64th Filmfare Awards

The 64th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2018. The ceremony was held on 23 March 2019 in Mumbai.^[1]

64th Filmfare Awards
64th Filmfare Awards
Date	23 March 2019
Site	Jio Garden, BKC, Mumbai
Hosted by	Shah Rukh Khan Rajkummar Rao Vicky Kaushal Ayushmann Khurrana Salman Khan
Official website	Filmfare Awards 2019
Highlights
Best Film	Raazi
Critics Award for Best Film	Andhadhun
Most awards	Andhadhun & Raazi (5)
Most nominations	Padmaavat (18)
Television coverage
Network	Colors TV
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Padmaavat led the ceremony with 18 nominations, followed by Raazi with 15 nominations, Andhadhun with 11 nominations, and Badhaai Ho and Stree with 10 nominations each.

Andhadhun and Raazi won 5 awards each, thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony, with the former winning Best Film (Critics) and Best Actor (Critics) (for Ayushmann Khurrana), and the latter winning Best Film, Best Director (for Meghna Gulzar), and Best Actress (for Alia Bhatt).

Badhaai Ho and Padmaavat won 4 awards each; Tumbbad and Sanju baba won 3 and 2 awards respectively, with the latter winning Best Actor (for Ranbir Kapoor).^[2]

For the first time in the history of the Filmfare Awards, there was a tie for Best Supporting Actor – when Gajraj Rao for Badhaai Ho tied with Vicky Kaushal for Sanju for the award.

Winners and nominees

Meghna Gulzar, Best Director

Ranbir Kapoor, Best Actor

Alia Bhatt, Best Actress

Sriram Raghavan, Best Director Critics

Neena Gupta, Best Actress Critics

Ayushmann Khurrana & Ranveer Singh, Best Actor Critics

Gajraj Rao & Vicky Kaushal, Best Supporting Actor

Surekha Sikri, Best Supporting Actress

Arijit Singh, Best Male Playback Singer

Shreya Ghosal, Best Female Playback Singer

Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Best Music Director

Sridevi, Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Public voting for nominations on the Filmfare website opened on the end of December 2018 and closed at the end of January 2019. Nominees were announced on 12 March 2019^[1] and the winners were announced on 23 March 2019.^[3][4][5]

