Country Philippines | First awarded 1953 | |
Presented by Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award Currently held by Mark Meily
El Presidente (2013) | ||
The FAMAS Award for Best Director is one of the major FAMAS Awards, given to the film director who has shown great artistic instincts, choices and excellence in assembling his or her motion picture. The FAMAS Best Director is chosen from the Filipino films shown in the previous calendar year that were screened by the FAMAS. As of the 55th FAMAS Awards, four women have been awarded the prestigious award, namely Fely Crisostomo, Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Laurice Guillen and Lupita Aquino (Kashiwahara); and twenty-six men.
Winners and nominees
The list may be incomplete such as some of the names of the nominees especially during the early years of FAMAS Awards.
References
FAMAS Award for Best Director Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA