The 70th Filmfare Awards were held on Saturday at EKA Arena, Kankaria Lake, Ahmedabad. Shah Rukh Khan hosted the awards show along with Karan Johar and Maniesh Paul. Shah Rukh, Kriti Sanon, S and Kajol performed during the night, among others. Laapataa Ladies received the Best Film award (as well as 12 other awards), tying the record for most wins by a single film (Gully Boy also received 13). Abhishek Bachchan and Kartik Aaryan shared the Best Actor in Leading Role Male award, and Alia Bhatt won Best Actress.
Full list of winners:
Best Actor in Leading Role Male–Abhishek Bachchan (I Want To Talk) and Kartik Aaryan (Chandu Champion)
Best Actor in Leading Role Female–Alia Bhatt (Jigra)
Critics’ Awards for Best Actor Male–Rajkummar Rao (Srikanth)
Critics’ Awards for Best Actor Female–Pratibha Rannta (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Supporting Actor Female–Chhaya Kadam (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Supporting Actor Male–Ravi Kishan (Laapataa Ladies)
Critics’ Award for Best Film–Shoojit Sircar (I Want To Talk)
Best Debut Actor Female–Nitanshi Goel (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Debut Actor Male–Lakshya (Kill)
Best Debut Director–Kunal Kemmu (Madgaon Express), Aditya Suhas Jambhale (Article 370)
Best Action–Seayoung Oh and Parvez Shaikh (Kill)
Best Screenplay–Sneha Desai (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Story–Aditya Dhar and Monal Thakkar (Article 370)
Best Dialogue–Sneha Desai (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Music Album–Ram Sampath (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Lyrics–Prashant Pandey (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Playback Singer Male–Arijit Singh (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Playback Singer Female–Madhubanti Bagchi (Stree 2)
Best Adapted Screenplay–Ritesh Shah and Tushar Sheetal Jain (I Want To Talk)
Best Film–Laapataa Ladies
Best Director–Kiran Rao (Laapataa Ladies)
Critics’ award for best film–I Want to Talk (Shoojit Sircar)
Best sound design–Subash Sahoo (Kill)
Best Background Score–Ram Sampath (Laapataa Ladies)
Best VFX–Redefine (Munjya)
Best Choreography– Bosco-Caesar (Tauba Tauba from Bad Newz)
Best editing-Shivkumar V. Panicker (Kill)
Best costume–Darshan Jalan (Laapataa Ladies)
Best Production design–Mayur Sharma (Kill)
Best cinematography–Rafey Mehmood (Kill)
Special Awards:
Lifetime Achievement Award–Zeenat Aman and Shyam Benegal (Posthumously)
RD Burman award for future talent in music–Achint Thakkar (Jigra, Mr & Mrs Mahi)
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