Chlotrudis Award for Best Director

The Chlotrudis Award for Best Director is an award given by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film to the director or directors whose winning work is voted by participating members. The Chlotrudis Awards is an annual ceremony where the best of the previous year's independent and international film are honored.

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Winners and nominees

1990s

Year Director Film
1996 Joel Coen Fargo
Danny Boyle Trainspotting
Steve Buscemi Trees Lounge
Mike Leigh Secrets & Lies
Billy Bob Thornton Sling Blade
The Wachowski Brothers Bound
Jerry Zaks Marvin's Room
1997 Curtis Hanson L.A. Confidential
Atom Egoyan The Sweet Hereafter
Ang Lee The Ice Storm
Angela Pope Hollow Reed
Alan Rickman The Winter Guest
1998 Roberto Benigni Life Is Beautiful
Darren Aronofsky π
Lisa Cholodenko High Art
Bill Condon Gods and Monsters
John Madden Shakespeare in Love
Todd Solondz Happiness
1999 Spike Jonze Being John Malkovich
Paul Thomas Anderson Magnolia
Bernardo Bertolucci Besieged
Joan Chen Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
David Mamet The Winslow Boy
Sam Mendes American Beauty
Kimberly Peirce Boys Don't Cry
Tom Tykwer Run Lola Run

2000s

Year Director Film
2000 Ang Lee Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Darren Aronofsky Requiem for a Dream
Claire Denis Beau Travail
Majid Majidi The Color of Paradise
Eric Mendelsohn Judy Berlin
Jeremy Podeswa The Five Senses
Steven Soderbergh Traffic
Julie Taymor Titus
Lars von Trier Dancer in the Dark
2001 Christopher Nolan Memento
Todd Field In the Bedroom
Alejandro González Iñárritu Amores Perros
Richard Linklater Waking Life
David Lynch Mulholland Dr.
Takashi Miike Audition
John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Tom Tykwer The Princess and the Warrior
Liv Ullmann Faithless
Wong Kar-wai In the Mood for Love
2002 Todd Haynes Far from Heaven
Pedro Almodóvar Talk to Her
Paul Thomas Anderson Punch-Drunk Love
Michael Haneke The Piano Teacher
Richard Kelly Donnie Darko
Zacharias Kunuk Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Mira Nair Monsoon Wedding
Phillip Noyce Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003 Sofia Coppola Lost in Translation
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini American Splendor
Danny Boyle 28 Days Later
Claire Denis Friday Night
David Gordon Green All the Real Girls
Lukas Moodysson Lilya 4-Ever
Lynne Ramsay Morvern Callar
2004 Lucas Belvaux The Trilogy (On the Run, An Amazing Couple and After the Life)
Jonathan Caouette Tarnation
David Gordon Green Undertow
Guy Maddin The Saddest Music in the World
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang Last Life in the Universe
Tsai Ming-liang Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Andrey Zvyagintsev The Return
2005 Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain
George Clooney Good Night, and Good Luck
Werner Herzog Grizzly Man
Kim Ki-duk 3-Iron
Hirokazu Koreeda Nobody Knows
Bennett Miller Capote
Wong Kar-wai 2046
2006 Michael Haneke Caché
Pedro Almodóvar Volver
Fernando Eimbcke Duck Season
David Lynch Inland Empire
Deepa Mehta Water
2007 Paul Thomas Anderson There Will Be Blood
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen No Country for Old Men
Julia Loktev Day Night Day Night
Sarah Polley Away from Her
Julian Schnabel The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Tsai Ming-liang I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
2008 Mike Leigh Happy-Go-Lucky
Guy Maddin My Winnipeg
Tomas Alfredson Let the Right One In
Cristian Mungiu 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Kelly Reichardt Wendy and Lucy
2009 Hirokazu Koreeda Still Walking
Claire Denis 35 Shots of Rum
Michael Haneke The White Ribbon
Werner Herzog The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans
Götz Spielmann Revanche

2010s

Year Director Film
2010 Debra Granik Winter's Bone
Banksy Exit Through the Gift Shop
Bong Joon-ho Mother
Tze Chun Children of Invention
Xavier Dolan I Killed My Mother
John Cameron Mitchell Rabbit Hole

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