| San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director | |
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| Awarded For: | Excellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement |
| Presenter: | San Francisco Film Critics Circle |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | Todd Haynes Far from Heaven (2002) |
| Holder: | Todd Field Tár(2022) |
The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an award given by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle to honor a film director who has delivered an outstanding directing while working in the film industry.
| 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 |
| Year | Winner | Film |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Darren Aronofsky | Black Swan |
| David Fincher | 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 | |
| 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight |
| 2017 | Guillermo del Toro | The Shape of Water |
| 2018 | Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman |
| 2019 | Bong Joon-ho | Parasite |
| Year | Winner | Film | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland | |
| 2021 | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog | |
| 2022 | Todd Field | Tár |