Smita Patil Memorial Award for Best Actress

The Smita Patil Memorial Award for Best Actress is an honour established in 1986 by the in memory of actress Smita Patil. It is awarded every other year to an Indian actress for her contribution to Indian cinema in the period prior to the ceremony, irrespective of a particular performance.

Recipients[]

Year	Image	Honoree	Ref(s)
1987		Tanvi Kiran	[1]
1988		Deepika Chikhlia	[2]
1989		Roopa Ganguly	[3]
1990		Sridevi	[4]
1991		Dimple Kapadia	[5]
1992		Pooja Bhatt	[6]
1993		Meenakshi Sheshadri	[7]
1994		Manisha Koirala	[8]
1996		Madhuri Dixit	[9]
1998		Tabu	[10][11]
2000		Aishwarya Rai	[12][13]
2002		Karisma Kapoor	[14][15]
2004		Urmila Matondkar	[16]
2006		Kareena Kapoor	[17][18]
2008		Preity Zinta	[19][20]
2010		Vidya Balan	[21][22]
2012		Deepika Padukone	[23][24]
2014		Priyanka Chopra	[25]
2016		Katrina Kaif	[26][27]
2018		Anushka Sharma	[28][29]
2020		Taapsee Pannu	[30]

Controversy[]

The choice of Katrina Kaif, who is not renowned for her acting abilities, for the award in 2016 met with wide criticism by both the press and the public on social networks.^[27] Columnist Sneha Bengani described her selection as "a grave insult to Patil" and further wrote that it "mocks all the previous recipients".^[31] Others defended the choice.^[32]

References[]

External links[]

• Official site