| Asian Film Awards for Best Director | |
|---|---|
 The 2023 and 2024 recipient: Hirokazu Kore-eda | |
| Awarded for | Best direction in Asian Cinema in the year |
| Presented by | Hong Kong International Film Festival Society |
| First awarded | 2007 |
| Last awarded | 2024 |
| Winner (2024) | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| Website | www.asianfilmawards.asia |
Asian Film Award for Best Director has been awarded annually since 2007 by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society. [1] [2] [3] [4]
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 |  Jia Zhangke | Still Life | 三峡好人 |
 Hong Sang-soo | Woman on the Beach | 해변의 여인 | |
 Jafar Panahi | Offside | آفساید | |
 Johnnie To | Exiled | 放逐 | |
 Tsai Ming-liang | I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | 黑眼圈 | |
 Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Syndromes and a Century | อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล | |
| 2008 | Lee Chang-dong | Secret Sunshine | 밀양 |
| Peter Chan | The Warlords | 投名状 | |
| Jiang Wen | The Sun Also Rises | 太阳照常升起 | |
| Ang Lee | Lust, Caution | 投名状 | |
 Masayuki Suo | I Just Didn't Do It | それでもボクはやってない | |
| Zhang Lu | Desert Dream | 경계 | |
| 2009 | Hirokazu Koreeda | Still Walking | 歩いても 歩いても |
| Feng Xiaogang | If You Are the One | 非诚勿扰 | |
| Kim Jee-woon | The Good, the Bad, the Weird | 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈 | |
 Brillante Mendoza | Service | Serbis | |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea | 崖の上のポニョ | |
| John Woo | Red Cliff | — |
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Wang Xiaoshuai | So Long, My Son | 地久天长 |
| Pema Tseden | Balloon | དབུགས་ལྒང་། (Tibetan); 气球 (Simplified Chinese) | |
| Tsai Ming-liang | Days | 日子 | |
| Bong Joon-ho | Parasite | 기생충 | |
| Chung Mong-hong | A Sun | 陽光普照 | |
| Nobuhiro Suwa | Voices in the Wind | 風の電話 | |
| 2021 [5] | Zhang Yimou | One Second | 秒钟 |
 Adhilkan Yerzhanov | Yellow Cat | — | |
| Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Wife of a Spy | スパイの妻 | |
| Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | 偶然と想像 | |
| Lee Joon-ik | The Book of Fish | 자산어보 | |
| 2023 [6] | |||
| Hirokazu Kore-eda | Broker | 브로커 | |
| Park Chan-wook | Decision to Leave | 헤어질 결심 | |
| Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Drive My Car | ドライブ・マイ・カー | |
 Davy Chou | Return to Seoul | Retour à Séoul | |
| Darezhan Omirbaev | Poet | Akyn | |
| 2024 | |||
| Hirokazu Kore-eda | Monster | 怪物 | |
| Gu Xiaogang | Dwelling by the West Lake | 草木人間 | |
| Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Evil Does Not Exist | 悪は存在しない | |
| Kim Sung-su | 12.12: The Day | 서울의 봄 | |
 Prasanna Vithanage | Paradise | — | |
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