Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award

Filmfare Award for Lifetime Achievement
The 2025 recipients: Shyam Benegal and Zeenat Aman
Awarded for	Commemorating an artist's career
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First award	Amitabh Bachchan (1991)
Currently held by	Shyam Benegal and Zeenat Aman (2025)
Website	Filmfare winners

The Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, initially named Raj Kapoor Award for Lifetime Achievement after Raj Kapoor is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films.

List of honourees

† - Indicates the person also won the Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Year	Image	Honorees	Nature of work	Age when awarded (in years)
1991		Amitabh Bachchan †	Actor	48
1992	No award
1993		Dev Anand †	Actor	69
1994		Dilip Kumar †		71
		Lata Mangeshkar †	Singer	64
1995		Waheeda Rehman †	Actress	57
		Shammi Kapoor	Actor	63
1996		Ashok Kumar †		84
		Vyjayantimala	Actress	62
		Sunil Dutt	Actor	66
1997		Dharmendra		61
		Mumtaz	Actress	49
1998		Sharmila Tagore		53
1999		Helen		60
		Manoj Kumar †	Actor	61
2000		Hema Malini	Actress	51
		Vinod Khanna †	Actor	53
2001		Feroz Khan		61
		Asha Bhosle †	Singer	67
2002		Gulzar †	Screenwriter / Lyricist	67
		Asha Parekh †	Actress	59
2003		Jeetendra	Actor	61
		Rekha	Actress	48
2004		Sulochana Latkar		75
		B. R. Chopra †	Director	89
		Nirupa Roy	Actress	73
2005		Rajesh Khanna	Actor	62
2006		Shabana Azmi	Actress	55
2007		Jaya Bachchan		58
		Javed Akhtar	Screenwriter / Lyricist	62
2008		Rishi Kapoor	Actor	55
2009		Om Puri		58
		Bhanu Athaiya	Costume Designer	79
2010		Shashi Kapoor †	Actor	71
		Khayyam	Music Director	83
2011		Manna Dey †	Singer	91
2012		Aruna Irani	Actress	65
2013		Yash Chopra † (posthumous)	Director	80
2014		Tanuja	Actress	70
2015		Kamini Kaushal		88
2016		Moushumi Chatterjee		61
2017		Shatrughan Sinha	Actor	71
2018		Bappi Lahiri	Music director	65
		Mala Sinha	Actress	81
2019		Sridevi (posthumous)		54
2020		Ramesh Sippy	Director	73
2021		Irrfan Khan (posthumous)	Actor	53
2022		Subhash Ghai	Director	77
2023		Prem Chopra	Actor	87
2024		David Dhawan	Director	72
2025		Shyam Benegal † (posthumous)		90
		Zeenat Aman	Actress	73

Superlatives

• In 58th Filmfare Awards, Yash Chopra became the first artist to become a posthumous winner.
• Oldest Winner – Manna Dey in 56th Filmfare Awards (aged 91)
• Youngest Winner – Amitabh Bachchan in 36th Filmfare Awards & Rekha in 48th Filmfare Awards (both aged 48)
• Number of Female recipients – 22
• Number of Male recipients – 29

See also

• Filmfare Awards
• Bollywood
• Cinema of India
• Filmi music

External links

• Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Awards -Official Website