Chloé Zhao - Wikipedia

Chinese-born filmmaker (born 1982) In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhao.

Chloé Zhao
Zhao at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival
Born	Zhao Ting (1982-03-31) 31 March 1982 (age 43)Beijing, China
Education	Mount Holyoke College (BA) New York University (MFA)
Occupations	Film director screenwriter film producer film editor
Years active	2008–present
Awards	Full list
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	赵婷
Traditional Chinese	趙婷
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhào Tíng Wade–Giles Chao4 T'ing2 IPA [ʈʂâʊ tʰǐŋ]
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Chloé Zhao (born Zhao Ting, in Chinese: 赵婷;[a] 31 March 1982) is a Chinese-born[b] filmmaker. She is known primarily for her work on independent films. For her film Nomadland (2020), Zhao is the second of three women to win the Academy Award for Best Director.

Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), her debut feature film, premiered at Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. The Rider (2017) was critically acclaimed and received nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Best Director.

Zhao garnered international recognition with the American film Nomadland (2020), which she wrote, produced, edited and directed, and which won numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Earning four Academy Award nominations for the film, Zhao won Best Picture and Best Director, becoming the first woman of color to win the latter.[3][4][5] She also won awards for directing at the Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and British Academy Film Awards, becoming the second female winner of each of them.[6][7]

Zhao co-wrote and directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals (2021).[8] Her latest film, Hamnet, premiered at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival to critical acclaim.

Early life and education

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Chloé Zhao was born Zhao Ting (赵婷; Zhào Tíng) on 31 March 1982, in Beijing, China. Her father, Zhao Yuji (赵玉吉; Zhào Yùjí), was a successful executive at Shougang Group, one of the country's largest state-owned steel companies. After amassing significant personal wealth, he moved on to real-estate development and equity investment.[9]

Song Dandan, her stepmother, is a well-known Chinese actress who was in various sitcoms, mostly known for her appearance in “Home with the Kids”. According to her own description, Zhao was a curious child who was drawn to Western pop culture,  especially in the realm of film and music. Zhao was uninterested in school in Beijing, as she focused on art and her own pursuits instead.[10]

As a teenager, Zhao described herself as a "rebellious and lazy student" who was more interested in drawing manga-style comics and writing fan fiction than in academics. She was strongly influenced by Western pop culture and the films of Wong Kar-wai, particularly Happy Together. During this period of her life, her parents divorced. Her father remarried Song Dandan, a well-known Chinese actress.

Although she was still learning English at the time, her parents sent her to Brighton College in 1998 at the age of 15.[11][12] Zhao later moved to Los Angeles by herself in 2000, living in a Koreatown apartment and attending Los Angeles High School.[13] Afterwards, she attended Mount Holyoke College, where she majored in politics and minored in film studies, graduating in 2005.[14][15][16][17]

Post-graduation, while bartending and working odd jobs, Zhao realized she enjoyed meeting people and hearing about their lives, giving her the push to attend film school.[18] A Vulture article reported that "Four years was enough to turn her off of politics...she found herself drawn more to people than to policy".[19] In 2010, she followed up on her undergraduate film minor by joining the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Graduate Film Program.[20] at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[21] While attending Tisch, Zhao studied under director Spike Lee.[18] She told USA Today that she appreciated Lee not sugarcoating anything, saying that "he will just tell you as it is", something that she claims she needed.[18]

Career

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Chloé Zhao's first work is her 2009 short film The Atlas Mountains, the story about Helen Thomas who develops a brief yet passionate relationship with an immigrant worker who comes to fix her computer.[22] In 2010, while at New York University, she released a second short film titled Daughters, a film about Maple, a 14-year-old girl living in rural China who is forced into an arranged marriage and attempts to break free.[23] This short won First Place Student Live Action Short at the 2010 Palm Springs International Short Fest and Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Cinequest Film Festival.[24]

In 2015, Zhao premiered her debut feature, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, at the Sundance Film Festival as part of the U.S. Dramatic Competition.[25] Shot on location at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the film depicts the relationship between a Lakota Sioux brother Johnny and his younger sister. He plans to leave home and move to Los Angeles with his girlfriend when he graduates high school, but struggles with the thought of leaving his sister Jashaun at home with their troubled mother who is grieving the loss of their father.

Focusing on the real lives and struggles of the surrounding community, the film showcases the realness of people and problems they are faced with.[26] In a Filmmaker article, Zhao stated that her rebellious years in her childhood is what pushed her to leave China and study abroad, helping her connect to the plot of the film which focuses on a character struggling in this environment.[27] Half improvised, around 100 hours of footage was collected as Zhao worked with the real residents of the reservation to draw inspiration from their lives and personalities in order to help shape her story.[28] She was able to utilize the natural landscape around her in this film in order to create a place of revelation, where people can be closest to God.[29] Using wide and long shots, she created a documentary-like film that feels authentic, the desolate beauty of the Great Plains creating a story that depicts both freedom and hopelessness.[30]

The film was praised for its intimate storytelling and its portrayal of Lakota Sioux life.[31] After the Sundance premiere, it was later played at Cannes Film Festival as part of the Director's Fortnight selection[32] and was nominated for Best First Feature at the 31st Independent Spirit Awards.[33]

In 2017, Zhao directed The Rider, a contemporary western drama, which follows a young cowboy's journey to self-discovery after a near-fatal accident ends his professional riding career.[34] The Rider (2017), solidified her reputation as a filmmaker with a naturalistic perspective on modern day films. The film follows a young rodeo rider recovering from a life-altering injury, this film obtained critical acclaim for its screen play and cinematography. The film was executive produced by her father, Yuji Zhao.[35] As with her first feature, Zhao engaged a cast of non-actors who lived at the filming location, in this case on a ranch.[36] Her inspiration came from Brady Jandreau—a cowboy she had met and befriended on the reservation where she shot her first film—who suffered a severe head injury when thrown from his horse during a rodeo competition.[37] Jandreau would star in the film, playing a fictionalized version of himself as Brady Blackburn.[37] According to an Indiewire article, this film discovers a new side of the Western theme, revolutionary because a Chinese immigrant changed the nation's "oldest genre."[38] The article stated that the film became "the type of film it is because of a man and a woman, because the two of us wanted to work together and understand where we were coming from."[38]

