# 2020 Filmfare OTT Awards

2020 Filmfare OTT Awards, the first edition of OTT awards were held on 19 December 2020 in Mumbai and it included the films and web series released between August 1, 2019 and July 31 2020. These awards honour artistic and technical excellence in original programming on over-the-top streaming media in Hindi-language. Nominations were announced by Filmfare on 16 December 2020.
Paatal Lok led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Breathe: Into the Shadows and Special Ops with 8 nominations each, and Aarya, Panchayat and The Family Man with 7 nominations each.
Paatal Lok and The Family Man won 5 awards each, with the former winning Best Drama Series, Best Director in a Drama Series (for Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy) and Best Actor in a Drama Series (for Jaideep Ahlawat), and the latter winning Best Series (Critics), Best Director in a Series (Critics) (for Raj & DK), Best Actor in a Drama Series (Critics) (for Manoj Bajpayee) and Best Actress in a Drama Series (Critics) (for Priyamani), thus becoming the most-awarded series at the ceremony.

## Winners and nominees

Sources: nominations
Sources: winners
* Winners denoted in boldface

### Popular awards

Drama Series :
| Best Series | Best Director |
| Paatal Lok – Amazon Prime Video Aarya – Hotstar Asur – Voot Special OPS – Hotstar The Family Man – Amazon Prime Video | Avinash Arun and Prosit Roy – Paatal Lok Neeraj Pandey and Shivam Nair – Special OPS Oni Sen – Asur Raj & DK – The Family Man |
| Best Actor (Male) | Best Actor (Female) |
| Jaideep Ahlawat – Paatal Lok as Haathiram Chaudhary Abhishek Bachchan – Breathe: Into the Shadows as Dr. Avinash Sabharwal/J Arshad Warsi – Asur as Dhananjay Rajput Kay Kay Menon – Special OPS as Himmat Singh Manoj Bajpayee – The Family Man as Srikant Tiwari | Sushmita Sen – Aarya as Aarya Sareen Jennifer Winget – Code M as Monica Mehra Kirti Kulhari – Four More Shots Please! (Season 2) as Anjana Menon Nithya Menen – Breathe: Into the Shadows as Abha Sabharwal Priyamani – The Family Man as Suchitra Iyer Tiwari |
| Best Supporting Actor (Male) | Best Supporting Actor (Female) |
| Amit Sadh – Breathe: Into the Shadows as Kabir Sawant Abhishek Banerjee – Paatal Lok as Vishal "Hathoda" Tyagi Ishwak Singh – Paatal Lok as Imran Ansari Pankaj Tripathi – Sacred Games (Season 2) as Khanna Guruji Sharib Hashmi – Asur as Lolark Dubey | Divya Dutta – Special OPS as Sadiya Qureshi Gul Panag – Paatal Lok as Renu Chaudhary Maya Sarao – Aarya as Maya Merambam Ronaldo Singh – Paatal Lok as Mary Lyngdoh Swastika Mukherjee – Paatal Lok as Dolly Mehra |
| Comedy Series ||
| Best Series ||
| Panchayat – Amazon Prime Video Amit Tandon: Family Tandoncies – Netflix Little Things (Season 3) – Netflix Rohan Joshi: Wake and Bake – Amazon Prime Video ||
| Best Actor (Male) | Best Actor (Female) |
| Jitendra Kumar – Panchayat as Abhishek Tripathi Dhruv Sehgal – Little Things (Season 3) as Dhruv Vats Gulshan Devaiah – Afsos as Nakul Mukul Chadda – The Office as Jagdeep Chadda Ranvir Shorey – Metro Park as Kalpesh Patel | Mithila Palkar – Little Things (Season 3) as Kavya Kulkarni Maanvi Gagroo – Four More Shots Please! (Season 2) as Siddhi Patel Purbi Joshi – Metro Park as Payal Patel Rinku Rajguru – Hundred as Netra Patil Sumukhi Suresh – Pushpavalli (Season 2) as Pushpavalli Parsuraman |
