70th Filmfare Awards

70th Filmfare Awards
Presented on	11 October 2025
Site	EKA Arena, Ahmedabad Gujarat
Hosted by	Karan Johar
Organized by	The Times Group
Official website	Filmfare Awards 2025
Highlights
Most nominations	Laapataa Ladies (24)
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The 70th Filmfare Awards is a ceremony, presented by The Times Group, which honors the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2024. ^[1]

Laapataa Ladies led the ceremony with record-breaking 24 nominations, the most for a single film in a year. ^{[2] [3]}

Ceremony

The ceremony, scheduled to be held at EKA Arena, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, will honour the films released in 2024.

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced by Filmfare on 26 September 2025.

Popular awards

Best Film			Best Director
Article 370 – Jio Studios, B62 Studios Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 – T-Series Films, Cine1 Studios Kill – Dharma Productions, Sikhya Entertainment Laapataa Ladies – Jio Studios, Aamir Khan Productions, Kindling Pictures Stree 2 – Maddock Films, Jio Studios	Aditya Suhas Jambhale – Article 370 Amar Kaushik – Stree 2 Anees Bazmee – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 Kiran Rao – Laapataa Ladies Nikhil Nagesh Bhat – Kill
Best Actor			Best Actress
Abhishek Bachchan – I Want to Talk as Arjun Sen Ajay Devgn – Maidaan as Syed Abdul Rahim Akshay Kumar – Sarfira as Vir Jagannath Mhatre Hrithik Roshan – Fighter as Shamsher "Patty" Pathania Kartik Aaryan – Chandu Champion as Murlikant Petkar alias Chandu Champion Rajkummar Rao – Stree 2 as Vicky	Alia Bhatt – Jigra as Satyabhama "Satya" Anand Kareena Kapoor Khan – Crew as Jasmine Kohli Kriti Sanon – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya as SIFRA Shraddha Kapoor – Stree 2 as Unnamed phantasm Tabu – Crew as Geeta 'Geetu' Sethi Yami Gautam – Article 370 as Zooni Haksar
Best Supporting Actor			Best Supporting Actress
Pankaj Tripathi – Stree 2 as Rudra Bhaiya Paresh Rawal – Sarfira as Paresh Goswami R. Madhavan – Shaitaan Vanraj Kashyap Ravi Kishan – Laapataa Ladies as Inspector Shyam Manohar Raghav Juyal – Kill as Fani Bhushan	Ahilya Bamroo – I Want to Talk as Reya Sen Chhaya Kadam – Laapataa Ladies as Manju Janki Bodiwala – Shaitaan as Jahnvi Rishi Madhuri Dixit – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 as Rajkumari Anjulika and ACP Rathore IPS "Mandira" Priyamani – Article 370 as Rajeshwari Swaminathan
Debut Awards
Best Male Debut		Best Female Debut		Best Debut Director
Abhinav Singh – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 as Shubham Narang/Game Paapi Guru Randhawa – Kuch Khattaa Ho Jaay as Heer Jibraan Khan – Ishq Vishk Rebound as Sahir Singh Rajput Lakshya Lalwani – Kill as Amrit Rathod Sparsh Shrivastava – Laapataa Ladies as Deepak Kumar	Ahilya Bamroo – I Want to Talk as Reya Sen Anjini Dhawan – Binny and Family as Bindiya "Binny" Singh Dhvani Bhanushali - Kahan Shuru Kahan Khatam as Meera Nitanshi Goel – Laapataa Ladies as Phool Kumari Pratibha Ranta – Laapataa Ladies as Jaya Tripathi Singh / Pushpa Rani Pashmina Roshan - Ishq Vishk Rebound as Sanya Malhotra	Aditya Suhas Jambhale – Article 370 Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Kunal Kemmu – Madgaon Express Shirsha Guha Thakurta – Do Aur Do Pyaar Randeep Hooda – Swatantrya Veer Savarkar Varun Grover – All India Rank
Writing Awards
Best Story		Best Screenplay		Best Dialogue
Aakash Kaushik – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 Aditya Dhar and Monal Thaakar – Article 370 Nikhil Nagesh Bhat – Kill Niren Bhatt – Stree 2 Dibakar Banerjee, Shubham, Prateek Vats – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2	Aditya Dhar, Aditya Suhas Jambhale, Arjun Dhawan, Monal Thaakar – Article 370 Niren Bhatt – Stree 2 Sneha Desai – Laapataa Ladies Nikhil Nagesh Bhat – Kill Kunal Kemmu – Madgaon Express	Niren Bhatt – Stree 2 Ritesh Shah – Maidaan Sneha Desai – Laapataa Ladies Ritesh Shah – I Want to Talk Kunal Kemmu – Madgaon Express
Music Awards
Best Music Album			Best Lyricist
Bad Newz – Rochak Kohli, Vishal Mishra, DJ Chetas-Lijo George, Prem-Hardeep, Karan Aujla, Abhijeet Srivastava Laapataa Ladies – Ram Sampath Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 – Pritam, Tanishk Bagchi, Amaal Mallik, Sachet–Parampara, Aditya Rikhari, Lijo George–DJ Chetas Maidaan – A. R. Rahman Stree 2 – Sachin–Jigar Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya – Tanishk Bagchi, Sachin–Jigar, Mitraz	Kausar Munir – "Sarphira" – Chandu Champion Prashant Pandey – "Sajni" – Laapataa Ladies Siddhant Kaushal – "Nikat" – Kill Swanand Kirkire – "Dheeme Dheeme" – Laapataa Ladies Varun Grover – "Raat Akeli Thi" – Merry Christmas
Best Playback Singer – Male			Best Playback Singer – Female
Arijit Singh – "Sajni" – Laapataa Ladies Javed Ali – "Mirza" – Maidaan Karan Aulja – "Tauba Tauba" – Bad Newz Pawan Singh – "Aayi Nahi" – Stree 2 Sonu Nigam – "Mere Dholna" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3	Anumita Nadesan – "Tenu Sang Rakhna" – Jigra Madhubanti Bagchi – "Aaj ki Raat" – Stree 2 Rekha Bhardwaj – "Nikat" – Kill Shilpa Rao – "Ishq Jaisa Kuch – Fighter Shreya Ghoshal – "Dheeme Dheeme" – Laapataa Ladies

