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.

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	Pi
	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

External links

• Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film
• Chlotrudis Awards at IMDB