Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
Year Winner Film
2010 David Fincher The Social Network
2010 Darren Aronofsky Black Swan
2010 Joel Coen and Ethan Coen True Grit
2011 Terrence Malick The Tree of Life
2011 Michel Hazanavicius The Artist
2011 Martin Scorsese Hugo
2012 Kathryn Bigelow Zero Dark Thirty
2012 Ang Lee Life of Pi
2012 Steven Spielberg Lincoln
2013 Alfonso Cuaron Gravity
2013 Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 Steve McQueen 12 Years a Slave
2014 Alejandro González Iñárritu Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance )
2014 Richard Linklater Boyhood
2014 Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015 George Miller Mad Max : Fury Road
2015 Todd Haynes Carol
2015 Alejandro González Iñárritu The Revenant
2016 Kenneth Lonergan Manchester by the Sea
2016 Damien Chazelle La La Land
Winners -- 2010s
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is an annual award given by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.