Filmfare Award for Best Director – Marathi

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Filmfare Marathi Award for Best Director
Awarded forBest Director
Country India
Presented by Filmfare
First awarded Jabbar Patel,
Samna (1975)
Currently held byAshish Avinash Bende,
Aatmapamphlet (2023)
Website Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Marathi Best Director Award is one of the main awards presented given by the annual Filmfare Marathi Awards to recognise directors working in Marathi cinema. [1] [2] It was first presented in 1975. [3] [4] [5]

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Winners and nominees

1970s

1980s

1990s

2010s

2020s

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References

  1. https://archive.org/details/filmfare-awards-marathi-winners
  2. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015069813841&view=1up&seq=484
  3. Filmfare Marathi: Nominations are out
  4. Filmfare Marathi Awards 2016
  5. Filmfare Marathi Awards
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