The film premiered at Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight selection and won the Art Cinema Award.[39] It earned her nominations for Best Feature and Best Director at the 33rd Independent Spirit Awards. At the same ceremony, Zhao became the inaugural winner of the Bonnie Award, named after Bonnie Tiburzi, which recognizes a mid-career female director.[40][41] The film was released on 13 April 2018 by Sony Pictures Classics and was critically acclaimed.[42] Peter Keough of The Boston Globe wrote: "[The film] achieves what cinema is capable of at its best: It reproduces a world with such acuteness, fidelity, and empathy that it transcends the mundane and touches on the universal."[43]

In 2018, Zhao directed Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand.[44] The adaptation from Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century was shot over four months traveling the American West in an RV with many actual nomadic workers.[45] Bruder's book revolved around characters that can be found in the film, such as Linda May, a 64-year-old living in her van and scrounging for jobs in order to buy land for a permanent home.[46] Other characters, such as Bob Wells, a nomad vlogger of the CheapRVliving YouTube channel and website, and in charge of the annual nomad meet-up featured in the film, are real people that Bruder encountered when writing her book and Zhao included in her movie.[47] The film tells the story of a widow who lost everything in The Great Recession and decides to travel in her van across the American Midwest, beginning a journey of self-discovery. McDormand and Zhao bonded quickly and inspired each other, with McDormand becoming a huge element of the filmmaking process and its success.[48] They met a day before the 2018 Independent Spirit Awards, where McDormand was nominated for Best Actress and Zhao received a $50,000 grant for women directors. During the event, they hinted at their future project together.[48]

The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it received critical acclaim and won the Golden Lion award,[49] and subsequently played at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award.[50] The film was released on 19 February 2021, by Searchlight Pictures.[51] Zhao won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Nomadland, making her the first woman of Asian descent honored,[52] and only the second woman to win a Golden Globe for directing since Barbra Streisand in 1984.[6] In April 2021, Zhao won the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming the second woman to do so (Kathryn Bigelow being the first). The film has not received a theatrical release in China, with speculation that it was due to her past comments on the nation. News of her Best Director win at the Academy Awards was also censored.[53]

In September 2018, Marvel Studios hired her to direct Eternals, based on the comic book characters of the same name.[54] The film follows the events of the 2019 Marvel movie Avengers: Endgame, featuring a new team of superheroes that must reunite in order to fight an ancient enemy of the human race, the Deviants.[55] Zhao was heavily influenced by Ridley Scott's Prometheus (2012) and Nick Cassavetes' The Notebook (2004) in crafting the MCU film.[56] It was released on November 5, 2021. Zhao is both the director and one of the four writers of the film, the others being Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo, and Kaz Firpo.[57] Eternals received mixed reviews. The New Yorker stated that Zhao's style of directing dialogue scenes "reveals the absurdity of the script," saying "it might as well have been done via green screen, for the little tangibility and texture that it offers the characters and viewers alike."[58] The article also claimed that the film has reportedly been banned in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait due to the relationship between two male characters, Phastos and Ben.[59] In spite of negative reviews, it still made $161.7 million during its opening weekend and became No. 1 at the box office.[60] Critics noted Zhao's efforts to intergrade her own visual realism into a classic superhero genre format. [61]

In 2023, Zhao served as an executive producer on The Graduates directed by Hannah Peterson.[62]

In April 2023, Zhao was announced to be directing a film adaptation of Hamnet, with Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal in talks to star in the film and Amblin Partners to be producing.[63] The film premiered at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival to critical acclaim. It subsequently played at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the People's Choice Award, making Zhao a director to win the TIFF's People’s Choice Award twice.[64]

In February 2025, it was announced that Zhao would be directing the pilot episode for a revival of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Hulu.[65]

Filmmaking styles and techniques

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Human connection and realism

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Zhao's films consistently explore themes of loneliness, identity, displacement, connection, and the search for belonging. Her characters are often positioned as domesticated people in society and are portrayed through natural lighting and lived-in locations, often blurring the line between fictional storyline and documentary. Believing filmmakers tell their stories to not feel alone, she focuses on the themes of authenticity and places an emphasis on real stories.[10] [66]

Frances McDormand told Rolling Stone about Zhao is "basically like a journalist...she gets to know your story, and she creates a character from that" and that she "draws a razor-sharp line between sentiment and sentimentality".[67] A Filmmaker article quoted Zhao as saying, "I want to find new ways to place the camera to evoke more of a feeling. My goal is to put the camera inside of [the character]".[27] An example of her process can be found in Eternals when she saw the connection between actors Lauren Ridloff and Barry Keoghan, who play Makkari and Druig, respectively. She states, "It's the same as I did with Nomadland and The Rider. I would see how they interact and I would write that into the film".[68]

Zhao's style of character-driven realism was also influenced through the scriptwriting process of Andrea Arnold’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights for the way its characters are shown interacting with their environment. In a fantasy realm perspective, she mentions The Lord of the Rings, praising the series for their immersive landscapes. She mentions the films had an emphasis on scenic cinematography, as they inspired her for that immersive visual approach with vivid storytelling.[69] These influences also explains her tendency to center characters with their surroundings, which allows emotion and settings to coexist.[70]

Female gaze

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Zhao's style also leans on perspective of the female gaze. In a 2023 interview with Brut America, she mentions, "For me, there is a yin and yang in all of us, feminine and masculine strength and I think often in our society in our industry, the masculine strength is being celebrated, and that's a painful way to exist both for women and men." On directing these myriad of characters from the female perspective, she says, "I always try to find a way to give them a chance to be in touch with their feminine side...We must also allow our male characters to access their softer side, I think that's the true female gaze." [71]

