65th Filmfare Awards (2020)
65th Filmfare Awards (2020)
The 65th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2019. The ceremony was held on 15 February 2020 in Guwahati and broadcast on Colors TV the following day. This is the first time in six decades that a Filmfare ceremony was held outside Mumbai.[5] Karan Johar and Vicky Kaushal were hosts of the award ceremony.
A curtain raiser ceremony was held in Mumbai on 2 February 2020, which honoured the winners of technical and short film awards. In the same function, the nominations for popular awards were also announced. Actress Neha Dhupia was the host of this ceremony.
Gully Boy led the ceremony with 19 nominations, followed by Uri: The Surgical Strike with 13 nominations and Article 15 and Sonchiriya with 11 nominations each.
Gully Boy won a record 13 awards, the most awards for a single film in a year, thus breaking the record set by Black (2005) with 11 wins at the 51st Filmfare Awards. Additionally, it also became the second film to win all four acting awards, having been achieved previously 21 years earlier by Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) at the 44th Filmfare Awards.
Winners of 65th Filmfare Awards (2020)
| Best Film | Gully Boy |
| Best Director | Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy |
| Best Actor | Ranveer Singh – Gully Boy as Murad Ahmed (Gully Boy) |
| Best Actress | Alia Bhatt – Gully Boy as Safeena Firdausi |
| Best Supporting Actor | Siddhant Chaturvedi – Gully Boy as Shrikant Bhosle (MC Sher) |
| Best Supporting Actress | Amruta Subhash – Gully Boy as Razia Ahmed |
| Debut Awards | |
| Best Male Debut | Abhimanyu Dassani – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota as Surya Sampat |
| Best Female Debut | Ananya Panday – Student of the Year 2 as Shreya Randhawa and Pati Patni Aur Woh as Tapasya Singh |
| Best Debut Director | Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike |
| Writing & Music Awards | |
| Best Story | Anubhav Sinha, Gaurav Solanki – Article 15 |
| Best Screenplay | Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti – Gully Boy |
| Best Dialogue | Vijay Maurya – Gully Boy |
| Best Music Director | Amaal Malik, Mithoon, Vishal Mishra, Sachet–Parampara, Akhil Sachdeva – Kabir Singh & Zoya Akhtar, Ankur Tewari – Gully Boy |
| Best Lyricist | Divine, Ankur Tewari – "Apna Time Aayega" – Gully Boy |
| Best Playback Singer – Male | Arijit Singh – "Kalank" – Kalank |
| Best Playback Singer – Female | Shilpa Rao – "Ghungroo" – War |
| Critics' Awards | |
| Best Film (Best Director) | Article 15 – Anubhav Sinha Sonchiriya – Abhishek Chaubey |
| Best Actor | Ayushmann Khurrana – Article 15 as IPS Ayan Ranjan |
| Best Actress | Bhumi Pednekar – Saand Ki Aankh as Chandro Tomar Taapsee Pannu – Saand Ki Aankh as Prakashi Tomar |
| Special Awards | |
| Excellence in Indian Cinema Award | Govinda |
| 30 Years of Outstanding Contribution to Bollywood Fashion | Manish Malhotra |
| Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award | Ramesh Sippy |
| Filmfare R. D. Burman Award | Sashwat Sachdev |
| Technical awards | |
| Best Editing | Shivkumar V Panicker – Uri: The Surgical Strike |
| Best Production Design | Suzanne Caplan Merwanji – Gully Boy |
| Best Choreography | Remo D'Souza – "Ghar More Pardesiya" – Kalank |
| Best Cinematography | Jay Oza – Gully Boy |
| Best Sound Design | Bishwadeep Dipak Chatterjee and Nihar Ranjan Samal – Uri: The Surgical Strike |
| Best Background Score | Karsh Kale and The Salvage Audio Collective – Gully Boy |
| Best Costume Design | Divya Gambhir, Nidhi Gambhir – Sonchiriya |
| Best Action | Paul Jennings, Oh Sea Young, Parvez Shaikh and Franz Spilhaus – War |
| Best Special Effects | Sherry Bharda And Vishal Anand For YFX – War |
| Short Film Awards | |
| Best Short Film Fiction | Shazia Iqbal – Bebaak |
| Best Short Film Non-fiction | Ananth Narayan Mahadevan – Village of a Lesser God |
| Best Short Film People's Choice | Deshi |
| Best Actor – Male (Short Film) | Rajesh Sharma – Tindey |
| Best Actor – Female (Short Film) | Sarah Hashmi – Bebaak |