New York Film Critics Online Award for Best Director

Winners

 * 2001 - David Lynch*, Mulholland Drive
 * 2002 - Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven / Martin Scorsese*, Gangs of New York
 * 2003 - Sofia Coppola*, Lost in Translation
 * 2004 - Martin Scorsese*, The Aviator
 * 2005 - Fernando Meirelles, The Constant Gardener
 * 2006 - Stephen Frears*, The Queen
 * 2007 - Paul Thomas Anderson*, There Will Be Blood
 * 2008 - Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan, Slumdog Millionaire
 * 2009 - Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
 * 2010 - David Fincher*, The Social Network
 * 2011 - Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist 
 * 2012 - Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
 * 2013 - Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
 * 2014 - Richard Linklater*, Boyhood
 * 2015 - Tom McCarthy*, Spotlight
 * 2016 - Barry Jenkins*, Moonlight
 * 2017 - Dee Rees, Mudbound
 * 2018 - Alfonso Cuarón, 'Roma'

Most wins

 * 2 - Kathryn Bigelow, Alfonso Cuarón, Martin Scorsese