Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Director

Winners
Names and titles in bold indicate directors that won the Academy Award for Best Director. Names and titles with an asterisk (*) indicate films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, but did not win.
 * 1997 - Atom Egoyan, The Sweet Hereafter
 * '1998' - Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
 * 1999 - Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia
 * 2000 - Steven Soderbergh, Traffic
 * 2001 - David Lynch*, Mulholland Drive
 * 2002 - Paul Thomas Anderson, Punch-Drunk Love
 * '2003' - Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
 * 2004 - Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 * 2005 - David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
 * 2006 - Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, The Child / Stephen Frears*, The Queen
 * 2007 - Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
 * 2008 - Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
 * 2009 - Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
 * 2010 - David Fincher*, The Social Network
 * 2011 - Terrence Malick*, The Tree of Life
 * 2012 - Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
 * 2013 - Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
 * 2014 - Richard Linklater*, Boyhood
 * 2015 - Todd Haynes, Carol
 * 2016 - Maren Ade, Toni Erdmann
 * 2017 - Greta Gerwig*, Lady Bird
 * 2018 - Alfonso Cuaron, Roma

Most wins

 * 3 - Paul Thomas Anderson
 * 2 - Alfonso Cuaron