Influences

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Zhao cites Wong Kar-wai's romance Happy Together as the "film that made me want to make films". She was also influenced by Spike Lee, who was her film professor while she studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[72][73] She cited Ang Lee as an influence as well, saying, "Ang Lee's career has been very inspiring to me — how he's able to bring where he comes from to all the films that he makes". She also has mentioned Werner Herzog and Terrence Malick as key influences.[74][75] As for her early introductions to American cinema, they were The Terminator, Ghost, and Sister Act.[72]

China controversy

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After Zhao became the second woman to win a Golden Globe Award for Best Director for Nomadland, many Chinese viewers, as well as Chinese state media, celebrated her win and "sought to claim Zhao's glory for China".[76] Shortly afterward, some netizens began to question Zhao's citizenship and debated "whether it is appropriate to claim Zhao's victory as China's", with Variety calling the claim "a common move by state-backed outlets to drum up nationalism".[76] Much of the controversy hinged on two sets of remarks: a 2013 Filmmaker magazine interview in which Zhao described China as "a place where there are lies everywhere",[77] and a late 2020 interview in which Zhao was misquoted as saying, "The US is not my country". She had actually said, "The US is now my country", and the error was corrected around two months later.[78][76][79] References to Zhao in Chinese media were censored following her Oscar win.[80][81]

Personal life

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As of 2021, Zhao resided in Ojai, California, with her partner and cinematographer Joshua James Richards.[9][82] Richards and Zhao met while she was researching for her first feature film Songs My Brother Taught Me and Richards was still a film student at New York University. He was her cinematographer for her next two films and served as camera operator on Eternals.[83] In an Elle article, Richards stated that Zhao was "gnarly and extreme", someone he wanted to find at film school.[19] In 2025, Zhao stated their relationship had ended.[84]

Zhao describes her neurodivergence as a "superpower".[85]

Filmography

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Feature films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Ref.
2015	Songs My Brothers Taught Me	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2017	The Rider	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2020	Nomadland	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	[9]
2021	Eternals	Yes	Yes	No	No
2023	The Graduates	No	No	Executive	No	[62]
2025	Hamnet	Yes	Yes	Executive	Yes	[86]

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Editor	Ref.
2008	Helen's First Date in Two Years	No	No	Yes	No
	Post	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2009	The Atlas Mountains	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	[22]
	Simple Pleasures	No	No	Yes	No
2010	Daughters	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	[23]
2011	Benachin	Yes	No	No	No

Television

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: New Sunnydale (2026) (executive producer; directed 1 episode)

Commercials

• A Clydesdale's Journey (2022) for Budweiser
• Diablo IV: Saviors Wanted (2023) for Blizzard Entertainment

Awards and nominations

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Daughters (2010) won First Place Student Live Action Short at the 2010 Palm Springs International Short Fest and Special Jury Prize at the 2010 Cinequest Film Festival. In 2021 Zhao's Nomadland (2020) won the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director. Nomadland (2020) also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, the BAFTA Award for Best Film, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, the Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing, the Critic's Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the Critic's Choice Movie Award for Best Director.

In December 2024, Chloé Zhao was included on the BBC's 100 Women list.[87]

Notes

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1. ^ simplified Chinese: 赵婷; traditional Chinese: 趙婷; pinyin: Zhào Tíng
2. ^ Zhao's nationality is unclear, but media including Disney and the Chinese Communist Party tabloid Global Times report that her nationality is Chinese.[1][2]

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v t e Films directed by Chloé Zhao
Awards and nominations
Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) The Rider (2017) Nomadland (2020) Eternals (2021) Hamnet (2025)

