The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an award given by the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle to honor a film director who has delivered an outstanding directorial achievement in filmmaking.
Winners
2000s Year Winner Film 2002 Todd Haynes Far from Heaven 2003 Peter Jackson 2004 Alexander Payne Sideways 2005 Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain 2006 Paul Greengrass United 93 2007 Joel Coen and Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men 2008 Gus Van Sant Milk 2009 Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker
2010s Year Winner Film 2010 Darren Aronofsky (TIE) Black Swan David Fincher (TIE) The Social Network 2011 Terrence Malick The Tree of Life 2012 Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark Thirty 2013 Alfonso Cuarón Gravity 2014 Richard Linklater Boyhood 2015 George Miller Mad Max: Fury Road 2016 Barry Jenkins Moonlight 2017 Guillermo del Toro The Shape of Water 2018 Spike Lee BlacKkKlansman 2019 Bong Joon-ho Parasite
2020s Year Winner Film 2020 Chloé Zhao Nomadland 2021 Jane Campion The Power of the Dog 2022 Todd Field Tár 2023 Jonathan Glazer The Zone of Interest 2024 Brady Corbet The Brutalist 2025 Paul Thomas Anderson One Battle After Another
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