Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award / Best Director
The Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an annual award from the Kansas City Film Critics Circle . Steven Spielberg is the record holder in this category with six prizes. Peter Jackson won this award for all three films in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Award winners
1960s
| year | winner | Movie |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | Federico Fellini | Julia and the ghosts |
| 1967 | Michelangelo Antonioni | Blowup |
| 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| 1969 | John Schlesinger | Midnight cowboy |
1970s
| year | winner | Movie |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Robert Altman | MASH |
| 1971 | Sam Peckinpah | Who sows violence |
| 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | The godfather I. |
| 1973 | Ingmar Bergman | Screams and whispers |
| 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola | The dialogue |
| The Godfather II | ||
| 1975 | Robert Altman | Nashville |
| 1976 | Miloš Forman | One flew over the cuckoo's nest |
| 1977 | Woody Allen | The city neurotic |
| 1978 | Woody Allen | Inner workings |
| 1979 | Robert Benton | Kramer versus Kramer |
1980s
| year | winner | Movie |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Robert Redford | A perfectly normal family |
| 1981 | Sidney Lumet | Prince of the City |
| 1982 | Steven Spielberg | ET - The Alien |
| 1983 | Philip Kaufman | The stuff the heroes are made of |
| 1984 | David Lean | Trip to India |
| 1985 | Steven Spielberg | The colour purple |
| 1986 | Oliver Stone | Platoon |
| Salvador | ||
| 1987 | Steven Spielberg | The realm of the sun |
| 1988 | Barry Levinson | Rain Man |
| 1989 | Edward Zwick | Glory |
1990s
| year | winner | Movie |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas |
| 1991 | Jonathan Demme | The silence of the Lambs |
| 1992 | Clint Eastwood | Merciless |
| 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Schindlers List |
| 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | pulp Fiction |
| 1995 | Ron Howard | Apollo 13 |
| 1996 | Joel Coen | Fargo |
| 1997 | James Cameron | Titanic |
| 1998 | Steven Spielberg | The soldier James Ryan |
| 1999 | Sam Mendes | American Beauty |
2000s
2010s
| year | winner | Movie |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Christopher Nolan | Inception |
| 2011 | Terrence Malick | The Tree of Life |
| 2012 | Ang Lee | Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger |
| 2013 | Steve McQueen | 12 years a slave |
| 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | Gravity |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood |
| 2015 | George Miller | Mad Max: Fury Road |