# 2008 Zee Cine Awards

The 11th Zee Cine Awards ceremony honouring the winners and nominees of the best of Bollywood cinema films released in 2007. The ceremony was held on 26 April 2008 at ExCeL London, London.
Om Shanti Om led the ceremony with 15 nominations, followed by Guru with 10 nominations, and Chak De! India, Life in a... Metro and Taare Zameen Par with 9 nominations each.
Taare Zameen Par won 6 awards, including Best Director (for Aamir Khan) and Best Actor (Critics) (for Darsheel Safary, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

## Awards

The winners and nominees have been listed below. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

### Popular Awards

| Best Film | Best Director |
| Chak De! India‡ Guru Jab We Met Life in a... Metro Om Shanti Om Taare Zameen Par | Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par‡ Anurag Basu – Life in a... Metro Farah Khan – Om Shanti Om Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met Mani Ratnam – Guru Shimit Amin – Chak De! India |
| Best Actor – Male | Best Actor – Female |
| Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India as Hockey Coach Kabir Khan‡ Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant "Guru" Desai Akshay Kumar – Namastey London as Arjun Amitabh Bachchan – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadev Singh Shah Rukh Khan – Om Shanti Om as Omprakash Makhija aka OK 'Om Kapoor' Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya D. Kashyap | Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met as Geet Dhillon‡ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – Guru as Sujata Desai Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Sandhya "Sandy" Bansal aka Shantipriya Katrina Kaif – Namastey London as Jasmeet Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni S. Chaturvedi |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Male | Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Female |
| Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary‡ Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par as Ram Shankar Nikumbh Bobby Deol – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom as Steve Singh/Satvinder Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manikdas Desai Shreyas Talpade – Om Shanti Om as Pappu Master | Shilpa Shetty – Life in a... Metro as Shikha‡ Chitrashi Rawat – Chak De! India as Komal Chautala Konkona Sen Sharma – Life in a... Metro as Shruti Ghosh Lara Dutta – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom as Anaida Raza/Laila Tisca Chopra – Taare Zameen Par as Maya Awasthi |
| Best Performance in a Negative Role | Best Actor in a Comic Role |
| Arjun Rampal – Om Shanti Om as Mukesh "Mike" Mehra‡ Neil Nitin Mukesh – Johnny Gaddaar as Johnny Pavan Malhotra – Black Friday as Tiger Memon Shilpa Shukla – Chak De! India as Bindiya Naik Vivek Oberoi – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Mahindra "Maya" Dolas | Vinay Pathak – Bheja Fry as Bharat Bhushan‡ Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar "Majnu" Pandey Nana Patekar – Welcome as Uday Shankar Shetty Riteish Deshmukh – Heyy Babyy as Tanmay Joglekar Tusshar Kapoor – Dhol as Sameer "Sam" Arya |
| Best Music Director | Best Lyrics |
| A. R. Rahman – Guru‡ Pritam – Life in a... Metro Pritam, Sandesh Shandilya – Jab We Met Sajid–Wajid – Partner Vishal–Shekhar – Om Shanti Om | Prasoon Joshi – "Maa" – Taare Zameen Par‡ Gulzar – "Tere Bina" – Guru Javed Akhtar – "Main Agar Kahoon" – Om Shanti Om Sameer Anjaan – "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya Sayeed Quadri – "In Dino" – Life in a... Metro |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Best Female Playback Singer |
| Shaan – "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya‡ KK – "Aankhon Mein Teri" – Om Shanti Om Soham Chakrabarty – "In Dino" – Life in a... Metro Sonu Nigam – "Main Agar Kahoon" – Om Shanti Om Sukhwinder Singh, Salim–Sulaiman, Marianne D'Cruz – "Chak De! India" – Chak De! India | Shreya Ghoshal – "Barso Re" – Guru‡ Mahalakshmi Iyer – "Bol Na Halke Halke" – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Mahalakshmi Iyer – "Tenu Leke" – Salaam-e-Ishq Shreya Ghoshal – "Yeh Ishq Haye" – Jab We Met |
| Best Track of the Year | Most Promising Director |
| "Mauja Hi Mauja" – Jab We Met‡ "Barso Re" – Guru "Bhool Bhulaiyaa" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa "Dard-e-Disco" – Om Shanti Om "Do You Wanna Partner" – Partner "In Dino" – Life in a... Metro | Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par‡ Feroz Abbas Khan – Gandhi, My Father R. Balki – Cheeni Kum Reema Kagti – Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. Sajid Khan – Heyy Babyy |
| Best Male Debut | Best Female Debut |
| Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya as Raj‡ Himesh Reshammiya – Aap Kaa Surroor as HR Neil Nitin Mukesh – Johnny Gaddaar as Johnny | Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shantipriya/Sandhya "Sandy" Bansal‡ Jiah Khan – Nishabd as Jiya Sonam Kapoor – Saawariya as Sakeena |
| Most Promising Debut Child Artist ||
| Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi‡ Dhruv Piyush Panjuani – Apna Asmaan as Buddhi Swini Khara – Cheeni Kum as Sexy ||

### Technical Awards

| Best Story | Best Screenplay |
| Amole Gupte – Taare Zameen Par‡ | Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met‡ |
| Best Dialogue | Best Cinematography |
| Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India‡ | Sudeep Chatterjee – Chak De! India‡ |
| Best Choreography | Best Action |
| Farah Khan – Om Shanti Om‡ | Parvez Khan – Johnny Gaddaar‡ |
| Best Editing | Best Art Direction |
| Amitabh Shukla – Chak De! India‡ | Nitin Chandrakant Desai – Gandhi, My Father‡ |
| Best Background Score | Best Sound Recording |
| A. R. Rahman – Guru‡ | Baylon Fonseca – Shootout at Lokhandwala‡ |
| Best Costume Design | Best Film Processing |
| Manish Malhotra, Karan Johar – Om Shanti Om‡ | ADLABS – Namastey London‡ |
| Best Special Effects (Visual) ||
| Red Chillies VFX – Om Shanti Om‡ ||

### Critics' Awards

Best Film :
| Anil Kapoor – Gandhi, My Father‡ ||
| Best Actor – Male | Best Actor – Female |
| Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi‡ | Shefali Shah – Gandhi, My Father as Kasturba Gandhi‡ |
| Critics Special Award ||
| Neil Nitin Mukesh‡ ||

### Special Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award :
* Zeenat Aman
* Zee Icon award |
* Shah Rukh Khan |
* Zee Cinema Entertainer of the Year |
* Riteish Deshmukh |
* British Indian Actor Award |
* Katrina Kaif |
* Bollywood Queen Award |
* Gauri Khan |

## Superlatives

Multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 15 | Om Shanti Om |
| 10 | Guru |
| 9 | Chak De! India |
| 9 | Life in a... Metro |
| 9 | Taare Zameen Par |
| 8 | Jab We Met |
| 4 | Cheeni Kum |
| 4 | Gandhi, My Father |
| 4 | Saawariya |
| 3 | Jhoom Barabar Jhoom |
| 3 | Johnny Gaddaar |
| 3 | Namastey London |
| 3 | Partner |
| 2 | Bhool Bhulaiyaa |
| 2 | Heyy Babyy |
| 2 | Shootout at Lokhandwala |
| 2 | Welcome |
Multiple wins :
| Awards | Film |
| 6 | Taare Zameen Par |
| 5 | Chak De! India |
| 5 | Om Shanti Om |
| 3 | Gandhi, My Father |
| 3 | Guru |
| 3 | Jab We Met |
| 2 | Saawariya |