Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First awarded	1991 (for performances in films released around 1990)
Currently held by	Kangana Ranaut, Tanu Weds Manu Returns (2016)
Official website	Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films. The award is given by the chosen jury of critics assigned to the function, and is a derivation from a previous award known as the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance, which was established in 1991 and was initially a special award given for a performance by either sex. In 1998, it was officially divided into two separate categories to acknowledge both male and female actors individually. The actors are awarded without prior nomination for a performance.

Superlatives

Tabu holds the record of maximum awards (4).

Superlative	Actor	Record
Actress with most awards	Tabu	4
Actress with most awards in a single decade	Tabu (2000s)	3
Eldest winner	Farida Jalal	45
Youngest winner	Alia Bhatt	21

Tabu holds the record of maximum wins in this category with 4 awards, followed by Manisha Koirala with 3 wins. Two actresses have won the award twice; in chronological order, they are Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor.
Manisha Koirala has 3 awards. She is the only actress to win for a non-Hindi film. She won for Tamil film Bombay (1996), which was dubbed into Hindi.

Two actresses have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Manisha Koirala (1996–97) and Tabu (2000-01).
Manisha Koirala is the only actress who has won the award for a non-Hindi film. She won her first award in 1996 for the Tamil film Bombay, which was dubbed in Hindi.
Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor are the only siblings who have both won the award.
Rani Mukerji is one of the two actresses to be honoured twice. She is the only actress to win the award along with Best Actress award in the same year (2006).
There has been only one tie in the history of this category. This occurred in 2003 when Manisha Koirala and Rani Mukerji were both given the award.
Farida Jalal is the eldest recipient, winning the award for Mammo (1995) at age 45.
Alia Bhatt is the youngest recipient, winning the award for Highway (2015) at age 21.
Seven actresses have won the Best Actress awards in both the popular (Best Actress) and critics categories; in chronological order, they are Dimple Kapadia, Karisma Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut. Mukerji is the only actress to win both these awards during the same year (2006) for Black.
Nine actresses have won the award without receiving a Best Actress nomination. In chronological order they are: Farida Jalal for Mammo (1995), Manisha Koirala for Bombay (1996) and Company (2003), Shefali Shah for Satya (1999), Kareena Kapoor for Dev (2005), Tabu for Cheeni Kum (2008), Shahana Goswami for Rock On!! (2009), Mahi Gill for Dev.D (2010), Richa Chadda for Gangs of Wasseypur (2013) and Shilpa Shukla for B.A. Pass (2014). Among these, Shah, Goswami and Chadda
Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor are the only siblings who have both won the award. Kareena is one of the two actresses to be honoured twice.
received Best Supporting Actress nominations for their respective films.

Multiple Winners

4 Wins: Tabu
3 Wins: Manisha Koirala
2 Wins: Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor

Farida Jalal and Alia Bhatt are the eldest and youngest winners at ages 45 and 21 respectively.

List of winners

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance

(From 1991 until 1997, there was one special category known as the Critics Award for Best Performance, and was awarded without prior nomination to acknowledge an actor of either sex.)

1990s

1991
Awarded to Male Actor
1992
No Award
1993
Dimple Kapadia – Rudaali
1994
Awarded to Male Actor
1995
Farida Jalal – Mammo
1996
Manisha Koirala – Bombay
1997
Manisha Koirala – Khamoshi: The Musical