West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for Best Director

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WBFJA for Best Director
Awarded forBest direction by a director
CountryIndia
Presented byWest Bengal Film Journalists' Association
First awarded2013
Last awarded2024
Most Recent Winner Atanu Ghosh for Shesh Pata

The West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for Best Director is given yearly by WBFJA as a part of its annual West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for Bengali films, to recognize the best director of the previous year.

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Superlatives

CategoryNameSuperlative
Most Awards Kaushik Ganguly 3 awards
Most Nominations Kaushik Ganguly 5 nominations
Most Nominations without a Win Arindam Sil 3 nominations

List of winners

Winner Wise

YearWinnerFilm
2017 Kaushik Ganguly Cinemawala
2018 Kaushik Ganguly Bishorjon
2019 Srijit Mukherji Ek Je Chhilo Raja
2020 Kaushik Ganguly Nagarkirtan
2021 Anik Dutta Borunbabur Bondhu
2022 Atanu Ghosh Binisutoy
2023 Anik Dutta Aparajito (2022 film)
2024 Atanu Ghosh Shesh Pata

Nomination Wise

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