Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress
The 2021 recipient: Tillotama Shome
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Critics
Country	India
First awarded	Dimple Kapadia, Rudaali (1993)
Currently held by	Tillotama Shome, Sir (2021)
Website	Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi-language films.

Superlatives[]

• 2 actresses have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Manisha Koirala (1996–97) and Tabu (2000-01).
• Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor are the only siblings who have both won the award.
• There have been only 2 ties in 2003 and 2020. In 2003, Manisha Koirala and Rani Mukerji were both given the award for Company and Saathiya. In 2020, Taapsee Pannu & Bhumi Pednekar won this award for the same film, Saand Ki Aankh (2019).
• Neena Gupta is the eldest recipient, winning the award for Badhaai Ho (2018) at age 59.
• Zaira Wasim is the youngest recipient, winning the award for Secret Superstar (2017) at age 17.^[1]
• Nine actresses have won awards in both Best Actress and Best Actress - Critics categories; in chronological order, they are Dimple Kapadia, Karisma Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Alia Bhatt and Taapsee Pannu.
• Rani Mukerji is the only actress to win both Best Actress (Critics) and Popular awards during the same year (2006) for Black.
• Nine actresses have won the award without receiving a Best Actress nomination. In chronological order they are: Farida Jalal for Mammo (1995), Manisha Koirala for Bombay (1996) & Company (2003), Shefali Shah for Satya (1999), Kareena Kapoor for Dev (2005), Tabu for Cheeni Kum (2008), Shahana Goswami for Rock On!! (2009), Mahi Gill for Dev.D (2010), Richa Chadda for Gangs of Wasseypur (2013) and Shilpa Shukla for B.A. Pass (2014). Among these, Shah, Goswami and Chadda were nominated for Best Supporting Actress..

Multiple Winners[]

• 4 Wins: Tabu
• 3 Wins: Manisha Koirala
• 2 Wins: Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor

List of winners[]

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance[]

(From 1991 until 1997, there was one special category known as the Critics Award for Best Performance, and was awarded without prior nomination to acknowledge an actor of either sex.)

1990s[]

• 1991
  Awarded to a male actor
• 1992
  Not Awarded
• 1993 Dimple Kapadia as Shanichari – Rudaali
• 1994
  Awarded to a male actor
• 1995 Farida Jalal as Mammo – Mammo
• 1996 Manisha Koirala as Shaila Banu – Bombay
• 1997 Manisha Koirala as Annie Braganza – Khamoshi: The Musical

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress[]

(The category is officially divided into two separate categories to acknowledge both male and female actors individually.)

• 1998 Tabu as Gehna – Virasat
• 1999 Shefali Shah as Pyari Mhatre – Satya

2000s[]

• 2000 Tabu as Panna – Hu Tu Tu
• 2001 Tabu as Aditi Pandit – Astitva
• 2002 Karisma Kapoor as Zubeidaa Suleiman Seth – Zubeidaa
• 2003 Manisha Koirala as Saroja – Company (tied with) Rani Mukerji as Suhani Sharma – Saathiya
• 2004 Urmila Matondkar as Swati – Bhoot
• 2005 Kareena Kapoor as Aaliya – Dev
• 2006 Rani Mukerji as Michelle McNally – Black
• 2007 Kareena Kapoor as Dolly Mishra – Omkara
• 2008 Tabu as Nina Verma – Cheeni Kum
• 2009 Shahana Goswami as Debbie Mascarenhas – Rock On!!

2010s[]

• 2010 Mahi Gill as Parminder 'Paro' – Dev.D
• 2011 Vidya Balan as Krishna Verma – Ishqiya
• 2012 Priyanka Chopra as Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes – 7 Khoon Maaf
• 2013 Richa Chadda as Nagma Khatun – Gangs of Wasseypur
• 2014 Shilpa Shukla as Sarika – B.A. Pass
• 2015 Alia Bhatt as Veera Tripathi – Highway
• 2016 Kangana Ranaut Tanuja Trivedi and Kumari Kusum Sangwan – Tanu Weds Manu Returns
• 2017 Sonam Kapoor as Neerja Bhanot – Neerja
• 2018 Zaira Wasim as Insia Malik – Secret Superstar
  • Kangana Ranaut - Rangoon as Julia
  • Sridevi – Mom as Devki Sabarwal
  • Swara Bhaskar - Anaarkali of Aarah' as Anaarkali
  • Vidya Balan – Tumhari Sulu as Sulochana Dubey
• 2019 Neena Gupta as Priyamvada Kaushik - Badhaai Ho
  • Anushka Sharma - Sui Dhaaga as Mamta Sharma
  • Alia Bhatt – Raazi as Sehmat Khan
  • Radhika Madan - Pataakha as Champa 'Badki' Kumari
  • Taapsee Pannu - Mulk as Aarti Malhotra / Mohammed
  • Tabu – Andhadhun as Simi

2020s[]

• 2020 Taapsee Pannu & Bhumi Pednekar - Saand Ki Aankh as Prakashi Tomar & Chandro Tomar
  • Bhumi Pednekar – Sonchiriya as Indumati Tomar
  • Kangana Ranaut – Judgementall Hai Kya as Bobby
  • Radhika Madan – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota as Supriya 'Supri'
  • Sanya Malhotra – Photograph as Miloni Shah
• 2021 Tillotama Shome – Sir as Ratna
  • Bhumi Pednekar – Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare as Kajal "Kitty" Yadav
  • Konkona Sen Sharma – Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare as Radha "Dolly" Yadav
  • Vidya Balan – Shakuntala Devi as Shakuntala Devi
  • Sanya Malhotra – Ludo as Shruti Choksi
  • Taapsee Pannu – Thappad as Amrita Sabharwal

See also[]

• Filmfare Awards
• Bollywood
• Cinema of India

References[]

External links[]

• Filmfare Nominees and Winners