# 14th Screen Awards

The 14th Screen Awards also The Nokia 14th Annual Screen Awards ceremony, presented by Indian Express Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2007. The ceremony was held on 10 January 2008 at Bandra Kurla Complex Ground, Mumbai. Hosted by Sajid Khan, it was telecasted on 27 January 2008 on StarPlus.
Taare Zameen Par led the ceremony with 16 nominations, followed by Guru and Life in a... Metro with 14 nominations each and Chak De! India with 12 nominations.
Taare Zameen Par won 7 awards, including Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (both for Aamir Khan), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

## Awards

The winners and nominees have been listed below. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

### Main Awards

| Best Film | Best Director |
| Chak De! India‡ Guru Life in a... Metro Om Shanti Om Taare Zameen Par | Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par‡ Shimit Amin – Chak De! India‡ Anurag Basu – Life in a... Metro Farah Khan – Om Shanti Om Mani Ratnam – Guru |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India as Hockey Coach Kabir Khan‡ Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant "Guru" Desai Akshaye Khanna – Gandhi, My Father as Harilal Gandhi Amitabh Bachchan – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadeb Gupta Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap | Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met as Geet Dhillon‡ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – Guru as Sujata "Suju" Desai Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par as Ram Shankar Nikumbh‡ Darshan Jariwala – Gandhi, My Father as Mahatma Gandhi Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manikdas Dasgupta Sharman Joshi – Life in a... Metro as Rahul Vipin Sharma – Taare Zameen Par as Nandkishore "Nandu" Awasthi | Chak De! Girls – Chak De! India as Various‡ Konkona Sen Sharma – Life in a... Metro as Shruti Ghosh Shefali Shah – Gandhi, My Father as Kasturba Gandhi Tisca Chopra – Taare Zameen Par as Maya Awasthi |
| Best Actor in a Negative Role – Male / Female | Best Actor in a Comic Role – Male / Female |
| Pankaj Kapur – The Blue Umbrella as Nandkishore "Nandu" Khatri‡ Arjun Rampal – Om Shanti Om as Mukesh "Mike" Mehra Pavan Malhotra – Black Friday as Tiger Memon Vivek Oberoi – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Mahindra "Maya" Dolas | Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty‡ Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar "Majnu" Pandey Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary Nana Patekar – Welcome as Uday Shankar Shetty Vinay Pathak – Bheja Fry as Ranjeet Thadani |
| Best Child Artist | Most Promising Debut Director |
| Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi‡ Ali Haji – Ta Ra Rum Pum as Ranvir "Champ" Singh Angelina Idnani – Ta Ra Rum Pum as Priya "Princess" Singh Dhruv Piyush Panjuani – Apna Asmaan as Buddhi Kumar and Aryabhatta Shreya Sharma – The Blue Umbrella as Biniya | Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par‡ Feroz Abbas Khan – Gandhi, My Father R. Balki – Cheeni Kum Reema Kagti – Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. Sajid Khan – Heyy Babyy |
| Most Promising Newcomer – Male | Most Promising Newcomer – Female |
| Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya as Raj‡ Neil Nitin Mukesh – Johnny Gaddaar as Johnny | Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shantipriya/Sandhya "Sandy" Bansal‡ Sonam Kapoor – Saawariya as Sakina |
| Best Music Director | Best Lyricist |
| A. R. Rahman – Guru‡ Monty Sharma – Saawariya Pritam – Life in a... Metro Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Taare Zameen Par | Prasoon Joshi – "Maa" – Taare Zameen Par‡ Gulzar – "Bol Na Halke Halke" – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Sameer Anjaan – "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya Sayeed Quadri – "In Dino" – Life in a... Metro |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Best Female Playback Singer |
| Soham Chakrabarty – "In Dino" – Life in a... Metro‡ KK – "Aankhon Mein Teri" – Om Shanti Om Shaan – "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya Shankar Mahadevan – "Maa" – Taare Zameen Par Shankar Mahadevan – "Taare Zameen Par" – Taare Zameen Par | Shreya Ghoshal – "Barso Re" – Guru‡ Chinmayi – "Tere Bina" – Guru Shreya Ghoshal – "Yeh Ishq Haye" – Jab We Met Sunidhi Chauhan – "Sajnaji Vaari" – Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. |

