Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

Atom Egoyan (1997)
Steven Spielberg (1998)
Paul Thomas Anderson (1999)
Steven Soderbergh (2000)
David Lynch (2001)
Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)
Peter Jackson (2003)
Michel Gondry (2004)
David Cronenberg (2005)
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne / Stephen Frears (2006)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
Jonathan Demme (2008)
Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
David Fincher (2010)
Terrence Malick (2011)
Paul Thomas Anderson (2012)
Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
Richard Linklater (2014)
Todd Haynes (2015)
Maren Ade (2016)
Greta Gerwig (2017)
Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
Bong Joon-ho (2019)
Chloé Zhao (2020)
Jane Campion (2021)
Charlotte Wells (2022)
Jonathan Glazer (2023)

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