Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director

Steven Spielberg holds the record for most wins: 6 (1982 "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", 1985 "The Color Purple", 1987 "Empire of the Sun", 1993 "Schindler's List", 1998 "Saving Private Ryan" and 2005 "Munich"). Peter Jackson won an award for each and every film of "The Lord of the Rings"-trilogy.

Winners

1960s

*"'1966: Federico Fellini :for directing "Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits)"
*"'1967: Michelangelo Antonioni :for directing "Blowup"
*"'1968: Stanley Kubrick :for directing ""
*"'1969: John Schlesinger :for directing "Midnight Cowboy"

1970s

*"'1970: Robert Altman :for directing "M*A*S*H"
*"'1971: Sam Peckinpah :for directing "Straw Dogs"
*"'1972: Francis Ford Coppola :for directing "The Godfather"
*"'1973: Ingmar Bergman :for directing "Viskningar och rop (Cries and Whispers)"
*"'1974: Francis Ford Coppola :for directing "The Conversation" and:for directing "The Godfather Part II"
*"'1975: Robert Altman :for directing "Nashville"
*"'1976: Miloš Forman :for directing "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
*"'1977: Woody Allen :for directing "Annie Hall"
*"'1978: Woody Allen :for directing "Interiors"
*"'1979: Robert Benton :for directing "Kramer vs. Kramer"

1980s

*"'1980: Robert Redford :for directing "Ordinary People"
*"'1981: Sidney Lumet :for directing "Prince of the City"
*"'1982: Steven Spielberg :for directing "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"
*"'1983: Philip Kaufman :for directing "The Right Stuff"
*"'1984: David Lean :for directing "A Passage to India"
*"'1985: Steven Spielberg :for directing "The Color Purple"
*"'1986: Oliver Stone :for directing "Platoon" and:for directing "Salvador"
*"'1987: Steven Spielberg :for directing "Empire of the Sun"
*"'1988: Barry Levinson :for directing "Rain Man"
*"'1989: Edward Zwick :for directing "Glory"

1990s

*"'1990: Martin Scorsese :for directing "GoodFellas"
*"'1991: Jonathan Demme :for directing "The Silence of the Lambs"
*"'1992: Clint Eastwood :for directing "Unforgiven"
*"'1993: Steven Spielberg :for directing "Schindler's List"
*"'1994: Quentin Tarantino :for directing "Pulp Fiction"
*"'1995: Ron Howard :for directing "Apollo 13"
*"'1996: Joel Coen :for directing "Fargo"
*"'1997: James Cameron :for directing "Titanic"
*"'1998: Steven Spielberg :for directing "Saving Private Ryan"
*"'1999: Sam Mendes :for directing "American Beauty"

2000s

*"'2000: Steven Soderbergh :for directing "Traffic"
*"'2001: Peter Jackson :for directing ""
*"'2002: Peter Jackson :for directing ""
*"'2003: Peter Jackson :for directing ""
*"'2004: Martin Scorsese :for directing "The Aviator"
*"'2005: Steven Spielberg :for directing "Munich"
*"'2006: Paul Greengrass:for directing "United 93"
*"'2007: Paul Thomas Anderson and Julian Schnabel (tie):for directing "There Will Be Blood and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (tie)