68th Filmfare Awards

68th Filmfare Awards
68th Filmfare Awards
Presented on	27 April 2023
Site	Jio World Centre, Mumbai
Hosted by	Salman Khan,; Ayushmann Khurana; Maniesh Paul
Organized by	The Times Group
Official website	Filmfare Awards 2023
Highlights
Best Film	Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Director	Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Actor	Rajkummar Rao for Badhaai Do
Best Actress	Alia Bhatt for Gangubai Kathiawadi
Critics Award; for Best Film	Badhaai Do
Most awards	Gangubai Kathiawadi (11)
Most nominations	Gangubai Kathiawadi (17)
Television coverage
Network	Colors TV
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The 68th Filmfare Awards is a ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2022.

Gangubai Kathiawadi led the ceremony with 17 nominations, and won a leading 11 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Sanjay Leela Bhansali) and Best Actress (for Alia Bhatt).

Badhaai Do won 6 awards, including Best Film (Critics), Best Actor (for Rajkummar Rao), Best Actress (Critics) (for Bhumi Pednekar) and Best Supporting Actress (for Sheeba Chaddha), and Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva won 5 awards, including Best Music Director (for Pritam), Best Lyricist (for Amitabh Bhattacharya) and Best Male Playback Singer (for Arijit Singh), the latter two for the song "Kesariya".^[2]

Sheeba Chaddha received dual nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Badhaai Do and Doctor G, winning the award for the former.

Ceremony

Held at Jio World Centre, the 68th Filmfare Awards honored the films released in 2022. At a press conference helmed by editor of Filmfare magazine, Jitesh Pillai revealed Hyundai as the title sponsor. Actors Salman Khan and Ayushmann Khurana and Manish Paul were announced as the co-hosts, while actors Tiger Shroff, Vicky Kaushal, Kartik Aaryan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Janhvi Kapoor, Varun Dhawan and Govinda were announced to be performing during the event. It took place on 27 April 2023, and was broadcast on 28 April 2023 on Colors TV.^[3]

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced by Filmfare on 24 April 2023.^[4]

Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Best Director

Alia Bhatt, Best Actress

Rajkummar Rao, Best Actor

Tabu, Best Actress Critics co-winner

Sanjay Mishra, Best Actor Critics

Bhumi Pednekar, Best Actress Critics co-winner

Harshavardhan Kulkarni, Best Director Critics

Anil Kapoor, Best Supporting Actor

Sheeba Chaddha, Best Supporting Actress

Arijit Singh, Best Male Playback Singer

Kavita Seth, Best Female Playback Singer

Amitabh Bhattacharya, Best Lyricist

Pritam, Best Music Director

Prem Chopra, Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Popular awards

Best Film			Best Director
Gangubai Kathiawadi – Bhansali Productions, Pen India Limited Badhaai Do – Junglee Pictures, Zee Studios Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 – T-Series Films, Cine1 Studios Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva – Dharma Productions, Star Studios, Prime Focus, Starlight Pictures The Kashmir Files – Zee Studios, Abhishek Agarwal Arts Uunchai – Rajshri Productions, Mahaveer Jain Films, Boundless Media			Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Gangubai Kathiawadi Anees Bazmee – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Ayan Mukerji – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Harshavardhan Kulkarni – Badhaai Do Sooraj Barjatya – Uunchai Vivek Agnihotri – The Kashmir Files
Best Actor			Best Actress
*Rajkummar Rao – Badhaai Do* as Shardul Thakur** Ajay Devgn – Drishyam 2 as Vijay Salgaonkar Amitabh Bachchan – Uunchai as Amit Srivastava Anupam Kher – The Kashmir Files as Pushkar Nath Pandit Hrithik Roshan – Vikram Vedha as Vedha Betal Kartik Aaryan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 as Ruhaan Randhawa a.k.a. Rooh Baba	*Alia Bhatt – Gangubai Kathiawadi* as Gangubai** Bhumi Pednekar – Badhaai Do as Suman 'Sumi' Singh Janhvi Kapoor – Mili as Mili Naudiyal Kareena Kapoor Khan – Laal Singh Chaddha as Rupa D'Souza Chaddha Tabu – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 as Anjulika Chatterjee and Manjulika Chatterjee
Best Supporting Actor			Best Supporting Actress
*Anil Kapoor – Jugjugg Jeeyo* as Bheem Saini** Anupam Kher – Uunchai as Om Sharma Darshan Kumar – The Kashmir Files as Krishna Pandit Gulshan Devaiah – Badhaai Do as Guru Narayan Jaideep Ahlawat – An Action Hero as Bhoora Singh Solanki Manish Paul – Jugjugg Jeeyo as Gurpreet Sharma Mithun Chakraborty – The Kashmir Files as IAS Brahma Dutt	*Sheeba Chaddha – Badhaai Do* as Mrs. Thakur** Mouni Roy – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva as Junoon Neetu Kapoor – Jugjugg Jeeyo as Geeta Saini Sheeba Chaddha – Doctor G as Shobha Gupta, Shefali Shah – Doctor G as Dr. Nandini Srivastav Simran – Rocketry: The Nambi Effect as Meena Narayanan
Debut Awards
Best Male Debut		Best Female Debut		Best Debut Director
*Ankush Gedam – Jhund* as Ankush Masram** Abhay Mishr – Doctor G as Abhishek Chandel Paalin Kabak – Bhediya as Jomin Shantanu Maheshwari – Gangubai Kathiawadi as Afsaan Badr-ur-Razzaq	*Andrea Kevichüsa – Anek* as Aido** Khushali Kumar – Dhokha: Round D Corner as Saanchi Sinha Manushi Chhillar – Samrat Prithviraj as Sanyogita Prajakta Koli – Jugjugg Jeeyo as Ginny Saini	Jaspal Singh Sandhu And Rajeev Barnwal – Vadh Anirudh Iyer – An Action Hero Anubhuti Kashyap – Doctor G Jai Basantu Singh – Janhit Mein Jaari R. Madhavan – Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
Writing Awards
Best Story		Best Screenplay		Best Dialogue
Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary – Badhaai Do Anirudh Iyer – An Action Hero Jaspal Singh Sandhu And Rajeev Barnwal – Vadh Niren Bhatt – Bhediya Sunil Gandhi – Uunchai	Harshavardhan Kulkarni, Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary – Badhaai Do Aakash Kaushik – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Jaspal Singh Sandhu And Rajeev Barnwal – Vadh Neeraj Yadav – An Action Hero Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Utkarshini Vashishtha – Gangubai Kathiawadi Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri – The Kashmir Files	Prakash Kapadia and Utkarshini Vashishtha – Gangubai Kathiawadi Abhishek Dixit – Uunchai Akshat Ghildial – Badhaai Do Manoj Muntashir and B. S. Fida – Vikram Vedha Neeraj Yadav – An Action Hero Sumit Saxena – Doctor G
Music Awards
Best Music Director			Best Lyricist
Pritam – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Amit Trivedi – Uunchai Pritam – Laal Singh Chaddha Sachin–Jigar – Bhediya Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Gangubai Kathiawadi	Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Kesariya" – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva A. M. Turaz – "Jab Saiyaan" – Gangubai Kathiawadi Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Apna Bana Le" – Bhediya Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Tere Hawaale" – Laal Singh Chaddha Shellee – "Maiyya Mainu" – Jersey
Best Playback Singer – Male			Best Playback Singer – Female
Arijit Singh – "Kesariya" – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Abhay Jodhpurkar – "Maange Manzooriyan" – Badhaai Do Arijit Singh – "Apna Bana Le" – Bhediya Arijit Singh – "Deva Deva" – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Sonu Nigam – "Main Ki Karaan?" – Laal Singh Chaddha	Kavita Seth – "Rangisari" – Jugjugg Jeeyo Janhvi Shrimankar – "Dholida" – Gangubai Kathiawadi Jonita Gandhi – "Deva Deva" – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Shilpa Rao – "Tere Hawaale" – Laal Singh Chaddha Shreya Ghoshal – "Jab Saiyaan" – Gangubai Kathiawadi

