Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Film

The Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Film is an annual award given by the Detroit Film Critics Society to honor the best film made that year.

Winners

Legend:

  indicates the winners.

2000s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2007[1]	No Country for Old Men	Joel and Ethan Coen
	Juno	Jason Reitman
	Into the Wild	Sean Penn
	Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)	Julian Schnabel
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson
2008[2]	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan
	Frost/Nixon	Ron Howard
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
	The Wrestler	Darren Aronofsky
2009[3]	Up	Pete Docter[4]
	(500) Days of Summer	Marc Webb
	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman

2010s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2010[5]	The Social Network	David Fincher[6]
	127 Hours	Danny Boyle
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik
2011[7]	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne
	Hugo	Martin Scorsese
	Take Shelter	Jeff Nichols
	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
2012[8]	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
	Argo	Ben Affleck
	The Impossible	Juan Antonio Bayona
	Take This Waltz	Sarah Polley
	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow
2013[9]	Her	Spike Jonze[10]
	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
	Before Midnight	Richard Linklater
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
	Short Term 12	Destin Daniel Cretton
2014[11]	Boyhood	Richard Linklater[12]
	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
	Under the Skin	Jonathan Glazer
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2015[13]	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy
	Brooklyn	John Crowley
	Inside Out	Pete Docter
	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller
	The Revenant	Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Sicario	Denis Villeneuve
	Youth	Paolo Sorrentino
2016[14]	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	The Edge of Seventeen	Kelly Fremon Craig
	Hell or High Water	David Mackenzie
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
2017[15]	The Florida Project	Sean Baker
	The Disaster Artist	James Franco
	Get Out	Jordan Peele
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2018[16]	Eighth Grade	Bo Burnham
	First Reformed	Paul Schrader
	Green Book	Peter Farrelly
	A Quiet Place	John Krasinski
	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
2019[17]	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho
	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese
	Jojo Rabbit	Taika Waititi
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino

2020s

Year	Winner	Director(s)
2020[18]	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
	First Cow	Kelly Reichardt
	Minari	Lee Isaac Chung
	Sound of Metal	Darius Marder
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin
2021	Cyrano	Joe Wright
	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
	CODA	Sian Heder
	Don't Look Up	Adam McKay
	King Richard	Reinaldo Marcus Green