San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

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.

San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
The 2022 recipient: Todd Field
Awarded for	Excellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement
Country	United States
Presented by	San Francisco Film Critics Circle
First awarded	Todd Haynes Far from Heaven (2002)
Currently held by	Todd Field 'Tár(2022)
Website	sffcc.org

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	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	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