title: Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Filmmaker
text: # Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Filmmaker
  
  The Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Filmmaker is an annual film award given by the Online Film Critics Society to honor the best breakthrough filmmaker of the year.
  
  ## Winners
  
  * 1999 (as Best Debut): Spike Jonze
  
      for directing Being John Malkovich
  * 2001: Christopher Nolan
  
      for directing Memento
  * 2002: Mark Romanek
  
      for directing One Hour Photo
  * 2003: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
  
      for directing American Splendor
  * 2004: Zach Braff
  
      for directing Garden State
  * 2005: Paul Haggis
  
      for directing Crash
  * 2006: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
  
      for directing Little Miss Sunshine
  * 2007: Sarah Polley
  
      for directing Away From Her
  * 2008: Tomas Alfredson
  
      for directing Let the Right One In
  