66th Filmfare Awards

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66th Filmfare Awards
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Presented on27 March 2021 (2021-03-27)
Site Film City, Mumbai
Hosted by [1]
Organized by The Times Group
Official website Filmfare Awards 2021
Highlights
Best Film Thappad
Eeb Allay Ooo!
Most awardsThappad (7)
Most nominations Ludo (16)
Television coverage
Network Colors TV

The 66th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2020.

Contents

Ludo led the ceremony with 16 nominations each, followed by Thappad with 15 nominations, and Gulabo Sitabo and Tanhaji with 13 nominations each.

Thappad won 7 awards, including Best Film and Best Actress (for Taapsee Pannu), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Pankaj Tripathi received dual nominations for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl and Ludo, but lost to Saif Ali Khan who the award for Tanhaji.

At age 88, Farrukh Jaffar set a record for becoming the oldest winner of an acting Filmfare Award, winning Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Gulabo Sitabo.

The ceremony was also noted as being the only to have two actors being nominated posthomously for the same award, with Irrfan Khan and Sushant Singh Rajput receiving Best Actor nominations for Angrezi Medium and Dil Bechara respectively, with Khan winning the award, thus becoming the only actor to win the Filmfare Best Actor award posthomously.

Winners and nominees

On 27 March 2021, winners were announced. [2] Below is the list of winners: [3] [4]

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Om Raut, Best Director
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Taapsee Pannu, Best Actress
The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the Padma Shri Award to Shri Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan, at an Investiture Ceremony II, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on April 01, 2011 (cropped).jpg
Irrfan Khan Best Actor & Lifetime Achievement Awardee
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Tillotama Shome, Best Actress Critics
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Amitabh Bachchan, Best Actor Critics
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Saif Ali Khan, Best Supporting Actor
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Farrukh Jaffar, Best Supporting Actress
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Pritam, Best Music Director
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Asees Kaur, Best Female Playback Singer
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Gulzar, Best Lyricist
Best Film Best Director
Best Actor Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress
Debut Awards
Best Male Debut Best Female Debut Best Debut Director

Not Awarded

Writing Awards
Best Story Best Screenplay Best Dialogue
Music Awards

Best Music Director

Best Lyricist

Best Playback Singer – Male

Best Playback Singer – Female

Critics' Awards

Best Film (Best Director)
Best Actor Best Actress

Special Awards

Filmfare Special Award
  • Not Awarded
Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
Filmfare R. D. Burman Award
  • Not Awarded

Technical awards

Nominations for the Technical awards were announced on the same day.

Best Editing Best Production Design Best Choreography
Best Cinematography Best Sound Design Best Background Score
Best Costume Design Best Action Best Special Effects

Short Film Awards

Best Short Film
FictionNon-fictionPeople's Choice
  • Shivraj Waichal – Arjun
  • Nitesh Ramesh Parulekar – Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Priyanka Banerjee – Devi
Best Actor – Male (Short Film)Best Actor – Female (Short Film)
  • Arnav Abdagire – Arjun as Arjun
  • Purti Savardekar – The First Wedding as Bhumi

Superlatives

Multiple nominations
NominationsFilm
16 Ludo
15 Thappad
13 Gulabo Sitabo
Tanhaji
8 Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
Lootcase
6 Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan
5 Eeb Allay Ooo!
Sir
4 Angrezi Medium
Chhapaak
Dil Bechara
Love Aaj Kal
Panga
Shakuntala Devi
3 Baaghi 3
2 Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare
Street Dancer 3D
Multiple wins
AwardsFilm
7 Thappad
6 Gulabo Sitabo
4 Tanhaji
2 Sir

See also

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