Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Director

The Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Director is an annual award given by the Detroit Film Critics Society to honor the best director that year.

Winners

2000s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2007	Joel and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
	Paul Thomas Anderson	There Will Be Blood
	Tim Burton	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Katia Orozco	Into the Wild
	Jason Reitman	Juno
	Julian Schnabel	Le scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
2008	Danny Boyle	Slumdog Millionaire
	Darren Aronofsky	The Wrestler
	Ron Howard	Frost/Nixon
	Christopher Nolan	The Dark Knight
	Andrew Stanton	WALL•E
2009	Pete Docter	Up
	Kathryn Bigelow	The Hurt Locker
	Jason Reitman	Up in the Air
	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds
	Marc Webb	(500) Days of Summer

2010s

Year	Director(s)	Film
2010	Danny Boyle	127 Hours
	David Fincher	The Social Network
	Debra Granik	Winter's Bone
	Tom Hooper	The King's Speech
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
	Edgar Wright	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2011	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Terrence Malick	The Tree of Life
	Jeff Nichols	Take Shelter
	Martin Scorsese	Hugo
	Nicolas Winding Refn	Drive
2012	David O. Russell	Silver Linings Playbook
	Ben Affleck	Argo
	Juan Antonio Bayona	The Impossible
	Kathryn Bigelow	Zero Dark Thirty
	Sarah Polley	Take This Waltz
2013	Alfonso Cuarón	Gravity
	David O. Russell	American Hustle
	Martin Scorsese	The Wolf of Wall Street
	Paul Greengrass	Captain Phillips
	Spike Jonze	Her
2014	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Damien Chazelle	Whiplash
	Jonathan Glazer	Under the Skin
	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman