55th Filmfare Awards

55th Filmfare Awards
Date	27 February 2010
Site	Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai
Hosted by	Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan
Official website	www.filmfare.com
Highlights
Best Film	3 Idiots
Critics Award for Best Film	Firaaq
Most awards	3 Idiots (6) and Dev.D (6)
Most nominations	Kaminey (10)
Television coverage
Network	Sony Entertainment Television (India)

The 55th Filmfare Awards were held on 27 February 2010 at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai, India. 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. The award ceremony was hosted by Shahrukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan.

The major award-winning films at the ceremony were 3 Idiots and Dev.D, both garnering six awards each, followed by 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.

Awards and nominees

Rajkumar Hirani — Best Director winner for 3 Idiots

Amitabh Bachchan — Best Actor winner for Paa

Vidya Balan — Best Actress winner for Paa

Nandita Das — Best Director Critics winner for Firaaq

Ranbir Kapoor — Best Actor Critics winner

Mahi Gill — Best Actress Critics winner for Dev D

Boman Irani — Best Supporting Actor winner for 3 Idiots

Kalki Koechlin — Best Supporting Actress winner for Dev D

Shashi Kapoor — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Khayyam — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

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 as Auro Aamir Khan - 3 Idiots as Rancho Ranbir Kapoor - Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani as Prem Shankar Sharma/Statue Ranbir Kapoor - Wake Up Sid as Siddharth Mehra Saif Ali Khan - Love Aaj Kal as Jaivardhan Singh Shahid Kapoor - Kaminey as Charlie/Guddu Sharma	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 Katrina Kaif - New York as Maya Shaikh Priyanka Chopra - Kaminey as Sweety Shekhar Bhope
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Boman Irani - 3 Idiots Amole Gupte - Kaminey Neil Nitin Mukesh - New York R. Madhavan - 3 Idiots 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 Shahana Goswami - Firaaq Supriya Pathak - Wake Up Sid
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 Jaideep Sahni - Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year Zoya Akhtar - Luck By Chance	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
Shashi Kapoor	Mohammed Zahur Khayyam
Best Debut Director
Male	Female
Ayan Mukherjee - Wake Up Sid	Zoya Akhtar - Luck By Chance
RD Burman Award
Amit Trivedi - Dev.D
Special Award
Nandita Das - Firaaq

See also

• Bollywood

External links

• Filmfare awards