ARY Film Award for Best Director
| ARY Film Award for Best Director | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | "Excellence in cinematic direction achievement" |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Presented by | ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel |
| First awarded | 2014 (for the films released in 2013) |
| Currently held by |
Bilal Lashari, Waar (2013)[1] |
| Official website |
aryfilmawards |
The ARY Film Award for Best Director is one of the ARY Film Awards of Merit presented annually by the ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel to directors working in the film industry and is the only category in which every member is eligible to submit a nomination. Best Film Director is considered the most important of the ARY Film Awards, as it represents all the directing, acting, music composing, writing, editing and other efforts put forth into a drama. This award is one of the two Best Director awards in ceremony, in which one is awarded to relevant film only by the decision of ceremony Jury, while other is being awarded on Viewers Voting's.
History
The best film director category originates with the 1st ARY Film Awards ceremony since 2014. The Best Film Director of Best Director is awarded by viewers voting and known as Best Director Viewers Choice but officially it is termed as Best Director. Since ARY Film Awards has been just started, this category has not a brief history. The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:
- 2013 → present: ARY Film Award for Best Director
Winners and nominees
In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees. The year shown is the one in which the film first released; normally this is also the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2005 was eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Film ARY Awards, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony/ Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. Till from 2013, the Best Drama Serial award has given to producer rather than to Production company.
As of the first ceremony, total of six films were nominated for seven directors. This category is among one of two Best Film Director Awards that is given to Best Film's. Best Film Director Jury winner is eligible to be nominated among Best Film Director and may won the Both awards. This category is among Viewers Section Awards in ARY Film Awards that are awarded on the basis of public voting's.
For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st ARY Film Awards presented on May 25, 2014, to recognized films that were released between January 2013 to December 2013, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.
Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the film year in which they were releases, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the films of its previous year.
2010s
| Year | Winner film |
Nominated |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 (1st) |
Bilal Lashari – Waar |
Ismail Jilani – Chambaili Shahzad Rafique – Ishq Khuda Syed Ali Raza Usama – Main Hoon Shahid Afridi Azfar Jafri – Siyaah Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi – Zinda Bhaag |
References
- ↑ "ARY Film Awards 2014 AFA14 Pictures and Winners". Style Pakistan. April 28, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2014 ARY Film Awards. |
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