Nigar Award for Best Actor

Nigar Awards for Best Actor
Nigar Awards for Best Actor
	The 2017/last recipient: Fahad Mustafa
Awarded for	Best performance by an actor in a leading role
Country	Pakistan
Presented by	Nigar
First awarded	Santosh Kumar, ; (1957)
Currently held by	Fahad Mustafa, ; Mah e Mir (2017)

The Nigar Award for Best Actor, also known as Nigar Public Film Award for Best Actor is an award constituted for the cinema of Pakistan to recognise contribution of a lead actor in Lollywood.^[1] Established in 1958 by Ilyas Rashidi, it is presented annually by Nigar magazine as part of its annual ceremony of Nigar Awards.^[2] The award ceremony takes place independently and is not associated with any government or for-profit entities such as production house or television channel.^[3]

The first Best Actor award ceremony took place in 1957 and was given to Santosh Kumar for (1957).^[4] The last award was given to Fahad Mustafa in 2017 for Actor in Law.^[5]

Superlatives[]

Superlative	Actor	Record^[6]
Actor with most awards	Nadeem	17
Actor with most consecutive awards	Nadeem (1967-91)	17

Multiple winners[]

8 Wins: Mohammad Ali
5 Wins: Sultan Rahi
5 Wins: Jawed Sheikh
4 Wins: Waheed Murad
4 Wins: Shaan Shahid
4 Wins: Moammar Rana
3 Wins: Santosh Kumar

Winners and nominees[]

Table key
	Indicates the winner

1950s[]

Year	Photos of winners	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref(s)
1957	N/A	Santosh Kumar	Santosh		^[4]
1958	N/A	Habib	Habib		^[7]
1959	N/A	Darpan	Darpan	Saathi (1959)	^[8]

1960s[]

Year	Photos of winners	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref(s)
1960	N/A	Darpan	Doctor	Saheli	^[9]
1961	N/A	Habib	N/A	Surayya (1961)	^[7]
1962	N/A	Santosh Kumar	Shahid	Ghunghat	^[10]
1963	N/A	Santosh Kumar	N/A	Daman (1963)	^[11]
1964		Waheed Murad	Donkey cart owner	Heera Aur Pathar	^[12]
1965	N/A	Muhammad Ali	N/A	Kaneez	^[13]
1966	N/A	Muhammad Ali	N/A	Aag Ka Darya (1966)	^[13]
1967	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Chakori	^[6]
1968	N/A	Muhammad Ali	Anwer/Anu	Saiqa (1968)	^[13]
1969		Waheed Murad	N/A	Andaleeb	^[14]

1970s[]

Year	Photos of winners	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref(s)
Awards are also presented to Punjabi language films since 1970
1970	N/A	Muhammad Ali	N/A	Insaan aur Aadmi (1970)	^[13]
1970	N/A	Sudhir	N/A	Maa Putter (1970)	^[15]
1971	N/A	Muhammad Ali	N/A	Wehshi (1971)	^[16]
1971		Waheed Murad	N/A	Mastana Mahi (1971)	^[17]
1972	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Ehsas (1972)	^[6]
1972	N/A	Sultan Rahi	N/A	Basheera (1972)	^[18]
1973	N/A	Muhammad Ali	N/A	Aas (1973)	^[13]
1973	N/A	Yousuf Khan	N/A	Ziddi	^[19]
1974	N/A	Muhammad Ali	N/A	Aaina Aur Soorat (1974)	^[13]
1974	N/A	Sudhir	N/A	Lottery (1974)	^[15]
1975	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Anari (1975)	^[13]
1975	N/A	Sultan Rahi	N/A	Wehshi Jatt (1975)	^[18]
1976	N/A	Shahid	N/A	Shabana	^[20]
1976	N/A	Kamal	N/A	Jat Kurian Taun Darda (1976)
1977	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Aina	^[6]
1977	N/A	Yousuf Khan	N/A	Jabroo (1977)
1978	N/A	Muhammad Ali	N/A	Haider Ali (1978)	^[13]
1978	N/A		N/A	Shola (1978)
1979	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Pakeeza (1979)	^[6]
1979	N/A	Ali Ejaz	N/A	Dubai Chalo (1979)

1980s[]

Year	Photos of winners	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref(s)
1980	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Saima (1980)	^[6]
1980	N/A	Ali Ejaz	N/A	Sohra Te Jawai (1980)
1981	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Qurbani (1981)	^[6]
1981	N/A	Mustafa Qureshi	N/A	Sher Khan (1981)	^[21]
1982	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Sangdil (1982)	^[6]
1982	N/A		N/A	Naukar Te Maalik (1982)
1983	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Dehleez (1983)	^[6]
1983	N/A	Mustafa Qureshi	N/A	Rustam Te Khan (1983)
1984	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Lazawal (1984)	^[6]
1984	N/A		N/A	Ishq Nachaway Gali Gali (1984)
1985	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Naraaz (1985)	^[6]
1985	N/A	Ghulam Mohiuddin	N/A	Wadera (1985)
1986	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Faisla (1986)	^[6]
1986	N/A		N/A	Ye Adam (1986)
1987	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Choron Ki Barat (1987)	^[6]
1987	N/A	Sultan Rahi	N/A	Dulari (1987)
1988		Jawed Sheikh	N/A	Gharibon Ka Baadshah (1988)
1988	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Mukhra	^[6]
1989	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Barood Ki Chahoon (1989)	^[6]
	N/A	Sultan Rahi	N/A	Kalka
	N/A	Jawed Sheikh	N/A	Baarish (1989)

1990s[]

Year	Photos of winners	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref(s)
1990		Jawed Sheikh	N/A	Ustadon Ke Ustad (1990)
1990	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Gorian Dian Jhangra (1990)	^[6]
1991	N/A	Nadeem	N/A	Watan Kay Rakhwalay	^[6]
1991		Javed Sheikh	N/A	Kalay Chor
1992		Umer Shareef	N/A	Mr. 420 (1992)	^[22]
1992	N/A	Sultan Rahi	N/A	Majhoo (1992)
1993		Umer Shareef	N/A	Mr. Charlie (1993)
1993		Jawed Sheikh	N/A	Zamana
1994	N/A	Ghulam Mohiuddin	N/A	Sarkata Insaan
1994	N/A	Yousuf Khan	N/A	But Shikan (1994)
1995		Jawed Sheikh	N/A	Mushkil
1995	N/A	Sultan Rahi	N/A	Gubbar Singh (1995)
1996	N/A	Saud	N/A	Hawaen (1996)
1996	N/A	Izhar Qazi	N/A	Sakahi Badshah (1996)	^[23]
1997		Shaan Shahid	N/A	Sangam (1997)
1997	N/A	Izhar Qazi	N/A	Kala Raj (1997)
1998		Shaan Shahid	N/A	Nikah
1998	N/A	Moammar Rana	N/A	Choorian	^[24]
1999		Shaan Shahid	N/A	Jannat Ki Talash
1999	N/A	Moammar Rana	N/A	Nikki Jaee Haan (1999)

2000s[]

Year	Photos of winners	Actor	Role(s)	Film
2000		Shaan Shahid	Ali	Tere Pyar Mein
2000	N/A	Moammar Rana	N/A	Mehndi Waley Hath (2000)
2001	N/A	Ajab Gul	Aswad	Khoey Ho Tum Kahan
2002	N/A	Moammar Rana	Falak	Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa
Not announced from 2003-2016
2017 (47th)		Fahad Mustafa	Ahmad Jamal/Mir Taqi Mir	Mah e Mir

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