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The Filmfare Awards — the Bollywood equivalent to Hollywood's Oscars — is back!
The Awards event that parades Who's Who of top Bollywood films and their legendary stars including debutant and aspiring actors, actresses, and film directors, heads into its second year of its second century in 2014.
Since its launch in 1952, Filmfare Awards have recognized the top talents in Hindi Cinema and felicitated them with their due.
The nominations for this years 59th Filmfare Awards are out. The main event, which will be held on Friday, January 24, 2014 at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai, will be co-hosted by not the Filmfare regulars Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan, but two of B-Town's hottest celebs — Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. The Sony Entertainment Television (SET) broadcast is set for the evening of January 26.And the nominations are...
BEST FILM
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Chennai Express
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela
Raanjhanaa
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
BEST DIRECTOR
Aanand L Rai - Raanjhanaa
Abhishek Kapoor - Kai Po Che
Ayan Mukerji - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra - Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Rohit Shetty - Chennai Express
Sanjay Leela Bhansali - Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (MALE)
Dhanush - Raanjhanaa
Farhan Akhtar - Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Hrithik Roshan - Krrish 3
Ranbir Kapoor - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Ranveer Singh - Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela
Shah Rukh Khan - Chennai Express
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (FEMALE)
Deepika Padukone - Chennai Express
Deepika Padukone - Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela
Parineeti Chopra - Shuddh Desi Romance
Shraddha Kapoor - Aashiqui 2
Sonakshi Sinha- Lootera
Sonam Kapoor - Raanjhanaa
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (MALE )
Aditya Roy Kapur - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Anupam Kher - Special 26
Nawazuddin Siddiqui - The Lunchbox
Pankaj Kapur - Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Rajkumar Rao - Kai Po Che
Vivek Oberoi - Krrish 3
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (FEMALE )
Divya Dutta - Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Kalki Koechlin - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Konkona Sen Sharma - Ek Thi Daayan
Supriya Pathak Kapur - Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela
Swara Bhaskar - Raanjhanaa
BEST MUSIC
Amit Trivedi - Lootera
Ankit Tiwari, Mithoon and Jeet Ganguly - Aashiqui 2
AR Rahman - Raanjhanaa
Pritam - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Sanjay Leela Bhansali - Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela
Vishal-Shekhar - Chennai Express
BEST LYRICS
Amitabh Bhattacharya - Shikayatein - Lootera
Amitabh Bhattacharya - Kabira - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Mithoon - Tum hi ho - Aashiqui 2
Prasoon Joshi - Zinda - Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Swanand Kirkire - Manja - Kai Po Che
BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (MALE)
Amit Trivedi - Manja- Kai Po Che
Ankit Tiwari - Sunn raha hai na tu - Aashiqui 2
Arijit Singh - Tum hi ho - Aashiqui 2
Benny Dayal - Badtameez dil - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Siddharth Mahadevan - Zinda - Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (FEMALE)
Chinmayi - Titli - Chennai Express
Monali Thakur - Sawar loon - Lootera
Shalmali Kholgade - Balam pichkari - Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Shreya Ghoshal - Sunn raha hai - Aashiqui 2
Shreya Ghoshal - Nagada - Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela
AW: Suchorita Choudhury
