65th Filmfare Awards
Number65
AwardFilmfare Awards
Date15 February 2020[1]
SiteIndira Gandhi Athletic Stadium, Guwahati
HostKaran Johar
Vicky Kaushal[2]
WebsiteFilmfare Awards 2020
Best filmGully Boy
Most winsGully Boy (13)
Most nominationsGully Boy (19)
Best criticArticle 15 & Sonchiriya
NetworkColors TV
Last64th
Next66th

The 65th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2019.[3] The ceremony was held on 15 February 2020 in Guwahati and broadcast on Colors TV the following day.[4] This was the first time in six decades that a Filmfare ceremony was held outside Mumbai.[5] Karan Johar and Vicky Kaushal were hosts of the award ceremony.[6]

A curtain raiser ceremony was held in Mumbai on 2 February 2020, which honoured the winners of technical and short film awards. In the same function, the nominations for popular awards were also announced. Actress Neha Dhupia was the host of this ceremony.

Gully Boy led the ceremony with 19 nominations, followed by ' with 13 nominations, and Article 15 and Sonchiriya with 11 nominations each.

Gully Boy won a record 13 awards, the most awards for a single film in a year, thus breaking the record set by Black (2005) with 11 wins at the 51st Filmfare Awards. Additionally, it also became the second film to win all four acting awards, having been achieved previously 21 years earlier by Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) at the 44th Filmfare Awards.

At age 92, Kamini Kaushal set a record for becoming the oldest nominee of an acting Filmfare Award, receiving a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance in Kabir Singh. However, she lost the award to Amruta Subhash who won the award for Gully Boy.

The ceremony proved to be highly controversial, as fans called out Filmfare for snubbing highly acclaimed films like Chhichhore, Kesari and Uri: The Surgical Strike in favor of Gully Boy. Subsequently, when the Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist went to the rap song "Apna Time Aayega" from Gully Boy instead of the patriotic song "Teri Mitti" from Kesari, lyricist Manoj Muntashir expressed his disappointment at the decision on Twitter, pledging not to attend future award ceremonies, and gained support from fans and other musicians alike.

Winners and nominees

Source:[7]

Best FilmBest Director
Best ActorBest Actress
Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
Debut Awards
Best Male DebutBest Female DebutBest Debut Director
Writing Awards
Best StoryBest ScreenplayBest Dialogue
Music Awards
Best Music DirectorBest Lyricist
Best Playback Singer – MaleBest Playback Singer – Female

Critics' awards

Best Film (Best Director)
Best ActorBest Actress

Special awards

Excellence in Indian Cinema Award
30 Years of Outstanding Contribution to Bollywood Fashion
Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
Filmfare R. D. Burman Award
  • Sashwat Sachdev

Technical awards

Nominations for the Technical awards were announced on 31 January 2020 and the winners were subsequently awarded on 2 February 2020. [8]

Best EditingBest Production Design
Best ChoreographyBest Cinematography
Best Sound DesignBest Background Score
Best Costume DesignBest ActionBest Special Effects
  • Sherry Bharda And Vishal Anand For YFX – War

Short Film awards

Winners for the short film awards were announced on 2 February 2020.[9]

Best Short Film
FictionNon-fictionPeople's Choice
  • Shazia Iqbal – Bebaak
  • Ananth Narayan Mahadevan – Village of a Lesser God
  • Deshi
Best Actor – Male (Short Film)Best Actor – Female (Short Film)
  • Sarah Hashmi – Bebaak

Controversy

Gully Boy attracted controversy over its 13 wins at the 65th Filmfare Awards.[10] Several Twitter users and fans were extremely disappointed and made calls to boycott the awards, with #BoycottFilmfare trending on the micro-blogging site.[11] While many thought that the film was a deserving winner, others were unhappy and even termed the awards as "snub fare", calling it a move to "justify sending it as a nomination for the Oscars".[12] Subsequently, when the Best Lyricist went to the rap song "Apna Time Aayega" instead of the patriotic song "Teri Mitti" from the 2019 war film Kesari, lyricist Manoj Muntashir tweeted his disappointment at the decision, pledging not to attend future award ceremonies,[13][14] and gained support from fans and other musicians alike.[15]

Superlatives

Multiple nominations
NominationsFilm
19Gully Boy
13'
11Article 15
Sonchiriya
9Kabir Singh
Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
7Kalank
Kesari
War
6Judgementall Hai Kya
Mission Mangal
Saand Ki Aankh
5Chhichhore
4Badla
Photograph
3Bharat
Bala
Good Newwz
Mardaani 2
Super 30
The Sky Is Pink
2
Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi
Yeh Saali Aashiqui
Panipat
Student of the Year 2
Multiple wins
AwardsFilm
13Gully Boy
3Article 15
'
War
2Kalank
Sonchiriya

See also

References

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