Popular awards

Best Film	Best Director
Raazi – Dharma Productions, Junglee Pictures – Karan Johar, Vineet Jain, Hiroo Yash Johar, Apoorva Mehta Andhadhun – Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Matchbox Pictures Badhaai Ho – Junglee Pictures, Chrome Pictures – Vineet Jain, Aleya Sen, Hemant Bhandari, Amit Ravindernath Sharma, Sushil Choudhary, Priti Sahani Padmaavat – Viacom18 Motion Pictures, Bhansali Productions – Sudhanshu Vats, Ajit Andhare, Sanjay Leela Bhansali Sanju – Vinod Chopra Films, Rajkumar Hirani Films, Fox Star Studios – Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani Stree – Maddock Films, D2R Films, Jio Studios – Dinesh Vijan, Raj and DK	Meghna Gulzar – Raazi Amar Kaushik – Stree Amit Sharma – Badhaai Ho Rajkumar Hirani – Sanju Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Padmaavat Sriram Raghavan – Andhadhun
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ranbir Kapoor – Sanju as Sanjay Dutt Akshay Kumar – Pad Man as Laxmikant Chauhan Ayushmann Khurrana – Andhadhun as Akash Rajkummar Rao – Stree as Vicky Ranveer Singh – Padmaavat as Alauddin Khilji Shah Rukh Khan – Zero as Bauua Singh	Alia Bhatt – Raazi as Sehmat Khan Deepika Padukone – Padmaavat as Rani Padmavati Neena Gupta – Badhaai Ho as Priyamvada Kaushik Rani Mukerji – Hichki as Ms. Naina Mathur Tabu – Andhadhun as Simi
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Gajraj Rao – Badhaai Ho as Jeetendra Kaushik Vicky Kaushal – Sanju as Kamlesh "Kamli" Kanhaiyalal Kapasi (tie) Aparshakti Khurana – Stree as Bittu Jim Sarbh – Padmaavat as Malik Kafur Manoj Pahwa – Mulk as Bilal Ali Mohammed Pankaj Tripathi – Stree as Rudra	Surekha Sikri – Badhaai Ho as Dadi Gitanjali Rao – October as Prof. Vidya Iyer Katrina Kaif – Zero as Babita Kumari Shikha Talsania – Veere Di Wedding as Meera Kaur Stinson Swara Bhaskar – Veere Di Wedding as Sakshi Soni Yamini Dass – Sui Dhaaga as Nimmo Sharma
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut
Ishaan Khatter – Beyond the Clouds as Amir and Dhadak as Madhukar Bagla	Sara Ali Khan – Kedarnath as Mandakani "Mukku" Mishra Banita Sandhu – October as Shiuli Iyer Janhvi Kapoor – Dhadak as Parthavi Singh Rathore Mouni Roy – Gold as Monobina Radhika Madan – Pataakha as Chamki Kumari
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Padmaavat Ajay–Atul – Dhadak Ajay–Atul – Zero Amaal Mallik, Rochak Kohli, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Guru Randhawa, Zack Knight, Saurabh-Vaibhav and Rajat Nagpal – Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Amit Trivedi – Manmarziyaan Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Raazi	Gulzar – "Ae Watan" – Raazi A. M. Turaz – "Binte Dil" – Padmaavat Gulzar – "Dilbaro" – Raazi Irshad Kamil – "Mere Naam Tu" – Zero Kumaar – "Tera Yaar Hoon Main" – Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Shekhar Astitva – "Kar Har Maidaan Fateh" – Sanju
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Arijit Singh – "Ae Watan (Male)" – Raazi Abhay Jodhpurkar – "Mere Naam Tu" – Zero Arijit Singh – "Binte Dil" – Padmaavat Arijit Singh – "Tera Yaar Hoon Main" – Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Badshah – "Tareefan" – Veere Di Wedding Shankar Mahadevan – "Dilbaro" – Raazi	Shreya Ghoshal – "Ghoomar" – Padmaavat Harshdeep Kaur and Vibha Saraf – "Dilbaro" – Raazi Jonita Gandhi – "Ahista" – Laila Majnu Ronkini Gupta – "Chaav Laga" – Sui Dhaaga Sunidhi Chauhan – "Manwaa" – October Sunidhi Chauhan – "Ae Watan (Female)" – Raazi

Critics' awards

Nominations for the critics award was announced on 12 March 2019.^[1]

Best Film (Best Director)
Andhadhun – Sriram Raghavan Badhaai Ho – Amit Sharma Manto – Nandita Das Pataakha – Vishal Bhardwaj Raazi – Meghna Gulzar Tumbbad – Rahi Anil Barve
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ayushmann Khurrana – Andhadhun as Akash Ranveer Singh – Padmaavat as Alauddin Khilji (tie) Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Manto as Saadat Hasan Manto Ranbir Kapoor – Sanju as Sanjay Dutt Varun Dhawan – October as Danish Walia Vineet Kumar Singh – Mukkabaaz as Sharavan Kumar Singh	Neena Gupta – Badhaai Ho as Priyamvada Kaushik Alia Bhatt – Raazi as Sehmat Khan Anushka Sharma – Sui Dhaaga as Mamta Radhika Madan – Pataakha as Champa 'Badki' Kumari Taapsee Pannu – Mulk as Aarti Mohammad Tabu – Andhadhun as Simi
Best Short Film (Non-Fiction)	Best Short Film (Fiction)
Sachin Balasaheb Suryavanshi – The Soccer City	Rogan Josh
Best Short Film (People's Choice)[6]
Plus Minus First Period Gandh Kahanibaaz Malota Prawns Rogan Josh Udne Do
Best Actor – Male (Short Film)	Best Actor – Female (Short Film)
Hussain Dalal – Shameless	Kirti Kulhari – Maya

