Chlotrudis Awards / Best Director

Since 1997, the Chlotrudis Awards have honored the best director .

statistics
Most frequently honored director	Ang Lee , Asghar Farhadi , Hirokazu Koreeda and Debra Granik (two awards)
Most nominated director	Hirokazu Koreeda (six nominations)
Most nominated director without a win	Claire Denis and Sarah Polley (three nominations)

Excellent directors

year	Director	Movie	Other nominees
1997	Joel Coen	Fargo	Danny Boyle for Trainspotting - New Heroes Steve Buscemi for Trees Lounge - The bar where everything turns Mike Leigh for Lies and Secrets Billy Bob Thornton for Sling Blade - On the Razor's Edge Larry and Andy Wachowski for Bound - Tied Up Jerry Zaks for Marvin's Daughters
1998	Curtis Hanson	LA Confidential	Atom Egoyan for The Sweet Beyond Ang Lee for The Ice Storm Angela Pope for Hollow Reed - Lautlose Schreie Alan Rickman for The Winter Guest
1999	Roberto Benigni	Life is Beautiful	Darren Aronofsky for Pi Lisa Cholodenko for High Art Bill Condon for Gods and Monsters John Madden for Shakespeare in Love Todd Solondz for Happiness
2000	Spike Jonze	Being John Malkovich	Paul Thomas Anderson for Magnolia Bernardo Bertolucci for Shandurai and the piano player Joan Chen for Tian yu David Mamet for Winslow Boy Sam Mendes for American Beauty Kimberly Peirce for Boys Don't Cry Tom Tykwer for Lola rennt
2001	Ang Lee	Tiger and Dragon	Darren Aronofsky for Requiem for a Dream Claire Denis for The Foreign Legionnaire Majid Majidi for Die Farben des Paradieses Eric Mendelsohn for Judy Berlin Jeremy Podeswa for The Five Senses Steven Soderbergh for Traffic - Power of the Cartel Julie Taymor for Titus Lars von Trier for Dancer in the Dark
2002	Christopher Nolan Audience Award: David Lynch	Memento Mulholland Drive - Street of Darkness	Todd Field for In the Bedroom Alejandro González Iñárritu for Amores Perros Richard Linklater for Waking Life Takashi Miike for Audition John Cameron Mitchell for Hedwig and the Angry Inch Tom Tykwer for Der Krieger and the Empress Liv Ullmann for The Faithless Wong Kar-Wai for In the Mood for Love
2003	Todd Haynes Audience Award: Paul Thomas Anderson	So far from heaven Punch-Drunk Love	Pedro Almodóvar for Speak with her Michael Haneke for The Piano Player Richard Kelly for Donnie Darko Zacharias Kunuk for Atanarjuat - The Legend of the Fast Runner Mira Nair for Monsoon Wedding Phillip Noyce for Long Walk Home
2004	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini for American Splendor Danny Boyle for 28 Days Later Claire Denis for Vendredi soir David Gordon Green for All the Real Girls Lukas Moodysson for Lilja 4-ever Lynne Ramsay for Movern Callar
2005	Lucas Belvaux	Trilogy: Après la vie - After life	Tsai Ming-liang for Goodbye, Dragon Inn Pen-Ek Ratanaruang for Last Life in the Universe Andrei Petrovich Svjaginzew for The Return - The Return Guy Maddin for The Saddest Music in the World Jonathan Caouette for Tarnation David Gordon Green for Undertow
2006	Ang Lee	Brokeback Mountain	George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck. Werner Herzog for Grizzly Man Kim Ki-duk for Bin-jip Hirokazu Koreeda for Nobody Knows Bennett Miller for Capote Wong Kar-Wai for 2046
2007	Michael Haneke	Caché	Pedro Almodóvar for Volver - Returning Fernando Eimbcke for Mexican Kids - Temporada de patos David Lynch for Inland Empire Deepa Mehta for Water
2008	Paul Thomas Anderson	There Will Be Blood	Ethan and Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men Julia Loktev for Two Days Two Nights Sarah Polley for At Her Side Julian Schnabel for Butterfly and Diving Bell Tsai Ming-liang for I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
2009	Mike Leigh and Guy Maddin	Happy-Go-Lucky My Winnipeg	Cristian Mungiu for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days Tomas Alfredson for So dark the night Kelly Reichardt for Wendy and Lucy
2010	Hirokazu Koreeda	Aruitemo aruitemo	Claire Denis for 35 rum Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story Werner Herzog for Bad Lieutenant - Cop without a conscience Götz Spielmann for revenge
2011	Debra Granik	Winter's Bone	Tze Chun for Children of Invention Banksy for Exit Through the Gift Shop Xavier Dolan for J'ai tué ma mère Joon-ho Bong for Madeo
2012	Asghar Farhadi	Nader and Simin	Takashi Miike for Jūsan-nin no shikaku Mike Leigh for Another Year Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist Lars von Trier for Melancholia
2013	Wes Anderson	Moonrise Kingdom	Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild Sarah Polley for Take This Waltz Jacques Audiard for De rouille et d'os Michaël R. Roskam for Bullhead Hirokazu Koreeda for Kiseki
2014	Asghar Farhadi	Le passé	Thomas Vinterberg for Jagten Noah Baumbach for Frances Ha Ulrich Seidl for Paradies: Glaube Sarah Polley for Stories We Tell
2015	Hirokazu Koreeda	Like Father, Like Son (Soshite chichi ni naru)	Jan-Ole Gerster for Oh Boy Joanna Hogg for Archipelago Alejandro González Iñárritu for Birdman or (The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness) Richard Linklater for Boyhood Paweł Pawlikowski for Ida
2016	Todd Haynes	Carol	Hou Hsiao-Hsien for The Assassin (Nie yin niang) Kornél Mundruczó for Underdog Abderrahmane Sissako for Timbuktu Peter Strickland for The Duke of Burgundy Damián Szifron for Wild Tales - Everyone goes crazy !
2017	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight	Jia Zhangke for Mountains May Depart (Shan he gu ren) Hirokazu Koreeda for our little sister Kelly Reichardt for Certain Women Apichatpong Weerasethakul for Cemetery of Splendor
2018	Jim Jarmusch	Paterson	Brett Haley for The Hero Hirokazu Koreeda for After the Storm (Umi yori mo Mada Fukaku) Eliza Hittman for Beach Rats Kogonada for Columbus Luca Guadagnino for Call Me by Your Name
2019	Chloé Zhao and Debra Granik	The Rider Leave No Trace	Alfonso Cuarón for Roma Hirokazu Koreeda for Shoplifters - Familienbande Josephine Decker for Madeline's Madeline Luca Guadagnino for Suspiria