Filmfare 2024: Amid a celebrated spectacle of wit and wins, the Friday-night beauty and beast took home the trophies — Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt — the stars of the 69th edition of Filmfare Awards. Lights, camera, action. These were the moments of triumph for two on-screen icons at Gujarat, at the biggest celebration of Bollywood. That night, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt won the best actor of the year honours for their opposing-gender performances in separate films: for Animal (2023) and Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (2023), respectively. Ranbir Kapoor, with his trademark dimples and hunky machismo, won his sixth Filmfare trophy for the Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) award. As for Alia Bhatt, the style icon, the superstar achieved her sixth Filmfare Award for the Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female), besting four other nominated actresses.
Yet another leading dispenser of benedictions awarded to those felicitously in the radar of or below the line was the Best Director trophy that made its way back to India, to the legendary Vidhu Vinod Chopra, for his sheer mastery of cinematography in the biographical drama 12th Fail – a year of travails and trons – a magnificent excursion into the life of a persona and a people in time.
The night honoured its temperament and saw to it that a template of triumph they did not write and produced made history by being a sweeping winner of Best Film of the year. It edged out Animal, Atlee Kumar’s Jawan, Amit Rai’s OMG 2, Siddharth Anand’s Pathaan and Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani.
Here’s the complete list of winners of the 69th Filmfare Awards, 2024:
Best Film: 12th Fail
Best Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra (12th Fail)
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male): Ranbir Kapoor (Animal)
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female): Alia Bhatt (Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani)
Best Film (Critics’): Joram (Devashish Makhija)
Best Actor (Critics’): Vikrant Massey (12th Fail)
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Best Actress (Critics’): Rani Mukerji (Mrs Chatterjee vs. Norway)
Best Actress (Critics’): Shefali Shah (Three of Us)
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Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male): Vicky Kaushal (Dunki)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female): Shabana Azmi (Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani)
Best Lyrics: Amitabh Bhattacharya (“Tere Vaaste” – Zara Hatke Zara Bachke)
Best Music Album: Animal (Pritam, Vishal Mishra, Manan Bhardwaj, Shreyas Puranik, Jaani, Bhupinder Babbal, Ashim Kemson, Harshwardhan Rameshwar, Gurinder Seagal)
Best Playback Singer (Male): Bhupinder Babbal (Arjan Vailly – Animal)
Best Playback Singer (Female): Shilpa Rao (Besharam Rang – Pathaan)
Best Story: Amit Rai (OMG 2), Devashish Makhija (Joram)
Best Screenplay: Vidhu Vinod Chopra (12th Fail)
Best Dialogue: Ishita Moitra (Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani)
Best Background Score: Harshavardhan Rameshwar (Animal)
Best Cinematography: Avinash Arun Dhaware (Three of Us)
Best Production Design: Subrata Chakraborty, Amit Ray (Sam Bahadur)
Best Costume Design: Sachin Lovelekar, Divvya Gambhir, Nidhhi Gambhir (Sam Bahadur)
Best Sound Design: Kunal Sharma (Mpse) (Sam Bahadur) Sync Cinema (Animal)
Best Editing: Jaskunwar Singh Kohli- Vidhu Vinod Chopra (12th Fail)
Best Action: Spiro Razatos, Anl Arasu, Craig Macrae, Yannick Ben, Kecha Khamphakdee, Sunil Rodrigues (Jawan)
Best VFX: Red Chillies VFX (Jawan)
Best Choreography: Ganesh Acharya (“What Jhumka?” – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani )
Best Debut Director: Tarun Dudeja (Dhak Dhak)
Best Debut Male: Aditya Rawal (Faraaz)
Best Debut Female: Alizeh Agnihotri (Farrey)
Lifetime Achievement Award: David Dhawan