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

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Director is an annual award given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

Year	Director(s)	Film
2002^[1]	Spike Jonze (tie)	Adaptation.
	Sam Mendes (tie)	Road to Perdition
	Denzel Washington (tie)	Antwone Fisher
	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
	Rob Marshall	Chicago
2003^[2]	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Clint Eastwood	Mystic River
	Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund	City of God
	Peter Weir	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2004^[3]	Michel Gondry	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005^[4]	Steven Spielberg	Munich
	George Clooney	Good Night, and Good Luck.
	Ron Howard	Cinderella Man
	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
	Fernando Meirelles	The Constant Gardener
2006^[5]	Martin Scorsese	The Departed
2007^[6]	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
2008^[7]	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
2009^[8]^[9]	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
	Lee Daniels	Precious
	Clint Eastwood	Invictus
	Jason Reitman	Up in the Air
	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds

Year	Director(s)	Film
2010^[10]	David Fincher	The Social Network
	Darren Aronofsky	Black Swan
	Danny Boyle	127 Hours
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	True Grit
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
2011^[11]	Martin Scorsese	Hugo
	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Alexander Payne	The Descendants
	Nicolas Winding Refn	Drive
2012^[12]	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Ben Affleck	Argo
	Paul Thomas Anderson	The Master
	Tom Hooper	Les Misérables
	Steven Spielberg	Lincoln
2013^[13]	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity
	Spike Jonze	Her
	Baz Luhrmann	The Great Gatsby
	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
	Martin Scorsese	The Wolf of Wall Street
2014^[14]	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Damien Chazelle	Whiplash
	Ava DuVernay	Selma
	David Fincher	Gone Girl
	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2015^[15]^[16]	George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road
	Alex Garland	Ex Machina
	Todd Haynes	Carol
	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	The Revenant
	Ridley Scott	The Martian
2016^[17]	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	David Mackenzie	Hell or High Water
	Denis Villeneuve	Arrival
2017^[18]	Christopher Nolan	Dunkirk
	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Jordan Peele	Get Out
	Dee Rees	Mudbound
2018^[19]	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
	Ryan Coogler	Black Panther
	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born
	Barry Jenkins	If Beale Street Could Talk
	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Favourite
2019^[20]	Bong Joon-ho	Parasite
	Greta Gerwig	Little Women
	Sam Mendes	1917
	Martin Scorsese	The Irishman
	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Year	Director(s)	Film
2020^[21]^[22]	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland
	Lee Isaac Chung	Minari
	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman
	Regina King	One Night in Miami…
	Kelly Reichardt	First Cow
2021^[23]	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog
	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast
	David Lowery	The Green Knight
	Steven Spielberg	West Side Story
	Denis Villeneuve	Dune
2022^[24]^[25]	Daniels	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Todd Field	TÁR
	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Sarah Polley	Women Talking
	Steven Spielberg	The Fabelmans
2023^[26]	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer
	Greta Gerwig	Barbie
	Yorgos Lanthimos	Poor Things
	Martin Scorsese	Killers of the Flower Moon
	Celine Song	Past Lives
2024^[27]	Brady Corbet	The Brutalist
	Denis Villeneuve	Dune: Part Two
	Edward Berger	Conclave
	Jon M. Chu	Wicked
	Sean Baker	Anora

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