# Filmfare Award for Best Story

The Filmfare Award for Best Story is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a writer who wrote a film's story.

## List of winners
### 1950s

* 1955 Mukhram Sharma – Aulad
* 1956 Mukhram Sharma – Vachan
** Manoranjan Ghose – Jagriti
** Rajinder Singh Bedi – Garam Coat
* 1957 Amiya Chakrabarty – Seema
* 1958 Akhtar Mirza – Naya Daur
* 1959 Mukhram Sharma – Sadhna
** Mukhram Sharma – Talaaq
** Ritwik Ghatak – Madhumati

### 1960s

* 1960 Subodh Ghosh – Sujata
** Dhruva Chatterjee – Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan
** Mukhram Sharma – Dhool Ka Phool
* 1961 Ruby Sen – Masoom
** Saghir Usmani – Chaudhvin Ka Chand
** Salil Chowdhury – Parakh
* 1962 C. V. Sridhar – Nazrana
** C. J. Pavri – Kanoon
** Mohan Kumar – Aas Ka Panchhi
* 1963 K.P. Kottarakara – Rakhi
** Bimal Mitra – Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
** Jawar N. Sitaraman – Main Chup Rahungi
* 1964 Jarasandha – Bandini
** B.R. Films (Story Dept.) – Gumrah
** C. V. Sridhar – Dil Ek Mandir
* 1965 Ban Bhatt – Dosti
** Inder Raj Anand – Sangam
** Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Shehar Aur Sapna
* 1966 Akhtar Mirza – Waqt
** Gulshan Nanda – Kaajal
** Ramanand Sagar – Arzoo
* 1967 R. K. Narayan – Guide
** Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Anupama
** Nihar Ranjan Gupta – Mamta
* 1968 Manoj Kumar – Upkaar
** Ashapoorna Devi – Mehrban
** Protiva Bose – Aasra
* 1969 Sachin Bhowmick – Brahmachari
** Gulshan Nanda – Neel Kamal
** Ramanand Sagar – Aankhen

### 1970s

* 1970 Vasant Kanetkar – Aansoo Ban Gaye Phool
** Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Aashirwad
** Sachin Bhowmick – Aradhana
* 1971 Chandrakant Kakodkar – Do Raaste
** Gulshan Nanda – Khilona
** Sachin Bhowmick – Pehchan
* 1972 Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Anand
** Gulshan Nanda – Kati Patang
** Gulshan Nanda – Naya Zamana
* 1973 Basu Bhattacharya – Anubhav
** Manoj Kumar – Shor
* 1974 Salim–Javed – Zanjeer
** Gulzar – Koshish
** Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Achanak
** Mulraj Rajda – Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar
** Shakti Samanta – Anuraag
* 1975 Kaifi Azmi, Ismat Chughtai – Garm Hava
** Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay – Kora Kagaz
** Manoj Kumar – Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
** N. T. Rama Rao – Bidaai
** Shyam Benegal – Ankur
* 1976 Salim–Javed – Deewaar
** Kamleshwar – Aandhi
** Salim–Javed – Sholay
** Shaktipada Rajguru – Amanush
** Vijay Tendulkar – Nishant
* 1977 Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay – Arjun Pandit
** Ashapoorna Devi – Tapasya
** Gulshan Nanda – Mehbooba
** Kamleshwar – Mausam
** Pamela Chopra – Kabhi Kabhie
* 1978 Sharat Chandra Chatterji – Swami
** Asrani – Chala Murari Hero Banne
** Bhusan Bangali – Kinara
** Raju Saigal – Doosra Aadmi
** Shanker Shesh – Gharaonda
* 1979 Dinesh Thakur – Ghar
** Chandrakant Kakodkar – Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
** Laxmikant Sharma – Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
** Salim–Javed – Trishul
** Samaresh Basu – Kitaab

### 1980s

* 1980 Shanker Shesh – Dooriyaan
** K. Viswanath – Sargam
** Ruskin Bond – Junoon
** Sailesh Dey – Gol Maal
** Salim–Javed – Kaala Patthar
* 1981 Vijay Tendulkar – Aakrosh
** D. N. Mukherjee – Khubsoorat
** Esmayeel Shroff – Thodisi Bewafaii
** Ram Kalkar – Aasha
** Shabd Kumar – Insaaf Ka Tarazu
* 1982 Chetan Anand – Kudrat
** Jaywant Dalvi – Chakra
** K. Balachander – Ek Duuje Ke Liye
** Leela Phansalkar – Baseraa
** Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad – Kalyug
* 1983 Samaresh Basu – Namkeen
** Achla Nagar – Nikaah
** Kamna Chandra – Prem Rog
** Sagar Sarhadi – Bazaar
** Salim–Javed – Shakti
* 1984 S. D. Panvalkar – Ardh Satya
** Balu Mahendra – Sadma
** Javed Akhtar – Betaab
** Mahesh Bhatt – Arth
** Mohan Kumar – Avtaar
* 1985 Mahesh Bhatt – Saaransh
** Gyav Dev Agnihotri – Ghar Ek Mandir
** Javed Akhtar – Mashaal
** Shabd Kumar – Aaj Ki Awaaz
** Sudhir Mishra – Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!
* 1986 Aleem Masroor – Tawaif
** C. T. Khanolkar – Ankahee
** Javed Akhtar – Arjun
** K. K. Singh – Ram Teri Ganga Maili
** Mahesh Bhatt – Janam
** Rajan Roy – Saaheb
* 1987 Not Awarded
* 1988 Not Awarded
* 1989 Subodh Ghosh – Ijaazat