Critics' awards

Best Film
I Want to Talk – Shoojit Sircar Laapataa Ladies – Kiran Rao Maidaan – Amit Ravindernath Sharma Merry Christmas – Sriram Raghavan The Buckingham Murders – Hansal Mehta
Best Actor	Best Actress
Abhishek Bachchan – I Want to Talk as Arjun Sen Pratik Gandhi – Madgaon Express as Pratik Garodia "Pinku" Rajkummar Rao – Sriknath as Srikanth Bolla Randeep Hooda – Swatantrya Veer Savarkar as Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Sparsh Shrivastava – Laapataa Ladies as Deepak kumar	Alia Bhatt – Jigra as Satyabhama "Satya" Anand Kareena Kapoor Khan – The Buckingham Murders as Jasmeet "Jass" Bhamra Nitanshi Goel – Laapataa Ladies as Phool Kumari Pratibha Ranta – Laapataa Ladies as Jaya Tripathi Singh / Pushpa Rani Vidya Balan – Do Aur Do Pyaar as Kavya Ganeshan

Special awards

Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award	Filmfare R. D. Burman Award

Technical awards

Nominations for the technical awards were announced on 26 September 2025.

Best Editing	Best Production Design	Best Choreography
Hemanti Sarkar – Stree 2 Jabeen Merchant – Laapataa Ladies Paramita Ghosh – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 Shivkumar V. Panicker – Kill Dev Rao Jadhav – Maidaan	Mayur Sharma – Kill Mayur Sharma – Merry Christmas Rajnish Hedao – Chandu Champion Tiya Tejpal – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 Vikram Singh – Laapataa Ladies	Bosco–Caesar – "Tauba Tauba" – Bad Newz Bosco–Caesar – "Sher Khul Gaye" – Fighter Shaik Jani Basha – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Vijay Ganguly – "Aaj Ki Raat" – Stree 2 Chinni Prakash – "Ami Je Tomar" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3
Best Cinematography	Best Sound Design	Best Background Score
Avik Mukhopadhyay – I Want to Talk' Emma Dalesman – The Buckingham Murders Rafey Mehmood – Kill Tushar Kanti Ray – Maidaan Vikash Nowlakha – Laapataa Ladies	Ayush Ahuja – Laapataa Ladies Mandar Kulkarni – The Buckingham Murders Nihar Ranjan Samal – Maidaan Subhash Sahoo – Kill Tanmay Bhattacherjee – Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2	A. R. Rahman – Maidaan Daniel B. Gerorge – Merry Christmas Ketan Sodha, Night Song Records – The Buckingham Murders Ketan Sodha – Kill Ram Sampath – Laapataa Ladies
Best Costume Design	Best Action	Best Special Effects
Darshan Jalan – Laapataa Ladies Kriti Kolwanker, Maria Thakaran – Maidaan Manisha Melwani, Chandini Whabi, Meagan Concessio, Abhilasha Devnani Baweja – Crew Rohit Chaturvedi – Chandu Champion Veera Kapoor EE – Article 370	Parvez Shaikh, Craig Macrae – Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan R. P. Yadav, Robert Miller – Maidaan Oh Sea Young and Parvez Shaikh – Kill Parvez Shaikh, Oh Sea Young and Sunil Rodrigues – Fighter Vikram Dahiya – Jigra	Digital Domain – Stree 2 Lavan and Kushan (Digital Turbo Media) and Ashutosh Pandey (Reflections Pictures) – Kill Redefine – Munjya Redefine – Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Redefine – Maidaan

Superlatives

Multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
24	Laapataa Ladies
15	Kill
14	Stree 2
13	Maidaan
8	I Want to Talk
	Article 370
7	Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3
5	The Buckingham Murders
	Merry Christmas
	Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2
	Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya
4	Jigra
	Madgaon Express
	Chandu Champion
	Fighter
3	Crew
	Bad Newz
	Shaitaan
2	Do Aur Do Pyaar
	Sriknath
	Ishq Vishk Rebound
	Sarfira
	Swatantrya Veer Savarkar

See also

• Filmfare Awards
• List of Hindi films of 2024

References

1. "70th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2025 With Gujarat Tourism: Date, Venue and More". Filmfare. 23 September 2025.
2. "Nominations for The 70th Hyundai Filmfare Awards 2025 With Gujarat Tourism: Full List Out". Filmfare. 26 September 2025.
3. "Filmfare Awards 2025 Nominations Announced: Laapataa Ladies, Stree 2 lead the chart". India TV. 26 September 2025.