Hum Award for Best Director Drama Serial

Hum Award for Best Director Drama Serial
Description	"Excellence in television direction achievement"
Country	Pakistan
Presented by	Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel
First awarded	2013 (for direction in drama serials telecast during the 2012 television season)
Currently held by	Haseeb Hassan, Diyar-e-Dil (2016)
Website	hum.tv/humawards/

The Hum Award for Best Director Drama Serial is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) to directors working in the drama industry. While nominations for Best drama Director are made by members in the Hum's Directing branch, the award winners are selected by the Hum membership as a whole.

History

As of 1st Hum Awards Ceremony, HTNEC presented awards to directors. At 1st Hum Awards there were ten nominations for different dramas serials. The Hum Awards for Best Director and Best Drama Serial have been very closely linked together. At 2nd Hum Awards, Sultana Siddiqui became the oldest and first female recipient of Best Directing Award.

Rules

As per rule declared by Direction Guild of Pakistan only one individual may claim screen credit as a Drama's director. (This rule is designed to prevent rights and ownership issues and to eliminate lobbying for director credit by producers and actors.) However, the DGP may create an exception to this "one director per drama" rule if two co-directors seeking to share director credit for a drama qualify as an "established duo".

Winners and Nominees

Each Hum Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Hum Award for Drama Directing and the drama associated with the award. In the column next to the winner of each award are the other nominees for best director. For the first ceremony to onwards, the eligibility period spanned full calendar years. For example, the 1st Hum Awards presented on April 28, 2013, to recognized dramas that were released between January, 2012, and December, 2012, the period of eligibility is the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. However this rule was subjected to change when two (Sadqay Tumharae and Digest Writer) of nominated drama serial were still airing when nominations were announced. Date and the award ceremony shows that the 2010 is the period from 2010-2020 (10 years-decade), while the year column shows the dramas year in which they were telecast, and the ceremony column shows the ceremony number for which the nominees are awarded, for example; actually an award ceremony is held for the dramas of its previous year.

2010s

Year	Winner drama serial	Nominated	Ref.
2012	Farooq Rind  – Sanjha	Sarmad Sultan Khoosat – Shehr-e-Zaat Fahim Burney – Yahan Pyar Nahi Hai Amna Nawaz Khan – Maat Asim Ali – Mere Qatil Mere Dildar Siraj ul Haq – Roshan Sitara Haissam Hussain – Durr-e-Shahwar Mehreen Jabbar – Mata-e-Jaan Hai Tu Adnan Haroon – Bilqees Kaur Saife Hassan – Bari Aapa
2013	Sultana Siddiqui  – Zindagi Gulzar Hai	Ehteshamuddin – Aseerzadi Siraj-ul-Haq – Humnasheen Mehreen Jabbar – Rehaai Barkat Siddiqui – Mujhe Khuda Pe Yaqeen Hai Farooq Rind– Rishtey Kuch Adhoray Se Kashif Nisar – Ullu Baraye Farokht Nahi Abis Raza – Kankar Shehzad Kashmiri – Dil-e-Muztar
2014	Ehteshamuddin  – Sadqay Tumhare	Sakina Samo – Muhabbat Subha Ka Sitara Hai Siraj-ul-Haq – Bunty I Love You Amna Nawaz Khan – Shanakht Haseeb Hassan – Aahista Aahista Farooq Rind – Mere Meherbaan Syed Ahmed Kamran – Digest Writer

External links

Official websites

• Hum Awards official website
• Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC)
• Hum's Channel at YouTube (run by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel)