page_title: Citra Award for Best Director
section_title: Nominations and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Citra Award for Best Director / Nominations and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Indonesian songwriter, director, and politician Eros Djarot
context_page_description: The Citra Award for Best Director is an award given at the Indonesian Film Festival to Indonesian film directors in recognition for their achievements. The Citra Awards, described by Screen International as "Indonesia's equivalent to the Oscars", are the country's most prestigious film awards and are intended to recognise Indonesian achievements in film and draw the public's interest to the cinema industry. Initially winners were selected from all entries by a jury. Owing to efficiency concerns and widespread disapproval of winners within the Indonesian film industry, beginning in 1979 the IFF instituted a nomination system in which a committee selected the Citra Award recipients from a shortlist of four to six films. Since 1986 the shortlist has remained at five selections.
  The Citra Awards, then known as the Indonesian Film Festival Awards, were first given at the IFF in early 1955; that year, Lilik Sudjio won Best Director for his film Tarmina. The festival was then held intermittently, in 1960 and 1967. In 1973 the festival began to be held annually.
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caption: Eros Djarot won a Citra Award for Tjoet Nja' Dhien.
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