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66th Filmfare Awards
The 66th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2020.
| 66th Filmfare Awards |
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| 27 March 2021 (2021-03-27) |
| Film City, Mumbai |
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| The Times Group |
| Filmfare Awards 2021 |
| Thappad |
| Eeb Allay Ooo! |
| Thappad (7) |
| Ludo (16) |
| Colors TV |
The 66th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2020.
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 became 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 posthumously 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 posthumously.
On 27 March 2021, the winners were announced. Below is the list of the winners:
| Best Film | Best Director | |
|---|---|---|
| Thappad – T–Series, Benaras Media Works | ||
| Gulabo Sitabo – Ronnie Lahiri, Sheel Kumar, Amazon Prime Video | ||
| Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl – Dharma Productions, Zee Studios, Netflix | ||
| Ludo – T-Series, Anurag Basu, Netflix | ||
| Tanhaji – Ajay Devgn FFilms, T-Series | Om Raut – Tanhaji | |
| Anubhav Sinha – Thappad | ||
| Anurag Basu – Ludo | ||
| Sharan Sharma – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl | ||
| Shoojit Sircar – Gulabo Sitabo | ||
| Irrfan Khan – Angrezi Medium as Champak Ghasiteram Bansal | ||
| Ajay Devgn – Tanhaji as Tanaji Malusare | ||
| Amitabh Bachchan – Gulabo Sitabo as Chunnan "Mirza" Nawab | ||
| Ayushmann Khurrana – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as Kartik Singh | ||
| Rajkummar Rao – Ludo as Alok "Alu" Kumar Gupta | ||
| Sushant Singh Rajput – Dil Bechara as Immanuel "Manny" Rajkumar Junior | Taapsee Pannu – Thappad as Amrita Sabharwal | |
| Deepika Padukone – Chhapaak as Malti | ||
| Janhvi Kapoor – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl as Gunjan Saxena | ||
| Kangana Ranaut – Panga as Jaya Nigam | ||
| Vidya Balan – Shakuntala Devi as Shakuntala Devi | ||
| Saif Ali Khan – Tanhaji as Udaybhan Singh Rathore | ||
| Deepak Dobriyal – Angrezi Medium as Gopi Ghasiteram Bansal | ||
| Gajraj Rao – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as Shankar Tripathi | ||
| Kumud Mishra – Thappad as Sachin Sandhu | ||
| Pankaj Tripathi – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl as Arup Saxena | ||
| Pankaj Tripathi – Ludo as Rahul Satyendra "Sattu" Tripathi | Farrukh Jaffar – Gulabo Sitabo as Fatima Begum | |
| Maanvi Gagroo – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as Rajni "Goggle" Tripathi | ||
| Neena Gupta – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as Sunaina Tripathi | ||
| Richa Chadda – Panga as Meenal "Meenu" Singh | ||
| Tanvi Azmi – Thappad as Sulakshana Sabharwal | ||
| Not Awarded | Alaya F – Jawaani Jaaneman as Tia Singh | |
| Sadia Khateeb – Shikara | Rajesh Krishnan – Lootcase | |
| Anubhav Sinha and Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul – Thappad | ||
| Hardik Mehta – Kaamyaab | ||
| Juhi Chaturvedi – Gulabo Sitabo | ||
| Kapil Sawant and Rajesh Krishnan – Lootcase | ||
| Rohena Gera – Sir | ||
| Shubham – Eeb Allay Ooo! | Rohena Gera – Sir | |
| Anubhav Sinha and Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul – Thappad | ||
| Anurag Basu – Ludo | ||
| Kapil Sawant and Rajesh Krishnan – Lootcase | ||
| Prakash Kapadia and Om Raut – Tanhaji | Juhi Chaturvedi – Gulabo Sitabo | |
| Bhavesh Mandalia, Gaurav Shukla, Vinay Chhawal and Sara Bodinar – Angrezi Medium | ||
| Kapil Sawant – Lootcase | ||
| Prakash Kapadia – Tanhaji | ||
| Samrat Chakraborty – Ludo | ||
| Pritam – Ludo | ||
| A. R. Rahman – Dil Bechara | ||
| Mithoon, Ankit Tiwari, Ved Sharma, The Fusion Project, Adnan Dhool and Rabi Ahmed – Malang | ||
| Pritam – Love Aaj Kal | ||
| Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy – Chhapaak | Gulzar – "Chhapaak" – Chhapaak | |
| Irshad Kamil – "Mehrama" – Love Aaj Kal | ||
| Irshad Kamil – "Shayad" – Love Aaj Kal | ||
| Sayeed Quadri – "Humdum Hardum" – Ludo | ||
| Shakeel Azmi – "Ek Tukda Dhoop" – Thappad | ||
| Vayu – "Mere Liye Tum Kaafi Ho" – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan | ||
| Raghav Chaitanya – "Ek Tukda Dhoop" – Thappad | ||
| Arijit Singh – "Shayad" – Love Aaj Kal | ||