### Technical Awards

| Best Story | Best Screenplay |
| Amole Gupte – Taare Zameen Par‡ Anurag Basu – Life in a... Metro Feroz Abbas Khan – Gandhi, My Father Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India | Anurag Basu – Life in a... Metro‡ Amole Gupte – Taare Zameen Par Anurag Kashyap – Black Friday Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India |
| Best Dialogue | Best Background Music |
| Amole Gupte – Taare Zameen Par‡ Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India Sanjiv Dutta – Life in a... Metro Vijay Krishna Acharya – Guru | A. R. Rahman – Guru‡ Raju Singh – Life in a... Metro Salim–Sulaiman – Chak De! India Sandeep Chowta – Om Shanti Om Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Taare Zameen Par |
| Best Editing | Best Cinematography |
| Amitabh Shukla – Chak De! India‡ Aarti Bajaj – Black Friday Akiv Ali – Life in a... Metro Bunty Nagi – Shootout at Lokhandwala Pooja Ladha Surti – Johnny Gaddaar | Sudeep Chatterjee – Chak De! India‡ Bobby Singh – Life in a... Metro Natty Subramaniam – Eklavya: The Royal Guard Rajiv Menon – Guru Ravi K. Chandran – Saawariya |
| Best Art Direction | Best Sound Design |
| Nitin Chandrakant Desai – Gandhi, My Father‡ Gautam Sen – Khoya Khoya Chand Omung Kumar – Saawariya Sabu Cyril – Guru Sabu Cyril – Om Shanti Om | Bishwadeep Chatterjee – Eklavya: The Royal Guard‡ Baylon Fonseca – Shootout at Lokhandwala H. Sridhar – Guru Hari Dwarak & Madhu Apsara – Johnny Gaddaar Manas Choudhury & Ali Merchant – Chak De! India |
| Best Choreography | Best Action |
| Farah Khan – "Dhoom Taana" – Om Shanti Om‡ Ganesh Hegde & Pappu Mallu – "Yun Shabnami" – Saawariya Saroj Khan – "Barso Re" – Guru Vaibhavi Merchant – "Aaja Nachle" – Aaja Nachle Vaibhavi Merchant – "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom | Tinu Verma – Apne‡ Abbas Ali Moghul – Awarapan Anthony Stone – Cash Javed Ejaz – Shootout at Lokhandwala |
| Best Special Effects (Visual) ||
| Red Chillies VFX – Om Shanti Om‡ Red Chillies VFX – Chak De! India Tata Elxsi – Taare Zameen Par ||

### Critics' Awards

| Critics Best Actor – Male | Critics Best Actor – Female |
| Amitabh Bachchan – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadev Gupta‡ | Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma‡ |

### Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award :
* Manoj Kumar |
* That May Be Debut 4 years later |
* Ayushmann Khurrana |
* Jodi No. 1 |
* Shah Rukh Khan & Deepika Padukone (Om Shanti Om) |

## Superlatives

Multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 16 | Taare Zameen Par |
| 14 | Guru |
| 14 | Life in a... Metro |
| 12 | Chak De! India |
| 10 | Om Shanti Om |
| 8 | Saawariya |
| 6 | Gandhi, My Father |
| 6 | Jab We Met |
| 5 | Cheeni Kum |
| 4 | Shootout at Lokhandwala |
| 3 | Black Friday |
| 3 | Jhoom Barabar Jhoom |
| 3 | Johnny Gaddaar |
| 2 | Eklavya: The Royal Guard |
| 2 | Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. |
| 2 | Ta Ra Rum Pum |
| 2 | The Blue Umbrella |
| 2 | Welcome |
Multiple wins :
| Awards | Film |
| 7 | Taare Zameen Par |
| 6 | Chak De! India |
| 4 | Om Shanti Om |
| 3 | Guru |
| 3 | Life in a... Metro |
| 2 | Cheeni Kum |