Monday, April 25, 2011

Filmfare Awards (Best Actress Category) Facts



In 1963, Meena Kumari was the only nominee, nominated for all three entries (that time there were 3 entries per year), for Aarti, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, and Main Chup Rahungi.




Shabana Azmi, actress with the Most nominations same year, had received four out of the five nominations of best Actress category in 1984 (and evenrually won for Arth).



Actress with Most Awards Nutan, with five wins for Best Actress and one win for Best supporting actress. Nutan has most Best actress wins till this year. Now niece Kajol has caught up with her 5th win this year. Nutan is also the oldest winner - at the age of 42 - of the Filmfare Award for Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki. She won it for other films like Seema, Sujata, Bandini,Milan.
She won Best supporting actress award in 1982 for Meri Jung.


After Nutan, there comes Jaya Bhaduri who also has 6 Filmfare awards, 3 Best Actress and 3 Best Supporting Actress.

However, the oldest nominee is Sharmila Tagore who was nominated in 2006 for Viruddh at the age of 60. The youngest nominee and winner of the award is Dimple Kapadia who was nominated when she was as young as 16 years for Bobby in 1974, though this year she shared with Jaya bachchan for Abhimaan.




Actress with Most Nominations for Best Actress category is Madhuri Dixit has 13 nominations to her credit. She has won the award four times alongwith Meena Kumari.




Actress with overall most nominations is Rakhee who was nominated 16 times (8 for Best Actress and 8 for Best Supporting Actress). She is followed by Madhuri Dixit who has 15 nominations overall.




Actress with Most Nominations without ever winning Tabu, Manisha Koirala with some 5 nominations.

Vyjayantimala, 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, Rani Mukerji.

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

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


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



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 in 1974 and for Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki in 1979) and Raakhee (for Doosra Aadmi in 1978 for same role nominated in both the categories).

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