Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards / Best Director
Winner of the Prize of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in the category Best Director ( Best Director ). The American Film Critics Association is one of the first to announce its awards for the best film productions and filmmakers of the current calendar year each year at the beginning of December, which are presented about a month later, in early or mid-January.
The most successful in this category were the US film directors Paul Thomas Anderson , David Lynch , Sidney Lumet and Steven Spielberg , who each won the award twice. The film critics association was able to present the Oscar winner 15 times in advance , most recently in 2020 with the awarding of the award to the South Korean Bong Joon-ho ( Parasite ) . The only successful filmmakers so far were New Zealander Jane Campion ( Das Piano ) in 1993 , American Kathryn Bigelow ( Tödliches Kommando - The Hurt Locker ) in 2009 and her compatriot Debra Granik ( Leave No Trace ) in 2018 .
Award winners
Notes: Since 2004, the LAFCA jury has also announced second-placed directors.
* = Directors who for their film later the Oscar as Best Director of the Year won
Runner-up directors
- ↑ In 2004, Martin Scorsese took second place for Aviator
- ↑ In 2005 David Cronenberg took second place for A History of Violence
- ↑ 2006 took Clint Eastwood for Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima second place
- ↑ In 2007, Julian Schnabel took second place for butterfly and diving bell
- ↑ In 2008, Christopher Nolan took second place for The Dark Knight
- ↑ In 2009 Michael Haneke took second place for The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story
- ↑ In 2011, Martin Scorsese took second place for Hugo Cabret
- ↑ In 2012, Kathryn Bigelow took second place for Zero Dark Thirty
- ↑ In 2013 Spike Jonze took second place for Her
- ↑ In 2014 Wes Anderson took second place for Grand Budapest Hotel
- ↑ In 2015, Todd Haynes took second place for Carol
- ↑ In 2016, the later Oscar winner Damien Chazelle took second place for La La Land
- ↑ In 2018, Alfonso Cuarón took second place for Roma
- ↑ In 2019, Martin Scorsese took second place for The Irishman