San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
# 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.

## 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 |
| 2010 | 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 |
