San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
Annual US film award
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The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an award given by the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle to honor a film director who has delivered an outstanding directorial achievement in filmmaking.
AwardedforOutstanding Directorial Achievement
CountryUnited States
PresentedbySan Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle
FirstawardTodd Haynes
Far from Heaven (2002)
Far from Heaven (2002)
| San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director | |
|---|---|
The 2025 recipient: Paul Thomas Anderson | |
| Awarded for | Outstanding Directorial Achievement |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle |
| First award | Todd Haynes Far from Heaven (2002) |
| Currently held by | Paul Thomas Anderson One Battle After Another (2025) |
| Website | sfbafcc |
Winners
2000s
2010s
| Year | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Darren Aronofsky (TIE) | Black Swan |
| David Fincher (TIE) | The Social Network | |
| 2011 | Terrence Malick | The Tree of Life |
| 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2015 | George Miller | Mad Max: Fury Road |
| 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water |
| 2018 | Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho | Parasite |
2020s
| Year | Winner | Film | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland | [1] |
| 2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | [2] |
| 2022 | Todd Field | Tár | [3] |
| 2023 | Jonathan Glazer | The Zone of Interest | [4] |
| 2024 | Brady Corbet | The Brutalist | [5] |
| 2025 | Paul Thomas Anderson | One Battle After Another | [6] |