Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

The Critics' Choice Award for Best Director is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

List of winners and nominees

• 1995: Mel Gibson - Braveheart
• 1996: Anthony Minghella - The English Patient
• 1997: James Cameron - Titanic
• 1998: Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan
• 1999: Sam Mendes - American Beauty

2000s

• 2000: Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich and Traffic

• 2001: Ron Howard - A Beautiful Mind
  • Baz Luhrmann - Moulin Rouge!
  • Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

• 2002: Steven Spielberg - Catch Me If You Can
  • Roman Polanski - The Pianist
  • Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York

• 2003: Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Tim Burton - Big Fish
  • Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
  • Clint Eastwood - Mystic River
  • Jim Sheridan - In America

• 2004: Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
  • Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
  • Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
  • Taylor Hackford - Ray
  • Alexander Payne - Sideways

• 2005: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
  • George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
  • Paul Haggis - Crash
  • Ron Howard - Cinderella Man
  • Steven Spielberg - Munich

• 2006: Martin Scorsese - The Departed
  • Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
  • Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
  • Stephen Frears - The Queen
  • Paul Greengrass - United 93

• 2007: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
  • Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd
  • Sean Penn - Into the Wild
  • Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  • Joe Wright - Atonement

• 2008: Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
  • David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
  • Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
  • Gus Van Sant - Milk

• 2009: Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
  • James Cameron - Avatar
  • Lee Daniels - Precious
  • Clint Eastwood - Invictus
  • Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
  • Quentin Tarantino - Inglorious Basterds

2010s

• 2010: David Fincher - The Social Network
  • Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
  • Danny Boyle - 127 Hours
  • Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - True Grit
  • Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
  • Christopher Nolan - Inception

• 2011: Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
  • Stephen Daldry - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • Alexander Payne - The Descendants
  • Martin Scorsese - Hugo
  • Steven Spielberg - War Horse
  • Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive