Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Director

The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Director is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best director of the year.

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Film
1997[1]	James Cameron	Titanic
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Boogie Nights
	Curtis Hanson	L.A. Confidential
1998[2]	Steven Spielberg	Saving Private Ryan
	Terrence Malick	The Thin Red Line
	Peter Weir	The Truman Show
1999[3]	Sam Mendes	American Beauty
	David Fincher	Fight Club
	Spike Jonze	Being John Malkovich
	Stanley Kubrick	Eyes Wide Shut
	Michael Mann	The Insider

2000s

Year	Winner	Film
2000[4]	Darren Aronofsky	Requiem for a Dream
	Cameron Crowe	Almost Famous
	Ang Lee	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
	Steven Soderbergh	Traffic
	Lars von Trier	Dancer in the Dark
2001[5]	David Lynch	Mulholland Drive
	Joel Coen	The Man Who Wasn't There
	Todd Field	In the Bedroom
	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
	Baz Luhrmann	Moulin Rouge!
	Christopher Nolan	Memento
2002[6]	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
	Todd Haynes	Far from Heaven
	Spike Jonze	Adaptation.
	Martin Scorsese	Gangs of New York
	Steven Spielberg	Minority Report
2003[7]	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Clint Eastwood	Mystic River
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	21 Grams
	Quentin Tarantino	Kill Bill: Volume 1
2004[8]	Michel Gondry	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	Clint Eastwood	Million Dollar Baby
	Alexander Payne	Sideways
	Martin Scorsese	The Aviator
	Zhang Yimou	Hero
2005[9]	David Cronenberg	A History of Violence
	George Clooney	Good Night, and Good Luck.
	Peter Jackson	King Kong
	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
	Steven Spielberg	Munich
2006[10]	Martin Scorsese	The Departed
	Alfonso Cuarón	Children of Men
	Guillermo del Toro	Pan's Labyrinth
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Babel
	Paul Greengrass	United 93
2007[11]	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
	Paul Thomas Anderson	There Will Be Blood
	David Cronenberg	Eastern Promises
	David Fincher	Zodiac
	Julian Schnabel	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2008[12]	Christopher Nolan	The Dark Knight
	Darren Aronofsky	The Wrestler
	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
	David Fincher	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Andrew Stanton	WALL-E
2009[13]	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
	Neill Blomkamp	District 9
	James Cameron	Avatar
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	A Serious Man
	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds

2010s

Year	Winner	Film
2010[14]	David Fincher	The Social Network
	Darren Aronofsky	Black Swan
	Danny Boyle	127 Hours
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	True Grit
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
2011[15]	Terrence Malick	The Tree of Life
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Martin Scorsese	Hugo
	Lars von Trier	Melancholia
	Nicolas Winding Refn	Drive
2012[16]	Paul Thomas Anderson	The Master
	Ben Affleck	Argo
	Wes Anderson	Moonrise Kingdom
	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Leos Carax	Holy Motors
2013[17]	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Spike Jonze	Her
	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
	Hayao Miyazaki	The Wind Rises
2014[18]	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne	Two Days, One Night
	Ava DuVernay	Selma
	Jonathan Glazer	Under the Skin
2015[19]	George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road
	Todd Haynes	Carol
	Tom McCarthy	Spotlight
	Ridley Scott	The Martian
	Denis Villeneuve	Sicario
2016[20]	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
	Pablo Larraín	Jackie
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	Denis Villeneuve	Arrival
2017[21]	Christopher Nolan	Dunkirk
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Phantom Thread
	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Jordan Peele	Get Out
2018[22]	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
	Barry Jenkins	If Beale Street Could Talk
	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Favourite
	Spike Lee	BlacKkKlansman
	Lynne Ramsay	You Were Never Really Here
2019[23]	Bong Joon-ho	Parasite
	Sam Mendes	1917
	Céline Sciamma	Portrait of a Lady on Fire
	Martin Scorsese	The Irishman
	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2020s

Year	Winner	Film
2020[24]	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland
	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman
	Eliza Hittman	Never Rarely Sometimes Always
	Spike Lee	Da 5 Bloods
	Kelly Reichardt	First Cow
2021[25]	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Licorice Pizza
	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Drive My Car
	Steven Spielberg	West Side Story
	Denis Villeneuve	Dune
2022[26]	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Todd Field	Tár
	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Steven Spielberg	The Fabelmans
	Charlotte Wells	Aftersun
2023[27]	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer
	Greta Gerwig	Barbie
	Yorgos Lanthimos	Poor Things
	Martin Scorsese	Killers of the Flower Moon
	Celine Song	Past Lives
2024[28]	Coralie Fargeat	The Substance
	Sean Baker	Anora
	Brady Corbet	The Brutalist
	RaMell Ross	Nickel Boys
	Denis Villeneuve	Dune: Part Two