Filmfare Award for Best Actress

Filmfare Award for Best Actress
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Presented by	Filmfare
Country	India
First awarded	1954 (for performances in films released around 1953)
Currently held by	Kajol, My Name Is Khan (2011)
Official website	Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Award for Best Actress is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a female actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. The award was first given in 1954.

Superlatives

Superlative	Best Actress		Best Supporting Actress		Overall
Actress with most awards	Nutan Kajol	5	Farida Jalal Nirupa Roy Jaya Bachchan	3	Nutan Jaya Bachchan	6
Actress with most nominations	Madhuri Dixit	13	Aruna Irani	10	Raakhee	16
Actress with most nominations (without ever winning)	Tabu	5	Bindu	7	Bindu	7
Actress with most nominations in a single year	Shabana Azmi (1984)	4	Shubha Khote (1962) Shashikala (1967) Nutan (1974) Bindu (1975) Smita Patil (1984) Sushmita Sen (2000) Rani Mukerji (2005) Konkona Sen Sharma (2008)	2	Shabana Azmi (1984)	4
Oldest winner	Nutan	42	Durga Khote	70	Durga Khote	70
Oldest nominee	Sharmila Tagore	60	Durga Khote	70	Durga Khote	70
Youngest winner	Dimple Kapadia	16	Ayesha Kapoor	11	Ayesha Kapoor	11
Youngest nominee	Dimple Kapadia	16	Ayesha Kapoor	11	Ayesha Kapoor	11

Nutan and Kajol, with five wins each, have more Best Actress wins than any other actress. Two actresses: Meena Kumari and Madhuri Dixit, have four wins. Vyjayanthimala, Jaya Bachchan and Shabana Azmi have three wins. Seven actresses have won the award twice; in chronological order, they are Waheeda Rehman, Dimple Kapadia, Rekha, Sridevi, Karisma Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai and Rani Mukerji.

Four actresses have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Meena Kumari (1954–55), Jaya Bachchan (1974–75), Shabana Azmi (1984–85), and Rani Mukerji (2005–06).

Actresses who have won both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards include Vyjayanthimala, Raakhee, Padmini Kolhapure, Nutan, Dimple Kapadia, Rekha, Karisma Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit, Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor. Rani Mukerji is the first and only actress to win both these awards in the same year. Two actresses were nominated for both these awards for the same performance: Nutan for Saudagar (1974) and for Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (1979) and Raakhee for Doosra Aadmi (1978).

Apart from being a record holder in this category, Nutan, who has won 6 Filmfare awards (5 for Best Actress and 1 for Best Supporting Actress), is the overall most-awarded performer in the female acting categories along with Jaya Bachchan, who has won 3 awards from each category.

There has been only one tie in the history of this category. This occurred in 1974 when Jaya Bachchan and Dimple Kapadia were both given the award.

Madhuri Dixit, holds the record for most nominations in the Best Actress category, with 13, followed by Meena Kumari (12), Hema Malini (11), Kajol (10) and Shabana Azmi / Aishwarya Rai (9). Raakhee is the overall most-nominated performer in the female acting categories, with 16 nominations (8 for Best Actress and 8 for Best Supporting Actress), followed by Madhuri Dixit, who has 15 nominations overall. Madhuri Dixit also holds the record for most consecutive year nominations with 8 between 1989 and 1996 winning thrice in 1991, 1993 and 1995.

In 1963, Meena Kumari achieved an unusual feat by garnering all the three nominations of this category. She was nominated for Aarti, Main Chup Rahungi and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (for which she eventually won).

Shabana Azmi, who received four out of the five nominations of this category in 1984 (and eventually won for Arth), holds the record for the highest number of Best Actress nominations in a single year.

Only once have siblings been nominated for the Best Actress Award during the same year: Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor in 2002.

