# Filmfare OTT Awards

The Filmfare OTT Awards are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Hindi-language original programming over-the-top (OTT) space. The first edition of the awards were held on 19 December 2020. It included films and series released between August 1, 2019 and July 31 2020.

## Award categories

As of 2020, Filmfare OTT Awards have 32 categories.

### Popular awards
#### Drama series

* Best Series
* Best Director (Series)
* Best Actor in a Drama Series (Male)
* Best Actor in a Drama Series (Female)
* Best Actor in A Supporting Role in a Drama Series (Male)
* Best Actor in A Supporting Role in a Drama Series (Female)

#### Comedy Series

* Best Comedy (Series/Specials)
* Best Actor in a Comedy Series (Male)
* Best Actor in a Comedy Series (Female)
* Best Actor in A Supporting Role in a Comedy Series (Male)
* Best Actor in A Supporting Role in a Comedy Series (Female)

#### Web Original

* Best Film (Web Original)
* Best Actor in a Web Original Film (Male)
* Best Actor in a Web Original Film (Female)
* Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Web Original Film (Male)
* Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Web Original Film (Female)
* Best Unscripted (non-fiction) Original (Series/Special)

### Critics' Choice Awards

* Best Series (Critics)
* Best Director (Critics)
* Best Actor in a Drama Series (Critics)
* Best Actress in a Drama Series (Critics)
* Best Actor in a Comedy Series (Critics)
* Best Actress in a Comedy Series (Critics)

### Writing Awards

* Best Screenplay (Series)
* Best Dialogue
* Best Original Story (Series)

### Music Awards

* Best Background Music (Series)
* Best Original Soundtrack (Series)

### Technical awards

* Best Cinematography (Series)
* Best Art-Direction (Series)
* Best Editing (Series)
* Best Costume Design (Series)
In 2021 another award was introduced:
* Best VFX

## Award ceremonies
### 2020

The 2020 edition of OTT awards were held on 19 December 2020 in Mumbai. It considered series released between 1 August 2019 and 31 July 2020, for the awards.

### 2021

The 2021 edition of awards show was held on 9 December 2021 in Mumbai. Nominations were announced by Filmfare on 2 December 2021.

### 2022

The 2022 edition of awards show was held on 21 December 2022 in Mumbai. Nominations were announced by Filmfare on 17 December 2022.

### 2023

The 2023 edition of awards show was held on 26 November 2023 in Mumbai. Nominations were announced by Filmfare on 22 November 2023.

## Popular awards
### Drama Series

| Year | Best Series | Best Director | Best Actor (Male) | Best Actor (Female) | Best Supporting Actor (Male) | Best Supporting Actor (Female) |
| 2020 | Paatal Lok | Avinash Arun – Paatal Lok | Jaideep Ahlawat – Paatal Lok as Haathiram Chaudhary | Sushmita Sen – Aarya as Aarya Sareen | Amit Sadh – Breathe: Into the Shadows as Kabir Sawant | Divya Dutta – Special OPS as Sadiya Qureshi |
| 2021 | Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | Hansal Mehta and Jai Mehta – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | Pratik Gandhi – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | Samantha Ruth Prabhu – The Family Man (Season 2) | Sharib Hashmi – The Family Man (Season 2) | Amruta Subhash – Bombay Begums |
| 2022 | Rocket Boys | Abhay Pannu and Jai Mehta – Rocket Boys | Pavan Malhotra – Tabbar | Raveena Tandon – Aranyak | Gagan Arora – Tabbar | Supriya Pathak – Tabbar |
| 2023 | Scoop | Vikramaditya Motwane – Jubilee | Suvinder Vicky – Kohrra | Rajshri Deshpande – Trial by Fire | Barun Sobti – Kohrra | Tillotama Shome – Delhi Crime (Season 2) |

### Comedy Series

| Year | Best Series | Best Actor (Male) | Best Actor (Female) | Best Supporting Actor (Male) | Best Supporting Actor (Female) |
| 2020 | Panchayat | Jitendra Kumar – Panchayat as Abhishek Tripathi | Mithila Palkar – Little Things (Season 3) as Kavya Kulkarni | Raghubir Yadav – Panchayat as Brij Bhushan Dubey | Neena Gupta Panchayat as Manju Devi |
| 2021 | Gullak (Season 2) | Jameel Khan – Gullak (Season 2) as Santosh Mishra (Papa) | Geetanjali Kulkarni – Gullak (Season 2) as Shanti Mishra (Mummy) | Vaibhav Raj Gupta – Gullak (Season 2) as Anand Mishra (Annu) | Sunita Rajwar – Gullak (Season 2) as Bittu's mother |
| 2022 | Gullak (Season 3) | Jameel Khan – Gullak (Season 3) as Santosh Mishra (Papa) | Geetanjali Kulkarni – Gullak (Season 3) as Shanti Mishra (Mummy) | Raghubir Yadav – Panchayat (Season 2) as Brij Bhushan Dubey | Neena Gupta – Panchayat (Season 2) as Manju Devi |
| 2023 | TVF Pitchers (Season 2) | Abhishek Banerjee – The Great Weddings of Munnes as Munnes | Maanvi Gagroo – TVF Tripling (Season 3) as Chanchal Sharma | Arunabh Kumar – TVF Pitchers (Season 2) | Shernaz Patel – TVF Tripling (Season 3) as Charu |

