25th Screen Awards

The 25th Star Screen Awards ceremony honoured the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2018. The ceremony was held on 27 December 2018 and broadcast in India on Star Plus on 31 December 2018.^[1][2] Actors Vicky Kaushal, Shahid Kapoor and Karan Johar hosted the event.^[1][3] Additionally, Shah Rukh Khan introduced and concluded the awards ceremony.

25th Screen Awards
Date	16 December 2018
Site	Mumbai, India
Hosted by	Vicky Kaushal Karan Johar Shahid Kapoor
Produced by	Cineyug
Official website	25th Screen Awards
Highlights
Best Film	Stree
Best Direction	Sriram Raghavan (Andhadhun)
Best Actor	Rajkummar Rao and Ranveer Singh (Stree and Padmaavat)
Best Actress	Alia Bhatt (Raazi)
Most awards	Raazi (6)
Most nominations	Raazi (11)
Television coverage
Network	Star Plus
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Raazi led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Andhadhun with 9 nominations and Badhaai Ho, Padmaavat and Stree with 7 nominations each.

Raazi won 6 awards, including Best Actress (for Alia Bhatt), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[4][3]

Sriram Raghavan — Best Director (Andhadhun)

Ranveer Singh and Rajkummar Rao— Best Actor (Padmaavat & Stree)

Alia Bhatt — Best Actress (Raazi)

Gajraj Rao — Best Actor - Critics (Badhaai Ho)

Neena Gupta — Best Actress - Critics (Badhaai Ho)

Pankaj Tripathi — Best Supporting Actor (Stree)

Surekha Sikri — Best Supporting Actress (Badhaai Ho)

Shabana Azmi — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Main awards

Best Film	Best Director
Stree – Dinesh Vijan, Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. Andhadhun – Sanjay Routray, Ajit Andhare and Sudhanshu Vats Badhaai Ho – Vineet Jain, Hemant Bhandari and Amit Sharma Mulk – Deepak Mukut and Anubhav Sinha Padmaavat – Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Sudhanshu Vats and Ajit Andhare Raazi – Vineet Jain, Karan Johar, Hiroo Yash Johar and Apoorva Mehta Sanju – Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani	Sriram Raghavan – Andhadhun Amar Kaushik – Stree Amit Sharma – Badhaai Ho Anubhav Sinha – Mulk Meghna Gulzar – Raazi Rajkumar Hirani – Sanju Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Padmaavat
Best Actor	Best Actress
Rajkummar Rao – Stree as Vicky Ranveer Singh – Padmaavat as Alauddin Khilji Ayushmann Khurrana – Andhadhun as Akash Ayushmann Khurrana – Badhaai Ho as Nakul Kaushik Gajraj Rao – Badhaai Ho as Jeetender Kaushik Ranbir Kapoor – Sanju as Sanjay Dutt Vicky Kaushal – Manmarziyaan as Vicky Sandhu	Alia Bhatt – Raazi as Sehmat Khan Deepika Padukone – Padmaavat as Padmavati Rani Mukerji – Hichki as Naina Mathur Taapsee Pannu – Manmarziyaan as Rumi Bagga Tabu – Andhadhun as Simi
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Pankaj Tripathi – Stree as Rudra Abhishek Bachchan – Manmarziyaan as Robbie Bhatia Jaideep Ahlawat – Raazi as Khalid Mir Saurabh Shukla – Raid as Rameshwar Singh Sunny Kaushal – Gold as Himmat Singh Vicky Kaushal – Raazi as Iqbal Syed Vicky Kaushal – Sanju as Kamlesh Kanhaiyalal Kapasi	Surekha Sikri – Badhaai Ho as Dadi Divya Dutta – Blackmail as Dolly Verma Pushpa Joshi – Raid as Amma Ji Radhika Apte – Andhadhun as Sophie Rasika Dugal – Manto as Safia Swara Bhaskar – Veere Di Wedding as Sakshi Soni
Most Promising Newcomer – Male	Most Promising Newcomer – Female
Ishaan Khatter – Beyond the Clouds as Amir & Dhadak as Madhukar Bhagla Abhishek Bannerjee – Stree as Jaana	Radhika Madan – Pataakha as Champa Kumari Janhvi Kapoor – Dhadak as Parthavi Singh Zoya Hussain – Mukkabaaz as Sunaina Mishra
Most Promising Debut Director	Best Child Artiste
Amar Kaushik – Stree Adesh Prasad and Rahi Anil Barve – Tumbbad Akarsh Khurana – Karwaan Dipesh Jain – Gali Guleiyan Prosit Roy – Pari	Mohammad Samad – Tumbbad as Pandurang Dhundiraj Prabhakar Jogalekar – Tumbbad as Young Vinayak

