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]
Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Original title |
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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 |
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