- Winners 1990s 2000s 2010s
{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}}{{Infobox award
| name = Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
| image = Alfonso Cuarón (2013) cropped.jpg
| image_upright = 0.7
| caption = The 2018 recipient: Alfonso Cuarón
| description = Best Achievement in Directing
| presenter = Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association
| country = United States
| year = Kevin Costner
Dances with Wolves (1990)
| holder = Alfonso Cuarón
Roma (2018)
| website = {{url|dfwcritics.com}}
}}The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Director is an award presented by the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association. It is given in honor of a film director who has delivered an outstanding directing while working in the film industry. Winners- † = Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director
1990s | Year | Winner | Film |
|---|
| 1990 | Kevin Costner † | Dances with Wolves | | 1991 | Oliver Stone | JFK | | 1992 | Clint Eastwood † | Unforgiven | | 1993 | Steven Spielberg † | Schindler's List | | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | Pulp Fiction | | 1995 | Mike Figgis | Leaving Las Vegas | | 1996 | Joel Coen | Fargo | | 1997 | James Cameron † | Titanic | | 1998 | Steven Spielberg † | Saving Private Ryan | | 1999 | Sam Mendes † | American Beauty |
2000s | Year | Winner | Film |
|---|
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh † | Traffic | | 2001 | Ron Howard † | A Beautiful Mind | | 2002 | Peter Jackson | The Two Towers | | 2003 | Peter Jackson † | The Return of the King | | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | The Aviator | | 2005 | Ang Lee † | Brokeback Mountain | | 2006 | Martin Scorsese † | The Departed | | 2007 | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen † | No Country for Old Men | | 2008 | Danny Boyle † | Slumdog Millionaire | | 2009 | Jason Reitman | Up in the Air |
2010s | Year | Winner | Film |
|---|
| 2010 | David Fincher | The Social Network | | 2011 | Alexander Payne | The Descendants | | 2012 | Kathryn Bigelow | Zero Dark Thirty | | 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón † | Gravity | | 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu † | Birdman | | 2015 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu † | The Revenant | | 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight | | 2017 | Guillermo del Toro † | The Shape of Water | | 2018 | Alfonso Cuarón † | Roma |
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