1st Filmfare awards - wikipedia 1st Filmfare awards 1st Filmfare Awards Date March 21, 1954 Site Metro Cinema, Bombay Highlights Best Film Do Bigha Zamin Most awards Do Bigha Zamin & Baiju Bawra ( 2 ) Filmfare Awards 2nd → The 1st Filmfare Awards were held on March 21, 1954, honoring the best in Hindi cinema in 1953. That year they were known as Clare Awards, after Clare Mendonca, film critic of The Times of India who had died in the same year. Contents 1 The Awards 2 Best Movie 3 Best Director 4 Best Actress 5 Best Actor 6 Best Music 7 See also 8 References 9 External links The awards In a short ceremony held at Metro Cinema in Bombay ( now Mumbai ), awards in only 5 categories were handed out. The Chief Guest of function was George Allen, US Ambassador to India. The ceremony was compared by actor David, and it started with actress Nalini Jaywant singing the national anthem. This was followed by song and dance performance by various actors, musical performances by Talat Mehmood, Geeta Roy and Mohammed Rafi. Next two performance were classical dance performances by Vyjayanthimala and Surya Kumari. The finale of the performance section was a folk - dance performance, `` Lure of Rajasthan '' by Kamini Kaushal and her troupe. This led to the section where David announced the awards. No nominations were announced, just the winners. Keep with the voting process, where the readers of the magazine, decided the winners through postal votes, even the awards were given away by readers, chosen via a lucky draw. For example, the Best Film trophy was given by Ambassador Allen to a reader, Saijuddin from Hyderabad, who in turn presented it to Bimal Roy. This was followed by Best Actress which was won by Meena Kumari for Baiju Bawra, Best Actor went to Dilip Kumar for Daag. Next, Ace music director Naushad won his first and only Filmfare Award. The final award Best Director was won by Bimal Roy, present by Sonny Cordiero, a reader from Mumbai. Incidentally, Bimal Roy and Dilip Kumar were the first winners of the Filmfare Award for Best Director and Filmfare Award for Best Actor respectively, and remained almost six decades later, the ones with the most wins in either category. Fearing similar mob of fans, as outside Metro theatre, the venue of award party was not announced publicly. Later around hundred invitees gathered at the Wellington Gymkhana Club. Hollywood star Gregory Peck was invited to be the guest of honour at the awards but could n't make it to the function since his flight from Colombo got delayed. However, Peck did attend the banquet that followed the award nite at Wellington Gymkhana Club, Mumbai. Best Movie Do Bigha Zamin Best Director Bimal Roy - Do Bigha Zamin Best Actress Meena Kumari - Baiju Bawra Best Actor Dilip Kumar - Daag Best Music Naushad for the song ' Tu Ganga Ki Mauj ' from Baiju Bawra See also 2nd Filmfare Awards Filmfare Awards References ^ Jump up to : `` Tollywood 's tryst with Black Lady ''. The Times of India. March 9, 2014. Retrieved 2014 - 04 - 28. ^ Jump up to : Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya ( 19 December 2013 ). NOTHING BUT ! : Book Three : What Price Freedom. Partridge Publishing. pp. 214 -- 215. ISBN 978 - 1 - 4828 - 1625 - 9. Jump up ^ Aswin Punathambekar ; Anandam P. Kavoori ; Rachel Dwer ( 2008 - 08 - 01 ). Global Bollywood. NYU Press. pp. 243 -- 244. ISBN 978 - 0 - 8147 - 2944 - 1. ^ Jump up to : `` The Winners - 1953 ''. Official Listings, Filmfare Awards, Indiatimes. Retrieved May 8, 2013. Jump up ^ `` ' I behaved like Gregory Peck to impress Suraiya ' ''. The Times of India. 2003 - 06 - 14. Retrieved 2012 - 09 - 30. Jump up ^ liveindia.com. `` Filmfare Awards Facts ''. Liveindia.com. Retrieved 2012 - 09 - 30. External links Winner and nomination of 1st Filmfare Awards at Internet Movie Database Filmfare Awards History of film Merit awards Best Film Director Actor Actress Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Best Performance in a Negative Role Best Performance in a Comic Role Male Debut Female Debut Debut Director Music Director Lyricist Male Playback Singer Female Playback Singer Critics ' awards Best Film Best Actor Best Actress Documentary Technical awards Story Screenplay Dialogue Action Art Direction Background Score Cinematographer Editing Choreography Sound Design Special Effects Costume Design Special awards Lifetime Achievement RD Burman Award Special Award New Face of the Year Scene of the Year Power Award Award ceremonies 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1984 1985 1986 2017 2018 The Times Group Filmfare Awards Category Filmfare Records and facts South awards East awards Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1st_Filmfare_Awards&oldid=848182687 '' Categories : Filmfare Awards 1954 film awards 1954 in Indian cinema Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Français ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 30 June 2018, at 08 : 22 ( UTC ). 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Question: who won first filmfare award for best actor
Answer: Dilip Kumar for Daag