page_title: List of awards and nominations received by Rani Mukerji
hierarchical_section_title: List of awards and nominations received by Rani Mukerji
caption_attribution_description: Rani Mukerji at 4th annual asiaSpa India awards
context_page_description: Rani Mukerji is an Indian actress who has won several awards and nominations. She made her film debut with a supporting role in the Bengali film Biyer Phool, which was directed by her father Ram Mukherjee. She made her Hindi debut with Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat in 1996, for which she received her first award at the Star Screen Awards for Best Fresh Talent. The following year she was featured in two successful films. For her third movie, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, she earned the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 44th Filmfare Awards. She also collected the Zee Cine Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Lux Face of the Year accolades at the Zee Cine Awards. Following this, she starred in several movies, some of which were critically and commercially successful, such as Hey Ram which was chosen as India's official entry to the Oscars and Badal which was one of the highest-grossing films of that year.
  Mukerji was then noted for her role in Shaad Ali's Saathiya.
context_section_description: Rani Mukerji is an Indian actress who has won several awards and nominations. She made her film debut with a supporting role in the Bengali film Biyer Phool (1996), which was directed by her father Ram Mukherjee. She made her Hindi debut with Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat in 1996, for which she received her first award at the Star Screen Awards for Best Fresh Talent. The following year she was featured in two successful films. For her third movie, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), she earned the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 44th Filmfare Awards. She also collected the Zee Cine Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Lux Face of the Year accolades at the Zee Cine Awards. Following this, she starred in several movies, some of which were critically and commercially successful, such as Hey Ram (2000) which was chosen as India's official entry to the Oscars and Badal (2000) which was one of the highest-grossing films of that year.
  Mukerji was then noted for her role in Shaad Ali's Saathiya (2002). Her portrayal of a medical student who struggles with married life at a young age in the film made her earn her first Filmfare Best Actress nomination and she also won her first Filmfare Critics Best Actress Award that same night. The role garnered her several Best Actress nominations at major award ceremonies, including organizations like, International Indian Film Academy (IIFA), Zee Cine and Screen which also bestowed her with a Special Jury Award. She again garnered critical acclaim and commercial success with Chalte Chalte (2003), Yuva (2004), Hum Tum (2004), Veer-Zaara (2004), Black (2005), Bunty Aur Babli (2005), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007), Saawariya (2007), No One Killed Jessica (2011), Talaash: The Answer Lies Within (2012), Mardaani (2014), Hichki (2018) and Mardaani 2 (2019). All these movies earned her nominations and wins at major award ceremonies, of which Hum Tum (2004) and Black (2005) won her two Filmfare Awards for Best Actress and the latter also gave her the Filmfare Critics Best Actress Award. She won Best Supporting Actress for Yuva (2004) and No One Killed Jessica (2011) respectively. She also received the Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 for two consecutive years for her pairing opposite Abhishek Bachchan in Bunty Aur Babli (2005) and Shah Rukh Khan in Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006).
  She got her Rajiv Gandhi Award in 2004, a national honor. Apart from winning merit awards based on her performances, Mukerji was awarded various non-acting honors at major award functions. These include being the Celebrity Model of the Year at the Idea Zee F Awards as well as the Most Stylish Actor at the MTV Lycra Awards. She has topped every Top Ten Actresses’ Listing by Filmfare for several consecutive years, often she is cited as the Ten Most Powerful Names of Bollywood, sometimes being the only woman making it to that list from year to year. Mukerji was chosen as the Best Television Personality of the Year for judging the show Dance Premier League (2009). IIFA-FICCI Frames has named her as one of the ten most powerful entertainers of the decade. In 2011, she was bestowed with the greatest honor, the Actor of the Decade Award, by the India Leadership Conclave's Indian Affairs's Business Leadership Awards as well as by the Kelvinator Gr8 Women Achievers Club. In 2013, Mukerji was honored by the US Council on the day of Barack Obama's inauguration into office for Contribution to Indian Cinema and TSR National Film Awards recognized her as Bollywood's Ever Shining Star. She was commemorated with Excellence in Acting at GQ India's Men of the Year Award that same year. In 2015, Mukerji was felicitated by The National Institute of Gender Justice towards her contribution to gender sensitization. In 2017, she was honored by the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth, for her Outstanding Contribution to Cinema during Mauritius Cinema Week in celebration of 50 years of the country's independence from British rule.
caption: Mukerji at the AsiaSpa awards, 2011