Multiple nominees

• 13 Nominations : Madhuri Dixit
• 12 Nominations : Meena Kumari
• 11 Nominations : Hema Malini
• 10 Nominations : Kajol
• 9 Nominations : Aishwarya Rai, Shabana Azmi
• 8 Nominations : Jaya Bachchan, Raakhee, Sridevi
• 7 Nominations : Nutan, Rani Mukerji, Rekha
• 6 Nominations : Juhi Chawla, Kareena Kapoor, Vidya Balan
• 5 Nominations : Karisma Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Tabu, Vyjayanthimala, Waheeda Rehman
• 4 Nominations : Dimple Kapadia, Mala Sinha, Manisha Koirala, Saira Banu, Sharmila Tagore, Smita Patil, Urmila Matondkar
• 3 Nominations : Jaya Prada, Priyanka Chopra
• 2 Nominations : Ameesha Patel, Anushka Sharma, Asha Parekh, Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, Meenakshi Seshadri, Nargis, Padmini Kolhapure, Rati Agnihotri, Reena Roy, Sadhana Shivdasani, Suchitra Sen, Zeenat Aman

List of winners

1950s

• 1954 Meena Kumari – Baiju Bawra as Gauri

• 1955 Meena Kumari – Parineeta as Lolita

• 1956 Kamini Kaushal – Biraj Bahu as Biraj Chakravorty
  • Geeta Bali – Vachan as Kamla
  • Meena Kumari – Azaad as Shobha

• 1957 Nutan – Seema as Gauri

• 1958 Nargis – Mother India as Radha

• 1959 Vyjayanthimala – Sadhna as Champabai / Rajani
  • Meena Kumari – Sahara as Leela
  • Vyjayanthimala – Madhumati as Madhumati / Madhavi / Radha

1960s

• 1960 Nutan – Sujata as Sujata
  • Mala Sinha – Dhool Ka Phool as Meena Khosla
  • Meena Kumari – Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan as Ratna

• 1961 Bina Rai – Ghunghat as Parvati / Jamuna
  • Madhubala – Mughal-e-Azam as Anarkali
  • Nutan – Chhalia as Shanti

• 1962 Vyjayanthimala – Gunga Jumna as Dhanno
  • Padmini – Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai as Kammo
  • Saira Banu – Junglee as Rajkumari 'Raj'

• 1963 Meena Kumari – Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam as Chhoti Bahu
  • Meena Kumari – Aarti as Aarti Gupta
  • Meena Kumari – Main Chup Rahungi as Gayetri

• 1964 Nutan – Bandini as Kalyani
  • Mala Sinha – Bahurani as Padma
  • Meena Kumari – Dil Ek Mandir as Sita

• 1965 Vyjayanthimala – Sangam as Radha
  • Mala Sinha – Jahan Ara as Jahanara Begum Sahib
  • Sadhana – Woh Kaun Thi? as Sandhya

• 1966 Meena Kumari – Kaajal as Madhavi
  • Mala Sinha – Himalaya Ki God Mein as Phoolwa
  • Sadhana – Waqt as Meena Mittal

• 1967 Waheeda Rehman – Guide as Rosie Marco
  • Meena Kumari – Phool Aur Patthar as Shanti Devi
  • Suchitra Sen – Mamta as Devyani (Pannabai) / Suparna

• 1968 Nutan – Milan as Radha R. Rai
  • Saira Banu – Shagird as Poonam
  • Waheeda Rehman – Ram Aur Shyam as Anjana

• 1969 Waheeda Rehman – Neel Kamal as Rajkumari Neel Kamal / Sita Raichand
  • Nargis – Raat Aur Din as Mrs. Varuna Verma / Peggy
  • Saira Banu – Diwana as Kamini Gupta

1970s

• 1970 Sharmila Tagore – Aradhana as Vandhana Tripathi
  • Asha Parekh – Chirag as Asha Chibber
  • Nanda – Ittefaq as Rekha

• 1971 Mumtaz – Khilona as Chand
  • Sharmila Tagore – Safar as Mrs. Neela Shekhar Kapoor
  • Waheeda Rehman – Khamoshi as Radha

• 1972 Asha Parekh – Kati Patang as Madhavi "Madhu"
  • Jaya Bachchan – Guddi as Kusum "Guddi"
  • Jaya Bachchan – Uphaar as Minoo

• 1973 Hema Malini – Seeta Aur Geeta as Seeta / Geeta
  • Meena Kumari – Pakeezah as Nargis / Sahibjaan (posthumous nomination)
  • Raakhee – Aankhon Aankhon Mein as Parvati