### 1990s

* 1990 K. Vishwanath – Eeshwar
** Aditya Bhattacharya – Raakh
** J. P. Dutta – Batwara
** Joy Augustine – Goonj
* 1991 Rajkumar Santoshi – Ghayal
* 1992 Honey Irani – Lamhe
** Ramapada Chowdhury – Ek Doctor Ki Maut
** Sai Paranjpye – Disha
** Sujit Sen, Nana Patekar – Prahaar: The Final Attack
* 1993 Not Awarded
* 1994 Sutanu Gupta – Damini – Lightning
* 1995 K. K. Singh – Krantiveer
* 1996 Ram Gopal Varma – Rangeela
* 1997 Gulzar – Maachis
* 1998 Kamal Haasan – Virasat
* 1999 Mahesh Bhatt – Zakhm

### 2000s

* 2000 Vinay Shukla – Godmother
* 2001 Honey Irani – Kya Kehna
* 2002 Ashutosh Gowariker – Lagaan
* 2003 Jaideep Sahni – Company
* 2004 Nagesh Kukunoor – 3 Deewarein
* 2005 Yash Chopra– Veer-Zaara
* 2006 Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain, Shiv Kumar Subramaniam – Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
* 2007 Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra – Lage Raho Munna Bhai
** Jaideep Sahni – Khosla Ka Ghosla
** Kamlesh Pandey – Rang De Basanti
** Karan Johar – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
** Kersi Khambatta – Being Cyrus
** Mahesh Bhatt – Gangster
* 2008 Amol Gupte – Taare Zameen Par
** Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India
** Mani Ratnam – Guru
** Rahul Dholakia, David N. Donihue – Parzania
** Vibha Singh – Dharm
* 2009 Abhishek Kapoor – Rock On!!
** Aseem Arora – Heroes
** Dibakar Banerjee, Urmi Juvekar – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
** Neeraj Pandey – A Wednesday
** Santosh Sivan – Tahaan

### 2010s

* 2010 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
* 2011 Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane – Udaan
* 2012 Sanjay Chauhan – I Am Kalam
** Akshat Verma – Delhi Belly
** Amol Gupte – Stanley Ka Dabba
** Rajat Arora – The Dirty Picture
** Reema Kagti, Zoya Akhtar – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
* 2013 Juhi Chaturvedi – Vicky Donor
* 2014 Subhash Kapoor – Jolly LLB
* 2015 Rajat Kapoor – Ankhon Dekhi
** Anurag Kashyap – Ugly
** Imtiaz Ali – Highway
** Nitin Kakkar – Filmistaan
** Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi – PK
* 2016 V. Vijayendra Prasad – Bajrangi Bhaijaan
** Juhi Chaturvedi – Piku
** Olivia Stewart – Titli
** R. Balki – Shamitabh
** Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay – Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
* 2017 Shakun Batra, Ayesha Devitre Dhillon – Kapoor & Sons.
* 2018 Amit V Masurkar – Newton
** Amit Joshi – Trapped
** Rahul Dahiya – G Kutta Se
** Shanker Raman and Sourabh Ratnu – Gurgaon
** Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan
** Suresh Triveni – Tumhari Sulu
* 2019 Anubhav Sinha – Mulk
** Anudeep Singh – Mukkabaaz
** Raj and DK – Stree
** Sharat Katariya – Sui Dhaaga
** Akshat Ghildial, Shantanu Srivastava and Jyoti Kapoor – Badhaai Ho (Withdrawn)

### 2020s

* 2020 Anubhav Sinha, Gaurav Solanki – Article 15
** Abhishek Chaubey, Sudip Sharma – Sonchiriya
** Jagan Shakti – Mission Mangal
** Nitesh Tiwari, Piyush Gupta and Nikhil Mehrotra – Chhichhore
** Vasan Bala – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
** Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti – Gully Boy
* 2021 Anubhav Sinha, Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul – Thappad
** Hardik Mehta – Kaamyaab
** Juhi Chaturvedi – Gulabo Sitabo
** Rajesh Krishnan, Kapil Sawant – Lootcase
** Rohena Gera – Sir
** Shubham – Eeb Allay Ooo!
* 2022 Abhishek Kapoor, Supratik Sen and Tushar Paranjape – Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui
** Dibakar Banerjee and Varun Grover – Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
** Kanika Dhillon – Haseen Dilruba
** Nandha Periyasamy – Rashmi Rocket
** Seema Pahwa – Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi
* 2023 Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary – Badhaai Do
** Anirudh Iyer – An Action Hero
** Jaspal Singh Sandhu And Rajeev Barnwal – Vadh
** Niren Bhatt – Bhediya
** Sunil Gandhi – Uunchai
* 2024 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