| Best Supporting Actor (Male) | Best Supporting Actor (Female) |
| Raghubir Yadav – Panchayat as Brij Bhushan Dubey Hrishikesh Joshi – Breathe: Into the Shadows as Prakash Kamble Rahul Dev – Who's Your Daddy as Prem Singh Shrikant Sharma – Breathe: Into the Shadows as Jai Prakash | Neena Gupta – Panchayat as Manju Devi Ahsaas Channa – Hostel Daze as Akanksha Samriddhi Dewan – The Office as Pammi Goel Trupti Khamkar – Hum Tum Aur Them as Gauri |
| Web Originals ||
| Best Film ||
| Raat Akeli Hai – Netflix Barot House – ZEE5 Bulbbul – Netflix Chintu Ka Birthday – ZEE5 Choked – Netflix ||
| Best Actor (Male) | Best Actor (Female) |
| Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Raat Akeli Hai as Inspector Jatil Yadav Amit Sadh – Barot House as Amit Barot Aparshakti Khurana – Kanpuriye as Jaitun Mishra Manoj Bajpayee – Bhonsle as Ganpath Bhonsle Vinay Pathak – Chintu Ka Birthday as Madan Tiwary | Triptii Dimri – Bulbbul as Bulbbul Kiara Advani – Guilty as Nanki Dutta Radhika Apte – Raat Akeli Hai as Radha Saiyami Kher – Choked as Sarita Patil Sayani Gupta – Posham Pa as Regha Sathe |
| Best Supporting Actor (Male) | Best Supporting Actor (Female) |
| Rahul Bose – Bulbbul as Indranil/Mahendra Aditya Srivastava – Raat Akeli Hai as Munna Raja Gurfateh Pirzada – Guilty as Vijay “VJ” Pratap Singh Roshan Mathew – Choked as Sushant Pillai Vijay Raaz – Kanpuriye as Lampat Harami | Seema Pahwa – Chintu Ka Birthday as Nani Akansha Ranjan – Guilty as Tanu Kumar Heeba Shah – Ghost Stories as Shanti Shivani Raghuvanshi – Raat Akeli Hai as Vasudha Singh Surekha Sikri – Ghost Stories as Mrs. Malik |
| Writing Awards ||
| Best Original Story (Series) | Best Unscripted Original (Series) |
| Sudip Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra – Paatal Lok Chandan Kumar – Panchayat Gaurav Shukla – Asur Mayank Sharma, Vikram Tuli, Bhavani Iyer and Arshad Sayed – Breathe: Into the Shadows Raj & DK and Suman Kumar – The Family Man | Times of Music – MX Player Amit Tandon: Family Tandoncies – Netflix Go Fun Yourself – Voot Kenny Sebastian: The Most Interesting Person In The Room – Netflix One Mic Stand – Amazon Prime Video |
| Best Screenplay | Best Dialogues |
| Sudip Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra – Paatal Lok Chandan Kumar – Panchayat Mayank Sharma, Vikram Tuli, Bhavani Iyer – Breathe: Into the Shadows Raj & DK and Suman Kumar – The Family Man Trishant Srivastava, Nishank Verma – Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega | 'Raj & DK', Sumit Arora and Suman Kumar – The Family Man Chandan Kumar – Panchayat Mayank Sharma, Vikram Tuli, Bhavani Iyer and Arshad Sayed – Breathe: Into the Shadows Sudip Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta and Gunjit Chopra – Paatal Lok Trishant Srivastava, Nishank Verma – Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega |
| Music Awards ||
| Best Background Music (Series) | Best Original Soundtrack (Series) |
| Alokananda Dasgupta – Sacred Games (Season 2) Advait Nemlekar – Special OPS Kartik Shah – State of Siege: 26/11 Pritam Das – Bard of Blood Vishal Khurana – Aarya | Advait Nemlekar – Special OPS Kingshuk Chakravarty for "Kuch Iss Tarah" – Hum Tum and Them Vishal Khurana – Aarya Vishal Mishra for "Teri Hogiyaan" – Broken But Beautiful |

