Screen Award for Best Director

Screen Award for Best Director
Screen Award for Best Director
	The 2020 Recipient: Zoya Akhtar
Awarded for	"Excellence in cinematic direction achievement"
Country	India
Presented by	Screen India
First awarded	Sooraj R. Barjatya,; Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1995)
Currently held by	Zoya Akhtar,; Gully Boy (2020)

The Screen Award for Best Director is chosen by a distinguished panel of judges from the Indian "Bollywood" film industry and the winners are announced in January. Frequent winners include Sanjay Leela Bhansali (3), Rakesh Roshan and Ashutosh Gowariker (2)

Multiple wins


Wins	Recipient
3	Sanjay Leela Bhansali
2	Rakesh Roshan, Ashutosh Gowariker

Year	Director	Film
1995	Sooraj R. Barjatya	Hum Aapke Hain Kaun
1996	Aditya Chopra	Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge
1997	Dharmesh Darshan	Raja Hindustani
1998	J. P. Dutta	Border
1999	Karan Johar	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
2000	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
2001	Rakesh Roshan	Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
2002	Ashutosh Gowariker	Lagaan
2003	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Devdas
2004	Rakesh Roshan	Koi... Mil Gaya
2005	Kunal Kohli	Hum Tum
2006	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Black
2007	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra	Rang De Basanti
2008	Aamir Khan and Shimit Amin	Taare Zameen Par and Chak De India
2009	Ashutosh Gowariker and Neeraj Pandey	Jodhaa Akbar and A Wednesday
2010	Rajkumar Hirani	3 Idiots
2011	Vikramaditya Motwane	Udaan
2012	Milan Luthria	The Dirty Picture
2013	Anurag Basu	Barfi!
2014	Shoojit Sircar	Madras Cafe
2015	Vikas Bahl	Queen^[1]
2016	Tinu Suresh Desai	Rustom (film)
2016	Kabir Khan	Bajrangi Bhaijaan^[2]
2017	Ram Madhvani	Neerja
2018	Nitesh Tiwari	Dangal
2019	Sriram Raghavan	Andhadhun
2020	Zoya Akhtar	Gully Boy

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^ "Winners of 22nd Annual Star Screen Awards 2015". Bollywood Hungama. 8 January 2016. Archived from the original on 10 January 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2016.