St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

The St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Director is one of the annual awards given by the St. Louis Film Critics Association.

St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
The 2023 Recipient: Christopher Nolan
Country	United States
Presented by	St. Louis Film Critics Association
First awarded	Martin Scorsese, The Aviator (2004)
Most recent winner	Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (2023)
Website	www.stlfilmcritics.org

Winners

2000s

Year	Nominee	Film
2004	Martin Scorsese – (Drama)	The Aviator
	Alexander Payne – (Comedy / Musical)	Sideways
2005	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
2006	Martin Scorsese	The Departed
2007	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
2008	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
2009	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker

2010s

Year	Nominee	Film
2010	David Fincher	The Social Network
2011	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
2012	Ben Affleck	Argo
2013	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
2014	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
2015	Tom McCarthy	Spotlight
2016	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
2017	Guillermo del Toro	The Shape of Water
2018	Spike Lee	BlacKkKlansman
2019	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

2020s

Year	Nominee	Film
2022	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland
2021	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog
2022	Sarah Polley	Women Talking
2023	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer