San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

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.

San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
The 2024 recipient: Brady Corbet
Awarded for	Outstanding Directorial Achievement
Country	United States
Presented by	San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle
First award	Todd Haynes Far from Heaven (2002)
Currently held by	Brady Corbet The Brutalist (2024)
Website	sfbafcc.com

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner	Film
2002	Todd Haynes	Far from Heaven
2003	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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	Ref.
2020	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland	[1]
2021	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog	[2]
2022	Todd Field	Tár	[3]
2023	Jonathan Glazer	The Zone of Interest	[4]
2024	Brady Corbet	The Brutalist	[5]