Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
The 2019 recipient: Sam Mendes
Description	Best Achievement in Directing
Country	United States
Presented by	Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association
First awarded	Kevin Costner Dances with Wolves (1990)
Currently held by	Sam Mendes 1917 (2019)
Website	dfwcritics.com

The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director is an award presented by the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association. It is given in honor of a film director who has delivered an outstanding directing while working in the film industry.

Winners

• † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director

1990s

Year	Winner	Film
1990	Kevin Costner †	Dances with Wolves
1991	Oliver Stone	JFK
1992	Clint Eastwood †	Unforgiven
1993	Steven Spielberg †	Schindler's List
1994	Quentin Tarantino	Pulp Fiction
1995	Mike Figgis	Leaving Las Vegas
1996	Joel Coen	Fargo
1997	James Cameron †	Titanic
1998	Steven Spielberg †	Saving Private Ryan
1999	Sam Mendes †	American Beauty

2000s

Year	Winner	Film
2000	Steven Soderbergh †	Traffic
2001	Ron Howard †	A Beautiful Mind
2002	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003	Peter Jackson †	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004	Martin Scorsese	The Aviator
2005	Ang Lee †	Brokeback Mountain
2006	Martin Scorsese †	The Departed
2007	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen †	No Country for Old Men
2008	Danny Boyle †	Slumdog Millionaire
2009	Jason Reitman	Up in the Air

2010s

Year	Winner	Film
2010	David Fincher	The Social Network
2011	Alexander Payne	The Descendants
2012	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
2013	Alfonso Cuarón †	Gravity
2014	Alejandro G. Iñárritu †	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2015	Alejandro G. Iñárritu †	The Revenant
2016	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
2017	Guillermo del Toro †	The Shape of Water
2018	Alfonso Cuarón †	Roma
2019	Sam Mendes	1917