Platino Award for Best Director

The Platino Award for Best Director (Spanish: Premio Platino al mejor director / Premio Platino a la mejor dirección) is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards presented annually by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA).

History
It was first presented at the 1st Platino Awards, where Mexican director Amat Escalante was the first recipient of the award for the film Heli. Escalante also won Best Director at the 56th Ariel Awards, Mexico's most important film awards.

Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is the only director who has won the award more than once with two wins, in 2017 for Julieta and in 2020 for Pain and Glory.

Almodovar alongside Pablo Larraín are also the most nominated directors in the category with three nominations each, followed by Sebastián Lelio, Álvaro Brechner, Ciro Guerra, J. A. Bayona, Isabel Coixet and Icíar Bollaín, all with two nominations each.

In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.