Presenting the winners along with the list of nominees in various categories. Just a reminder, its entirely my personal opinion based list.



Best Actor Male : Ranveer Singh (Padmaavat)

• Vineet Kumar Singh (Mukkabaaz)
• Gajraj Rao (Badhaai Ho)
• Ayushmann Khurrana (Andhadhun)
• Varun Dhawan (October)

Special mention to Avinash Tiwari's powerful performance, especially in 2nd half of Laila Majnu.. just about misses out in my top5.


Best Actor Female : Taapsee Pannu (Manmarziyaan)

• Alia Bhatt (Raazi)
• Neena Gupta (Badhaai Ho)
• Tabu (Andhadhun)
• Anushka Sharma (Pari)

Zoya Hussain in Mukkabaaz and Sanya-Radhika in Pataakha were the notable omissions here.


Best Director : Meghna Gulzar (Raazi)

• Shoojit Sircar (October)
• Sriram Raghavan (Andhadhun)
• Anubhav Sinha (Mulk)
• Vishal Bhardwaj (Pataakha)


Best Film : Raazi

• October
• Mulk
• Andhadhun
• Laila Majnu


Best Supporting Actor Male : Manoj Pahwa (Mulk)

• Saurabh Shukla (Raid)
• Angad Bedi (Soorma)
• Pankaj Tripathi (Stree)
• Vicky Kaushal (Sanju)

Sunil Grover in Pataakha and Sunny Kaushal in Gold were some of other brilliant performances.


Best Supporting Actor Female : Gitanjali Rao (October)

• Katrina Kaif (Zero)
• Surekha Sikri (Badhaai Ho)
• Renuka Shahane (3 Storeys)
• Yamini Das (Sui Dhaaga)


Best Music : Niladri Kumar, Joi Barua, Alif (Laila Majnu)

• Ajay-Atul, Tanishk Bagchi, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Zero)
• Amit Trivedi (Manmarziyaan)
• Vikram Montrose, Rohan Rohan, A R Rahman (Sanju)
• Amit Trivedi (Andhadhun)


Best Lyricist : Irshad Kamil, hafiz hafiz (Laila Majnu)

• Irshad Kamil, aahista aahista (Laila Majnu)
• Shellee, grey waala shade (Manmarziyaan)
• Irshad Kamil, mere naam tu (Zero)
• Shekhar Astitwa, kar har maidaan fateh (Sanju)


Best Playback Singer Male : Shahid Mallya, daryaa (Manmarziyaan)

• Sukhvinder Singh, kar har maidaan fateh (Sanju)
• Mohit Chauhan, hafiz hafiz (Laila Majnu)
• Arijit Singh, aahista aahista (Laila Majnu)
• Abhay Jodhpurkar, mere naam tu (Zero)


Best Playback Singer Female : Jyoti Nooran, tanha hua (Zero)

• Harshdeep Kaur-Vibha Saraf, dilbaro (Raazi)
• Nikhita Gandhi, mujhe chaand pe le chalo (Sanju)
• Jonita Gandhi, aahista aahista (Laila Majnu)
• Rekha Bhardwaj, so ja so ja (Pari)


Best Debut Male : Dulquer Salmaan (Karwaan)

• Zain Khan Durrani (Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz)
• Ishaan Khatter (Beyond the Clouds & Dhadak)
• Jassie Gill (Happy Phir Bhag Jayegi)
• Varun Mitra (Jalebi)


Best Debut Female : Zoya Hussain (Mukkabaaz)

• Radhika Madan (Pataakha)
• Gitanjali Rao (October)
• Sara Ali Khan (Kedarnath & Simmba)
• Banita Sandhu (October)

I did like Jhanvi Kapoor in Dhadak, but the competition too strong in this category, so she misses out.


