# 69th Filmfare Awards

The 69th Filmfare Awards is a ceremony, presented by The Times Group, which honors the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2023.
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani led the ceremony with 20 nominations, followed by Animal with 19 nominations, Pathaan with 16 nominations, Jawan with 15 nominations, and 12th Fail with 12 nominations.
12th Fail and Animal won 5 awards each, thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony, with the former winning Best Film, Best Director (for Vidhu Vinod Chopra) and Best Actor (Critics) (for Vikrant Massey), and the latter winning Best Actor (for Ranbir Kapoor).
Shah Rukh Khan received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Jawan and Dunki, but lost to Ranbir Kapoor who won the award for Animal.

## Ceremony

The ceremony, scheduled to be held at GIFT City Gandhinagar, Gujarat, will be honoring the films released in 2023. At a press conference, the editor of Filmfare magazine, Jitesh Pillai revealed Hyundai and Gujarat Tourism as the title sponsor. Karan Johar, Ayushmann Khurana and Manish Paul were announced as the co-hosts. The 69th Filmfare Awards were held on 27 & 28 January 2024. The winners in the technical categories were announced on 27 January, while the main ceremony took place on 28 January 2024.

## Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced by Filmfare on 15 January 2024. The winners were announced in a ceremony held on 28 January 2024.

### Popular awards

| Best Film | Best Film | Best Film | Best Director | Best Director | Best Director |
| 12th Fail – Vinod Chopra Films, Zee Studios Animal – T-Series Films, Cine1 Studios, Bhadrakali Pictures Jawan – Red Chillies Entertainment OMG 2 – Cape of Good Films, Viacom18 Studios, Wakaoo Films Pathaan – Yash Raj Films Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani – Dharma Productions, Viacom18 Studios | Vidhu Vinod Chopra – 12th Fail Amit Rai – OMG 2 Atlee – Jawan Karan Johar – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Sandeep Reddy Vanga – Animal Siddharth Anand – Pathaan |
| Best Actor | Best Actor | Best Actor | Best Actress | Best Actress | Best Actress |
| Ranbir Kapoor – Animal as Ranvijay Singh and Aziz Haque Ranveer Singh – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani as Rocky Randhawa Shah Rukh Khan – Dunki as Hardayal "Hardy" Singh Dhillon Shah Rukh Khan – Jawan as Vikram Rathore and Azad Sunny Deol – Gadar 2 as Tara Singh Vicky Kaushal – Sam Bahadur as Sam Manekshaw | Alia Bhatt – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani as Rani Chatterjee Bhumi Pednekar – Thank You for Coming as Kanika Kapoor Deepika Padukone – Pathaan as Dr. Rubina "Rubai" Mohsin, Kiara Advani – Satyaprem Ki Katha as Katha Kapadia Rani Mukerji – Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway as Debika Chatterjee Taapsee Pannu – Dunki as Manu Randhawa |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress | Best Supporting Actress | Best Supporting Actress |
| Vicky Kaushal – Dunki as Sukhi Aditya Rawal – Faraaz as Nibras Anil Kapoor – Animal as Balbir Singh and Kailash Petkar Bobby Deol – Animal as Abrar Haque Emraan Hashmi – Tiger 3 as Aatish Rehman Tota Roy Chowdhury – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani as Chandon Chatterjee | Shabana Azmi – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani as Jamini Chatterjee Jaya Bachchan – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani as Dhanlakshmi Randhawa Ratna Pathak Shah – Dhak Dhak as Manpreet Kaur Sethi "Mahi" Shabana Azmi – Ghoomer as Anina's grandmother Tripti Dimri – Animal as Zoya Yami Gautam – OMG 2 as Kamini Maheshwari |
| Debut Awards ||||||
| Best Male Debut | Best Male Debut | Best Female Debut | Best Female Debut | Best Debut Director | Best Debut Director |
| Aditya Rawal – Faraaz as Nibras | Alizeh Agnihotri – Farrey as Niyati | Tarun Dudeja – Dhak Dhak |
| Writing Awards ||||||
| Best Story | Best Story | Best Screenplay | Best Screenplay | Best Dialogue | Best Dialogue |
| Amit Rai – OMG 2 Devashish Makhija – Joram Anubhav Sinha – Bheed Atlee – Jawan Ishita Moitra, Shashank Khaitan, Sumit Roy – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Parijat Joshi, Tarun Dudeja – Dhak Dhak Karan Shrikant Sharma – Satyaprem Ki Katha Siddharth Anand – Pathaan | Vidhu Vinod Chopra – 12th Fail Amit Rai – OMG 2 Ishita Moitra, Shashank Khaitan, Sumit Roy – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Sandeep Reddy Vanga, Pranay Reddy Vanga, Suresh Bandaru – Animal Shridhar Raghavan – Pathaan Avinash Arun, Omkar Achyut Barve, Arpita Chatterjee – Three of Us | Ishita Moitra – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Abbas Tyrewala – Pathaan Amit Rai – OMG 2 Sumit Arora – Jawan Varun Grover and Shoaib Zulfi Nazeer – Three of Us Vidhu Vinod Chopra – 12th Fail |
| Music Awards ||||||
| Best Music Director | Best Music Director | Best Music Director | Best Lyricist | Best Lyricist | Best Lyricist |
| Pritam, Vishal Mishra, Manan Bhardwaj, Harshavardhan Rameshwar, Shreyas Puranik, Ashim Kemson, Bhupinder Babbal, Jaani – Animal Anirudh Ravichander – Jawan Pritam – Dunki Manan Bhardwaj – Yaariyan 2 Mithoon – Gadar 2 Sachin–Jigar – Zara Hatke Zara Bachke Vishal–Shekhar – Pathaan | Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Tere Vaaste" – Zara Hatke Zara Bachke Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Tum Kya Mile" – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Gulzar – "Itni Si Baat" – Sam Bahadur Javed Akhtar – "Nikle The Kabhi Hum Ghar Se" – Dunki Siddharth–Garima – "Satranga" – Animal Swanand Kirkire and IP Singh – "Lutt Putt Gaya" – Dunki |
| Best Playback Singer – Male | Best Playback Singer – Male | Best Playback Singer – Male | Best Playback Singer – Female | Best Playback Singer – Female | Best Playback Singer – Female |
| Bhupinder Babbal – "Arjan Vailly" – Animal Arijit Singh – "Lutt Putt Gaya" – Dunki Arijit Singh – "Satranga" – Animal Shahid Mallya – "Kudmayi" – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Sonu Nigam – "Nikle The Kabhi Hum Ghar Se" – Dunki Varun Jain, Sachin-Jigar, Shadaab Faridi, Altamash Faridi – "Tere Vaaste" – Zara Hatke Zara Bachke | Shilpa Rao – "Besharam Rang" – Pathaan Deepthi Suresh – "Aararaari Raaro" – Jawan Jonita Gandhi – "Hey Fikar" – 8 A.M. Metro Shilpa Rao – "Chaleya" – Jawan Shreya Ghoshal – "Tum Kya Mile" – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Shreya Ghoshal – "Ve Kamleya" – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani |

### Critics' awards

Best Film :
| Joram – Devashish Makhija Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan – Farhad Samji Bheed – Anubhav Sinha Faraaz – Hansal Mehta Kuttey – Anurag Kashyap Three of Us – Avinash Arun Zwigato – Nandita Das ||
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Vikrant Massey – 12th Fail as Manoj Kumar Sharma Abhishek Bachchan – Ghoomer as Padam “Paddy” Singh Sodhi Jaideep Ahlawat – Three of Us as Pradeep Kamat Manoj Bajpayee – Joram as Dasru / Bala Pankaj Tripathi – OMG 2 as Kanti Sharan Mudgal Rajkummar Rao – Bheed as Surya Kumar Singh Tikas Vicky Kaushal – Sam Bahadur as Sam Manekshaw | Rani Mukerji – Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway as Debika Chatterjee Shefali Shah – Three of Us as Shailaja Desai Deepti Naval – Goldfish as Sadhana Tripathi Fatima Sana Shaikh – Dhak Dhak as Shashi Kumar Yadav "Sky" Saiyami Kher – Ghoomer as Anina “Ani” Dixit Shahana Goswami – Zwigato as Pratima Mahto |

### Special awards

| Filmfare Special Award | Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award | Filmfare R. D. Burman Award |
| • Salman Khan | Moushumi Chatterjee | Shreyas Puranik for "Satranga" from Animal |

