55th Filmfare Awards

55th Filmfare Awards

Date	February 27, 2010
Site	Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai
Host	Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan
Highlights
Best Film	3 Idiots
Critics Award for Best Film	Firaaq
Most awards	3 Idiots (7)
Most nominations	Kaminey (10)
Television coverage
Network	Sony Entertainment Television

The 55th Filmfare Awards were held on February 27, 2010 at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai. The awards given for 30 categories, out of which there were 3 special awards, 3 critics awards and 24 main awards for Hindi films released in 2009. There were 60 nominations for the top 10 categories, which were based on votes via web and newspaper forms.^[1] The award ceremony was hosted by Shahrukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan.

The major award winning film turned out to be 3 Idiots which garnered five Filmfare awards, followed by Dev D with four awards and, Delhi 6 and Firaaq with three awards each. Paa fetched Amitabh Bachchan his fifth Filmfare Best Actor Award and Vidya Balan her first ever Filmfare Best Actress Award, for their performance as the son-mother duo of Auro and Vidya.^[2]

Awards and Nominees

Main awards

Best Film	Best Director
3 Idiots Dev D Kaminey Love Aaj Kal Paa Wake Up Sid	Rajkumar Hirani - 3 Idiots Anurag Kashyap - Dev.D Ayan Mukerji - Wake up Sid Imtiaz Ali - Love Aaj Kal R Balki - Paa Vishal Bhardwaj - Kaminey
Best Actor	Best Actress
Amitabh Bachchan - Paa Aamir Khan - 3 Idiots Ranbir Kapoor - Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Ranbir Kapoor - Wake up Sid Saif Ali Khan - Love Aaj Kal Shahid Kapoor - Kaminey	Vidya Balan - Paa Deepika Padukone - Love Aaj Kal Kareena Kapoor - 3 Idiots Kareena Kapoor - Kurbaan Katrina Kaif - New York Priyanka Chopra - Kaminey
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Boman Irani - 3 Idiots Amole Gupte - Kaminey R. Madhavan - 3 Idiots Neil Nitin Mukesh - New York^[3] Rishi Kapoor - Luck by Chance Sharman Joshi - 3 Idiots	Kalki Koechlin - Dev.D Arundhati Nag - Paa Dimple Kapadia - Luck By Chance Divya Dutta - Delhi-6 Supriya Pathak - Wake Up Sid Shahana Goswami - Firaaq
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
A. R. Rahman - Delhi-6 Amit Trivedi - Dev D Pritam Chakraborty - Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Pritam Chakraborty - Love Aaj Kal Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy - Wake Up Sid Vishal Bhardwaj - Kaminey	Irshad Kamil - "Aaj Din Chadheya" from Love Aaj Kal Gulzar - "Dhan Te Nan" from Kaminey Gulzar - "Kaminey" from Kaminey Javed Akhtar - "Iktara" from Wake Up Sid Prasoon Joshi - "Masakali" from Delhi-6 Prasoon Joshi - "Rehna Tu" from Delhi-6
Best Playback Singer - Male	Best Playback Singer - Female
Mohit Chauhan - "Masakali" from Delhi-6 Atif Aslam - "Tu Jaane Na" from Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Javed Ali / Kailash Kher - "Arziyan" from Delhi-6 Rahat Fateh Ali Khan - "Aaj Din Chadya" from Love Aaj Kal Sonu Nigam / Salim Merchant - "Shukran Allah" from Kurbaan Sukhwinder Singh / Vishal Dadlani - "Dhan Te Nan" from Kaminey	Rekha Bhardwaj- "Genda Phool" from Delhi-6 (tie) Kavita Seth - "Iktara" from Wake Up Sid Alisha Chinai - "Tera Hone Laga" from Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Shilpa Rao - "Mudi Mudi" from Paa Shreya Ghoshal - "Zoobi Doobi" from 3 Idiots Sunidhi Chauhan - "Chor Bazaari" from Love Aaj Kal

Critics' awards

Best Movie
Firaaq (Nandita Das)
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year	Mahi Gill - Dev.D

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Screenplay
Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani - 3 Idiots Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Malhotra, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Sanjay Maurya - Gulaal Imtiaz Ali - Love Aaj Kal Zoya Akhtar - Luck By Chance Jaideep Sahni - Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year	Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Abhijat Joshi - 3 Idiots Imtiaz Ali - Love Aaj Kal Pankaj Advani - Sankat City R. Balki - Paa Zoya Akhtar - Luck By Chance
Best Dialogue	Best Editing
Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani - 3 Idiots Anurag Kashyap - Gulaal Imtiaz Ali - Love Aaj Kal Jaideep Sahni - Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year Nandita Das, Shuchi Kothari - Firaaq	Sreekar Prasad - Firaaq
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Bosco-Caesar - "Chor Bazaari" from Love Aaj Kal	Rajeev Ravi - Dev.D
Best Production Design	Best Sound Design
Helen Jones, Sukanta Panigrahi - Dev.D	Manas Choudhary - Firaaq
Best Costume Design	Best Background Score
Vaishali Menon - Firaaq	Amit Trivedi - Dev.D
Best Special Effects	Best Action
Govardhan Vigharan, Vinay Singh Chuphal - Kaminey	Vijayan Master - Wanted

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement
Khayyam	Shashi Kapoor
Best Debut Director
Male	Female
Ayan Mukherjee - Wake Up Sid	Zoya Akhtar - Luck By Chance
RD Burman Award
Amit Trivedi
Special Award
Nandita Das - Firaaq

References

↑ 55th Idea Filmfare Awards Nominations
↑ "Paa - Movie". Bollywood Hungama. 2010-01-01. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
↑ http://www.desiblitz.com/content/55th-filmfare-awards-2010-winners

External links

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