Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director is one of the awards given to film directors working in the film industry by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. It was first given out to Mel Gibson for Braveheart in 1996 as a juried award. Until 2001, only the winner was presented; since then, a set of nominees is announced every year.

Only four directors have received the award more than once with two wins each: Alfonso Cuarón, Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The latter also holds the record of most nominations in the category with eight. Kathryn Bigelow, Jane Campion, and Chloé Zhao are the only female winners of the award.

Multiple winners

 * 2 wins
 * Alfonso Cuarón
 * Sam Mendes
 * Martin Scorsese
 * Steven Spielberg

Multiple nominees

 * 2 nominations
 * Kathryn Bigelow
 * Danny Boyle
 * Tim Burton
 * Ethan Coen
 * Joel Coen
 * Bradley Cooper
 * Alfonso Cuarón
 * Guillermo del Toro
 * Paul Greengrass
 * Tom Hooper
 * Alejandro González Iñárritu
 * Peter Jackson
 * Yorgos Lanthimos
 * Ang Lee
 * Spike Lee
 * Baz Luhrmann
 * Martin McDonagh
 * Sam Mendes
 * David O. Russell
 * Ridley Scott
 * Quentin Tarantino
 * Denis Villeneuve


 * 3 nominations
 * James Cameron
 * Damien Chazelle
 * Greta Gerwig
 * Ron Howard
 * Alexander Payne


 * 4 nominations
 * Clint Eastwood
 * David Fincher
 * Christopher Nolan


 * 7 nominations
 * Martin Scorsese


 * 9 nominations
 * Steven Spielberg