### Web Originals

| Year | Best Film | Best Actor (Male) | Best Actor (Female) | Best Supporting Actor (Male) | Best Supporting Actor (Female) | Best (Non-Fiction) Original (Series/Special) |
| 2020 | Raat Akeli Hai | Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Raat Akeli Hai as Inspector Jatil Yadav | Tripti Dimri – Bulbbul as Bulbbul | Rahul Bose – Bulbbul as Indranil/Mahendra | Seema Pahwa – Chintu Ka Birthday as Nani | Times of Music – MX Player |
| 2021 | Serious Men | Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Serious Men | Konkona Sen Sharma – Ajeeb Daastaans | Ashutosh Rana – Pagglait | Radhika Madan – Ray | Bad Boy Billionaires: India – Netflix |
| 2022 | Dasvi | Abhishek Bachchan – Dasvi | Taapsee Pannu – Looop Lapeta | Anil Kapoor – Thar | Mita Vashisht – Chhorii | House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths |
| 2023 | Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai | Manoj Bajpayee – Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai | Alia Bhatt – Darlings | Suraj Sharma – Gulmohar | Amruta Subhash – Lust Stories 2 & Shefali Shah – Darlings | Cinema Marte Dum Tak |

## Critics' Choice awards

| Year | Best Series | Best Director | Best Actor (Male) Drama | Best Actor (Female) Drama | Best Actor (Male) Comedy | Best Actor (Female) Comedy |
| 2020 | The Family Man | Raj & DK – The Family Man | Manoj Bajpayee – The Family Man as Srikant Tiwari | Priyamani – The Family Man as Suchitra Iyer Tiwari | Dhruv Sehgal – Little Things (Season 3) as Dhruv Vats | Sumukhi Suresh – Pushpavalli (Season 2) as Pushpavalli Parasuraman |
| 2021 | Mirzapur (Season 2) | Raj & DK – The Family Man (Season 2) | Manoj Bajpayee – The Family Man (Season 2) | Huma Qureshi – Maharani | Sunil Grover – Sunflower | Kani Kusruti – OK Computer |
| 2022 | Tabbar | Ajitpal Singh – Tabbar | Jim Sarbh – Rocket Boys | Sakshi Tanwar – Mai | Jitendra Kumar – Panchayat (Season 2) | Mithila Palkar – Little Things (Season 4) |
| 2023 | Trial by Fire | Randeep Jha – Kohrra | Vijay Varma – Dahaad | Karishma Tanna – Scoop & Sonakshi Sinha – Dahaad | — | — |

## Writing awards

| Year | Best Original Screenplay (Series) | Best Adapted Screenplay (Series) | Best Dialogues | Best Original Story, Series |
| 2020 | Sudip Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra – Paatal Lok | — | Raj & DK, Sumit Arora and Suman Kumar – The Family Man | — |
| 2021 | Raj & DK and Suman Kumar – The Family Man (Season 2) | Sumit Purohit and Saurav Dey – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | Vaibhav Vishal, Karan Vyas, Sumit Purohit and Saurav Dey – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | Raj & DK and Suman Kumar – The Family Man (Season 2) |
| 2022 | Abhay Pannu and Shiv Singh – Rocket Boys | Nikhil Gonsalves, Anushka Mehrotra and Yash Chetija – Mumbai Diaries 26/11 | Chandan Kumar – Panchayat (Season 2) | Harman Wadala, Sandeep Jain and Mr. Roy – Tabbar |
| 2023 | Gunjit Chopra, Sudip Sharma and Diggi Sisodia – Kohrra | Mrunmayee Lagoo, Mirat Trivedi and Anu Singh Choudhary – Scoop | Karan Vyas – Scoop | Gunjit Chopra and Diggi Sisodia – Kohrra |

## Technical awards

| Year | Best Art-Direction (Series) | Best Cinematographer (Series) | Best Costumes | Best Editor | Best VFX |
| 2020 | Rajneesh Hedao – The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye | Sylvester Fonseca and Swapnil Sonavane – Sacred Games (Season 2) | Ayesha Khanna – The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye | Praveen Kathikuloth – Special OPS | — |
| 2021 | Payal Ghose and Tapan Shrivastava – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | Pratham Mehta – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | Arun J. Chauhan – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | Kunal Walve and Sumit Purohit – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | Raghav Rai – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story |
| 2022 | Meghna Gandhi – Rocket Boys | Harshvir Oberai – Rocket Boys | Biju Antony and Uma Biju – Rocket Boys | Parikshhit Jha – Tabbar | Variate Studio – Rocket Boys |
| 2023 | Aparna Sud and Mukund Gupta – Jubilee | Pratik Shah – Jubilee | Shruti Kapoor – Jubilee | Aarti Bajaj – Jubilee | Arpan Gaglani (Philmcgi) – Jubilee |

## Best Music awards

| Year | Best Background Music (Series) | Best Original Soundtrack (Series) |
| 2020 | Alokananda Dasgupta – Sacred Games (Season 2) | Advait Nemlekar – Special OPS |
| 2021 | Achint Thakkar – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | Achint Thakkar – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story |
| 2022 | Sneha Khanwalkar – Tabbar | Shivam Sengupta and Anuj Danait – Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein |
| 2023 | Alokananda Dasgupta – Jubilee | Amit Trivedi – Jubilee |