# Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Director

The Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Director, formerly known as the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing, is an award category of the annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The award has been given annually by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy since 2007.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Original title |
| 2007 | Rakhshan Bani-E'temad and Mohsen Abdolvahab | Mainline | Khoon Bazi, |
| 2007 | Nadine Labaki | Caramel | سكر بنات / Sekkar banat |
| 2007 | Peng Tao | Little Moth | 血蝉;/ xuè chán |
| 2007 | Shawkat Amin Korki | Crossing the Dust | Perrînewe le xobar |
| 2007 | Zhanna Issabayeva | Karoy | |
| 2008 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Three Monkeys | Üç Maymun, |
| 2008 | Johnnie To | Sparrow | 文雀 / Man Jeuk |
| 2008 | Kim Jee-woon | The Good, the Bad, the Weird | 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈;/ Jo-eun nom nappeun nom isanghan nom |
| 2008 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Tokyo Sonata | トウキョウソナタ / Tōkyō Sonata |
| 2008 | Sergey Dvortsevoy | Tulpan | Тюльпан |
| 2009 | Lu Chuan | City of Life and Death | 南京！南京！, Nanjing! Nanjing! |
| 2009 | Asghar Farhadi | About Elly | درباره الی / Darbâreye Eli |
| 2009 | Anurag Kashyap | Dev.D | |
| 2009 | Vimukthi Jayasundara | Between Two Worlds | Ahasin Wetei |
| 2009 | Sion Sono | Love Exposure | 愛のむきだし / Ai no mukidashi |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | Film | Original title |
| 2010 | Lee Chang-dong | Poetry | 시, Shi |
| 2010 | Doze Niu | Monga | 艋舺;/Báng-kah |
| 2010 | Semih Kaplanoğlu | Honey | Bal |
| 2010 | Wang Quan'an | Weaving Girl | 纺织姑娘 / fǎng zhī gū niáng |
| 2010 | Feng Xiaogang | Aftershock | 唐山大地震/ Tángshān Dà Dìzhèn |
| 2011 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da, |
| 2011 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Elena | Елена |
| 2011 | Mohammad Rasoulof | Goodbye | به امید دیدار/ Be omid e didar |
| 2011 | Asghar Farhadi | A Separation | جدایی نادر از سیمین / odaí-e Nadér az Simín |
| 2011 | Na Hong-jin | The Yellow Film | 황해; / Hwang hae |
| 2011 | Jiang Wen | Let the Bullets Fly | 让子弹飞; / Ràng Zǐ Dàn Fēi |
| 2012 | Brillante Mendoza | Thy Womb | Sinapupunan |
| 2012 | Reis Çelik | Night of Silence | |
| 2012 | Khosro Masoumi | The Bear | Khers |
| 2012 | Cheng Er | Lethal Hostage | 边境风云 / Biānjìng Fēngyún |
| 2012 | Anurag Kashyap | Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 | |
| 2013 | Anthony Chen | Ilo Ilo | 爸妈不在家, |
| 2013 | Emir Baighazin | Harmony Lessons | Асланның сабақтары |
| 2013 | Huner Saleem | My Sweet Pepperland | |
| 2013 | Hirokazu Koreeda | Like Father, Like Son | そして父になる / Soshite Chichi ni Naru |
| 2013 | Shahram Mokri | Fish and Cat | ماهی و گربه / Mahi Va Gorbeh |
| 2014 | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu, |
| 2014 | Rolf de Heer | Charlie's Country | |
| 2014 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Leviathan (2014 film) | Левиафан |
| 2014 | Im Kwon-taek | Revivre | 화장 / Hwajang |
| 2014 | Rakhshan Bani-E'temad | Tales | قصه‌ها / Ghesse-ha |
| 2015 | Alexey German JR | Under Electric Clouds | Под электрическими облаками / Pod electricheskimi oblakami |
| 2015 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Cemetery of Splendour | รักที่ขอนแก่น / Rak Ti Khon Kaen |
| 2015 | Yermek Tursunov | Stranger | Жат / Zhat |
| 2015 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | The Assassin | 刺客聶隱娘 / Nie Yinniang |
| 2015 | Park Jungbum | Alive | 산다 / Sanda |
| 2016 | Feng Xiaogang | I Am Not Madam Bovary | 我不是潘金莲 / Wo Bu Shi Pan Jinlian |
| 2016 | Anurag Kashyap | Psycho Raman | Raman Raghav 2.0 |
| 2016 | Bi Gan | Kaili Blues | 路边野餐 / Lu Bian Ye Can |
| 2016 | Lee Joon-Ik | The Throne | 사도 / Sado |
| 2016 | Zeki Demirkubuz | Ember | Kor |
| 2017 | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Loveless | Nelyubov |
| 2017 | Ana Urushadze | Scary Mother | Sashishi Deda |
| 2017 | Kore-eda Hirokazu | The Third Murder | Sandome no Satsujin |
| 2017 | Mouly Surya | Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts | Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak |
| 2017 | Sanal Kumar Sasidharan | Sexy Durga | |
| 2018 | Nadine Labaki | Capharnaüm | |
| 2018 | Bruce Beresford | Ladies in Black | |
| 2018 | Emir Baigazin | The River | Ózen |
| 2018 | Kore-eda Hirokazu | Shoplifters | 万引き家族 / Manbiki Kazoku |
| 2018 | Ivan Ayr | Soni | |
| 2019 | Adilkhan Yerzhanov | A Dark, Dark Man | |
| 2019 | Lav Diaz | The Halt | Ang Hupa |
| 2019 | Elia Suleiman | It Must Be Heaven | |
| 2019 | Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ben Rivers | Krabi, 2562 | |
| 2019 | Wang Xiaoshuai | So Long, My Son | 地久天长 |