Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Director

The Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Director,^[1] formerly known as the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing, is an award category of the annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards.^[2] The award has been given annually by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy since 2007.^[3]^[4]

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Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Original title
2007	Rakhshan Bani-E'temad and Mohsen Abdolvahab	Mainline	Khoon Bazi,
	Nadine Labaki	Caramel	سكر بنات / Sekkar banat
	Peng Tao	Little Moth	血蝉;/ xuè chán
	Shawkat Amin Korki	Crossing the Dust	Perrînewe le xobar
	Zhanna Issabayeva	Karoy
2008	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Three Monkeys	Üç Maymun,
	Johnnie To	Sparrow	文雀 / Man Jeuk
	Kim Jee-woon	The Good, the Bad, the Weird	좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈;/ Jo-eun nom nappeun nom isanghan nom
	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Tokyo Sonata	トウキョウソナタ / Tōkyō Sonata
	Sergey Dvortsevoy	Tulpan	Тюльпан
2009	Lu Chuan	City of Life and Death	南京！南京！, Nanjing! Nanjing!
	Asghar Farhadi	About Elly	درباره الی / Darbâreye Eli
	Anurag Kashyap	Dev.D
	Vimukthi Jayasundara	Between Two Worlds	Ahasin Wetei
	Sion Sono	Love Exposure	愛のむきだし / Ai no mukidashi

Year	Winner and nominees	Film	Original title
2010	Lee Chang-dong	Poetry	시, Shi
	Doze Niu	Monga	艋舺;/Báng-kah
	Semih Kaplanoğlu	Honey	Bal
	Wang Quan'an	Weaving Girl	纺织姑娘 / fǎng zhī gū niáng
	Feng Xiaogang	Aftershock	唐山大地震/ Tángshān Dà Dìzhèn
2011	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da,
	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Elena	Елена
	Mohammad Rasoulof	Goodbye	به امید دیدار/ Be omid e didar
	Asghar Farhadi	A Separation	جدایی نادر از سیمین / odaí-e Nadér az Simín
	Na Hong-jin	The Yellow Film	황해; / Hwang hae
	Jiang Wen	Let the Bullets Fly	让子弹飞; / Ràng Zǐ Dàn Fēi
2012	Brillante Mendoza	Thy Womb	Sinapupunan
	Reis Çelik	Night of Silence
	Khosro Masoumi	The Bear	Khers
	Cheng Er	Lethal Hostage	边境风云 / Biānjìng Fēngyún
	Anurag Kashyap	Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1
2013	Anthony Chen	Ilo Ilo	爸妈不在家,
	Emir Baighazin	Harmony Lessons	Асланның сабақтары
	Huner Saleem	My Sweet Pepperland
	Hirokazu Koreeda	Like Father, Like Son	そして父になる / Soshite Chichi ni Naru
	Shahram Mokri	Fish and Cat	ماهی و گربه / Mahi Va Gorbeh
2014	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Winter Sleep	Kış Uykusu,
	Rolf de Heer	Charlie's Country
	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Leviathan (2014 film)	Левиафан
	Im Kwon-taek	Revivre	화장 / Hwajang
	Rakhshan Bani-E'temad	Tales	قصه‌ها / Ghesse-ha
2015	Alexey German JR	Under Electric Clouds	Под электрическими облаками / Pod electricheskimi oblakami
	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Cemetery of Splendour	รักที่ขอนแก่น / Rak Ti Khon Kaen
	Yermek Tursunov	Stranger	Жат / Zhat
	Hou Hsiao-hsien	The Assassin	刺客聶隱娘 / Nie Yinniang
	Park Jungbum	Alive	산다 / Sanda
2016	Feng Xiaogang	I Am Not Madam Bovary ^[5]	我不是潘金莲 / Wo Bu Shi Pan Jinlian
	Anurag Kashyap	Psycho Raman	Raman Raghav 2.0
	Bi Gan	Kaili Blues	路边野餐 / Lu Bian Ye Can
	Lee Joon-Ik	The Throne	사도 / Sado
	Zeki Demirkubuz	Ember	Kor
2017	Andrey Zvyagintsev	Loveless	Nelyubov
	Ana Urushadze	Scary Mother	Sashishi Deda
	Kore-eda Hirokazu	The Third Murder	Sandome no Satsujin
	Mouly Surya	Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts	Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak
	Sanal Kumar Sasidharan	Sexy Durga
2018	Nadine Labaki	Capharnaüm
	Bruce Beresford	Ladies in Black
	Emir Baigazin	The River	Ózen
	Kore-eda Hirokazu	Shoplifters	万引き家族 / Manbiki Kazoku
	Ivan Ayr	Soni
2019	Adilkhan Yerzhanov	A Dark, Dark Man
	Lav Diaz	The Halt	Ang Hupa
	Elia Suleiman	It Must Be Heaven
	Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ben Rivers	Krabi, 2562
	Wang Xiaoshuai	So Long, My Son	地久天长

Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Director

Winners and nominees

2000s

2010s

References

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