National Board of Review Award for Best Director
National Board of Review: Best Director
Winner of the National Board of Review Awards in the category Best Director ( Best Director).
The most successful in this category was the British film director David Lean, who won the award four times. 13 times succeeded Film Critics Association in advance of the Oscar winners present, it will ultimately happen in 2006, with the award at the American Martin Scorsese ( The Departed - The Departed ). With Kathryn Bigelow ( Zero Dark Thirty ) a film-maker was awarded in 2012 for the first time.
* = Directors who won for her film later won the Oscar for Best Director of the Year
- National Board of Review