Best Director
The awards for animation directors. Though this award does not limit to the directors of films, it has a tendency to be given to film directors.
| Year | Winner | Directed | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Akitaro Daichi | TV category | |
| Hayao Miyazaki | Film category | ||
| 2003 | Keiichi Hara | Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Battle of the Warring States | Film |
| 2004 | Satoshi Kon | Tokyo Godfathers | Film |
| 2005 | Hayao Miyazaki | Howl's Moving Castle | Film |
| 2006 | Yoshiyuki Tomino | Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam A New Translation: Heirs to the Stars | Film |
| 2007 | Mamoru Hosoda | The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Film |
| 2008 | Hideaki Anno | Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone | Film |
| 2009 | Hayao Miyazaki | Ponyo | Film |
| 2010 | Mamoru Hosoda | Summer Wars | Film |
| 2011 | Hiromasa Yonebayashi | The Secret World of Arrietty | Film |
| 2012 | Akiyuki Shinbo | Puella Magi Madoka Magica | TV series |
| 2013 | Mamoru Hosoda | Wolf Children | Film |
Read more about this topic: Tokyo Anime Award, Awards Winners: Individual
Famous quotes containing the word director:
“Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.”
—Fanny Brice (1891–1951)
“He wrote me sad Mother’s Day stories. He’d always kill me in the stories and tell me how bad he felt about it. It was enough to bring a tear to a mother’s eye.”
—Connie Zastoupil, U.S. mother of Quentin Tarantino, director of film Pulp Fiction. Rolling Stone, p. 76 (December 29, 1994)