Awards for Chloé Zhao

v t e Academy Award for Best Picture 1951–1975 Arthur Freed (1951) Cecil B. DeMille (1952) Buddy Adler (1953) Sam Spiegel (1954) Harold Hecht (1955) Michael Todd (1956) Sam Spiegel (1957) Arthur Freed (1958) Sam Zimbalist (1959) Billy Wilder (1960) Robert Wise (1961) Sam Spiegel (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) Jack L. Warner (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Walter Mirisch (1967) John Woolf (1968) Jerome Hellman (1969) Frank McCarthy (1970) Philip D'Antoni (1971) Albert S. Ruddy (1972) Tony Bill, Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips (1973) Francis Ford Coppola, Gray Frederickson and Fred Roos (1974) Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz (1975) 1976–present Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976) Charles H. Joffe (1977) Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall and Barry Spikings (1978) Stanley R. Jaffe (1979) Ronald L. Schwary (1980) David Puttnam (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Saul Zaentz (1984) Sydney Pollack (1985) Arnold Kopelson (1986) Jeremy Thomas (1987) Mark Johnson (1988) Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck (1989) Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990) Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon and Kenneth Utt (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen and Steven Spielberg (1993) Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey and Steve Tisch (1994) Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995) Saul Zaentz (1996) James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997) Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein and Edward Zwick (1998) Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999) David Franzoni, Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick (2000) Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (2001) Martin Richards (2002) Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Fran Walsh (2003) Clint Eastwood, Tom Rosenberg and Albert S. Ruddy (2004) Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman (2005) Graham King (2006) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Scott Rudin (2007) Christian Colson (2008) Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro (2009) Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin (2010) Thomas Langmann (2011) Ben Affleck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov (2012) Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Brad Pitt (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole (2014) Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar (2015) Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Adele Romanski (2016) J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017) Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga and Charles B. Wessler (2018) Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019) Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears and Chloé Zhao (2020) Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Patrick Wachsberger (2021) Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang (2022) Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan (2023) Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, and Sean Baker (2024) v t e Academy Award for Best Director 1927–1975 Frank Borzage (1927/28; Dramatic Picture) Lewis Milestone (1927/28; Comedy Picture) Frank Lloyd (1928/29) Lewis Milestone (1929/30) Norman Taurog (1930/31) Frank Borzage (1931/32) Frank Lloyd (1932/33) Frank Capra (1934) John Ford (1935) Frank Capra (1936) Leo McCarey (1937) Frank Capra (1938) Victor Fleming (1939) John Ford (1940) John Ford (1941) William Wyler (1942) Michael Curtiz (1943) Leo McCarey (1944) Billy Wilder (1945) William Wyler (1946) Elia Kazan (1947) John Huston (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) George Stevens (1951) John Ford (1952) Fred Zinnemann (1953) Elia Kazan (1954) Delbert Mann (1955) George Stevens (1956) David Lean (1957) Vincente Minnelli (1958) William Wyler (1959) Billy Wilder (1960) Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (1961) David Lean (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) George Cukor (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Mike Nichols (1967) Carol Reed (1968) John Schlesinger (1969) Franklin J. Schaffner (1970) William Friedkin (1971) Bob Fosse (1972) George Roy Hill (1973) Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Miloš Forman (1975) 1976–present John G. Avildsen (1976) Woody Allen (1977) Michael Cimino (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Robert Redford (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Miloš Forman (1984) Sydney Pollack (1985) Oliver Stone (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) Barry Levinson (1988) Oliver Stone (1989) Kevin Costner (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Robert Zemeckis (1994) Mel Gibson (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) Ron Howard (2001) Roman Polanski (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) Tom Hooper (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ang Lee (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014) Alejandro González Iñárritu (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Guillermo del Toro (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Bong Joon Ho (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020/21) Jane Campion (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Sean Baker (2024) v t e AACTA International Award for Best Direction Michel Hazanavicius (2011) David O. Russell (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2014) George Miller (2015) Mel Gibson (2016) Christopher Nolan (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Quentin Tarantino (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Denis Villeneuve (2021) Baz Luhrmann (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Michael Gracey (2024) v t e Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005) Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, and Hawk Ostby (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan (2008) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Hossein Amini (2011) Chris Terrio (2012) John Ridley (2013) Gillian Flynn (2014) Emma Donoghue (2015) Eric Heisserer (2016) James Ivory (2017) Barry Jenkins (2018) Greta Gerwig (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021) Rian Johnson (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley (2024) Paul Thomas Anderson (2025) v t e Austin Film Critics Association Award for Best Film Editing Tom Cross (2018) Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Joe Walker (2021) Paul Rogers (2022) Jennifer Lame (2023) Coralie Fargeat, Jérôme Eltabet, and Valentin Féron (2024) Andy Jurgensen (2025) v t e BAFTA Award for Best Film 1940s The Best Years of Our Lives (1947) Hamlet (1948) Bicycle Thieves (1949) 1950s All About Eve (1950) La Ronde (1951) The Sound Barrier (1952) Forbidden Games (1953) The Wages of Fear (1954) Richard III (1955) Gervaise (1956) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Room at the Top (1958) Ben-Hur (1959) 1960s The Apartment – Billy Wilder (1960) Ballad of a Soldier – Grigori Chukhrai / The Hustler – Robert Rossen (1961) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Tom Jones (1963) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) My Fair Lady (1965) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols (1966) A Man for All Seasons – Fred Zinnemann (1967) The Graduate – Mike Nichols (1968) Midnight Cowboy – John Schlesinger (1969) 1970s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1970) Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) Cabaret (1972) Day for Night (1973) Lacombe, Lucien (1974) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1976) Annie Hall – Charles H. Joffe and Jack Rollins (1977) Julia – Richard Roth (1978) Manhattan (1979) 1980s The Elephant Man – David Lynch (1980) Chariots of Fire – David Puttnam (1981) Gandhi – Richard Attenborough (1982) Educating Rita – Lewis Gilbert (1983) The Killing Fields – David Puttnam (1984) The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen and Robert Greenhut (1985) A Room with a View – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1986) Jean de Florette – Claude Berri (1987) The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci and Jeremy Thomas (1988) Dead Poets