50th Filmfare Awards

50th Filmfare Awards
50th Filmfare Awards
Date	26 February 2005
Site	MMRDA Grounds, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai
Hosted by	Saif Ali Khan
Official website	www.filmfare.com
Highlights
Best Film	Veer-Zaara
Critics Award; for Best Film	Dev and Yuva
Most awards	Yuva (6)
Most nominations	Veer-Zaara (15)
Television coverage
Network	Sony Entertainment Television (India)
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The 50th Filmfare Awards, honoring Cinema of India, took place on 26 February 2005 in Mumbai. This was the awards' golden jubilee year and to commemorate the occasion, the Filmfare award trophy (The Black Lady statue) was made in gold. Moreover, a special award: Best Film in 50 Years was also presented to Ramesh Sippy's Sholay.^[1]

Veer-Zaara led the ceremony with 15 nominations, followed by Swades with 8 nominations and Hum Tum and Yuva with 6 nominations.

Yuva earned 6 awards, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Main awards[edit]

(Winner is indicated in bold)

Kunal Kohli — Best Director winner for Hum Tum

Shah Rukh Khan — Best Actor winner for Swades

Rani Mukerji — Best Actress winner for Hum Tum and Best Supporting Actress winner for Yuva

Abhishek Bachchan — Best Supporting Actor winner for Yuva

Rajesh Khanna — Lifetime Achievement Awardee

Main Awards[edit]

Best Film	Best Director
*Veer-Zaara* Dhoom Hum Tum Main Hoon Na Swades	Kunal Kohli – Hum Tum Ashutosh Gowariker – Swades Farah Khan – Main Hoon Na Farhan Akhtar – Lakshya Rajkumar Santoshi – Khakee Yash Chopra – Veer-Zaara
Best Actor	Best Actress
Shah Rukh Khan - Swades as Mohan Bhargava Amitabh Bachchan - Khakee as D.C.P. Anand K. Srivastava Hrithik Roshan - Lakshya as Karan Shergill Shah Rukh Khan - Main Hoon Na as Ram Prasad Sharma Shah Rukh Khan - Veer-Zaara as Sq. Ldr. Veer Pratap Singh	Rani Mukerji - Hum Tum as Rhea Prakash Preity Zinta - Veer-Zaara as Zaara Hayaat Khan Aishwarya Rai - Raincoat as Neerja Shilpa Shetty - Phir Milenge as Tamanna Sahni Urmila Matondkar - Ek Hasina Thi as Sarika Vartak
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Abhishek Bachchan - Yuva as Lallan Singh Akshay Kumar - Khakee as Senior Inspector Shekhar Verma Akshay Kumar - Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Sunny Amitabh Bachchan - Veer-Zaara as Choudhary Sumer Singh Zayed Khan - Main Hoon Na as Lakshman 'Lucky' Shekhar Sharma	Rani Mukerji - Yuva as Shashi Lal Biswas Amrita Rao - Main Hoon Na as Sanjana Bakshi Divya Dutta - Veer-Zaara as Shabana 'Shabbo' Ibrahim Priyanka Chopra - Aitraaz as Sonia Roy Rani Mukerji - Veer-Zaara as Saamiya Siddiqui
Best Comic Role	Best Negative Role
Saif Ali Khan - Hum Tum as Karan Kapoor Akshay Kumar - Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Sunny Arshad Warsi - Hulchul Boman Irani - Main Hoon Na as Principal Paresh Rawal - Hulchul	Priyanka Chopra - Aitraaz as Sonia Roy Abhishek Bachchan - Yuva as Lallan Singh Ajay Devgan - Khakee as Yashwant Angre John Abraham - Dhoom as Kabir Sunil Shetty - Main Hoon Na as Raghavan Dutta
Best Male Debut	Best Female Debut
Not Awarded	Ayesha Takia – Taarzan: The Wonder Car
Best Story	Best Screenplay
Veer-Zaara – Aditya Chopra	Yuva – Mani Ratnam
Best Dialogue	Best Lyricist
Veer-Zaara – Aditya Chopra	Veer-Zaara – Javed Akhtar for "Tere Liye" Main Hoon Na – Javed Akhtar for "Main Hoon Na" Swades – Javed Akhtar for "Yeh Taara Woh Taara" Veer-Zaara – Javed Akhtar for "Aisa Des Hai Mera" Veer-Zaara – Javed Akhtar for "Main Yahaan Hoon"
Best Music Director	Best Background Score
Main Hoon Na – Anu Malik Dhoom – Pritam Murder – Anu Malik Swades – A. R. Rahman Veer-Zaara – Madan Mohan	Swades – A. R. Rahman
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Murder – Kunal Ganjawala for "Bheege Hont Tere" Main Hoon Na – Sonu Nigam for "Main Hoon Na" Main Hoon Na – Sonu Nigam for "Tumse Milke" Swades – Udit Narayan and Master Vignesh for "Yeh Taara Woh Taara" Veer-Zaara – Udit Narayan for "Main Yahaan Hoon" Veer-Zaara – Sonu Nigam for "Do Pal"	Hum Tum – Alka Yagnik for "Hum Tum" Dhoom – Sunidhi Chauhan for "Dhoom Machale" Kyun! Ho Gaya Na... – Sadhana Sargam for "Aao Na" Mujhse Shaadi Karogi – Alka Yagnik for "Lal Dupatta" Swades – Alka Yagnik for "Saawariya"
Best Action	Best Art Direction
Yuva – Vikram Dharma	Yuva – Sabu Cyril
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
Lakshya – Christopher Popp	Dhoom – Rameshwar S. Bhagat
Best Choreography	Best Sound Design
Lakshya – Prabhu Deva for "Main Aisa Kyun Hoon..."	Dhoom – Dwarak Warrier
Power Award	Best Scene of the Year
Shah Rukh Khan	*Hum Tum*