Winners and nominees
| ‡ | Indicates the winner |
| Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Achievement in cinematic direction |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Presented by | Hong Kong Film Awards |
| First awarded | 1982 |
| Currently held by | Soi Cheang (2024) |
The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director is an award presented annually at the Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA). It is given to honour the best director of a Hong Kong film. [Note 1] The 1st Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony was held in 1982, with no formal nomination procedure established; the award was given to Allen Fong for his direction of Father and Son. After the first award ceremony, a nomination system was put in place whereby no more than five nominations are made for each category and each entry is selected through two rounds of voting. Firstly, prospective nominees are marked with a weight of 50% each from HKFA voters and a hundred professional adjudicators, contributing towards a final score with which the top five nominees advance to the second round of voting. The winner is then selected via a scoring process where 55% of the vote comes from 55 professional adjudicators, 25% from representatives of the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild and 20% from all other HKFA Executive Committee Members. [1]
From the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards (1983), there are five, sometimes 6, nominations for the category of Best Director from which one director is chosen the winner of the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director. The most recent recipient of the award was Soi Cheang, who was honoured at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards (2024), for his film Mad Fate . The directors with most awards in this category is Ann Hui with six wins, followed by Allen Fong, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark and Wong Kar-wai with 3 times each.
| ‡ | Indicates the winner |
The following individuals received two or more Best Director awards:
| The following individuals received three or more Best Director nominations:
|
| Items | Name | Statistics | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most wins | Ann Hui | 6 wins | 13 nominations |
| Most nominations | Johnnie To | 18 nominations | 3 wins |
| Oldest winner | Ann Hui | Age 70 years, 327 days | For Our Time Will Come |
| Oldest nominee | Mabel Cheung | Age 72 years, 150 days | For To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self |
| Youngest winner | Stanley Kwan | Age 31 years, 182 days | For Rouge |
| Youngest nominee | Age 31 years | ||
| Most nominations without a win | Wilson Yip | 6 nominations | |
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