Critics' awards

Best Film
Mulk – Deepak Mukut and Anubhav Sinha October – Shoojit Sircar, Ronnie Lahiri and Sheel Kumar Pari – Anushka Sharma and Karnesh Sharma Pataakha – Vishal Bhardwaj, Rekha Bhardwaj, Dheeraj Wadhawan, Ajay Kapoor and Ishan Saksena Tumbbad – Sohum Shah, Aanand L. Rai, Mukesh Shah and Amita Shah
Best Actor	Best Actress
Gajraj Rao – Badhaai Ho as Jeetender Kaushik Ishaan Khatter – Beyond the Clouds as Amir Rajkummar Rao – Omerta as Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh Rishi Kapoor – Mulk as Murad Ali Mohammed Varun Dhawan – October as Danish Walia Vineet Kumar Singh – Mukkabaaz as Shravan Kumar Singh	Neena Gupta – Badhaai Ho as Priyamvada Kaushik Anushka Sharma – Pari as Rukhsana Malavika Mohanan – Beyond the Clouds as Tara Sanya Malhotra – Pataakha as Genda Kumari Taapsee Pannu – Mulk as Aarti Malhotra

Special Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award	Star Plus Baat Nayi Award
Sridevi	Thugs of Hindostan
Best Ethnic Style – Male	Best Ethnic Style – Female
Shah Rukh Khan	Mrunal Thakur
Real Star Award – Male	Real Star Award – Female
Sushant Singh Rajput	Katrina Kaif

Technical Awards

Best Music
Amit Trivedi – Manmarziyaan Ajay–Atul – Dhadak Amaal Mallik, Guru Randhawa, Rochak Kohli, Saurabh–Vaibhav, Yo Yo Honey Singh and Zack Knight – Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Qaran, Shashwat Sachdev, Vishal Mishra and White Noise – Veere Di Wedding Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Raazi Vishal–Shekhar – Tiger Zinda Hai
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Arijit Singh – "Ae Watan" (Raazi) Amit Trivedi – "Naina Da Kya Kasoor" (Andhadhun) Ammy Virk and Shahid Mallya – "Daryaa" (Manmarziyaan) Atif Aslam – "Dil Diyan Gallan" (Tiger Zinda Hai) Diljit Dosanjh – "Ishq Di Baajiyaan" (Soorma)	Harshdeep Kaur – "Conch Ladhiyaan" (Manmarziyaan) & "Dilbaro" (Raazi) Sunidhi Chauhan – "Lae Dooba" (Aiyaary) Jonita Gandhi – "Sacchi Mohabbat" (Manmarziyaan) Shreya Ghoshal – "Ghoomar" (Padmaavat) Ronkini Gupta – "Chaav Laaga" (Sui Dhaaga) Neha Kakkar and Dhvani Bhanushali – "Dilbar" (Satyameva Jayate)
Best Lyrics	Best Sound Design
Gulzar – "Ae Watan" (Raazi)	Madhu Apsara – Andhadhun
Best Film Writing (Story and Screenplay)	Best Dialogue
Sriram Raghavan, Pooja Ladha Surti, Hemanth Rao, Arijit Biswas and Yogesh Chandekar – Andhadhun	Sumit Arora – Stree
Best Editing	Best Cinematography
Pooja Ladha Surti – Andhadhun	Pankaj Kumar – Tumbbad
Best Costume Design	Best Production Design
Ajay Kumar, Chandrakan Sonawane, Harpreet Narula, Pimple Narula and Maxima Basu – Padmaavat	Amit Ray and Subrata Chakraborty – Raazi
Best Action	Best Choreography
Ahmed Khan – Baaghi 2	Jyothi D. Tomar and Kruti Mahesh – "Ghoomar" (Padmaavat)

