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.
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Superlatives
| Category | Name | Superlative | Year(s) | 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
- 1956 Bimal Roy - Biraj Bahu
- Satyen Bose - Jagriti
- Sohrab Modi - Kundan
- 1958 Mehboob Khan - Mother India
- 1959 Bimal Roy - Madhumati
- B.R. Chopra - Sadhna
- Mahesh Kaul - Talaaq
1960s
- 1960 Bimal Roy - Sujata
- L.V. Prasad - Chhoti Bahen
- Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram - Navrang
- 1962 B.R. Chopra - Kanoon
- Nitin Bose - Gunga Jumna
- Radhu Karmakar - Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai
- 1963 Abrar Alvi - Saahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
- Biren Nag - Bees Saal Baad
- Mehboob Khan - Son of India
- 1966 Yash Chopra - Waqt
- 1967 Vijay Anand - Guide
- 1968 Manoj Kumar - Upkaar
- A. Bhimsingh - Mehrbaan
- A. Subba Rao - Milan
- 1969 Ramanand Sagar - Ankhen
- Bhappi Soni - Brahmachari
- Ram Maheshwari - Neel Kamal
1970s
- 1970 Yash Chopra - Ittefaq
- 1971 Asit Sen - Safar
- Raj Khosla - Do Raaste
- Sohanlal Kanwar - Pehchaan
- 1973 Sohanlal Kanwar - Be-Imaan
- 1974 Yash Chopra - Daag
- Gulzar - Achanak
- Gulzar - Koshish
- Raj Kapoor - Bobby
- Rajendra Bhatia - Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar
- 1975 Manoj Kumar - Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
- Anil Ganguly - Kora Kagaz
- Basu Bhattacharya - Avishkaar
- M.S. Sathyu - Garam Hawa
- Shyam Benegal - Ankur
- 1976 Yash Chopra - Deewar
- Gulzar - Aandhi
- Ramesh Sippy - Sholay
- Shakti Samanta - Amanush
- Sohanlal Kanwar - Sanyasi
- 1978 Basu Chatterjee - Swami
- Asrani - Chala Murari Hero Banne
- Bhimsain - Gharaonda
- Gulzar - Kinara
- Manmohan Desai - Amar Akbar Anthony
- 1979 Satyajit Ray - Shatranj Ke Khiladi
1980s
- 1980 Shyam Benegal - Junoon
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee - Jurmana
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee - Gol Maal
- Manmohan Krishna - Noorie
- Yash Chopra - Kaala Patthar
- 1981 Govind Nihalani - Aakrosh
- B.R. Chopra - Insaaf Ka Tarazu
- Esmayeel Shroff - Thodisi Bewafai
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee - Khubsoorat
- J. Om Prakash - Aasha
- 1982 Muzaffar Ali - Umrao Jaan
- K. Balachander -
Ek Duuje Ke Liye - Rabindra Dharamraj - Chakra
- Ramesh Talwar - Baseraa
- Sai Paranjpye - Chashme Buddoor
- Shyam Benegal - Kalyug
- K. Balachander -
- 1983 Raj Kapoor - Prem Rog
- B.R. Chopra - Nikaah
- Ramesh Sippy - Shakti
- Sagar Sarhadi - Bazaar
- Subhash Ghai - Vidhaata
- 1984 Govind Nihalani - Ardh Satya
- Mahesh Bhatt - Arth
- Mohan Kumar - Avtaar
- Rahul Rawail - Betaab
- Shekhar Kapoor - Masoom
- 1985 Sai Paranjpye - Sparsh
- 1986 Raj Kapoor - Ram Teri Ganga Maili
- Mahesh Bhatt - Janam
- Rahul Rawail - Arjun
- Ramesh Sippy - Saagar
- 1987 no award
- 1988 no award
1990s
- 1990 Vidhu Vinod Chopra - Parinda
- 1991 Rajkumar Santoshi - Ghayal
- Mahesh Bhatt - Aashiqui
- Mukul S. Anand - Agneepath
- Ravi Raja - Pratibandh
- 1992 Subhash Ghai -
Saudagar - Lawrence D'Souza - Saajan
- Mahesh Bhatt - Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin
- Randhir Kapoor - Henna
- Yash Chopra - Lamhe
- 1994 Rajkumar Santoshi - Damini
- 1997 Shekhar Kapur - Bandit Queen
- Dharmesh Darshan - Raja Hindustani
- Gulzar - Maachis
- Parto Ghosh - Agni Sakshi
- Rajkumar Santoshi - Ghatak
- 1998 J.P. Dutta - Border
- 1999 Karan Johar - Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
2000s
- 2002 Ashutosh Gowariker - Lagaan
- 2003 Sanjay Leela Bhansali - Devdas
- 2004 Rakesh Roshan - Koi... Mil Gaya
- 2005 Kunal Kohli - Hum Tum
- 2006 Sanjay Leela Bhansali - Black
- 2008 Aamir Khan - Taare Zameen Par
- 2009 Ashutosh Gowariker - Jodhaa Akbar
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