MOVIES
Critics Choice Awards
Most Wins for Best Director
This list features directors that have won the most awards for Best Director at the Critics Choice Awards.
RANK | DIRECTOR | NOMINATIONS | WINS | YEARS |
1 | Steven Spielberg | 9 | 2 | Saving Private Ryan (1998) Catch Me If You Can; Minority Report (2002) |
2 | Martin Scorsese | 7 | 2 | The Aviator (2004) The Departed (2006) |
3 | Alfonso Cuarón | 2 | 2 | Gravity (2013) Roma (2018) |
4 | Sam Mendes | 2 | 2 | American Beauty (1999) 1917 (2019) |
5 | David Fincher | 4 | 1 | The Social Network (2010) |
6 | Christopher Nolan | 4 | 1 | Oppenheimer (2023) |
7 | James Cameron | 3 | 1 | Titanic (1997) |
8 | Ron Howard | 3 | 1 | A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
9 | Damien Chazelle | 3 | 1 | La La Land (2016) |
10 | Baz Luhrmann | 2 | 1 | Moulin Rouge! (2001) |
11 | Peter Jackson | 2 | 1 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
12 | Ang Lee | 2 | 1 | Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
13 | Coen Brothers | 2 | 1 | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
14 | Danny Boyle | 2 | 1 | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
15 | Kathryn Bigelow | 2 | 1 | The Hurt Locker (2009) |
16 | Guillermo del Toro | 3 | 1 | The Shape of Water (2017) |
17 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2 | 1 | One Battle After Another (2025) |
18 | Chloé Zhao | 2 | 1 | Nomadland (2020) |
19 | Steven Soderbergh | 1 | 1 | Erin Brockovich / Traffic (2000) |
20 | Mel Gibson | 1 | 1 | Braveheart (1995) |
21 | Anthony Minghella | 1 | 1 | The English Patient (1996) |
22 | Michel Hazanavicius | 1 | 1 | The Artist (2011) |
23 | Ben Affleck | 1 | 1 | Argo (2012) |
24 | Richard Linklater | 1 | 1 | Boyhood (2014) |
25 | George Miller | 1 | 1 | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) |
26 | Bong Joon-ho | 1 | 1 | Parasite (2019) |
27 | Jane Campion | 1 | 1 | The Power of the Dog (2021) |
28 | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | 1 | 1 | Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) |
29 | Jon M. Chu | 1 | 1 | Wicked (2024) |
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