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 performance 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,
Winners and nominees
1990s
- 1997 Joel Coen — Fargo
:*Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski — Bound
:*Jerry Zaks — Secrets & Lies
:*Billy Bob Thornton — Sling Blade
:*Danny Boyle — Trainspotting
:*Steve Buscemi — Trees Lounge
- '1998 Curtis Hanson —L.A. Confidential''
:*Angela Pope — Hollow Reed
:*Ang Lee — The Ice Storm
:*Atom Egoyan — The Sweet Hereafter
:*Alan Rickman — The Winter Guest
- '1999 Roberto Benigni —Life is Beautiful''
:*Bill Condon — Gods and Monsters
:*Todd Solondz — Happiness
:*Lisa Cholodenko — High Art
:*Darren Aronofsky — Pi
:*John Madden — Shakespeare in Love
2000s
- '2000 Spike Jonze —Being John Malkovich''
:*Sam Mendes — American Beauty
:*Bernardo Bertolucci — Besieged
:*Kimberly Peirce — Boys Don't Cry
:*Tom Tykwer — Lola rennt
:*Paul Thomas Anderson — Magnolia
:*David Mamet — The Winslow Boy
:*Joan Chen — Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
- '2001 Ang Lee —Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''
:*Claire Denis — Beau travail
:*Lars von Trier — Dancer in the Dark
:*Majid Majidi — The Color of Paradise
:*Darren Aronofsky — Requiem for a Dream
:*Jeremy Podeswa — The Five Senses
:*Julie Taymor — Titus
:*Steven Soderbergh — Traffic
- '2002 Christopher Nolan —Memento''
:*Alejandro González Iñárritu — Amores perros
:*Tom Tykwer — The Princess and the Warrior
:*Kar Wai Wong — In the Mood for Love
:*John Cameron Mitchell — Hedwig and the Angry Inch
:*Todd Field — In the Bedroom
:*Liv Ullmann — Faithless
:*Richard Linklater — Waking Life
:*Takashi Miike — Man, A Natural Girl
- '2003 Todd Haynes —Far from Heaven''
:*Zacharias Kunuk — Atanarjuat
:*Richard Kelly — Donnie Darko
:*Pedro Almodóvar — Talk to Her
:*Michael Haneke — The Piano Teacher
:*Mira Nair — Monsoon Wedding
:*Phillip Noyce — Rabbit-Proof Fence
- '2004 Sofia Coppola —Lost in Translation''
:*Danny Boyle — 28 Days Later
:*David Gordon Green — All the Real Girls
:*Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini — American Splendor
:*Lukas Moodysson — Lilja 4-ever
:*Lynne Ramsay — Morvern Callar
:*Claire Denis — Vendredi soir
- '2005 Lucas Belvaux —Cavale''
:*Ming-liang Tsai — Goodbye, Dragon Inn
:*Pen-Ek Ratanaruang — Last Life in the Universe
:*Jonathan Caouette — Tarnation
:*Guy Maddin — The Saddest Music in the World
:*David Gordon Green — Undertow
:*Andrei Zvyagintsev — The Return
- '2006 Ang Lee —Brokeback Mountain''
:*Kar Wai Wong — 2046
:*Ki-duk Kim — 3-Iron
:*Bennett Miller — Capote
:*Hirokazu Koreeda — Nobody Knows
:*George Clooney — Good Night, and Good Luck.
:*Werner Herzog — Grizzly Man
- '2007 Michael Haneke —Caché''
:*David Lynch — Inland Empire
:*Fernando Eimbcke — Temporada de patos
:*Pedro Almodóvar — Volver
:*Deepa Mehta — Water
- '2008 Paul Thomas Anderson —There Will Be Blood''
:*Sarah Polley — Away from Her
:*Julia Loktev — Day Night Day Night
:*Ming-liang Tsai — I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
:*Julian Schnabel — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
:*Ethan and Joel Coen — No Country for Old Men
- '2009 Mike Leigh —Happy-Go-Lucky'' (tie)
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- 'Guy Maddin —My Winnipeg''
:*Cristian Mungiu — 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
:*Tomas Alfredson — Let the Right One In
:*Kelly Reichardt — Wendy and Lucy