Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture

The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Picture is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner and nominees	Director(s)
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Atonement	Joe Wright
	Into the Wild	Sean Penn
	Juno	Jason Reitman
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy
2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	David Fincher
	Slumdog Millionaire	Danny Boyle
	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan
	Milk	Gus Van Sant
	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
2009	The Hurt Locker	Kathryn Bigelow
	(500) Days of Summer	Marc Webb
	Avatar	James Cameron
	District 9	Neill Blomkamp
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
	Invictus	Clint Eastwood
	Precious	Lee Daniels
	Star Trek	J. J. Abrams
	Up	Pete Docter
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman

2010s

Year	Winner and nominees	Director(s)
2010	The Social Network	David Fincher
	127 Hours	Danny Boyle
	Black Swan	Darren Aronofsky
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	Kick-Ass	Matthew Vaughn
	The Kids Are All Right	Lisa Cholodenko
	The King's Speech	Tom Hooper
	Toy Story 3	Lee Unkrich
	True Grit	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik
2011	The Descendants	Alexander Payne
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	Drive	Nicolas Winding Refn
	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	Stephen Daldry
	The Help	Tate Taylor
	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen
	Take Shelter	Jeff Nichols
	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
	War Horse	Steven Spielberg
	Win Win	Tom McCarthy
2012	Argo	Ben Affleck
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Benh Zeitlin
	Cloud Atlas	Tom Tykwer and Lana & Lilly Wachowski
	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino
	Lincoln	Steven Spielberg
	Les Misérables	Tom Hooper
	The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
	Zero Dark Thirty	Kathryn Bigelow
2013	12 Years a Slave	Steve McQueen
	All Is Lost	J. C. Chandor
	American Hustle	David O. Russell
	Before Midnight	Richard Linklater
	Dallas Buyers Club	Jean-Marc Vallée
	Fruitvale Station	Ryan Coogler
	Gravity	Alfonso Cuarón
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Nebraska	Alexander Payne
	Saving Mr. Banks	John Lee Hancock
2014	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Birdman	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
	Guardians of the Galaxy	James Gunn
	The Imitation Game	Morten Tyldum
	Inherent Vice	Paul Thomas Anderson
	A Most Violent Year	J. C. Chandor
	Nightcrawler	Dan Gilroy
	Selma	Ava DuVernay
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2015	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy
	The Big Short	Adam McKay
	Carol	Alex Garland
	Inside Out	Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen
	Mad Max: Fury Road	George Miller
	The Martian	Ridley Scott
	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu
	Room	Lenny Abrahamson
	Sicario	Denis Villeneuve
	Steve Jobs	Danny Boyle
2016	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	Arrival	Denis Villeneuve
	The Handmaiden	Chan-wook Park
	Hell or High Water	David Mackenzie
	Jackie	Pablo Larraín
	Lion	Garth Davis
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
	The Nice Guys	Shane Black
	Nocturnal Animals	Tom Ford
2017	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	The Big Sick	Michael Showalter
	Call Me by Your Name	Luca Guadagnino
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
	The Florida Project	Sean Baker
	Get Out	Jordan Peele
	Logan	James Mangold
	The Post	Steven Spielberg
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2018	The Favourite'	Yorgos Lanthimos
	Black Panther	Ryan Coogler
	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee
	Eighth Grade	Bo Burnham
	First Reformed	Paul Schrader
	Green Book	Peter Farrelly
	Hereditary	Ari Aster
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins
	A Star Is Born	Bradley Cooper
	Vice	Adam McKay
2019	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho
	1917	Sam Mendes
	The Farewell	Lulu Wang
	The Irishman	Martin Scorsese
	Jojo Rabbit	Taika Waititi
	Joker	Todd Phillips
	Knives Out	Rian Johnson
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino
	Uncut Gems	Joshua Safdie and Benjamin Safdie

2020s

Year	Winner and nominees	Director(s)
2020	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
	Da 5 Bloods	Spike Lee
	The Father	Florian Zeller
	Minari	Lee Isaac Chung
	Never Rarely Sometimes Always	Eliza Hittman
	One Night in Miami...	Regina King
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
	Soul	Pete Docter and Kemp Powers
	Sound of Metal	Darius Marder
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin
2021	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
	CODA	Sian Heder
	Don't Look Up	Adam McKay
	Dune	Denis Villeneuve
	King Richard	Reinaldo Marcus Green
	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Parallel Mothers	Pedro Almodóvar
	tick, tick... BOOM!	Lin-Manuel Miranda
	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Joel Coen
2022	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann
	The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg
	Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio	Guillermo del Toro
	RRR	S. S. Rajamouli
	TÁR	Todd Field
	Till	Chinonye Chukwu
	Top Gun: Maverick	Joseph Kosinski
	Women Talking	Sarah Polley
2023	Poor Things	Yorgos Lanthimos
	American Fiction	Cord Jefferson
	Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.	Kelly Fremon Craig
	Barbie	Greta Gerwig
	The Color Purple	Blitz Bazawule
	Godzilla Minus One	Takashi Yamazaki
	The Holdovers	Alexander Payne
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Martin Scorsese
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan
	Past Lives	Celine Song

References

• Houston Film Critics Society official website