Critics' awards

Best Film
Harshavardhan Kulkarni – Badhaai Do Amar Kaushik – Bhediya Jaspal Singh Sandhu and Rajeev Barnwal – Vadh Nagraj Manjule – Jhund R. Madhavan – Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Sanjay Mishra – Vadh* as Shambhunath Mishra** Amitabh Bachchan – Jhund as Vijay Borade R. Madhavan – Rocketry: The Nambi Effect as Nambi Narayanan Rajkummar Rao – Badhaai Do as Shradul Thakur Shahid Kapoor – Jersey as Arjun Talwar Varun Dhawan – Bhediya as Bhaskar Sharma	*Bhumi Pednekar – Badhaai Do* as Suman 'Sumi' Singh Tabu – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 as Anjulika Chatterjee and Manjulika Chatterjee** Kajol – Salaam Venky as Kolavennu Sujata Krishnan Neena Gupta – Vadh as Manju Mishra Taapsee Pannu – Shabaash Mithu as Mithali Raj

Special awards

Filmfare Special Award

Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
Prem Chopra
Filmfare R. D. Burman Award
Janhvi Shrimankar for "Dholida" from Gangubai Kathiawadi

Technical awards

Nominations for the Technical awards were announced on 24 April 2023.^[5]

Best Editing	Best Production Design	Best Choreography
Ninad Khanolkar – An Action Hero Amin Khatib – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Sandeep Francis – Drishyam 2 Sankh Rajyadhyaksha – The Kashmir Files Sanyukta Kaza – Bhediya	Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray – Gangubai Kathiawadi Amrita Mahal Nakai – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Durga Prasad Mahapatra – Vikram Vedha Mayur Sharma and Apurva Sondhi – Bhediya Mustufa Satitionwala – Laal Singh Chaddha Rajat Poddar – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2	Kruti Mahesh – "Dholida" – Gangubai Kathiawadi Bosco–Caesar – "Rangisari" – Jugjugg Jeeyo Bosco–Caesar – "Title Track" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Ganesh Acharya – "Dance Ka Bhoot" – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Ganesh Acharya – "Thukeshwari" – Bhediya Ganesh Hegde – "Alcoholia" – Vikram Vedha
Best Cinematography	Best Sound Design	Best Background Score
Sudeep Chatterjee – Gangubai Kathiawadi Ewan Mulligan – Anek Kaushal Shah – An Action Hero P. S. Vinod – Vikram Vedha Setu – Laal Singh Chaddha	Bishwadeep Deepak Chatterjee – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Kaamod L Kharde – Anek Kunal Sharma – Bhediya Leslie Fernandes – Vikram Vedha Sanal George – Gangubai Kathiawadi	Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara – Gangubai Kathiawadi Mangesh Dhakde – Anek Pritam, Jim Satya, Prasad S, Meghdeep Bose, Tanuj Tiku, Ketan Sodha, Sunny M.R. – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Sachin-Jigar – Bhediya Sam CS – Vikram Vedha
Best Costume Design	Best Action	Best Special Effects
Sheetal Iqbal Sharma – Gangubai Kathiawadi Maxima Basu – Laal Singh Chaddha Pritanka Gayatri Dubey, Mahananda Sagaare and Veera Kapoor EE – Jhund Rohit Chaturvedi – Badhaai Do Sanjeev Rajsingh Parmar – Samrat Prithviraj	Parvez Shaikh – Vikram Vedha Amin Khatib – Drishyam 2 Dan Bradley, Diyan Hristov and Parvez Shaikh – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Faruk Kabir and Yannick Ben – Khuda Haafiz: Chapter 2 – Agni Pariksha Ram Chella, Lakshman Chella, Parvez Shaikh and Kecha Khamphakdee – Heropanti 2 Sea Young Oh, Parvez Shaikh, Hitz International Action Specialists – Dhaakad	Dneg, ReDefine – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Assemblage Entertainment PVT. – Rocketry: The Nambi Effect Red Chillies VFX – Laal Singh Chaddha Red Chillies VFX, After Studios – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2

Short film awards

Best Short Film
Fiction	Non-fiction		People's Choice

Best Actor – Male (Short Film)		Best Actor – Female (Short Film)

Superlatives

Multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
16	Gangubai Kathiawadi
14	Badhaai Do
14	Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva
12	Bhediya
10	Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2
9	Laal Singh Chaddha
8	Vikram Vedha
7	The Kashmir Files
	Uunchai
	An Action Hero
6	Vadh
	Jugjugg Jeeyo
	Doctor G
5	Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
4	Jhund
4	Anek
3	Drishyam 2
2	Jersey

Multiple wins
Awards	Film
11	Gangubai Kathiawadi
6	Badhaai Do
5	Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva
2	Jugjugg Jeeyo
2	Vadh

References

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