New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

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The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking.

In the last three (1970s, 1980s and 1990s) decades the New York Film Critics have rarely made the same choice as the Academy (Oscars). Over the period 1970-1999 only in 1977: Woody Allen for Annie Hall and in 1991: Jonathan Demme for The Silence of the Lambs the NYFCC made the same chose for Best Director as the Academy. It's notable that in this decade (2000-2006), the critics group have already agreed with the Oscars on four occasions: 2000 Steven Soderbergh for Traffic, 2004 Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby, 2005 Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain and 2006 Martin Scorsese for The Departed.

Winners

1930s

• 1935: John Ford

for directing The Informer

• 1936: Rouben Mamoulian

for directing The Gay Desperado

• 1937: Gregory La Cava

for directing Stage Door

• 1938: Alfred Hitchcock

for directing The Lady Vanishes

• 1939: John Ford

for directing Stagecoach

1940s

• 1940: John Ford

for directing The Grapes of Wrath and

for directing The Long Voyage Home

• 1941: John Ford

for directing How Green Was My Valley

• 1942: John Farrow

for directing Wake Island

• 1943: George Stevens

for directing The More the Merrier

• 1944: Leo McCarey

for directing Going My Way

• 1945: Billy Wilder

for directing The Lost Weekend

• 1946: William Wyler

for directing The Best Years of Our Lives

• 1947: Elia Kazan

for directing Boomerang and

for directing Gentleman's Agreement

• 1948: John Huston

for directing The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

• 1949: Carol Reed

for directing The Fallen Idol

1950s

1960s

1970s

• 1970: Bob Rafelson

for directing Five Easy Pieces

• 1971: Stanley Kubrick

for directing A Clockwork Orange

• 1972: Ingmar Bergman

for directing Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers)

• 1973: François Truffaut

for directing Day for Night

• 1974: Federico Fellini

for directing Amarcord

• 1975: Robert Altman

for directing Nashville

• 1976: Alan J. Pakula

for directing All the President's Men

• 1977: Woody Allen

for directing Annie Hall

• 1978: Terrence Malick

for directing Days of Heaven

• 1979: Woody Allen

for directing Manhattan

1980s

• 1980: Jonathan Demme

for directing Melvin and Howard

• 1981: Sidney Lumet

for directing Prince of the City

• 1982: Sydney Pollack

for directing Tootsie

• 1983: Ingmar Bergman

for directing Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander)

• 1984: David Lean

for directing A Passage to India

• 1985: John Huston

for directing Prizzi's Honor

• 1986: Woody Allen

for directing Hannah and Her Sisters

• 1987: James L. Brooks

for directing Broadcast News

• 1988: Chris Menges

for directing A World Apart

• 1989: Paul Mazursky

for directing Enemies: A Love Story

1990s

• 1990: Martin Scorsese

for directing Goodfellas

• 1991: Jonathan Demme

for directing The Silence of the Lambs

• 1992: Robert Altman

for directing The Player

• 1993: Jane Campion

for directing The Piano

• 1994: Quentin Tarantino

for directing Pulp Fiction

• 1995: Ang Lee

for directing Sense and Sensibility

• 1996: Lars von Trier

for directing Breaking the Waves

• 1997: Curtis Hanson

for directing L.A. Confidential

• 1998: Terrence Malick

for directing The Thin Red Line

• 1999: Mike Leigh

for directing Topsy-Turvy

2000s

• 2000: Steven Soderbergh

for directing Erin Brockovich and

for directing Traffic

• 2001: Robert Altman

for directing Gosford Park

• 2002: Todd Haynes

for directing Far from Heaven

• 2003: Sofia Coppola

for directing Lost in Translation

• 2004: Clint Eastwood

for directing Million Dollar Baby

• 2005: Ang Lee

for directing Brokeback Mountain

• 2006: Martin Scorsese

for directing The Departed

• 2007: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen

for directing No Country for Old Men

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