• 1974 Dimple Kapadia – Bobby as Bobby J. Braganza (tied with) Jaya Bachchan – Abhimaan as Uma Kumar
  • Jaya Bachchan – Koshish as Aarti Mathur
  • Moushumi Chatterjee – Anuraag as Shivani
  • Nutan – Saudagar as Mahjubhi

• 1975 Jaya Bachchan – Kora Kagaz as Archana Gupta
  • Hema Malini – Amir Garib as Sunita "Soni"
  • Hema Malini – Prem Nagar as Lata
  • Saira Banu – Sagina as Lalita
  • Shabana Azmi – Ankur as Laxmi

• 1976 Lakshmi – Julie as Julie
  • Hema Malini – Khushboo as Kusum
  • Hema Malini – Sanyasi as Champa
  • Jaya Bachchan – Mili as Mili Khanna
  • Suchitra Sen – Aandhi as Aarti Devi

• 1977 Raakhee – Tapasya as Indrani "Indu" Sinha
  • Hema Malini – Mehbooba as Ratna / Jhumri
  • Raakhee – Kabhi Kabhie as Pooja Khanna
  • Reena Roy – Nagin as Nagin
  • Sharmila Tagore – Mausam as Chanda Thapa / Kajli Thapa

• 1978 Shabana Azmi – Swami as Saudamini "Mini"'
  • Hema Malini – Kinara as Aarti Sanyal
  • Raakhee – Doosra Aadmi as Nisha
  • Smita Patil – Bhumika as Usha (Urvashi) Dalvi
  • Zarina Wahab – Gharaonda as The Nest

• 1979 Nutan – Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki as Sanjukta Chouhan
  • Raakhee – Trishna as Mrs. Aarti Gupta
  • Ranjeeta – Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se as Lily Fernandes
  • Rekha – Ghar as Aarti Chandra
  • Zeenat Aman – Satyam Shivam Sundaram as Rupa

1980s

• 1980 Jaya Bachchan – Nauker as Geeta
  • Hema Malini – Meera as Meera Rathod
  • Jaya Prada – Sargam as Hema Pradhan
  • Poonam Dhillon – Noorie as Noorie Nabi
  • Raakhee – Jurmana as Rama Sharma

• 1981 Rekha – Khubsoorat as Manju Dayal
  • Reena Roy – Aasha as Asha
  • Rekha – Judaai as Gauri Singh Verma
  • Shabana Azmi – Thodisi Bewafaii as Nima Choudhary
  • Zeenat Aman – Insaaf Ka Tarazu as Bharti Saxena

• 1982 Smita Patil – Chakra as Amma
  • Hema Malini – Naseeb as Asha
  • Jaya Bachchan – Silsila as Shobha Malhotra
  • Raakhee – Baseraa as Sharda Balraj Kohli
  • Rati Agnihotri – Ek Duuje Ke Liye as Sapna
  • Rekha – Umrao Jaan as Umrao Jaan

• 1983 Padmini Kolhapure – Prem Rog as Manorama "Rama"
  • Raakhee – Shakti as Sheetal
  • Rekha – Jeevan Dhaara as Sangeeta Shrivastav
  • Salma Agha – Nikaah as Niloufer Bano / Habiba Shabnam Rehmani
  • Smita Patil – Bazaar as Najma

• 1984 Shabana Azmi – Arth as Mrs. Pooja Inder Malhotra
  • Shabana Azmi – Avtaar as Radha Krishen
  • Shabana Azmi – Mandi as Rukmini Bai
  • Shabana Azmi – Masoom as Indu D. Malhotra
  • Sridevi – Sadma as Nehalata Malhotra

• 1985 Shabana Azmi – Bhavna as Bhavna Saxena
  • Jaya Prada – Sharaabi as Meena
  • Rohini Hattangadi – Saaransh as Parvati Pradhan
  • Shabana Azmi – Sparsh as Kavita
  • Smita Patil – Aaj Ki Awaaz as Rajni V. Deshmukh

• 1986 Dimple Kapadia – Saagar as Mona D'Silva
  • Jaya Prada – Sanjog as Yashoda / Asha
  • Mandakini – Ram Teri Ganga Maili as Ganga Singh
  • Padmini Kolhapure – Pyaar Jhukta Nahin as Preeti B. Pratap
  • Rati Agnihotri – Tawaif as Sultana

