Who were the most innovative directors in each year in your opiion?

For example:
2014:
Damien Chazelle, Whiplash
David Fincher, Gone Girl
Chris Nolan, Imitation Game
Alejandro Inarritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
JC Chander, A Most Violent Year
Ana Duvrey, Selma
Jay Carney, Begin Again

2013:
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Spike Jonze, Her
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
Alfanso Cuaron, Gravity
David O Russell, American Hustle
Neil Blokamp, Elysium
Edgar Wright, This is the End
Abdellatif Kechiche, Blue is the Warmest Color
Paul Greengrass, Captain Philips
Guillermo del Toro, Pacific Rim
Joss Wheedon, Much Ado About Nothing

2012:
Ben Affleck, Argo
Rian Johnson, Looper
Mark Webb, Amazing Spiderman
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Tom Hopper, Les Miserables
Kathryn Bighelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom
Rob Zemeckis, Flight
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Richard Linklater, Bernie
Michel Haneke, Amour
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Joss Wheedon, The Avengers

2011:
Alexander Payne, Descendants
Michael H., The Artist
Steve McQueen, Shame
JJ Abrahams, Super 8
David Cronenberg, Dangerous Method
Tomas Alfredson, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Pedrom Almodovar, Skin I live In
Bennett Miller, Moneyball
Terrence Malick, Tree of Life

What are your choices?

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