# 55th Filmfare Awards

The 55th Filmfare Awards were held on 27 February 2010 at the Yash Raj Studios in Mumbai, India. The awards given for 30 categories, out of which there were 3 special awards, 3 critics awards and 24 main awards for Hindi films released in 2009. There were 60 nominations for the top 10 categories, which were based on votes via web and newspaper forms. The award ceremony was hosted by Shahrukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan.
Love Aaj Kal led the ceremony with 12 nominations, followed by 3 Idiots with 11 nominations and Kaminey with 10 nominations.
3 Idiots and Dev.D won 6 awards each, thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony, with the former winning Best Film, Best Director (for Rajkumar Hirani) and Best Supporting Actor (for Boman Irani), and the latter winning Best Actress (Critics) (for Mahie Gill) and Best Supporting Actress (for Kalki Koechlin).
Paa fetched Amitabh Bachchan his fifth Best Actor award, and Vidya Balan her first ever Best Actress award, for their performance as the son-mother duo of Auro and Vidya.
Kareena Kapoor received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in 3 Idiots and Kurbaan, but lost to Vidya Balan who won the award for Paa.

## Awards and nominees
### Main awards

| Best Film | Best Director |
| 3 Idiots Dev.D Kaminey Love Aaj Kal Paa Wake Up Sid | Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots Anurag Kashyap – Dev.D Ayan Mukerji – Wake Up Sid Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal R. Balki – Paa Vishal Bhardwaj – Kaminey |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Amitabh Bachchan – Paa as Auro Aamir Khan – 3 Idiots as Rancho Ranbir Kapoor – Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani as Prem Shankar Sharma / Statue Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid as Siddharth Mehra Saif Ali Khan – Love Aaj Kal as Jaivardhan Singh Shahid Kapoor – Kaminey as Charlie / Guddu Sharma | Vidya Balan – Paa as Vidya Deepika Padukone – Love Aaj Kal as Meera Pandit Kareena Kapoor – 3 Idiots as Pia Sahastrabuddhe Kareena Kapoor – Kurbaan as Avantika Ahuja Katrina Kaif – New York as Maya Shaikh Priyanka Chopra – Kaminey as Sweety Shekhar Bhope |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Boman Irani – 3 Idiots as Dr. Viru Sahastrabuddhe Amole Gupte – Kaminey as Sunil Shekhar Bhope 'Bhope Bhau' Neil Nitin Mukesh – New York as Omar Aijaz R. Madhavan – 3 Idiots as Farhan Qureshi Rishi Kapoor – Luck by Chance as Rommy Rolly Sharman Joshi – 3 Idiots as Raju Rastogi | Kalki Koechlin – Dev.D as Leni / Chandramukhi 'Chanda' Arundhati Nag – Paa as Pallavi Dimple Kapadia – Luck By Chance as Neena Walia Divya Dutta – Delhi-6 as Jalebi Shahana Goswami – Firaaq as Muneera Supriya Pathak – Wake Up Sid as Sarita Mehra |
| Best Music Director | Best Lyricist |
| A. R. Rahman – Delhi-6 Amit Trivedi – Dev.D Pritam – Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Pritam – Love Aaj Kal Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Wake Up Sid Vishal Bhardwaj – Kaminey | Irshad Kamil – "Aaj Din Chadheya" from Love Aaj Kal Gulzar – "Dhan Te Nan" from Kaminey Gulzar – "Kaminey" from Kaminey Javed Akhtar – "Iktara" from Wake Up Sid Prasoon Joshi – "Masakali" from Delhi-6 Prasoon Joshi – "Rehna Tu" from Delhi-6 |
| Best Playback Singer – Male | Best Playback Singer – Female |
| Mohit Chauhan – "Masakali" from Delhi-6 Atif Aslam – "Tu Jaane Na" from Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Javed Ali and Kailash Kher – "Arziyan" from Delhi-6 Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – "Aaj Din Chadheya" from Love Aaj Kal Sonu Nigam and Salim Merchant – "Shukran Allah" from Kurbaan Sukhwinder Singh and Vishal Dadlani – "Dhan Te Nan" from Kaminey | Rekha Bhardwaj – "Genda Phool" from Delhi-6 (tie) Kavita Seth – "Iktara" from Wake Up Sid Alisha Chinai – "Tera Hone Laga" from Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Shilpa Rao – "Mudi Mudi" from Paa Shreya Ghoshal – "Zoobi Doobi" from 3 Idiots Sunidhi Chauhan – "Chor Bazaari" from Love Aaj Kal |

### Critics' awards

Best Film :
| Firaaq (Nandita Das) ||
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year | Mahi Gill – Dev.D |

### Technical awards

| Best Story | Best Screenplay |
| Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Malhotra, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Sanjay Maurya – Gulaal Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal Jaideep Sahni – Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year Zoya Akhtar – Luck By Chance | Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Abhijat Joshi – 3 Idiots Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal Pankaj Advani – Sankat City R. Balki – Paa Zoya Akhtar – Luck By Chance |
| Best Dialogue | Best Editing |
| Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots Anurag Kashyap – Gulaal Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal Jaideep Sahni – Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year Nandita Das, Shuchi Kothari – Firaaq | Sreekar Prasad – Firaaq |
| Best Choreography | Best Cinematography |
| Bosco-Caesar – "Chor Bazaari" from Love Aaj Kal | Rajeev Ravi – Dev.D |
| Best Production Design | Best Sound Design |
| Helen Jones, Sukanta Panigrahi – Dev.D | Manas Choudhary – Firaaq |
| Best Costume Design | Best Background Score |
| Vaishali Menon – Firaaq | Amit Trivedi – Dev.D |
| Best Special Effects | Best Action |
| Govardhan Vigharan, Vinay Singh Chuphal – Kaminey | Vijayan Master – Wanted |

### Special awards

Lifetime Achievement :
| Shashi Kapoor | Mohammed Zahur Khayyam |
| Best Debut Director ||
| Male | Female |
| Ayan Mukerji – Wake Up Sid | Zoya Akhtar – Luck By Chance |
| RD Burman Award ||
| Amit Trivedi – Dev.D ||
| Special Award ||
| Nandita Das – Firaaq ||