Asian Film Award for Best Director has been awarded annually since 2007 by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.[1][2][3][4]
| 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 |
Winners and nominees
edit2000s
edit| 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 | — |
2010s
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2020s
edit| 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 | — |
References
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- ^ "4th AFA Nominees and Winners". asianfilmawards.asia. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
- ^ "Anthony Chen nominated for best director at 8th Asian Film Awards". antaranews.com. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
- ^ Kim Bo-ra (October 8, 2021). "유아인·아오이 유우 '주연상'→이병헌 '아시아영화엑설런스상'…韓 4관왕(AFA)[종합]" [Yoo Ah-in and Aoi Yu 'Best Actor' → Lee Byung-hun's 'Asian Film Excellence Award'… Korea 4 Crowns (AFA) [Overall]]. Osen (in Korean). Naver. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
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