Society – Peter Weir, Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, and Tony Thomas (1989) 1990s Goodfellas – Martin Scorsese, Robert Chartoff, and Irwin Winkler (1990) The Commitments – Alan Parker, Lynda Myles, and Roger Randall-Cutler (1991) Howards End – James Ivory and Ismail Merchant (1992) Schindler's List – Steven Spielberg, Branko Lustig, and Gerald R. Molen (1993) Four Weddings and a Funeral – Mike Newell and Duncan Kenworthy (1994) Sense and Sensibility – Ang Lee and Lindsay Doran (1995) The English Patient – Anthony Minghella and Saul Zaentz (1996) The Full Monty – Peter Cattaneo and Uberto Pasolini (1997) Shakespeare in Love – Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein, and Edward Zwick (1998) American Beauty – Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999) 2000s Gladiator – David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, and Douglas Wick (2000) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Tim Sanders, and Fran Walsh (2001) The Pianist – Robert Benmussa, Roman Polanski, and Alain Sarde (2002) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, and Fran Walsh (2003) The Aviator – Sandy Climan, Charles Evans Jr., Graham King, and Michael Mann (2004) Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana and James Schamus (2005) The Queen – Andy Harries, Christine Langan, and Tracey Seaward (2006) Atonement – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster (2007) Slumdog Millionaire – Christian Colson (2008) The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro (2009) 2010s The King's Speech – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin (2010) The Artist – Thomas Langmann (2011) Argo – Ben Affleck, George Clooney, and Grant Heslov (2012) 12 Years a Slave – Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Brad Pitt (2013) Boyhood – Richard Linklater and Cathleen Sutherland (2014) The Revenant – Steve Golin, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Arnon Milchan, Mary Parent, and Keith Redmon (2015) La La Land – Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt (2016) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh (2017) Roma – Nicolás Celis, Alfonso Cuarón, and Gabriela Rodríguez (2018) 1917 – Pippa Harris, Callum McDougall, Sam Mendes, and Jayne-Ann Tenggren (2019) 2020s Nomadland – Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, and Chloé Zhao (2020) The Power of the Dog – Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, and Emile Sherman (2021) All Quiet on the Western Front – Malte Grunert (2022) Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, and Emma Thomas (2023) Conclave – Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, and Michael A. Jackman (2024) v t e BAFTA Award for Best Direction 1968–2000 Mike Nichols (1968) John Schlesinger (1969) George Roy Hill (1970) John Schlesinger (1971) Bob Fosse (1972) François Truffaut (1973) Roman Polanski (1974) Stanley Kubrick (1975) Miloš Forman (1976) Woody Allen (1977) Alan Parker (1978) Francis Ford Coppola (1979) Akira Kurosawa (1980) Louis Malle (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) Bill Forsyth (1983) Wim Wenders (1984) No Award (1985) Woody Allen (1986) Oliver Stone (1987) Louis Malle (1988) Kenneth Branagh (1989) Martin Scorsese (1990) Alan Parker (1991) Robert Altman (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Mike Newell (1994) Michael Radford (1995) Joel Coen (1996) Baz Luhrmann (1997) Peter Weir (1998) Pedro Almodóvar (1999) Ang Lee (2000) 2001–present Peter Jackson (2001) Roman Polanski (2002) Peter Weir (2003) Mike Leigh (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Paul Greengrass (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ben Affleck (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Guillermo del Toro (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Sam Mendes (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Edward Berger (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Brady Corbet (2024) v t e Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director Roman Polanski (1980) Steven Spielberg (1981) Steven Spielberg (1982) Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani (1983) Bertrand Tavernier (1984) John Huston (1985) David Lynch / Oliver Stone (1986) Stanley Kubrick (1987) Stephen Frears (1988) Woody Allen (1989) Martin Scorsese (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) Robert Altman (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Ang Lee (1995) Mike Leigh (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) John Boorman (1998) David O. Russell (1999) Cameron Crowe (2000) David Lynch (2001) Roman Polanski (2002) Sofia Coppola (2003) Zhang Yimou (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Julian Schnabel (2007) Gus Van Sant (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Martin Scorsese (2011) Kathryn Bigelow (2012) Steve McQueen (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Todd Haynes (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Paul Thomas Anderson (2017) Lynne Ramsay (2018) Bong Joon-ho (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2021) Todd Field (2022) Jonathan Glazer (2023) Sean Baker (2024) Ryan Coogler (2025) v t e Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Robert Zemeckis (1988) Spike Lee (1989) Martin Scorsese (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) Robert Altman (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Oliver Stone (1995) Joel Coen (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) Terrence Malick (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) David Lynch (2001) Todd Haynes (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) David Cronenberg (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Terrence Malick (2011) Kathryn Bigelow (2012) Steve McQueen (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) George Miller (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Christopher Nolan (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Bong Joon-ho (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) RaMell Ross (2024) Paul Thomas Anderson (2025) v t e Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay William Monahan (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (2011) Tony Kushner (2012) John Ridley (2013) Gillian Flynn (2014) Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015) Seo-Kyung Chung and Park Chan-wook (2016) James Ivory (2017) Barry Jenkins (2018) Greta Gerwig (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Sarah Polley (2022) Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese (2023) RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes (2024) Paul Thomas Anderson (2025) v t e Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director Mel Gibson (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) Ron Howard / Baz Luhrmann (2001) Steven Spielberg (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Martin Scorsese (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ben Affleck (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) George Miller (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Guillermo del Toro (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Bong Joon-ho / Sam Mendes (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Jon M. Chu (2024) v t e Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay Best Screenplay (1995–1996, 2001) Emma Thompson (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) Christopher Nolan (2001) Best Writer (2002–2008) Charlie Kaufman (2002) Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, and Kirsten Sheridan (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005) Michael Arndt (2006) Diablo Cody (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Best Original Screenplay (1997–2000, 2009–present) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (1997) Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman (1998) Alan Ball (1999) Cameron Crowe (2000) Quentin Tarantino (2009) David Seidler (2010) Woody Allen (2011) Quentin Tarantino (2012) Spike Jonze (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó (2014) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015) Damien Chazelle / Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Jordan Peele (2017) Paul Schrader (2018) Quentin Tarantino (2019) Emerald Fennell (2020) Kenneth Branagh (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach (2023) Coralie Fargeat (2024) Best Adapted Screenplay (1997–2000, 2009–present) Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Scott Smith (1998) Frank Darabont (1999) Stephen Gaghan / Steve Kloves (2000) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin (2011) Tony Kushner (2012) John Ridley (2013) Gillian Flynn (2014) Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015) Eric Heisserer (2016) James Ivory (2017) Barry Jenkins (2018) Greta Gerwig (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Sarah Polley (2022) Cord Jefferson (2023) Peter Straughan (2024) v t e Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Kevin Costner (1990) Oliver Stone (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Mike Figgis (1995) Joel Coen (1996) James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) Ron Howard (2001) Peter Jackson (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Martin Scorsese (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Jason Reitman (2009) David Fincher (2010) Alexander Payne (2011) Kathryn Bigelow (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2014) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Guillermo del Toro (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Sam Mendes (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Sean Baker (2024) Paul Thomas Anderson (2025) v t e Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Director Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Pete Docter (2009) Danny Boyle (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) David O. Russell (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) George Miller (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Sean Baker (2017) Adam McKay (2018) Martin Scorsese (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Lin-Manuel Miranda (2021) v t e Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay Screenplay (2011–2019) Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian (2011) David O. Russell (2012) Spike Jonze (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Martin McDonagh (2017) Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie and Peter Farrelly / Adam McKay (2018) Noah Baumbach (2019) Original Screenplay (2020–present) Lee Isaac Chung (2020) Adam McKay (2021) Adapted Screenplay (2020–present) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) v t e Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film 1948–1975 Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1948) Robert Rossen (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) George Stevens (1951) John Ford (1952) Fred Zinnemann (1953) Elia Kazan (1954) Delbert Mann (1955) George Stevens (1956) David Lean (1957) Vincente Minnelli (1958) William Wyler (1959) Billy Wilder (1960) Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise (1961) David Lean (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) George Cukor (1964) Robert Wise (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Mike Nichols (1967) Anthony Harvey (1968) John Schlesinger (1969) Franklin J. Schaffner (1970) William Friedkin (1971) Francis Ford Coppola (1972) George Roy Hill (1973) Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Miloš Forman (1975) 1976–2000 John G. Avildsen (1976) Woody Allen (1977) Michael Cimino (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Robert Redford (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Miloš Forman (1984) Steven Spielberg (1985) Oliver Stone (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) Barry Levinson (1988) Oliver Stone (1989) Kevin Costner (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Robert Zemeckis (1994) Ron Howard (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Ang Lee (2000) 2001–present Ron Howard (2001) Rob Marshall (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) Tom Hooper (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ben Affleck (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2014) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Guillermo del Toro (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Sam Mendes (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Sean Baker (2024) v t e Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director Joel Coen (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) Peter Weir (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) Peter Jackson (2001) Martin Scorsese (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Alexander Payne (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Jason Reitman (2009) David Fincher (2010) Martin Scorsese (2011) Ben Affleck (2012) Steve McQueen (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) George Miller (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Christopher Nolan (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Céline Sciamma (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Park Chan-wook (2022) Todd Haynes (2023) Bertrand Bonello (2024) v t e Golden Globe Award for Best Director Henry King (1943) Leo McCarey (1944) Billy Wilder (1945) Frank Capra (1946) Elia Kazan (1947) John Huston (1948) Robert Rossen (1949) Billy Wilder (1950) László Benedek (1951) Cecil B. DeMille (1952) Fred Zinnemann (1953) Elia Kazan (1954) Joshua Logan (1955) Elia Kazan (1956) David Lean (1957) Vincente Minnelli (1958) William Wyler (1959) Jack Cardiff (1960) Stanley Kramer (1961) David Lean (1962) Elia Kazan (1963) George Cukor (1964) David Lean (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Mike Nichols (1967) Paul Newman (1968) Charles Jarrott (1969) Arthur Hiller (1970) William Friedkin (1971) Francis Ford Coppola (1972) William Friedkin (1973) Roman Polanski (1974) Miloš Forman (1975) Sidney Lumet (1976) Herbert Ross (1977) Michael Cimino (1978) Francis Ford Coppola (1979) Robert Redford (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Richard Attenborough (1982) Barbra Streisand (1983) Miloš Forman (1984) John Huston (1985) Oliver Stone (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci (1987) Clint Eastwood (1988) Oliver Stone (1989) Kevin Costner (1990) Oliver Stone (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Robert Zemeckis (1994) Mel Gibson (1995) Miloš Forman (1996) James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Ang Lee (2000) Robert Altman (2001) Martin Scorsese (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Julian Schnabel (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) James Cameron (2009) David Fincher (2010) Martin Scorsese (2011) Ben Affleck (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Guillermo del Toro (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Sam Mendes (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Steven Spielberg (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Brady Corbet (2024) v t e Independent Spirit Award for Best Director 1980s Joel Coen / Martin Scorsese (1985) Oliver Stone (1986) John Huston (1987) Ramon Menendez (1988) Steven Soderbergh (1989) 1990s Charles Burnett (1990) Martha Coolidge (1991) Carl Franklin (1992) Robert Altman (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Mike Figgis (1995) Joel Coen (1996) Robert Duvall (1997) Wes Anderson (1998) Alexander Payne (1999) 2000s Ang Lee (2000) Christopher Nolan (2001) Todd Haynes (2002) Sofia Coppola (2003) Alexander Payne (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (2006) Julian Schnabel (2007) Tom McCarthy (2008) Lee Daniels (2009) 2010s Darren Aronofsky (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) David O. Russell (2012) Steve McQueen (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Tom McCarthy (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Jordan Peele (2017) Barry Jenkins (2018) Safdie brothers (2019) 2020s Chloé Zhao (2020) Maggie Gyllenhaal (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Celine Song (2023) Sean Baker (2024) v t e Independent Spirit Award for Best Editing 2010s Nat Sanders (2013) Tom Cross (2014) Tom McArdle (2015) Joi McMillon and Nat Sanders (2016) Tatiana S. Riegel (2017) Joe Bini (2018) Ronald Bronstein and Benny Safdie (2019) 2020s Chloé Zhao (2020) Joi McMillon (2021) Paul Rogers (2022) Daniel Garber (2023) Hansjörg Weißbrich (2024) v t e London Film Critics' Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year Steve Tesich (1980) Colin Welland (1981) Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1983) Philip Kaufman (1984) Alan Bennett (1985) Woody Allen (1986) Alan Bennett (1987) David Mamet (1988) Christopher Hampton (1989) Woody Allen (1990) David Mamet (1991) Michael Tolkin (1992) Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Paul Attanasio (1995) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (1996) Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Andrew Niccol (1998) Alan Ball (1999) Charlie Kaufman (2000) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2001) Andrew Bovell (2002) John Collee and Peter Weir (2003) Charlie Kaufman (2004) Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005) Peter Morgan (2006) Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Asghar Farhadi (2011) Michael Haneke (2012) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2013) Wes Anderson (2014) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015) Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Martin McDonagh (2017) Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (2018) Noah Baumbach (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (2021) Martin McDonagh (2022) Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (2023) Jesse Eisenberg (2024) v t e Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director 1975–2000 Sidney Lumet (1975) Sidney Lumet (1976) Herbert Ross (1977) Michael Cimino (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Roman Polanski (1980) Warren Beatty (1981) Steven Spielberg (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Miloš Forman (1984) Terry Gilliam (1985) David Lynch (1986) John Boorman (1987) David Cronenberg (1988) Spike Lee (1989) Martin Scorsese (1990) Barry Levinson (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Jane Campion (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Mike Figgis (1995) Mike Leigh (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) 2001–present David Lynch (2001) Pedro Almodóvar (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Alexander Payne (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Paul Greengrass (2006) Paul Thomas Anderson (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) Olivier Assayas / David Fincher (2010) Terrence Malick (2011) Paul Thomas Anderson (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) George Miller (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Guillermo del Toro / Luca Guadagnino (2017) Debra Granik (2018) Bong Joon-ho (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Todd Field (2022) Jonathan Glazer (2023) Mohammad Rasoulof (2024) Paul Thomas Anderson (2025) v t e National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director 1966–2000 Michelangelo Antonioni (1966) Ingmar Bergman (1967) Ingmar Bergman (1968) François Truffaut (1969) Ingmar Bergman (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci (1971) Luis Buñuel (1972) François Truffaut (1973) Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Robert Altman (1975) Martin Scorsese (1976) Luis Buñuel (1977) Terrence Malick (1978) Woody Allen / Robert Benton (1979) Martin Scorsese (1980) Louis Malle (1981) Steven Spielberg (1982) Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani (1983) Robert Bresson (1984) John Huston (1985) David Lynch (1986) John Boorman (1987) Philip Kaufman (1988) Gus Van Sant (1989) Martin Scorsese (1990) David Cronenberg (1991) Clint Eastwood (1992) Steven Spielberg (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Mike Figgis (1995) Lars von Trier (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) Steven Soderbergh (1998) Mike Leigh (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) 2001–present Robert Altman (2001) Roman Polanski (2002) Clint Eastwood (2003) Zhang Yimou (2004) David Cronenberg (2005) Paul Greengrass (2006) Paul Thomas Anderson (2007) Mike Leigh (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Terrence Malick (2011) Michael Haneke (2012) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Todd Haynes (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Greta Gerwig (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Greta Gerwig (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2021) Charlotte Wells (2022) Jonathan Glazer (2023) Payal Kapadia (2024) v t e New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director 1935–1975 John Ford (1935) Rouben Mamoulian (1936) Gregory La Cava (1937) Alfred Hitchcock (1938) John Ford (1939) John Ford (1940) John Ford (1941) John Farrow (1942) George Stevens (1943) Leo McCarey (1944) Billy Wilder (1945) William Wyler (1946) Elia Kazan (1947) John Huston (1948) Carol Reed (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) Elia Kazan (1951) Fred Zinnemann (1952) Fred Zinnemann (1953) Elia Kazan (1954) David Lean (1955) John Huston (1956) David Lean (1957) Stanley Kramer (1958) Fred Zinnemann (1959) Jack Cardiff / Billy Wilder (1960) Robert Rossen (1961) No Award (1962) Tony Richardson (1963) Stanley Kubrick (1964) John Schlesinger (1965) Fred Zinnemann (1966) Mike Nichols (1967) Paul Newman (1968) Costa-Gavras (1969) Bob Rafelson (1970) Stanley Kubrick (1971) Ingmar Bergman (1972) François Truffaut (1973) Federico Fellini (1974) Robert Altman (1975) 1976–present Alan J. Pakula (1976) Woody Allen (1977) Terrence Malick (1978) Woody Allen (1979) Jonathan Demme (1980) Sidney Lumet (1981) Sydney Pollack (1982) Ingmar Bergman (1983) David Lean (1984) John Huston (1985) Woody Allen (1986) James L. Brooks (1987) Chris Menges (1988) Paul Mazursky (1989) Martin Scorsese (1990) Jonathan Demme (1991) Robert Altman (1992) Jane Campion (1993) Quentin Tarantino (1994) Ang Lee (1995) Lars von Trier (1996) Curtis Hanson (1997) Terrence Malick (1998) Mike Leigh (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) Robert Altman (2001) Todd Haynes (2002) Sofia Coppola (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Mike Leigh (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Kathryn Bigelow (2012) Steve McQueen (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Todd Haynes (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Sean Baker (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Joshua Safdie and Benjamin Safdie (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) S. S. Rajamouli (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) RaMell Ross (2024) Jafar Panahi (2025) v t e Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Director James Cameron (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Sam Mendes (1999) Darren Aronofsky (2000) David Lynch (2001) Peter Jackson (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Michel Gondry (2004) David Cronenberg (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Christopher Nolan (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Terrence Malick (2011) Paul Thomas Anderson (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) George Miller (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Christopher Nolan (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Bong Joon-ho (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Coralie Fargeat (2024) v t e Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Scott Frank (1998) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (1999) Christopher Nolan (2001) Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman (2002) Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005) Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) John Ajvide Lindqvist (2008) Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan (2011) Chris Terrio (2012) John Ridley (2013) Gillian Flynn (2014) Phyllis Nagy (2015) Eric Heisserer (2016) James Ivory (2017) Barry Jenkins (2018) Steven Zaillian (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Rian Johnson (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Peter Straughan (2024) v t e Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Editing Michael Kahn (1998) Mathilde Bonnefoy (1999) Jay Rabinowitz (2000) No Award (2001) Michael J. Horton and Jabez Olssen (2002) No Award (2003) Valdís Óskarsdóttir (2004) Robert Rodriguez (2005) Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, and Christopher Rouse (2006) Roderick Jaynes (2007) Chris Dickens (2008) Chris Innis and Bob Murawski (2009) Lee Smith (2010) Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber, and Mark Yoshikawa (2011) Alexander Berner (2012) Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger (2013) Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione (2014) Margaret