Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director
2023 recipient: Christopher Nolan
Awarded forBest Direction of a Motion Picture
LocationLos Angeles, California
Presented byCritics Choice Association
First awardedMel Gibson for Braveheart (1995)
Currently held byChristopher Nolan for Oppenheimer (2023)
Websitewww.criticschoice.com

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director is one of the awards given to film directors working in the film industry by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. It was first given out to Mel Gibson for Braveheart in 1996 as a juried award. Until 2001, only the winner was presented; since then, a set of nominees is announced every year.

Only four directors have received the award more than once with two wins each: Alfonso Cuarón, Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The latter also holds the record of most nominations in the category with eight. Kathryn Bigelow, Jane Campion, and Chloé Zhao are the only female winners of the award.