• 1987 No award

• 1988 No award

• 1989 Rekha – Khoon Bhari Maang as Aarti Verma
  • Juhi Chawla – Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak Rashmi
  • Madhuri Dixit – Tezaab as Mohini

1990s

• 1990 Sridevi – ChaalBaaz as Anju Das / Manju Das
  • Bhagyashree – Maine Pyar Kiya as Suman
  • Madhuri Dixit – Prem Pratigya as Laxmi M. Rao
  • Sridevi – Chandni as Chandni Mathur
  • Vijayashanti – Eeshwar as Lalita

• 1991 Madhuri Dixit – Dil as Madhu Mehra
  • Hema Malini – Rihaee as Taku
  • Juhi Chawla – Pratibandh as Shanti
  • Meenakshi Seshadri – Jurm as Meena S. Varma

• 1992 Sridevi – Lamhe as Pallavi / Pooja Bhatnagar
  • Dimple Kapadia – Lekin... as Reva
  • Madhuri Dixit – Saajan as Pooja Saxena
  • Rekha – Phool Bane Angaray as Namrita Singh
  • Zeba Bakhtiar – Henna as Henna

• 1993 Madhuri Dixit – Beta as Saraswati
  • Juhi Chawla – Bol Radha Bol as Radha / Rita
  • Sridevi – Khuda Gawah as Benazir / Mehndi

• 1994 Juhi Chawla – Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke as Vaijanti Iyer
  • Dimple Kapadia – Rudaali as Shanichari
  • Madhuri Dixit – Khalnayak as Gangotri "Ganga" Devi
  • Meenakshi Seshadri – Damini as Damini Gupta
  • Sridevi – Gumrah as Roshni Chadha

• 1995 Madhuri Dixit – Hum Aapke Hain Kaun...! as Nisha Choudhury
  • Kajol – Yeh Dillagi as Sapna
  • Madhuri Dixit – Anjaam as Shivani Chopra
  • Manisha Koirala – 1942: A Love Story as Rajeshwari "Rajjo" Pathak
  • Sridevi – Laadla as Sheetal Jetley

• 1996 Kajol – Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge as Simran Singh
  • Madhuri Dixit – Raja as Madhu Garewal
  • Madhuri Dixit – Yaraana as Lalita
  • Manisha Koirala – Akele Hum Akele Tum as Kiran Kumar
  • Urmila Matondkar – Rangeela as Mili Joshi

• 1997 Karisma Kapoor – Raja Hindustani as Aarti Sehgal
  • Juhi Chawla – Daraar as Priya Bhatia
  • Manisha Koirala – Khamoshi: The Musical as Annie J. Braganza
  • Seema Biswas – Bandit Queen as Phoolan Devi
  • Tabu – Maachis as Virender "Veeru" Kaur

• 1998 Madhuri Dixit – Dil To Pagal Hai as Pooja
  • Juhi Chawla – Yes Boss as Seema Kapoor
  • Mahima Chaudhry – Pardes as Kusum Ganga
  • Sridevi – Judaai as Kaajal Verma
  • Tabu – Virasat as Gehna

• 1999 Kajol – Kuch Kuch Hota Hai as Anjali Sharma
  • Kajol – Dushman as Sonia / Naina Saigal
  • Kajol – Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha as Sanjana
  • Manisha Koirala – Dil Se as Meghna
  • Urmila Matondkar – Satya as Vidya

2000s

• 2000 Aishwarya Rai – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam as Nandini
  • Aishwarya Rai – Taal as Mansi
  • Kajol – Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain as Megha
  • Karisma Kapoor – Biwi No.1 as Pooja Mehra
  • Tabu – Hu Tu Tu as Panna

• 2001 Karisma Kapoor – Fiza as Fiza Ikramullah
  • Aishwarya Rai – Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai as Preeti Vyas
  • Madhuri Dixit – Pukar as Anjali
  • Preity Zinta – Kya Kehna as Priya Baxi
  • Tabu – Astitva as Aditi Pandit

