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The Filmfare Best Director Award is one of the main awards presented given by the annual Filmfare Awards to recognise directors working in the Hindi film Industry. It was first presented in 1954 in the inaugral year.

[edit] Superlatives

Category	Name	Superlative	Year(s)	Notes
Most Awards	Bimal Roy	7 awards	1954-1964	Awards resulted from 7 nominations
Most Nominations	Yash Chopra	12 nominations	1966-2005	Nominations resulted in 4 awards
Most Nominations without a Win	Mahesh Bhatt	6 nominations	1984-1994	-

Bimal Roy leads the winners with seven Best Director Filmfare awards, followed by Raj Kapoor and Yash Chopra, with four apiece. Chopra has the most nominations, 12, followed by Roy with 7, and Raj Kapoor, Gulzar, Subhash Ghai and Mahesh Bhatt with 6 nominations each.

Bimal Roy also has the distinction of winning the award thrice in a row, on two separate occasions (1954-1956 and 1959-1961). Mahesh Bhatt is the only other director to have been nominated thrice in a row (1984-1986). Also, no director has ever won if he/she has been nominated twice in the same year - Gulzar in 1974, Basu Chatterjee in 1977 and Hrishikesh Mukherjee in 1980.

Sai Paranjpye is the only woman to have ever won the Best Director award. She won it for Sparsh in 1985. Paranjpye had earlier been nominated for Chashme Buddoor in 1982. Other women directors to have been nominated are Mira Nair for Salaam Bombay! in 1990 and Farah Khan for Main Hoon Na in 2005 and for Om Shanti Om in 2008.

[edit] Multiple nominations

The following 47 directors have received multiple Best Director nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards (with the number of total nominations listed in parentheses).

7 : Bimal Roy (7)
4 : Yash Chopra (12)
4 : Raj Kapoor (6)
3 : Sanjay Leela Bhansali (3)
2 : Rakesh Roshan (5)
2 : Rajkumar Santoshi (5)
2 : Ashutosh Gowariker (3)
2 : Manoj Kumar (3)
2 : Govind Nihalani (2)
1 : Subhash Ghai (6)
1 : Gulzar (6)
1 : B.R. Chopra (5)
1 : Mansoor Khan (4)
1 : Shyam Benegal (3)
1 : Basu Chatterjee (3)
1 : Aditya Chopra (3)

1 : Vidhu Vinod Chopra (3)
1 : Karan Johar (3)
1 : Sohanlal Kanwar (3)
1 : Mukul S. Anand (2)
1 : Sooraj Barjatya (2)
1 : J.P. Dutta (2)
1 : Shekhar Kapur (2)
1 : Mehboob Khan (2)
1 : Sai Paranjpye (2)
1 : Ramanand Sagar (2)
1 : Asit Sen (2)
1 : Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram (2)
0 : Mahesh Bhatt (6)
0 : Hrishikesh Mukherjee (5)
0 : Ram Gopal Varma (5)
0 : Shakti Samanta (3)

0 : Ramesh Sippy (3)
0 : Farhan Akhtar (2)
0 : Vikram Bhatt (2)
0 : Madhur Bhandarkar (2)
0 : Satyen Bose (2)
0 : Abbas-Mustan (2)
0 : Dharmesh Darshan (2)
0 : David Dhawan (2)
0 : Rajkumar Hirani (2)
0 : Farah Khan (2)
0 : Raj Khosla (2)
0 : Indra Kumar (2)
0 : Prakash Mehra (2)
0 : L.V. Prasad (2)
0 : Rajiv Rai (2)
0 : Rahul Rawail (2)

[edit] Winner and Nominees

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. The films are listed by the years when the award was presented. The announcing of nominations became regular after 1959.