ARY Film Award for Best Director Jury

ARY Film Award for Best Director Jury
ARY Film Award for Best Director Jury
Description	"Excellence in cinematic direction achievement by Jury"
Country	Pakistan
Presented by	ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel
First awarded	2014 (for the films released in 2013)
Currently held by	Bilal Lashari,; Waar (2013)
Website	aryfilmawards.com

The ARY Film Award for Best Director Jury is one of the ARY Film Awards of Merit presented annually by the ARY Digital Network and Entertainment Channel to directors working in the film industry and is the only category in which every member is eligible to submit a nomination. Best Film Director Jury is considered the most important of the ARY Film Awards, as it represents all the directing, acting, music composing, writing, editing and other efforts put forth into a drama. This award is one of the two Best Director awards in ceremony, in which one is awarded to relevant film only by the decision of ceremony Jury, while other is being awarded on Viewers Voting's.

History

The best film director jury category originates with the 1st ARY Film Awards ceremony since 2014. Since ARY Film Awards has been just started, this category has not a brief history. The name of the category officially termed by the channel is:

2013 → present: ARY Film Award for Best Director Jury

Winners and nominees

For Best Director Jury there were no Nomination made as of first ceremony, Since this Category awarded to Best Director of the Year by Jury, so it has to be only one win and one nominee. Following years may have nominations but as per of first ceremony only solo win and solo nomination was being made. The year shown is the one in which the film first released; normally this is also the year before the ceremony at which the award is given; for example, a film exhibited theatrically during 2005 was eligible for consideration for the 2005 Best Film ARY Awards, awarded in 2006. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article on that ceremony/ Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. Till from 2013, the Best Drama Serial award has given to producer rather than to Production company.

As of the first ceremony, only one winner was announced during the ceremony which was Jury decision based winner. This category is among one of four Jury Awards in ARY Film Awards that has only one win and one nomination.

For the first ceremony, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st ARY Film Awards presented on May 25, 2014, to recognized films that were released between January 2013 to December 2013, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year above winners and nominees shows that the film year in which they were releases, and the figure in bracket shows the ceremony number, for example; an award ceremony is held for the films of its previous year.