# 2021 Filmfare OTT Awards

2021 Filmfare OTT Awards, the second edition of awards show was held on 9 December 2021 in Mumbai. These awards honour artistic and technical excellence in original programming on over-the-top streaming media in Hindi-language. Web original shows or films released across OTT platforms between 1 August 2020 and 31 July 2021 were eligible for Awards. Nominations were announced by Filmfare on 2 December 2021.
Mirzapur (Season 2) and Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story led the ceremony with 14 nominations each, followed by The Family Man (Season 2) with 12 nominations and Grahan with 10 nominations.
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story won 12 awards, including Best Drama Series, Best Director in a Drama Series (for Hansal Mehta and Jai Mehta) and Best Actor in a Drama Series (for Pratik Gandhi), 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 |
| Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story – SonyLIV Aashram (Season 2) – MX Player Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors – Hotstar Grahan – Hotstar Mirzapur (Season 2) – Amazon Prime Video The Family Man (Season 2) – Amazon Prime Video | Hansal Mehta and Jai Mehta – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Gurmeet Singh and Mihir Desai – Mirzapur (Season 2) Prakash Jha – Aashram (Season 2) Raj & DK and Suparn S Varma – The Family Man (Season 2) Ranjan Chandel – Grahan Rohan Sippy and Arjun Mukerjee – Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors |
| Best Actor (Male) | Best Actor (Female) |
| Pratik Gandhi – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Anshumaan Pushkar – Grahan Atul Kulkarni – City Of Dreams (Season 2) Bobby Deol – Aashram (Season 2) Manoj Bajpayee – The Family Man (Season 2) Pankaj Tripathi – Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors | Samantha Ruth Prabhu – The Family Man (Season 2) Huma Qureshi – Maharani Kirti Kulhari – Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors Shreya Dhanwanthary – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Shweta Tripathi – Mirzapur (Season 2) Zoya Hussain – Grahan |
| Best Supporting Actor (Male) | Best Supporting Actor (Female) |
| Sharib Hashmi – The Family Man (Season 2) Ali Fazal – Mirzapur (Season 2) Chandan Roy Sanyal – Aashram (Season 2) Divyenddu Sharma – Mirzapur (Season 2) Naseeruddin Shah – Bandish Bandits Pankaj Tripathi – Mirzapur (Season 2) | Amruta Subhash – Bombay Begums Anjali Barot – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Anupriya Goenka – Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors Shahana Goswami – Bombay Begums Sheeba Chaddha – Bandish Bandits |
| Comedy Series ||
| Best Series / Special ||
| Gullak (Season 2) – SonyLIV Aalas Motapa Ghabraahat – Amazon Prime Video College Romance (Season 2) – SonyLIV Hostel Daze (Season 2) – Amazon Prime Video Masaba Masaba – Netflix Metro Park (Season 2) – Eros Now ||
| Best Actor (Male) | Best Actor (Female) |
| Jameel Khan – Gullak (Season 2) Adarsh Gourav – Hostel Daze (Season 2) Naveen Kasturia – Runaway Lugaai Ranvir Shorey – Metro Park (Season 2) Sunil Grover – Sunflower Vijay Verma – OK Computer | Geetanjali Kulkarni – Gullak (Season 2) Kani Kusruti – OK Computer Masaba Gupta – Masaba Masaba Ruhi Singh – Runaway Lugaai |
| Best Supporting Actor (Male) | Best Supporting Actor (Female) |
