Nominations for 20th Annual Screen Awards

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Kai Po Che
Madras Cafe
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela
The Lunchbox
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

Best Actor – Male
Aamir Khan – Dhoom: 3
Dhanush – Raanjhanaa
Farhan Akhtar – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Irrfan – The Lunchbox
Ranbir Kapoor – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Rajkummar Rao – Shahid
Shah Rukh Khan – Chennai Express

Best Actor (Female)
Chitrangada Singh – Inkaar
Deepika Padukone – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela/Chennai Express
Nimrat Kaur – The Lunchbox
Parineeti Chopra – Shuddh Desi Romance
Shraddha Kapoor – Aashiqui 2
Sonakshi Sinha – Lootera

Popular Choice (Male)
Aamir Khan – Dhoom: 3
Shah Rukh Khan – Chennai Express
Hrithik Roshan – Krrish 3
Dhanush – Raanjhanaa
Ranveer Singh – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela
Ranbir Kapoor – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Farhan Akhtar – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Akshay Kumar – Boss, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai, Special 26
Saif Ali Khan – Race 2
Aditya Roy Kapur – Aashiqui 2
John Abraham – Shootout At Wadala, Madras Cafe, Race 2
Shahid Kapoor – R…Rajkumar

Best Actor in a Negative Role (Male)
Boman Irani – Jolly LLB
Jaideep Ahlawat – Commando
Prakash Belawadi – Madras Cafe
Rishi Kapoor – D-Day
Vivek Oberoi – Krrish 3

Most Promising Newcomer (Male)
Manish Paul – Mickey Virus
Neeraj Kabi – Ship of Theseus
Girish Kumar – Ramaiya Vastavaiya
Sushant Singh Rajput – Kai Po Che

Best Actor in a Comic Role (Male/Female)
Divyendu Sharma – Chashme Baddoor
Kunal Kemmu – Go Goa Gone
Richa Chadda – Fukrey
Varun Sharma – Fukrey
Uday Chopra – Dhoom: 3

Best Ensemble Cast
Club 60
Fukrey
Kai Po Che
Sixteen

Best Music
Ankit Tiwari, Jeet Ganguly, Mithoon – Aashiqui 2
Amit Trivedi – Kai Po Che
A R Rahman – Raanjhanaa
Pritam Chakravarty – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag

Best Playback Singer -Male
Benny Dayal – Badtameez Dil (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani)
Amit Trivedi – Maanjha (Kai Po Che)
Raju Singh – Rooh mein faasle (Club 60)
Arijit Singh – Tum Hi Ho (Aashiqui 2)
Siddharth Mahadevan – Zinda (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)

Best Lyrics
Balam Pichkari – Amitabh Bhattacharya (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani)
Dhoop mein (title track) – Jaideep Sahni (Shuddh Desi Romance)
Maanjha – Swanand Kirkire (Kai Po Che)
Raghupati Raghav – Prasoon Joshi (Satyagraha)
Rooh mein – Dr.Mahendra Madhukar (Club 60)
Zinda – Prasoon Joshi (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag)

Best Screenplay
Kai Po Che – Abhishek Kapoor, Chetan Bhagat, Pubali Chaudhuri and Supratik Sen
Fukrey – Mrigdeep Singh Lamba & Vipul Vig
Ram-Leela – Sanjay Leela Bhansali/ Garima Wahal & Siddharth
Shuddh Desi Romance – Jaideep Sahni
Shahid – Sameer Gautam Singh, Hansal Mehta & Apurva Asrani
The Lunchbox – Ritesh Batra

Best Editing
Kai Po Che – Deepa Bhatia
Madras Cafe – Chandrashekar Prajapati
Ram-Leela – Sanjay Leela Bhansali & Rajesh Pandey
Sixteen – Raj Purohit
Special 26 – Shree Narayan Singh

Best Costume
Dhoom 3 – Anaita Shroff, Rushi Sharma and Manoshi Nath
Lootera – Subarna Ray Chaudhari
Ram-Leela – Anju Modi, Maxima Basu
BA Raanjhanaa – Payal Saluja
Shuddh Desi Romance – Varsha & Shilpa

Best Production Design
Dhoom: 3 – Acropolis – Sumit Basu, Snigdha Basu, Rajnish Hedao
Kai Po Che – Sonal Sawant
Madras Cafe – Vinod Kumar
Ram-leela – Wasiq Khan
Raanjhanaa – Wasiq Khan

Best Director
Abhishek Kapoor – Kai Po Che
Ayan Mukherji – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Hansal Mehta – Shahid
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Rakesh Roshan – Krrish 3
Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela
Shoojit Sircar – Madras Cafe

Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Male
Amit Sadh – Kai Po Che
Anupam Kher – Special 26
Jimmy Shergill – Bullett Raja
Nawazuddin Siddiqui – The Lunchbox
Saurabh Shukla – Jolly LLB
Mohammad Zeeshan Ayub – Raanjhanaa

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
Divya Dutta – Gippi
Huma Qureshi – Ek Thi Daayan
Kalki Koechlin – Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani
Richa Chadda – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela
Swara Bhaskar – Raanjhanaa

Popular Choice (Female)
Deepika Padukone – Chennai Express, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela, Race 2, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Katrina Kaif – Dhoom: 3
Kangana Ranaut – Krrish 3, Shootout At Wadala
Parineeti Chopra – Shudhh Desi Romance
Priyanka Chopra – Krrish 3
Shraddha Kapoor – Aashiqui 2
Shruti Haasan – D-Day
Sonam Kapoor – Raanjhanaa
Sonakshi – Sinha Lootera, R…Rajkumar

Best Actor in a Negative Role (Female)
Kangana Ranaut – Krrish 3
Konkona Sen Sharma – Ek Thi Daayan
Shabana Azmi – Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Shilpa Shukla – BA Pass
Supriya Pathak/Kapur – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela

Most Promising Newcomer (Female)
Aida El-Kashef – Ship of Theseus
Shree Swara – D-Day
Vaani Kapoor – Kai Po Che
Izabelle Liate – Sixteen

Best Child Artist
Japtej Singh (young Milkha) – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Naman Jain (as a Katrina Kaif fan) – Bombay Talkies
Siddharth Nigam as Sahir (young Aamir Khan) – Dhoom: 3
Vishesh Tiwari as Bobo (young Emraan Hashmi) – Ek Thi Daayan

Best Background Score
A R Rahman – Raanjhanaa
Shankar -Ehsaan -Loy – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Ritesh Sonik – Kai Po Che
Monty Sharma – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela
Surender Sodhi – Special 26

Best Cinematography
Ram-Leela – S. Ravi Verman
Dhoom: 3 – Sudeep Chatterjee
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag – Binod Pradhan
Madras Cafe – Kamaljeet Negi
Raanjhanaa – Nataraja Subramania & Vishal Sinha
Ship of Theseus – Pankaj Kumar

Best Action
Commando – Franz Spilhaus
Dhoom: 3 – Mohan Conrad E Palmisano & Sham Kaushal
Krrish 3 – Tony Ching & Sham Kaushal
Madras Cafe – Manohar Verma
Shootout At Wadala – Tinnu Verma

Most Promising Debut Director
Ajay Bahl – BA Pass
Anand Gandhi – Ship of Theseus
Kannan Iyer – Ek Thi Daayan
Raj Purohit – Sixteen
Ritesh Batra – The Lunchbox

Best Playback Singer (Female)
Chinmayi Sripada – Titli (duet Chennai Express)
Shalmali Kholgade – Balam Pichkari (duet, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani)
Sona Mohapatra – Ambarsariya (Fukrey)
Monali Thakur – Sawaar Lo (Lootera)
Shreya Ghoshal – Sunn Raha Hain Na Tu… (Aashiqui2)

Best Story
BA Pass – Mohan Sikka
Inkaar – Sudhir Mishra
Jolly LLB – Subhash Kapoor
Sixteen – Raj Purohit & Pawan Sony
Shahid – Hansal Mehta & Sameer Gautam Singh
The Lunchbox – Ritesh Batra

Best Dialogue
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag – Prasoon Joshi
Chennai Express – Sajid-Farhad
Go Goa Gone – Sita Menon & Kunal Kemmu
Shahid – Sameer Gautam Singh
Shuddh Desi Romance – Jaideep Sahni

Best Sound Design
Ram-Leela – Parikshit Lalwani & Kunal Mehta
Dhoom: 3 – Ganesh Gangadharan
Kai Po Che – Babylon Fonseca
Madras Cafe – Bishwadeep Chatterjee
Raanjhanaa – Arun Nambiar

Best Special effects
Dhoom: 3 – Tata Elxsi -VCL
Krrish 3 – Red Chillies
Ek Thi Daayan – Prana Studio
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela – Reliance Media Works

Best Choreography
ABCD – Remo D'Souza, Arvind Thakur, Anand Kumar, Jayesh Pradhan, Uma & Gaiti
Badtameez Dil (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani) – Remo D'Souza –
Kamli (Dhoom: 3) – Vaibhavi Merchant
Nagada Sang Dhol (Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela) – Sameer and Arsh Tanna
Agal Bagal (Phata Poster Nikla Hero) – Bosco and Ceasar

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