National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
Award from the National Society of Film Critics: Best Director
Winner of the National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Director. The award is presented every year in early January for the best film productions and film-makers of the past calendar year. 1975 and 1977 were two award ceremonies held in January and December, prompting the National Society of Film Critics Award was not awarded in 1976 and 1978.
The most successful in this category were the Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman and his American colleague Martin Scorsese, who could win the award three times. Seven succeeded Film Critics Association in advance of the Oscar winners present, it will ultimately happen in 2010, when with Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker - The Hurt Locker), a woman entered in the list of winners for the first time. 2013 was the first time to enforce a director of the German-speaking countries with the Austrian Michael Haneke ( love).
At the last ceremony in 2014, Ethan and Joel Coen's translated (Inside Llewyn Davis) with seven -point lead against Alfonso Cuarón ( Gravity, 18 points) and Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, 15 points) by.
* = Directors who won for her film later won the Oscar for Best Director of the Year
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