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
11	Raazi
9	Andhadhun
7	Badhaai Ho
	Padmaavat
	Stree
6	Manmarziyaan
5	Mulk
	Tumbbad
4	Dhadak
	Sanju
3	Beyond the Clouds
	Pari
	Pataakha
2	Gold
	Mukkabaaz
	October
	Raid
	Tiger Zinda Hai
	Veere Di Wedding

Films that received multiple awards

Wins	Film
6	Raazi
5	Stree
4	Andhadhun
3	Badhaai Ho
	Padmaavat
	Tumbbad
2	Dhadak
	Manmarziyaan

Performers and presenters

The following individuals performed musical numbers or presented awards.^[4]

Performers

Name(s)	Performed
Nora Fatehi	"Dilbar" (Satyameva Jayate) "Manohari" (Baahubali: The Beginning)
Shraddha Kapoor	"Aao Kabhi Haveli Pe" (Stree) "Kamariya" (Stree) "Milegi Milegi" (Stree)
Tiger Shroff	"Urvashi" (Yo Yo Honey Singh) "Mundiyan" (Baaghi 2) "O Saathi" (Baaghi 2) "High Rated Gabru" (Nawabzaade)
Katrina Kaif	"Suraiyya" (Thugs of Hindostan) "Manzoor-e-Khuda" (Thugs of Hindostan) "Husn Parcham" (Zero)
Alia Bhatt	"Let's Nacho" (Kapoor & Sons)
Jacqueline Fernandez	"Aa Zara" (Murder 2) "Buzz" (Badshah) "Yaar Na Miley" (Kick) "Heeriye" (Race 3)
Aayush Sharma Mouni Roy	"Rangtaari" (Loveyatri) (Solo) "Chhote Chhote Peg" (Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety) (Solo) "Chogada" (Loveyatri) "Akh Lad Jaave" (Loveyatri)

Presenters

Name(s)	Presented
Radhika Chhabria Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Sunny Kaushal	Screen Award for Most Promising Debut Director
Anupriya Goenka Karan Shroff	Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Male Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Female
Naveen Kapoor Daisy Shah	Screen Award for Best Child Artiste
Kabir Khan	Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor
Ambrish Jain Kabir Khan	Real Star Award - Male
Sonal Chauhan Malavika Mohanan	Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress
Shyam Benegal Urmila Matondkar	Screen Lifetime Achievement Award
Rajkummar Rao	Star Plus Baat Nayi Award
Kartik Aaryan Ishita Raj Nushrratt Bharuccha	Screen Award for Best Ethnic Style - Male Screen Award for Best Ethnic Style - Male
Nushrat Barucha Ambrish Jain Aayush Sharma	Real Star Award - Female
Neena Gupta Diana Penty	Screen Award for Best Film (Critics) Screen Award for Best Film
Ramesh Sippy	Screen Award for Best Director
Sriram Raghavan Mouni Roy	Screen Award for Best Actor (Critics) Screen Award for Best Actress (Critics)
Rekha Balesh Sharma	Screen Award for Best Actor
Rekha	Screen Award for Best Actress
Neetu Chandra Meghna Gulzar	Screen Award for Best Sound Design Screen Award for Best Costume Design Screen Award for Best Production Design
Rasika Duggal Raja Krishna Menon	Screen Award for Best Editing Screen Award for Best Cinematography Screen Award for Best Action
Jaideep Ahlawat Ashwini Iyer Tiwari	Screen Award for Best Film Writing (Story and Screenplay) Best Dialogue Screen Award for Best Choreography
Divya Dutta Radhika Madhan	Screen Award for Best Lyricist
Divya Ghosla Kumar Bhushan Kumar	Screen Award for Best Music
Ramesh Taurani Taapsee Pannu Badshah|| Screen Award for Best Male Playback Screen Award for Best Female Playback