| Vaibhav Raj Gupta – Gullak (Season 2) Nikhil Vijay – Hostel Daze (Season 2) Sanjay Mishra – Runaway Lugaai | Sunita Rajwar – Gullak (Season 2) Grusha Kapoor – Hey Prabhu! (Season 2) Neena Gupta – Masaba Masaba Purbi Joshi – Metro Park (Season 2) |
| Web Originals ||
| Best Film ||
| Serious Men – Netflix Ajeeb Daastaans – Netflix Kaagaz – Zee5 Mee Raqsam – Zee5 Ray – Netflix State of Siege: Temple Attack – Zee5 ||
| Best Actor (Male) | Best Actor (Female) |
| Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Serious Men Bobby Deol – Class Of '83 Manav Kaul – Ajeeb Daastaans Manoj Bajpayee – Ray Naseeruddin Shah – Mee Raqsam Pankaj Tripathi – Kaagaz | Konkona Sen Sharma – Ajeeb Daastaans Aditi Sharma – Mee Raqsam Kajol – Tribhanga Ratna Pathak Shah – Unpaused – Segment: Chand Mubaarak Richa Chadha – Unpaused – Segment: Apartment Sanya Malhotra – Pagglait |
| Best Supporting Actor (Male) | Best Supporting Actor (Female) |
| Ashutosh Rana – Pagglait Aakshath Das – Serious Men Bhupendra Jadawat – Class of '83 Roshan Mathew – Choked Satish Kaushik – Kaagaz | Radhika Madan – Ray Gauhar Khan – 14 Phere Mithila Palkar – Tribhanga Sayani Gupta – Pagglait Tanvi Azmi – Tribhanga |
| Best Non – Fiction Original (Series) ||
| Bad Boy Billionaires: India – Netflix Fabulous Lives Of Bollywood Wives – Netflix LOL – Hasee Toh Phasee – Amazon Prime Video Secrets Of Sinauli – Discovery+ Vande Bharat Flight IX 1344: Hope To Survival – Discovery+ ||
| Writing Awards ||
| Best Original Story (Series) | Best Dialogues |
| Raj & DK and Suman Kumar – The Family Man (Season 2) Amritpal Singh Bindra and Anand Tiwari – Bandish Bandits Habib Faisal – Aashram (Season 2) Puneet Krishna and Vineet Krishna – Mirzapur (Season 2) Subhash Kapoor and Nandan Singh – Maharani | Sumit Purohit, Saurav Dey, Vaibhav Vishal and Karan Vyas – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Manan Mehta and Anshul Gupta – Mirzapur (Season 2) Shan Mohammed – Grahan Sumeet Kotian – The Family Man (Season 2) Sushant Mishra and Shailendra Vyas – JL50 |
| Best Original Screenplay | Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Raj & DK', Suman Kumar and Suparn S Verma – The Family Man (Season 2)' Amritpal Singh Bindra and Lara Chandni – Bandish Bandits Deepesh Sumitra Jagdish – Aspirants Kuldeep Ruhil – Aashram (Season 2) Puneet Krishna and Vineet Krishna – Mirzapur (Season 2) Subhash Kapoor, Nandan Singh and Umashankar Singh – Maharani | Sumit Purohit and Saurav Dey – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Apurva Asrani – Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors Jaya Misra and Surbhi Saral – The Married Woman Kunal Marathe – Indori Ishq Prateek Payodhi, Vibha Singh and Shailendra Jha – Grahan |
| Music Awards ||
| Best Background Music (Series) | Best Original Soundtrack (Series) |
| Achint Thakkar – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Anurag Saikia – Gullak (Season 2) Daniel B. George – Grahan John Stewart Eduri – Mirzapur (Season 2) Soumil Shringarpure – Bandish Bandits | Achint Thakkar – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story R. Rajesh, Sachin–Jigar, Fiddlecraft, Bindhumalini, Mahesh Shankar and Harpreet – The Family Man (Season 2) Rohit Sharma and Nilopal Bora – Aspirants Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Bandish Bandits Simran Hora – Gullak (Season 2) |

