| Filmfare Award for Best Director | |
|---|---|
 The 2024 recipient: Vidhu Vinod Chopra for 12th Fail | |
| Awarded for | Best Director |
| Country | India |
| Presented by | Filmfare |
| First awarded | Bimal Roy, Do Bigha Zamin (1954) |
| Currently held by | Vidhu Vinod Chopra, 12th Fail (2024) |
| Website | Filmfare Awards |
The Filmfare Best Director Award is one of the main awards presented given by the annual Filmfare Awards to recognise directors working in Hindi cinema. It was first presented in 1954 in the inaugural year.
| 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 has the record of winning most awards (7) and the distinction of winning the award thrice in a row, on 2 separate occasions (1954–1956 and 1959–1961). He also won the award whenever he was nominated (7/7). Sanjay Leela Bhansali has received the award 5 times, Yash Chopra and Raj Kapoor has received the award 4 times each.
Yash Chopra received 12 nominations, Sanjay Leela Bhansali has received 8 nominations, while Raj Kapoor has received 6 nominations. Mahesh Bhatt was nominated thrice in a row (1984–1986). However, he hasn't received any award even after having been nominated 6 times. Also, no director has ever won if one has been nominated twice in the same year – Gulzar in 1974 (for Achanak and Koshish ), Basu Chatterjee in 1977 (for Chhoti Si Baat and Chitchor ) and Hrishikesh Mukherjee in 1980 (for Gol Maal and Jurmana).
Sai Paranjpye was the first of 4 women to have won this award, the second being Zoya Akhtar, the third being Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, and the fourth being Meghna Gulzar. Sai Paranjpye won it for Sparsh in 1985. Paranjpye had earlier been nominated for Chashme Buddoor in 1982. Zoya Akhtar won it for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara in 2012. Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari won it for Bareilly Ki Barfi in 2018 and Meghna Gulzar won it in for Raazi in 2019, after previously being nominated in 2016 for Talvar . Akhtar won the award again for Gully Boy in 2020, thus becoming the only woman to win the award twice. Other women directors to have been nominated are Mira Nair for Salaam Bombay! in 1990, Farah Khan for Main Hoon Na in 2005 and for Om Shanti Om in 2008, Gauri Shinde for English Vinglish in 2013 and Seema Pahwa for Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi in 2022.
Rajkumar Santoshi remains the only director to have won the award for his first two films – for Ghayal in 1991 and for Damini in 1994.
Nitesh Tiwari and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari are the only married couple to win the award. Additionally, they won the award in consecutive years – the former won the award for Dangal in 2017 and the latter won the award for Bareilly Ki Barfi in 2018.
Only once have two siblings been nominated in the same year; Zoya Akhtar for Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Farhan Akhtar for Don 2 in 2012, with Zoya winning the category.
The following 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).
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.
Indicates the winner |
| Year | Director(s) | Film | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 (1st) | Bimal Roy | Do Bigha Zamin | [1] |
| No Nominees | |||
| 1955 (2nd) | Bimal Roy | Parineeta | [2] |
| No Nominees | |||
| 1956 (3rd) | Bimal Roy | Biraj Bahu | [3] |
| No Nominees | |||
| 1957 (4th) | V. Shantaram | Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje | [4] |
| No Nominees | |||
| 1958 (5th) | Mehboob Khan | Mother India | [5] |
| No Nominees | |||
| 1959 (6th) | Bimal Roy | Madhumati | [6] |
| B. R. Chopra | Sadhna | ||
| Mahesh Kaul | Talaaq | ||
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