### Technical awards

Nominations for the technical awards were announced on 15 January 2024. The winners in these categories were announced on 27 January.
| Best Editing | Best Production Design | Best Choreography |
| Juskunwar Kohil and Vidhu Vinod Chopra – 12th Fail Aarif Shaikh – Pathaan Atanu Mukherjee – Afwaah Ruben – Jawan Sandeep Reddy Vanga – Animal Suvir Nath – OMG 2 | Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray – Sam Bahadur Amrita Mahal Nakai – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Nikhil Kovale – OMG 2 Prashant Bidkar – 12th Fail Rita Ghosh – Zwigato Suresh Selvarajan – Animal T. Muthuraj – Jawan | Ganesh Acharya – "What Jhumka?" – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Bosco–Caesar – "Jhoome Jo Pathaan" – Pathaan Ganesh Acharya – "Lutt Putt Gaya" – Dunki Ganesh Acharya – "Tere Vaaste Falak" – Zara Hatke Zara Bachke Shobi Paulraj – "Zinda Banda" – Jawan Vaibhavi Merchant – "Dhindora Baaje" – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani |
| Best Cinematography | Best Sound Design | Best Background Score |
| Avinash Arun – Three of Us Amit Roy – Animal G. K. Vishnu – Jawan Manush Nandan – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Pratham Mehta – Faraaz Rangarajan Ramabadran – 12th Fail Satchith Paulose – Pathaan | Kunal Sharma – Sam Bahadur Sync Cinema – Animal Anita Kushwaha – Bheed Manas Choudhury and Ganesh Gangadharan – Pathaan Manav Shrotriya – 12th Fail Mandar Kulkarni – Faraaz Vinit D'Souza – Three of Us | Harshavardhan Rameshwar – Animal Alokananda Dasgupta – Three of Us Karel Antonin – Afwaah Ketan Sodha – Sam Bahadur Sanchit Balhara and Ankit Balhara – Pathaan Shantanu Moitra – 12th Fail Tapas Relia – Goldfish |
| Best Costume Design | Best Action | Best Special Effects |
| Sachin Lovelekar, Divvya Gambhir, and Nidhhi Gambhir – Sam Bahadur Malvika Bajaj – 12th Fail Manish Malhotra and Eka Lakhani – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Shaleena Nathani, Kavitha J, Anirudh Singh and Dipika Lal – Jawan Shaleena Nathani, Mamta Anand and Niharika Jolly – Pathaan Sheetal Sharma – Animal | Spiro Razatos, Anal Arasu, Craig Macrae, Yannick Ben, Kecha Khamphakdee, and Sunil Rodrigues – Jawan Casey O'Neill, Craig Macrae and Sunil Rodrigues – Pathaan Franz Spilhaus, Oh Sea Young and Sunil Rodrigues – Tiger 3 Parvez Shaikh – Sam Bahadur Ravi Varma, Shaam Kaushal, Abbas Ali Moghul and Tinu Verma – Gadar 2 Supreme Sundar – Animal Tim Man and Vikram Dahiya – Ganapath | Red Chillies VFX – Jawan Do It Creative LTD. NY VFXWala, Visual Birds, Red Chillies VFX, Famous Studios – Animal Prisca, Pixel Studios. – Gadar 2 YFX – Pathaan |

## Superlatives

Multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 20 | Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani |
| 19 | Animal |
| 16 | Pathaan |
| 15 | Jawan |
| 12 | 12th Fail |
| 9 | Dunki |
| 9 | OMG 2 |
| 9 | Sam Bahadur |
| 8 | Three of Us |
| 4 | Bheed |
| 4 | Faraaz |
| 4 | Zara Hatke Zara Bachke |
| 3 | Dhak Dhak |
| 3 | Gadar 2 |
| 3 | Ghoomer |
| 3 | Joram |
| 3 | Zwigato |
| 2 | Afwaah |
| 2 | Goldfish |
| 2 | Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway |
| 2 | Satyaprem Ki Katha |
| 2 | Tiger 3 |
Multiple wins :
| Awards | Film |
| 5 | 12th Fail |
| 5 | Animal |
| 4 | Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani |
| 3 | Sam Bahadur |
| 2 | Jawan |
| 2 | Three of Us |