Filmfare Award for Best Director
The Filmfare Best Director Award is one of the main awards presented given by the annual Filmfare Awards to recognise directors working in Hindi cinema. It was first presented in 1954 in the inaugural year.
The 2024 recipient: Vidhu Vinod Chopra for 12th Fail
The first and most (8 times) winner: Bimal Roy
V. Shantaram won for Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1956)
Mehboob Khan won for Mother India (1957)
The Filmfare Awards are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Hindi-language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the most famous film events in India. The awards were introduced by the Filmfare magazine of The Times Group in 1954, the same year as the National Film Awards. They were initially referred to as the "Clare Awards" or "The Clares" after Clare Mendonça, the editor of The Times of India and modelled after the Academy Awards.
Image: Ranbir Kapoor promoting Brahmastra
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Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser at the Filmfare Awards during his visit to India, March, 1960.