Best Debut Director : Amar Kaushik (Stree)

• Sajid Ali (Laila Majnu)
• Prosit Roy (Pari)
• Arjun Mukerjee (3 Storeys)
• Akshat Verma (Kaalakaandi)


Best Story : Akshat Ghildial, Jyoti Kapoor, Shantanu Srivastava (Badhaai Ho)

• Mitesh Shah, Adesh Prasad, Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi, Narayan Dharap (Tumbbad)
• Anudeep Singh (Mukkabaaz)
• Raj-Dk (Stree)
• Juhi Chaturvedi (October)


Best Scene : Qais questioning the people who pelt stones at him, asking if he didn't notice them while lost in his love for Laila, how did they notice him when lost in their love for God (Laila Majnu)

• Vinayak's son suggests idea that can earn them lots of money in one go, not knowing the greed is going to put them both in danger (Tumbbad)
• The helplessness Bilal feels when he is mentally tortured with questions and being made to say things by Danish and his team at Police Station (Mulk)
• Akash gets out of lift and watches Simi commit a murder right in front of him, as he quickly adjusts and goes in his blind act, with the Beethoven background score (Andhadhun)
• Sanjay heavy on drugs uses toilet commode as mangalsutra for Ruby (Sanju)

Pataakha's climax fake death scene, Avinash's emotional speech on his father in Karwaan and Pari's scene where Rukhsana uses earphones to fool were also among my favs!


Best Jodi : Varun-Banita (October)

• Sanya-Radhika (Pataakha)
• Avinash-Tripti (Laila Majnu)
• Ranbir-Vicky (Sanju)
• Rajkumar-Shraddha (Stree)


Best Trailer : October

• Omerta
• Pataakha
• Sanju
• Mulk

Laila Majnu, Stree and Gold had pretty good trailers too, many of these films however didn't turn out to be good.


Best Screenplay : Bhavani Iyer, Meghna Gulzar (Raazi)

• Anubhav Sinha (Mulk)
• Juhi Chaturvedi (October)
• Sriram Raghavan, Arijit Biswas, Yogesh Chandekar, Pooja Ladha Surti (Andhadhun)
• Raj Nidimoru, Krishna Dk (Stree)


Best Dialogue : Vishal Bhardwaj (Pataakha)

• Anubhav Sinha (Mulk)
• Sumit Aroraa (Stree)
• Nandita Das (Manto)
• Akshat Ghildial (Badhaai Ho)


Best Editing : Pooja Ladha Surti (Andhadhun)

• Nitin Baid (Raazi)
• Sanyukta Kaza (Tumbbad)
• Ballu Saluja (Mulk)
• Aarti Bajaj (Manmarziyaan)


Best Choreography : Kruti Mahesh Midya-Jyoti D Tommaar, ghoomar (Padmavati)

• Rajeev Surti, hafiz hafiz (Laila Majnu)
• Poonam-Priyanka, grey waala shade (Manmarziyaan)
• Shabina Khan, balma (Pataakha)
• Bosco, dil chori (Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety)


Best Background Score : Daniel B George (Andhadhun)

• Shantanu Moitra (October)
• Jesper Kyd (Tumbbad)
• Hitesh Sonik (Laila Majnu)
• Amit Trivedi (Manmarziyaan)


Best Cinematography : Pankaj Kumar (Tumbbad)

• Aveek Mukhopadhyay (October)
• Sayak Bhattacharya (Laila Majnu)
• Tushar Kanti Ray (Kedarnath)
• Sudeep Chatterjee (Padmaavat)


Best Action : Sham Kaushal (Padmaavat)

• Cyril Raffaelli, Sebastian Seveau, Vikram Dahiya (Bhavesh Joshi)
• Vikram Dahiya, Sunil Rodriguez (Mukkabaaz)
• Sunil Rodriguez (Simmba)
• Ram Chella, Lakshman Chella, Kecha Khamphakdee (Baaghi 2)


Best Art Direction : Nitin Zihani Choudhary, Rakesh Yadav (Tumbbad)

• Amit Ray, Subrata Chakraborty (Padmaavat)
• Madhusudan (Stree)
• Rita Ghosh (Manto)
• Debashis Debnath (Pari)


Best Costume : Ajay, Maxima Basu, Harpreet Rimple, Chandrakant Sonawane (Padmaavat)

• Manish Malhotra, Natascha Charak, Nikita Mohanty (Dhadak)
• Aki Narula, Anaita Shroff Adajania, Ankita Jha (Zero)
• Karishma Sharma (Pataakha)
• Smriti Chauhan, Sachin Lovalekar (Tumbbad)



Special Mention to Child Actors - Mohammad Samad in Tumbbad and Harsh Mayar in Hichki, both of them were outstanding in their acts.