### Critics' Choice Awards

| Best Series | Best Director (Series) |
| The Family Man – Amazon Prime Video | Raj & DK – The Family Man |
| Best Actor (Male): Drama | Best Actor (Female): Drama |
| Manoj Bajpayee – The Family Man as Srikant Tiwari | Priyamani – The Family Man as Suchitra Iyer Tiwari |
| Best Actor (Male): Comedy | Best Actor (Female): Comedy |
| Dhruv Sehgal – Little Things (Season 3) as Dhruv Vats | Sumukhi Suresh – Pushpavalli (Season 2) as Pushpavalli Parasuraman |

### Technical awards

| Best Art-Direction (Series) | Best Cinematographer (Series) |
| Rajneesh Hedao – The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye Amit Waghchaure, Vishwanath Mistry – State of Siege: 26/11 Anna Ipe – Aarya Sandeep Sharad Ravade – Special OPS Sunil Nigvekar – Bard of Blood | Sylvester Fonseca and Swapnil S. Sonawane – Sacred Games (Season 2) Chirantan Das – Bard of Blood Richard Henkels – State of Siege: 26/11 Tanay Saatam – Betaal Will Humphris – Taj Mahal 1989 |
| Best Costume | Best Editor |
| Ayesha Khanna – The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye Ashima Belapurkar – Sacred Games (Season 2) Falguni Thakore – Special OPS Preeti Sharma – The Verdict – State vs Nanavati Theia Tekchandani – Aarya | Praveen Kathikuloth – Special OPS Abhijeet Deshpande and Sangeeth Varghese – Betaal Khushboo Raj and Abhimanyu Chaudhary – Aarya Manish Jaitley – She Nitin Baid, Antara Lahiri and Sangeeth Varghese – Bard of Blood |

## Superlatives
### Nominations and wins by program

Nominations by program :
| Nominations | Program | Streaming Media |
| 11 | Paatal Lok | Amazon Prime Video |
| 8 | Breathe: Into the Shadows | Amazon Prime Video |
| 8 | Special Ops | Hotstar |
| 7 | Aarya | Hotstar |
| 7 | Panchayat | Amazon Prime Video |
| 7 | The Family Man | Amazon Prime Video |
| 5 | Asur | Voot |
| 5 | Raat Akeli Hai | Netflix |
| 3 | Bulbbul | Netflix |
| 3 | Chintu Ka Birthday | ZEE5 |
| 3 | Choked | Netflix |
| 3 | Guilty | Netflix |
| 3 | Little Things (Season 3) | Netflix |
| 3 | Sacred Games (Season 2) | Netflix |
| 2 | Amit Tandon: Family Tandoncies | Netflix |
| 2 | Bard of Blood | Netflix |
| 2 | Barot House | ZEE5 |
| 2 | Four More Shots Please! (Season 2) | Amazon Prime Video |
| 2 | Ghost Stories | Netflix |
| 2 | Hum Tum Aur Them | ZEE5 |
| 2 | Jamtara – Sabka Number Ayega | Netflix |
| 2 | Kanpuriye | Hotstar |
| 2 | Metro Park | Eros Now |
| 2 | The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye | Amazon Prime Video |
| 2 | The Office | Hotstar |
Wins by program :
| Wins | Program | Streaming Media |
| 5 | Paatal Lok | Amazon Prime Video |
| 5 | The Family Man | Amazon Prime Video |
| 4 | Panchayat | Amazon Prime Video |
| 3 | Special Ops | Hotstar |
| 2 | Bulbbul | Netflix |
| 2 | Little Things (Season 3) | Netflix |
| 2 | Raat Akeli Hai | Netflix |
| 2 | Sacred Games (Season 2) | Netflix |
| 2 | The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye | Amazon Prime Video |

### Nominations and wins by streaming media

Nominations by streaming media :
| Nominations | Streaming Media |
| 41 | Amazon Prime Video |
| 31 | Netflix |
| 20 | Hotstar |
| 12 | ZEE5 |
| 6 | Voot |
| 2 | Eros Now |
| 2 | MX Player |
Wins by Streaming Media :
| Wins | Streaming Media |
| 18 | Amazon Prime Video |
| 8 | Netflix |
| 4 | Hotstar |