Sixel (2015) Tom Cross (2016) Lee Smith (2017) Eddie Hamilton (2018) Yang Jin-mo (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Peter Sciberras (2021) Paul Rogers (2022) Jennifer Lame (2023) Marco Costa (2024) v t e San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Director Joel Coen (1996) James Cameron (1997) John Madden (1998) David Lynch (1999) Cameron Crowe (2000) Terry Zwigoff (2001) Jill Sprecher (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Bennett Miller (2005) Clint Eastwood (2006) Paul Thomas Anderson (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Quentin Tarantino (2009) Darren Aronofsky (2010) Nicolas Winding Refn (2011) Ben Affleck (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Dan Gilroy (2014) George Miller (2015) David Mackenzie (2016) Greta Gerwig (2017) Debra Granik (2018) Benny and Josh Safdie (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Martin Scorsese (2023) Denis Villeneuve (2024) Ryan Coogler (2025) v t e San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director Todd Haynes (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Alexander Payne (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Paul Greengrass (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Gus Van Sant (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) Darren Aronofsky / David Fincher (2010) Terrence Malick (2011) Kathryn Bigelow (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) George Miller (2015) Barry Jenkins (2016) Guillermo del Toro (2017) Spike Lee (2018) Bong Joon-ho (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Todd Field (2022) Jonathan Glazer (2023) Brady Corbet (2024) Paul Thomas Anderson (2025) v t e Satellite Award for Best Director 1990s Joel Coen (1996) James Cameron (1997) Terrence Malick (1998) Michael Mann (1999) 2000s Steven Soderbergh (2000) Baz Luhrmann (2001) Todd Haynes (2002) Jim Sheridan (2003) Mel Gibson (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Bill Condon / Clint Eastwood (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) 2010s David Fincher (2010) Nicolas Winding Refn (2011) David O. Russell (2012) Steve McQueen (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Tom McCarthy (2015) Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Jordan Peele (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) James Mangold (2019) 2020s Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) James Cameron (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Brady Corbet (2024) v t e Seattle Film Critics Society Award for Best Director Barry Jenkins (2016) Christopher Nolan (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Bong Joon-ho (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Ryusuke Hamaguchi (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Martin Scorsese (2023) Sean Baker (2024) Paul Thomas Anderson (2025) v t e St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Alexander Payne / Martin Scorsese (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Michel Hazanavicius (2011) Ben Affleck (2012) Steve McQueen (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu (2014) Tom McCarthy (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Guillermo del Toro (2017) Spike Lee (2018) Quentin Tarantino (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Sarah Polley (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Denis Villeneuve (2024) Paul Thomas Anderson (2025) v t e Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Atom Egoyan (1997) Steven Spielberg (1998) Paul Thomas Anderson (1999) Steven Soderbergh (2000) David Lynch (2001) Paul Thomas Anderson (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Michel Gondry (2004) David Cronenberg (2005) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne / Stephen Frears (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Jonathan Demme (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Terrence Malick (2011) Paul Thomas Anderson (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) Todd Haynes (2015) Maren Ade (2016) Greta Gerwig (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Bong Joon-ho (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Charlotte Wells (2022) Jonathan Glazer (2023) RaMell Ross (2024) Paul Thomas Anderson (2025) v t e USC Scripter Awards – Film 1980s Hugh Whitemore and Helene Hanff (1988) Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan, and Anne Tyler (1989) 1990s Steven Zaillian and Oliver Sacks (1990) Carol Sobieski and Fannie Flagg (1991) Richard Friedenberg and Norman Maclean (1992) Steven Zaillian and Thomas Keneally (1993) Frank Darabont and Stephen King (1994) Emma Thompson and Jane Austen (1995) Anthony Minghella and Michael Ondaatje (1996) Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland, and James Ellroy (1997) Steven Zaillian and Jonathan Harr (1998) Armyan Bernstein, Dan Gordon, Rubin Carter, Sam Chaiton, and Terry Swinton (1999) 2000s Steve Kloves and Michael Chabon (2000) Akiva Goldsman and Sylvia Nasar (2001) David Hare and Michael Cunningham (2002) Brian Helgeland and Dennis Lehane / Gary Ross and Laura Hillenbrand (2003) Paul Haggis and F.X. Toole (2004) Dan Futterman and Gerald Clarke (2005) David Arata, Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Timothy J. Sexton, and P. D. James (2006) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, and Cormac McCarthy (2007) Simon Beaufoy and Vikas Swarup (2008) Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, and Walter Kirn (2009) 2010s Aaron Sorkin and Ben Mezrich (2010) Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, Nat Faxon, and Kaui Hart Hemmings (2011) Chris Terrio, Antonio J. Mendez, and Joshuah Bearman (2012) John Ridley and Solomon Northup (2013) Graham Moore and Andrew Hodges (2014) Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, and Michael Lewis (2015) Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (2016) James Ivory and André Aciman (2017) Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini, and Peter Rock (2018) Greta Gerwig and Louisa May Alcott (2019) 2020s Chloé Zhao and Jessica Bruder (2020) Maggie Gyllenhaal and Elena Ferrante (2021) Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews (2022) Cord Jefferson and Percival Everett (2023) Peter Straughan and Robert Harris (2024) v t e Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director Steven Soderbergh (2000) Baz Luhrmann (2001) Stephen Daldry (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Clint Eastwood (2004) Ang Lee (2005) Alfonso Cuarón (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) David Fincher (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Terrence Malick (2011) Kathryn Bigelow (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014) George Miller (2015) Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Paul Thomas Anderson (2017) Paul Schrader (2018) Bong Joon Ho (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Denis Villeneuve (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Sceinert (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Denis Villeneuve (2024) v t e Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Director Spike Jonze / Sam Mendes / Denzel Washington (2002) Peter Jackson (2003) Michel Gondry (2004) Steven Spielberg (2005) Martin Scorsese (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Danny Boyle (2008) Kathryn Bigelow (2009) David Fincher (2010) Martin Scorsese (2011) Kathryn Bigelow (2012) Alfonso Cuarón (2013) Richard Linklater (2014) George Miller (2015) Damien Chazelle (2016) Christopher Nolan (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Bong Joon-ho (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Christopher Nolan (2023) Brady Corbet (2024) Ryan Coogler (2025) v t e Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Charlie Kaufman (2002) Brian Helgeland (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Dan Futterman (2005) Jason Reitman (2006) Aaron Sorkin (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (2011) David O. Russell (2012) John Ridley (2013) Gillian Flynn (2014) Emma Donoghue (2015) Eric Heisserer (2016) Virgil Williams and Dee Rees (2017) Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018) Greta Gerwig (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Rian Johnson (2022) Cord Jefferson (2023) Peter Straughan (2024) Paul Thomas Anderson (2025)

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