| Arijit Singh – "Aabaad Barbaad" – Ludo | ||
| Ayushmann Khurrana – "Mere Liye Tum" – Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan | ||
| Darshan Raval – "Mehrama" – Love Aaj Kal | ||
| Ved Sharma – "Malang" – Malang | Asees Kaur – "Hui Malang" – Malang | |
| Antara Mitra – "Mehrama" – Love Aaj Kal | ||
| Palak Muchhal – "Mann Ki Dori" – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl | ||
| Shraddha Mishra – "Mar Jayein Hum" – Shikara | ||
| Sunidhi Chauhan – "Paas Nahi To Fail" – Shakuntala Devi |
| Best Film (Best Director) | |
|---|---|
| Prateek Vats – Eeb Allay Ooo! | |
| Anubhav Sinha – Thappad | |
| Hardik Mehta – Kaamyaab | |
| Rajesh Krishnan – Lootcase | |
| Rohena Gera – Sir | |
| Shoojit Sircar – Gulabo Sitabo | |
| Amitabh Bachchan – Gulabo Sitabo as Chunnan "Mirza" Nawab | |
| Irrfan Khan – Angrezi Medium as Champak Ghasiteram Bansal | |
| Rajkumar Rao – Ludo as Alok "Alu" Kumar Gupta | |
| Sanjay Mishra – Kaamyaab as Sudheer | |
| Shardul Bhardwaj – Eeb Allay Ooo! as Anjani Prasad | Tillotama Shome – Sir as Ratna |
| Bhumi Pednekar – Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare as Kajal "Kitty" Yadav | |
| Konkona Sen Sharma – Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare as Radha "Dolly" Yadav | |
| Sanya Malhotra – Ludo as Shruti Choksi | |
| Taapsee Pannu – Thappad as Amrita Sabharwal | |
| Vidya Balan – Shakuntala Devi as Shakuntala Devi |
| Filmfare Special Award |
|---|
| Not Awarded |
| Irrfan Khan |
| Not Awarded |
Nominations for the Technical awards were announced on the same day.
| Best Editing | Best Production Design | Best Choreography |
|---|---|---|
| Yasha Ramchandani – Thappad | ||
| Ajay Sharma – Ludo | ||
| Anand Subaya – Lootcase | ||
| Chandrashekhar Prajapati – Gulabo Sitabo | ||
| Jacques Comets, Baptiste Ribrault – Sir | Mansi Mehta – Gulabo Sitabo | |
| Aditya Kanwar – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl | ||
| Anurag Basu – Ludo | ||
| Sandeep Meher – Panga | ||
| Sriram Kannan Iyengar, Sujeet Sawant – Tanhaji | Farah Khan – "Dil Bechara" – Dil Bechara | |
| Ganesh Acharya – "Bhankas" – Baaghi 3 | ||
| Ganesh Acharya – "Shankara Re Shankara" – Tanhaji | ||
| Kruti Mahesh, Rahul Shetty – "Illegal Weapon" – Street Dancer 3D | ||
| Kruti Mahesh, Rahul Shetty – "Nachi Nachi" – Street Dancer 3D | ||
| Avik Mukhopadhyay – Gulabo Sitabo | ||
| Archit Patel, Jay I. Patel – Panga | ||
| Keiko Nakahara – Tanhaji | ||
| Saumyananda Sahi – Eeb Allay Ooo! | ||
| Soumik Mukherjee – Thappad | Kaamod Kharade – Thappad | |
| Abhishek Nair, Shijin Melvin Hutton – Ludo | ||
| Ali Merchant – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl | ||
| Bigyna Bhushan Dahal – Eeb Allay Ooo! | ||
| Diapankar Jojo Chaki, Nihar Ranjan Samal – Gulabo Sitabo | ||
| Lochan Kanvinde – Lootcase | Mangesh Dhakde – Thappad | |
| A. R. Rahman – Dil Bechara | ||
| Pritam – Ludo | ||
| Sameer Uddin – Lootcase | ||
| Sandeep Shirodkar – Tanhaji | ||
| Veera Kapur Ee – Gulabo Sitabo | ||
| Abilasha Sharma – Chhapaak | ||
| Ashish Dwyer – Ludo | ||
| Nachiket Barve, Mahesh Sheria – Tanhaji | ||
| Niharika Bhasin – Shakuntala Devi | Ramazan Bulut, Rp Yadav – Tanhaji | |
| Ahmed Khan – Baaghi 3 | ||
| Harpal Singh – Chhalaang | ||
| Ivanov Victor, Andreas Nguyen – Khuda Haafiz | ||
| Manohar Verma – Lootcase | Prasad Sutar – Tanhaji | |
| Jayesh Vaishnav – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl | ||
| Mahesh Baria – Baaghi 3 |
| Best Short Film | ||
|---|---|---|
| Shivraj Waichal – Arjun | Nitesh Ramesh Parulekar – Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary | Priyanka Banerjee – Devi |
| Arnav Abdagire – Arjun as Arjun | Purti Savardekar – The First Wedding as Bhumi |
| Nominations | Film |
|---|---|
| Ludo | |
| Thappad | |
| Gulabo Sitabo | |
| Tanhaji | |
| Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl | |
| Lootcase | |
| Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan | |
| Eeb Allay Ooo! | |
| Sir | |
| Angrezi Medium | |
| Chhapaak | |
| Dil Bechara | |
| Love Aaj Kal | |
| Panga | |
| Shakuntala Devi | |
| Baaghi 3 | |
| Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare | |
| Street Dancer 3D |
| Awards | Film |
|---|---|
| Thappad | |
| Gulabo Sitabo | |
| Tanhaji | |
| Sir |
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