St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

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

St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
The 2024 Recipient: Denis Villeneuve
Country	United States
Presented by	St. Louis Film Critics Association
First award	Martin Scorsese, The Aviator (2004)
Most recent winner	Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two (2024)
Website	www.stlfilmcritics.org

Winners

Winners are in bold.

2000s

Year	Nominee	Film
2004[1]	Martin Scorsese – (Drama)	The Aviator
	Clint Eastwood - (Drama)	Million Dollar Baby
	Terry George - (Drama)	Hotel Rwanda
	Mike Leigh - (Drama)	Vera Drake
	Quentin Tarantino - (Drama)	Kill Bill: Volume 2
	Alexander Payne – (Comedy / Musical)	Sideways
	Taylor Hackford - (Comedy / Musical)	Ray
	Michael Gondry - (Comedy / Musical)	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	Zach Braff - (Comedy / Musical)	Garden State
	Brad Bird - (Comedy / Musical)	The Incredibles
2005[2]	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
2006[2]	Martin Scorsese	The Departed
2007[2]	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
2008[2]	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
2009[2]	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker

2010s

Year	Nominee	Film
2010[2]	David Fincher	The Social Network
2011[3]	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Terrence Malick	The Tree of Life
	Alexander Payne	The Descendants
	David Fincher	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
	Nicolas Winding Refn	Drive
2012[4][5]	Ben Affleck	Argo
	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained
	Benh Zeitlin	Beasts of the Southern Wild
	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
2013[6]	Alfonso Cuaron	Gravity
	Spike Jonze	Her
	Steve McQueen[7]	12 Years a Slave
	Alexander Payne	Nebraska
	David O. Russell	American Hustle
2014[8]	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	David Fincher	Gone Girl
	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Morten Tyldum	The Imitation Game
2015[9]	Todd Haynes	Carol
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	The Revenant
	Tom McCarthy	Spotlight
	George Miller	Mad Max: Fury Road
	Ridley Scott	The Martian
2016[10]	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	David Mackenzie	Hell or High Water
	Denis Villeneuve	Arrival
2017[11]	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Jordan Peele	Get Out
	Steven Spielberg	The Post
	Denis Villeneuve	Blade Runner 2049
2018[12]	Bradley Cooper	A Star Is Born
	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
	Yorgos Lanthimos	The Favourite
	Spike Lee	BlacKkKlansman
	Adam McKay	Vice
2019[13]	Bong Joon-Ho	Parasite
	Sam Mendes	1917
	Martin Scorsese	The Irishman
	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Taika Waititi	Jojo Rabbit

2020s

Year	Nominee	Film
2020[14]	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman
	Lee Isaac Chung	Minari
	Spike Lee	Da 5 Bloods
	Aaron Sorkin	The Trial of the Chicago 7
	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland
2021[15]	Paul Thomas Anderson	Licorice Pizza
	Wes Anderson	The French Dispatch
	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast
	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog
	Steven Spielberg	West Side Story
	Denis Villeneuve	Dune
2022[16]	Daniels (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Baz Luhrmann	Elvis
	Martin McDonagh	Banshees of Inisherin
	Sarah Polley	Women Talking
	Steven Spielberg	The Fabelmans
2023[17]	Greta Gerwig	Barbie
	Todd Haynes	May December
	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer
	Martin Scorsese	Killers of the Flower Moon
	Celine Song	Past Lives
2024[18]	Edward Berger	Conclave
	Brady Corbet	The Brutalist
	Mohammad Rasoulof	The Seed of the Sacred Fig
	RaMell Ross	Nickel Boys
	Denis Villeneuve	Dune: Part Two