Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner	Film
2000	Steven Soderbergh	Traffic
	Darren Aronofsky	Requiem for a Dream
	Ang Lee	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2001	Baz Luhrmann	Moulin Rouge!
	Robert Altman	Gosford Park
	Wes Anderson	The Royal Tenenbaums
	David Lynch	Mulholland Drive
	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2002	Stephen Daldry	The Hours
	Roman Polanski	The Pianist
	Martin Scorsese	Gangs Of New York
2003	Peter Jackson	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Clint Eastwood	Mystic River
2004	Clint Eastwood	Million Dollar Baby
	Alexander Payne	Sideways
	Martin Scorsese	The Aviator
2005	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain
	George Clooney	Good Night, and Good Luck.
	David Cronenberg	A History of Violence
2006	Alfonso Cuarón	Children of Men
	Clint Eastwood	Letters from Iwo Jima
	Martin Scorsese	The Departed
2007	Joel and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
	Paul Thomas Anderson	There Will Be Blood
	Jason Reitman	Juno
2008	David Fincher	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
	Gus Van Sant	Milk
2009	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
	Jason Reitman	Up in the Air
	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds

2010s

Year	Winner	Film
2010	David Fincher	The Social Network
	Darren Aronofsky	Black Swan
	Joel and Ethan Coen	True Grit
2011	Terrence Malick	The Tree of Life
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Martin Scorsese	Hugo
2012	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Ang Lee	Life of Pi
	Steven Spielberg	Lincoln
2013	Alfonso Cuaron	Gravity
	Coen Brothers	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Steve McQueen	12 Years a Slave
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel