Asian Film Award for Best Director
# Asian Film Award for Best Director

Asian Film Award for Best Director has been awarded annually since 2007 by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.

## Winners and nominees

### 2000s

| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2007 | Jia Zhangke | Still Life | 三峡好人 |
| 2007 | Hong Sang-soo | Woman on the Beach | 해변의 여인 |
| 2007 | Jafar Panahi | Offside | آفساید |
| 2007 | Johnnie To | Exiled | 放逐 |
| 2007 | Tsai Ming-liang | I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | 黑眼圈 |
| 2007 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Syndromes and a Century | อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล |
| 2008 | Lee Chang-dong | Secret Sunshine | 밀양 |
| 2008 | Peter Chan | The Warlords | 投名状 |
| 2008 | Jiang Wen | The Sun Also Rises | 太阳照常升起 |
| 2008 | Ang Lee | Lust, Caution | 投名状 |
| 2008 | Masayuki Suo | I Just Didn't Do It | それでもボクはやってない |
| 2008 | Zhang Lu | Desert Dream | 경계 |
| 2009 | Hirokazu Koreeda | Still Walking | 歩いても 歩いても |
| 2009 | Feng Xiaogang | If You Are the One | 非诚勿扰 |
| 2009 | Kim Jee-woon | The Good, the Bad, the Weird | 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈 |
| 2009 | Brillante Mendoza | Service | Serbis |
| 2009 | Hayao Miyazaki | Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea | 崖の上のポニョ |
| 2009 | John Woo | Red Cliff | — |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2010 | Lu Chuan | City of Life and Death | 南京! 南京! |
| 2010 | Bong Joon-ho | Mother | 마더 |
| 2010 | Asghar Farhadi | About Elly | درباره الی, Darbareye Elly |
| 2010 | Brillante Mendoza | Grandmother | Lola |
| 2010 | Sion Sono | Love Exposure | 愛のむきだし |
| 2010 | Yonfan | Prince of Tears | 淚王子 |
| 2011 | Lee Chang-dong | Poetry | 시 |
| 2011 | Feng Xiaogang | Aftershock | 唐山大地震 |
| 2011 | Jiang Wen | Let the Bullets Fly | 让子弹飞 |
| 2011 | Takashi Miike | 13 Assassins | 十三人の刺客 |
| 2011 | Na Hong-jin | The Yellow Sea | 황해 |
| 2011 | Tetsuya Nakashima | Confessions | 告白 |
| 2012 | Asghar Farhadi | A Separation | جدایی نادر از سیمین, Jodái-e Náder az Simin |
| 2012 | Teddy Soeriaatmadja | Lovely Man | — |
| 2012 | Sion Sono | Guilty of Romance | 恋の罪 |
| 2012 | Tsui Hark | Flying Swords of Dragon Gate | — |
| 2012 | Wei Te-sheng | Seediq Bale | 賽德克·巴萊 |
| 2012 | Zhang Yimou | The Flowers of War | 金陵十三钗 |
| 2013 | Takeshi Kitano | Outrage Beyond | アウトレイジ ビヨンド |
| 2013 | Anurag Kashyap | Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 & 2 | — |
| 2013 | Abbas Kiarostami | Like Someone in Love | ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ |
| 2013 | Kim Ki-duk | Pietà | 피에타 |
| 2013 | Lou Ye | Mystery | 浮城谜事 |
| 2014 | Wong Kar-wai | The Grandmaster | 一代宗師 |
| 2014 | Bong Joon-ho | Snowpiercer | 설국열차 |
| 2014 | Anthony Chen | Ilo Ilo | 爸妈不在家 |
| 2014 | Hirokazu Koreeda | Like Father, Like Son | そして父になる, Soshite Chichi ni Naru |
| 2014 | Tsai Ming-liang | Stray Dogs | Jiao You |
| 2015 | Ann Hui | The Golden Era | 黃金時代 |
| 2015 | Vishal Bhardwaj | Haider | — |
| 2015 | Lav Diaz | From What Is Before | Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon |
| 2015 | Hong Sang-soo | Hill of Freedom | 자유의 언덕 |
| 2015 | Lou Ye | Blind Massage | 推拿 |
| 2015 | Shinya Tsukamoto | Fires on the Plain | Nobi |
| 2016 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | The Assassin | 刺客聶隱娘 |
| 2016 | Guan Hu | Mr. Six | 老炮兒 |
| 2016 | Jia Zhangke | Mountains May Depart | 山河故人 |
| 2016 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Our Little Sister | 海街diary |
| 2016 | Ryoo Seung-wan | Veteran | 베테랑 |
| 2017 | Na Hong-jin | The Wailing | 곡성 |
| 2017 | Lav Diaz | The Woman Who Left | Ang Babaeng Humayo |
| 2017 | Feng Xiaogang | I Am Not Madame Bovary | 我不是潘金莲 |
| 2017 | Kōji Fukada | Harmonium | 淵に立つ |
| 2017 | Derek Tsang | Soul Mate | 七月與安生 |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Yuya Ishii | The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue | 映画 夜空はいつでも最高密度の青色だ |
| 2018 | Sylvia Chang | Love Education | 相愛相親 |
| 2018 | Chen Kaige | Legend of the Demon Cat | 妖猫传 |
| 2018 | Feng Xiaogang | Youth | 芳华 |
| 2018 | Hong Sang-soo | The Day After | 그 후 |
| 2018 | Ann Hui | Our Time Will Come | 明月幾時有 |
| 2019 | Lee Chang-dong | Burning | 버닝 |
| 2019 | Pema Tseden | Jinpa | 撞死了一只羊 |
| 2019 | Rajkumar Hirani | Sanju | |
| 2019 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Shoplifters | 万引き家族 |
| 2019 | Fruit Chan | Three Husbands | 三夫 |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2020 | Wang Xiaoshuai | So Long, My Son | 地久天长 |
| 2020 | Pema Tseden | Balloon | དབུགས་ལྒང་། (Tibetan); 气球 (Simplified Chinese) |
| 2020 | Tsai Ming-liang | Days | 日子 |
| 2020 | Bong Joon-ho | Parasite | 기생충 |
| 2020 | Chung Mong-hong | A Sun | 陽光普照 |
| 2020 | Nobuhiro Suwa | Voices in the Wind | 風の電話 |
| 2021 | Zhang Yimou | One Second | 秒钟 |
| 2021 | Adhilkan Yerzhanov | Yellow Cat | |
| 2021 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Wife of a Spy | スパイの妻 |
| 2021 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | 偶然と想像 |
| 2021 | Lee Joon-ik | The Book of Fish | 자산어보 |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Broker | 브로커 |
| 2022 | Park Chan-wook | Decision to Leave | 헤어질 결심 |
| 2022 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Drive My Car | ドライブ・マイ・カー |
| 2022 | Davy Chou | Return to Seoul | Retour à Séoul |
| 2022 | Darezhan Omirbaev | Poet | Akyn |