• 2002 Kajol – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... as Anjali Sharma
  • Ameesha Patel – Gadar: Ek Prem Katha as Sakina
  • Kareena Kapoor – Asoka as Kaurwaki
  • Karisma Kapoor – Zubeidaa as Zubeida Begum
  • Tabu – Chandni Bar as Mumtaz Ali Ansari

• 2003 Aishwarya Rai – Devdas as Parvati "Paro" Chakraborty
  • Ameesha Patel – Humraaz as Priya
  • Bipasha Basu – Raaz as Sanjana Dhanraj
  • Karisma Kapoor – Shakti: The Power as Nandini
  • Rani Mukerji – Saathiya as Suhani Sharma

• 2004 Preity Zinta – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Naina Catherine Kapur
  • Bhumika Chawla – Tere Naam as Nirjala Bharadwaj
  • Hema Malini – Baghban as Pooja Malhotra
  • Preity Zinta – Koi... Mil Gaya as Nisha
  • Rani Mukerji – Chalte Chalte as Priya Chopra
  • Urmila Matondkar – Bhoot as Swati

• 2005 Rani Mukerji – Hum Tum as Rhea Prakash
  • Aishwarya Rai – Raincoat as Neerja "Neeru"
  • Preity Zinta – Veer-Zaara as Zaara Hayaat Khan
  • Shilpa Shetty – Phir Milenge as Tamanna Sahni
  • Urmila Matondkar – Ek Hasina Thi as Sarika Vartak

• 2006 Rani Mukerji – Black as Michelle McNally
  • Preity Zinta – Salaam Namaste as Ambar "Ambi" Malhotra
  • Rani Mukerji – Bunty Aur Babli as Vimmi "Babli" Saluja
  • Sharmila Tagore – Viruddh... Family Comes First as Sumitra V. Patwardhan
  • Vidya Balan – Parineeta as Lalita

• 2007 Kajol – Fanaa as Zooni Ali Baig
  • Aishwarya Rai – Dhoom 2 as Sunehri
  • Bipasha Basu – Corporate as Nishiganda Dasgupta
  • Kareena Kapoor – Omkara as Dolly Mishra
  • Rani Mukerji – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Maya Talwar

• 2008 Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met as Geet Dhillon
  • Aishwarya Rai – Guru as Sujata Desai
  • Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shantipriya/Sandhya (Sandy)
  • Madhuri Dixit – Aaja Nachle as Dia Srivastav
  • Rani Mukerji – Laaga Chunari Mein Daag as Vibhavari "Badki" S. Sahay
  • Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni S. Chaturvedi

• 2009 Priyanka Chopra – Fashion as Meghna Mathur
  • Aishwarya Rai – Jodhaa Akbar as Jodhaa Bai
  • Anushka Sharma – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi as Taani
  • Asin – Ghajini as Kalpana Shetty
  • Kajol – U Me Aur Hum as Piya

2010s

• 2010 Vidya Balan – Paa as Vidya
  • Deepika Padukone – Love Aaj Kal as Meera Pandit
  • Kareena Kapoor – 3 Idiots as Pia Sahastrabuddhe
  • Kareena Kapoor – Kurbaan as Avantika Ahuja/Khan
  • Katrina Kaif – New York as Maya
  • Priyanka Chopra – Kaminey as Sweety Shekhar Bhope

• 2011 Kajol - My Name Is Khan as Mandira Khan
  • Aishwarya Rai - Guzaarish as Sofia D'Souza
  • Anushka Sharma - Band Baaja Baaraat as Shruti Kakkar
  • Kareena Kapoor - Golmaal 3 as Daboo
  • Vidya Balan - Ishqiya as Krishna Verma

• 2012 (TBA)
  • Katrina Kaif – Mere Brother Ki Dulhan as Dimple Dixit
  • Mahie Gill – Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster as Madhavi
  • Priyanka Chopra – 7 Khoon Maaf as Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes
  • Vidya Balan – No One Killed Jessica as Sabrina Lal
  • Vidya Balan – The Dirty Picture as Reshma/Silk

See also

• Filmfare Awards
• Filmfare Best Actor Award

External links

• Filmfare Nominees and Winners
• Official site