Filmfare Award for Best Director

history

The Filmfare Best Director Award is one of the main awards presented given by the annual Filmfare Awards to recognise directors working in the Hindi film Industry. It was first presented in 1954 in the inaugral year.

Superlatives

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |- !width="350"|Category !width="250"|Name !width="250"|Superlative !width="150"|Year(s) !width="350"|Notes |- |Most Awards |Bimal Roy |7 awards |1954-1964 |Awards resulted from 7 nominations |- |Most Nominations |Yash Chopra |12 nominations |1966-2005 |Nominations resulted in 4 awards |- |Most Nominations without a Win |Mahesh Bhatt |6 nominations |1984-1994 | - |}

Bimal Roy leads the winners with seven Best Director Filmfare awards, followed by Raj Kapoor and Yash Chopra, with four apiece. Chopra has the most nominations, 12, followed by Roy with 7, and Raj Kapoor, Gulzar, Subhash Ghai and Mahesh Bhatt with 6 nominations each.

Bimal Roy also has the distinction of winning the award thrice in a row, on two separate occasions (1954-1956 and 1959-1961). Mahesh Bhatt is the only other director to have been nominated thrice in a row (1984-1986). Also, no director has ever won if he/she has been nominated twice in the same year - Gulzar in 1974, Basu Chatterjee in 1977 and Hrishikesh Mukherjee in 1980.

Sai Paranjpye is the only woman to have ever won the Best Director award. She won it for Sparsh in 1985. Paranjpye had earlier been nominated for Chashme Buddoor in 1982. Other women directors to have been nominated are Mira Nair for Salaam Bombay! in 1990 and Farah Khan for Main Hoon Na in 2005 and for Om Shanti Om in 2008.

Multiple nominations

The following 47 directors have received multiple Best Director nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).

Winner and Nominees

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. The films are listed by the years when the award was presented. The announcing of nominations became regular after 1959.

1950s

  • 1954 Bimal Roy - Do Bigha Zameen'''''

1960s

1970s

1980s

  • 1987 no award

  • '''1988 no award

1990s

2000s

2010s

See also

  • Filmfare Awards
  • Bollywood
  • Cinema of India

External links

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