### Critics' Choice Awards

| Best Series | Best Director (Series) |
| Mirzapur (Season 2) – Amazon Prime Video | Raj & DK – The Family Man (Season 2) |
| Best Actor (Male): Drama | Best Actor (Female): Drama |
| Manoj Bajpayee – The Family Man (Season 2) as Srikant Tiwari | Huma Qureshi – Maharani as Rani Bharti |
| Best Actor (Male): Comedy | Best Actor (Female): Comedy |
| Sunil Grover – Sunflower as Sonu Singh | Kani Kusruti – OK Computer as Monalisa Paul |

### Technical awards

Technical Awards :
| Best Editor ||
| Kunal Walve, Sumit Purohit – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Gazal Dhaliwal, Aarsh Vora and Sunayana Kumari – Mismatched Gourav Gopal Jha – Gullak (Season 2) Puneet Krishna and Vineet Krishna – Mirzapur (Season 2) Raj & DK, Suman Kumar, Suparn S Verma and Manoj Kumar Kalaivanan – The Family Man (Season 2) Saurabh Khanna, Suprith Kundar and Harish Peddinti – Hostel Daze (Season 2) ||
| Best Production Design | Best Cinematographer |
| Payal Ghose and Tapan Shrivastava – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Rakesh Yadav – High Saini S. Johray – The Family Man (Season 2) Sonam Singh and Abhijit Gaonkar – Mirzapur (Season 2) Udai Prakash Singh – Aashram (Season 2) Wasiq Khan – Grahan | Pratham Mehta – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Cameron Eric Bryson – The Family Man (Season 2) Chandan Kowli – Aashram (Season 2) Jayesh Nair – The Last Hour Kamaljeet Negi – Grahan Sanjay Kapoor – Mirzapur (Season 2) |
| Best Costume | Best VFX |
| Arun J. Chauhan – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Hazel Paul – Bandish Bandits Maxima Basu and Ajay KMR – Grahan Neelanchal Ghosh and Darshan Jalan – Mirzapur (Season 2) Smiti Kaur – Gullak (Season 2) | Raghav Rai – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Imagery Pictures – OK Computer Nitesh Sharma and Nitesh Kumar – JL50 Resonance Digital – Chhatrasal |

## Superlatives
### Nominations and wins by program

Nominations by program :
| Nominations | Program | Streaming Media |
| 14 | Mirzapur (Season 2) | Amazon Prime Video |
| 14 | Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | SonyLIV |
| 12 | The Family Man (Season 2) | Amazon Prime Video |
| 10 | Grahan | Hotstar |
| 9 | Gullak (Season 2) | SonyLIV |
| 8 | Aashram (Season 2) | MX Player |
| 7 | Bandish Bandits | Amazon Prime Video |
| 6 | Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors | Hotstar |
| 5 | Hostel Daze (Season 2) | Amazon Prime Video |
| 3 | Kaagaz | ZEE5 |
| 3 | Maharani | SonyLIV |
| 3 | Masaba Masaba | Netflix |
| 3 | Mee Raqsam | ZEE5 |
| 3 | Metro Park (Season 2) | Eros Now |
| 3 | OK Computer | Hotstar |
| 3 | Pagglait | Netflix |
| 3 | Ray | Netflix |
| 3 | Runaway Lugaai | MX Player |
| 3 | Serious Men | Netflix |
| 3 | Tribhanga | Netflix |
| 2 | Aspirants | TVF Play |
| 2 | Bombay Begums | Netflix |
| 2 | Class of '83 | Netflix |
| 2 | JL50 | SonyLIV |
| 2 | Unpaused | Amazon Prime Video |
Wins by program :
| Wins | Program | Streaming Media |
| 12 | Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story | SonyLIV |
| 6 | The Family Man (Season 2) | Amazon Prime Video |
| 5 | Gullak (Season 2) | SonyLIV |
| 2 | Serious Men | Netflix |

### Nominations and wins by streaming media

Nominations by streaming media :
| Nominations | Streaming Media |
| 43 | Amazon Prime Video |
| 29 | SonyLIV |
| 26 | Netflix |
| 20 | Hotstar |
| 15 | MX Player |
| 10 | ZEE5 |
| 3 | Eros Now |
| 2 | Discovery+ |
| 2 | TVF Play |
Wins by Streaming Media :
| Wins | Streaming Media |
| 18 | SonyLIV |
| 7 | Amazon Prime Video |
| 7 | Netflix |