SIIMA Award for Best Director – Malayalam

This article is about the award category. For the main function, see SIIMA Awards.

The SIIMA Award for Best Director – Malayalam is an award, begun in 2012, presented annually at the South Indian International Movie Awards to a director via viewers and the winner is announced at the ceremony. The nominations for the category are given by the jury members.

SIIMA Awards for Best Director – Malayalam
Awarded for	"Excellence in cinematic direction achievement"
Country	India
Presented by	South Indian International Movie Awards
First award	2012
Currently held by	Sathyan Anthikad, Njan Prakashan (2019)
Website	siima.in

Superlatives

Superlative	Director(s)	Record
Most nominations	Lijo Jose Pellissery, Rosshan Andrrews	3
Director with most nominations without ever winning	Rosshan Andrrews	3

Winners and nominees

Table key

‡	Indicates the winner

Year[a]	Photos of winners	Director	Film	Ref.
2012 (1st)		Rajesh Pillai ‡	Traffic	[1]
		———
2013 (2nd)		Lal Jose ‡	Ayalum Njanum Thammil	[2]
		Anwar Rasheed	Ustad Hotel
		Aashiq Abu	22 Female Kottayam
		Vineeth Sreenivasan	Thattathin Marayathu
		Madhupal	Ozhimuri
2014 (3rd)		Jeethu Joseph ‡	Drishyam	[3] [4]
		Lijo Jose Pellissery	Amen
		Kamal	Celluloid
		Shyamaprasad	Artist
		Rosshan Andrrews	Mumbai Police
2015 (4th)		Anjali Menon ‡	Bangalore Days	[5] [6]
		Amal Neerad	Iyobinte Pusthakam
		Ranjith	Njaan
		Venu	Munnariyippu
		Rosshan Andrrews	How Old Are You?
2016 (5th)		Alphonse Puthren ‡	Premam	[7] [8]
		Lal Jose	Nee-Na
		Martin Prakkat	Charlie
		R. S. Vimal	Ennu Ninte Moideen
		Salim Ahamed	Pathemari
2017 (6th)		Vysakh ‡	Pulimurugan	[9] [10]
		Abrid Shine	Action Hero Biju
		Priyadarshan	Oppam
		Rajeev Ravi	Kammatipaadam
		Vineeth Sreenivasan	Jacobinte Swargarajyam
2018 (7th)		Lijo Jose Pellissery ‡	Angamaly Diaries	[11] [12]
		Aashiq Abu	Mayanadi
		Dileesh Pothan	Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum
		Mahesh Narayanan	Take Off
		Soubin Shahir	Parava
2019 (8th)		Sathyan Anthikad ‡	Njan Prakashan	[13] [14]
		Amal Neerad	Varathan
		Lijo Jose Pellissery	Ee.Ma.Yau.
		Rosshan Andrrews	Kayamkulam Kochunni
		Zakariya Mohammed	Sudani from Nigeria

Notes

1. Refers to the year in which the ceremony was held.