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Sridevi (awarded posthumously)
50 Years of Outstanding Contribution to Cinema
Hema Malini
RD Burman Award
Niladri Kumar for Laila Majnu
Best Debut Director
Amar Kaushik – Stree

Technical awards

The winners were announced on 23 March 2019.^[4]

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Anubhav Sinha – Mulk Anudeep Singh – Mukkabaaz Raj and DK – Stree Sharat Katariya – Sui Dhaaga Akshat Ghildial, Shantanu Srivastava – Badhaai Ho (Withdrawn)[7]	Sriram Raghavan, Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti, Yogesh Chandekar, Hemanth Rao – Andhadhun Anubhav Sinha – Mulk Bhavani Iyer and Meghna Gulzar – Raazi Nandita Das – Manto Raj and DK – Stree
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Akshat Ghildial – Badhaai Ho Anubhav Sinha – Mulk Nandita Das – Manto Sharat Katariya – Sui Dhaaga Sumit Aroraa – Stree Vishal Bhardwaj – Pataakha	Pooja Ladha Surti – Andhadhun Ballu Saluja – Mulk Hemanti Sarkar – Stree Nitin Baid – Raazi Sanyukta Kaza – Tumbbad
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Kruti Mahesh and Jyothi D Tomar – "Ghoomar" – Padmaavat Ganesh Acharya – "Khalibali" – Padmaavat Ganesh Acharya – "Main Badhiya Tu Bhi Badhiya" – Sanju Remo D'Souza – "Mere Naam Tu" – Zero Shabina Khan – "Balma" – Pataakha	Pankaj Kumar – Tumbbad Avik Mukhopadhyay – October Kartik Vijay – Manto Ranjan Palit – Pataakha Siddharth Diwan – Bhavesh Joshi Superhero Sudeep Chatterjee – Padmaavat
Best Production Design	Best Sound Design
Nitin Zihani Choudhary and Rakesh Yadav – Tumbbad Madhusudan – Stree Neil Chowdhury – Omertà Ratheesh UK – Badhaai Ho Rita Ghosh – Manto Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray – Padmaavat	Kunal Sharma – Tumbbad Anish John – Pari Biswdeep Chatterjee – Padmaavat Dipankar Jojo Chaki – October Madhu Apsara – Andhadhun Robert Kellough – Gali Guleiyan
Best Costume Design	Best Background Score
Sheetal Sharma – Manto Ajay, Maxima Basu, Harpreet Rimple and Chandrakant Sonawane – Padmaavat Karishma Sharma – Pataakha Payal Saluja – Gold Smriti Chauhan and Sachin Lovalekar – Tumbbad	Daniel B. George – Andhadhun Amit Trivedi – Manmarziyaan Jesper Kyd – Tumbbad Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy and Tubby – Raazi Shantanu Moitra – October
Best Special Effects	Best Action
Red Chillies VFX – Zero Filmgate Films AB – Tumbbad NYVFXWala – Padmaavat Red Chillies VFX – Pari	Vikram Dahiya and Sunil Rodrigues – Mukkabaaz Ahmed Khan, Kecha Khampadkee, Ram Chella, Lakshman Chella and Shamshir Khan – Baaghi 2 Cyril Raffaelli, Sebastian Seveau and Vikram Dahiya – Bhavesh Joshi Superhero Sham Kaushal – Padmaavat Sunil Rodrigues – Simmba

Superlatives

Multiple nominations

Nominations Film 18 Padmaavat 15 Raazi 11 Andhadhun 10 Badhaai Ho Stree 8 Tumbbad 7 Manto Sanju Zero 6 Mulk October Pataakha 5 Sui Dhaaga 3 Mukkabaaz Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Veere Di Wedding 2 Bhavesh Joshi Superhero Manmarziyaan Pari

Multiple wins Awards Film 5 Andhadhun Raazi 4 Badhaai Ho Padmaavat 3 Tumbbad 2 Sanju 1 Beyond the Clouds Kedarnath

See also

• Filmfare Awards
• List of Bollywood films of 2018