2008	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	David Fincher
	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan
	Milk	Gus Van Sant
	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
2009	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
	A Serious Man	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman
	Where the Wild Things Are	Spike Jonze

Year	Winner and nominees	Director(s)
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher
	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik
2011	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne
	Drive	Nicolas Winding Refn
	Hugo	Martin Scorsese
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow
	Argo	Ben Affleck
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg
	The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson
2013	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
	American Hustle	David O. Russell
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
	Her	Spike Jonze
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2014	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Birdman	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
	Under the Skin	Jonathan Glazer
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2015	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller
	Carol	Todd Haynes
	Inside Out	Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen
	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy
2016	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
	The Handmaiden	Chan-wook Park
	Jackie	Pablo Larraín
	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
2017	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	Call Me by Your Name	Luca Guadagnino
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2018	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón^[1]
	The Favourite	Yorgos Lanthimos
	First Reformed	Paul Schrader
	Hereditary	Ari Aster
	A Star Is Born	Bradley Cooper
2019	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho^[2]
	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese
	Little Women	Greta Gerwig
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino

Year	Winner and nominees	Director(s)
2020^[3]	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
	Da 5 Bloods	Spike Lee
	First Cow	Kelly Reichardt
	Lovers Rock	Steve McQueen
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
2021^[4]^[5]	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
	Drive My Car	Ryusuke Hamaguchi
	The Green Knight	David Lowery
	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
	West Side Story	Steven Spielberg
2022^[6]	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh
	Aftersun	Charlotte Wells
	Decision to Leave	Park Chan-wook
	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
	Tár	Todd Field
2023^[7]	Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese
	Barbie	Greta Gerwig
	May December	Todd Haynes
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan
	Poor Things	Yorgos Lanthimos
2024^[8]	The Brutalist	Brady Corbet
	Anora	Sean Baker
	Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga	George Miller
	I Saw the TV Glow	Jane Schoenbrun
	Nickel Boys	RaMell Ross
	The Substance	Coralie Fargeat
2025^[9]	One Battle After Another	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Marty Supreme	Josh Safdie
	It Was Just an Accident	Jafar Panahi
	Sinners	Ryan Coogler
	Train Dreams	Clint Bentley

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