Austrian Film Award / Best Director

Prize winner 2013: Ulrich Seidl

Austrian Film Award : Best Director

Winner and nominee in the Best Director category since the Austrian Film Award was first presented in 2011.

The award winner is determined in a two-stage process. First, all full members of the professional groups ("sections") of directing, production and screenwriting nominate their preferred directing services in a secret written vote. Nominations are given to up to three individual achievements - those filmmakers who can collect the most votes are considered nominated. The winner is determined by a second ballot in which all voting members of the Academy of Austrian Films take part. The filmmaker with the highest number of votes is the winner of the Austrian Film Prize.

Award winners and nominations

year	Award winners	Movie	Nominations
2011	Benjamin Heisenberg	The robber	Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel - La Pivellina Jessica Hausner - Lourdes
2012	Karl Markovics	To breathe	Michael Glawogger - Whores' Glory Markus Schleinzer - Michael
2013	Ulrich Seidl	Paradise: love	Florian Flicker - Border Crosser Julian Pölsler - The Wall
2014	Hüseyin tobacco	Your beauty is worthless	Katharina Mückstein - Talea Götz Spielmann - October November
2015	Andreas Prochaska	the dark valley	Jessica Hausner - Amour Fou Sudabeh Mortezai - Macondo
2016	Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala	I see, I see	Marie Kreutzer - Gruber goes Wolfgang Murnberger - Eternal life
2017	Barbara Eder	Thank you for bombing	Dieter Berner - Egon Schiele: Death and Maiden Klaus Händl - Hangover
2018	Adrian Goiginger	The best of all worlds	Barbara Albert - Light Stefan Ruzowitzky - Hell - Inferno
2019	Wolfgang Fischer	Styx	Christian Frosch - Murer - Anatomy of a Process Markus Schleinzer - Angelo
2020	Sudabeh Mortezai	Joy	Jessica Hausner - Little Joe Marie Kreutzer - The ground beneath your feet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guidelines at oesterreichische-filmakademie.at, p. 4 (status: 2011/12; accessed on December 24, 2011).