# 26th Screen Awards

The 26th Star Screen Awards ceremony honoured the best Indian Hindi-language films released in 2019. The ceremony was held on 2019 and broadcast in India on Star Plus on 2019.
Gully Boy led the ceremony with 6 nominations, followed by Kabir Singh, The Sky Is Pink, and Uri: The Surgical Strike with 5 nominations each.
Gully Boy won 12 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Zoya Akhtar), Best Actor (for Ranveer Singh), Best Actress (for Alia Bhatt), and Best Male Debut (for Siddhant Chaturvedi), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

## Winners
### Main awards

| Best Film | Best Director |
| Gully Boy Kabir Singh Mission Mangal War Uri: The Surgical Strike | Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike Jagan Shakti – Mission Mangal Siddharth Anand – War Sandeep Vanga – Kabir Singh |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Ranveer Singh – Gully Boy as Murad Ahmed Akshay Kumar – Kesari as Ishar Singh Akshay Kumar – Mission Mangal as Rakesh Dhawan Hrithik Roshan – War as Kabir Shahid Kapoor – Kabir Singh as Dr. Kabir Rajdheer Singh Vicky Kaushal – Uri: The Surgical Strike as Vihaan Singh Shergill | Alia Bhatt – Gully Boy as Safeena Firdausi Kangana Ranaut – Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi as Rani Lakshmi Bai Katrina Kaif – Bharat as Kumud Raina Priyanka Chopra – The Sky Is Pink as Aditi Chaudhary Taapsee Pannu – Badla as Naina Sethi Vidya Balan – Mission Mangal as Tara Shinde |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Gulshan Devaiah – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota as Karate Mani / Jimmy Manoj Pahwa – Article 15 as Bhramadatt Singh Soham Majumdar – Kabir Singh as Shiva Varun Sharma – Chhichhore as Gurmeet "Sexa" Singh Dhillon Vijay Raaz – Dream Girl as Rajpal Kirar Vijay Varma – Gully Boy as Moeen | Kamini Kaushal – Kabir Singh as Sadhna Kaur "Dadi" Amrita Singh – Badla as Rani Kaur Seema Pahwa – Bala as Mausi Vaani Kapoor – War as Naina Zaira Wasim – The Sky Is Pink as Aisha Chaudhary |
| Most Promising Newcomer – Male | Most Promising Newcomer – Female |
| Siddhant Chaturvedi – Gully Boy as MC Sher Abhimanyu Dassani – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota as Surya Karan Deol – Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas as Karan Sehgal Mohit Raina – Uri: The Surgical Strike as Karan Kashyap Nandish Sandhu – Super 30 as Pranav Kumar Zaheer Iqbal – Notebook as Kabir Kaul | Sara Ali Khan – Kedarnath as Mandakani "Mukku" Mishra Ananya Panday – Student of the Year 2 as Shreya Randhawa Mrunal Thakur – Super 30 as Supriya Pranutan Bahl – Notebook as Firdaus Sahher Bambba – Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas as Saher Sethi Tara Sutaria – Student of the Year 2 as Mridula "Mia" Chawla |
| Most Promising Debut Director | Best Comedian |
| Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike Deva Katta – Prassthanam Raaj Shaandilyaa – Dream Girl Tushar Hiranandani – Saand Ki Aankh | Yami Gautam – Bala as Pari Mishra Akshay Kumar – Housefull 4 as Bala Ayushmann Khurrana – Dream Girl as Karamveer Singh/Pooja Kartik Aaryan – Luka Chuppi as Vinod "Guddu" Shukla Madhuri Dixit – Total Dhamaal as Bindiya "Bindu" Patel |

### Critics' awards

Best Film :
| Article 15 – Anubhav Sinha Bala – Amar Kaushik Chhichhore – Nitesh Tiwari Section 375 – Ajay Bahl The Sky Is Pink – Shonali Bose ||
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Ayushmann Khurrana – Article 15 & Bala Akshaye Khanna – Section 375 Farhan Akhtar – The Sky Is Pink Sushant Singh Rajput – Chhichhore & Sonchiriya | Bhumi Pednekar – Saand Ki Aankh & Tapsee Pannu – Saand Ki Aankh Bhumi Pednekar – Bala Priyanka Chopra – The Sky Is Pink Richa Chadda – Section 375 |

### Special awards

| Lifetime Achievement Award | Star Plus Baat Nayi Award |
| Prem Chopra | Luka Chuppi |
| Entertainer of the Year | Fresh Face of the Year |
| Ranveer Singh – Gully Boy as Murad Ahmed a.k.a. Gully Boy & Shahid Kapoor – Kabir Singh as Kabir Rajdheer Singh | Ananya Panday – Student of the Year 2 as Shreya Randhawa |

### Technical awards

Best Music :
| Gully Boy & Kabir Singh ||
| Best Playback Singer – Male | Best Playback Singer – Female |
| Sachet Tandon – "Bekhayali" (Kabir Singh) | Shreya Ghoshal & Vaishali Mhade – "Ghar More Pardesiya" (Kalank) |
| Best Lyrics | Best Production Design |
| Divine & Ankur Tewari – "Apna Time Aayega" (Gully Boy) | Suzanne Caplan Merwanji – Gully Boy |
| Best Film Writing (Story and Screenplay) | Best Dialogue |
| Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15 | Vijay Maurya – Gully Boy |
| Best Editing | Best Cinematography |
| Ewan Mulligan – Article 15 | Jay Oza – Gully Boy |
| Best Action | Best Choreography |
| Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike | Remo D'Souza – "First Class" (Kalank) |
| Best Sound Design | Best Costume Design |
| Bishwadeep Chatterjee – Uri: The Surgical Strike | Poornamrata Singh – Gully Boy |

## Superlatives

Films with multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 6 | Gully Boy |
| 5 | Kabir Singh |
| 5 | The Sky Is Pink |
| 5 | Uri: The Surgical Strike |
| 4 | Bala |
| 4 | Mission Mangal |
| 4 | War |
| 3 | Article 15 |
| 3 | Chhichhore |
| 3 | Dream Girl |
| 3 | Saand Ki Aankh |
| 3 | Section 375 |
| 2 | Badla |
| 2 | Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota |
| 2 | Notebook |
| 2 | Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas |
| 2 | Student of the Year 2 |
| 2 | Super 30 |
Films with multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 12 | Gully Boy |
| 4 | Kabir Singh |
| 3 | Article 15 |
| 3 | Uri: The Surgical Strike |
| 2 | Bala |
| 2 | Kalank |
| 2 | Saand Ki Aankh |