Zee Cine Award for Most Promising Director

The Zee Cine Award for Most Promising Director is an Indian film award which began in 2005.

In 2002, Zee Cine tried to acknowledge debut directors by creating a Zee Cine Special Award for Debut Director. In 2005, the category for most promising director was made official. A group of juries chose the best candidate out of five nominated directors. The inaugural Zee Cine Award for Most Promising Director was given to Farah Khan for Main Hoon Na.

Winners Year Winner Film 2002 Farhan Akhtar Dil Chahta Hai 2004 Rajkumar Hirani Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. 2005 Farah Khan Main Hoon Na 2006 Pradeep Sarkar Parineeta 2007 Dibakar Banerjee Khosla Ka Ghosla 2008 Aamir Khan Taare Zameen Par 2009 Not Held 2010 Not Held 2011 Abhinav Kashyap Dabangg 2012 Siddique Bodyguard 2013 Gauri Shinde English Vinglish 2014 Ayan Mukerji Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani 2015 Rajkumar Hirani PK2016Neeraj GhaywanMasaan2017 Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury Pink 2018 Advait Chandan Secret Superstar 2019 Amar Kaushik Stree2021Aditya DharSandeep Reddy VangaUri: The Surgical StrikeKabir Singh 2022 Not Held 2022 Not Held2023Jasmeet K. ReenDarlings

See also Zee Cine Awards Bollywood Cinema of India

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