| Filmfare Award for Best Actor | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role |
| Presented by | Filmfare |
| Country | India |
| First awarded | 1954 (for performances in films released around 1953) |
| Currently held by | Shahrukh Khan, My Name Is Khan (2011) |
| Official website | Filmfare Awards |
The Filmfare Award for Best Actor is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi (Bollywood) films, to recognise a male actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. The award was first given in 1954.
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| Superlative | Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Overall | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actor with most awards | Dilip Kumar Shahrukh Khan |
8 | Pran Amrish Puri Amitabh Bachchan Abhishek Bachchan |
3 | Dilip Kumar Shahrukh Khan Amitabh Bachchan |
8 |
| Actor with most nominations | Amitabh Bachchan | 27 | Pran Amitabh Bachchan |
9 | Amitabh Bachchan | 36 |
| Actor with most nominations (without ever winning) |
Salman Khan Ajay Devgn |
6 | Naseeruddin Shah | 7 | Ajay Devgn | 7 |
| Actor with most nominations in a single year |
Amitabh Bachchan (1979) Shahrukh Khan (2005) |
3 | Mehmood Ali (1963) Raaj Kumar (1966) Feroz Khan (1971) Prem Nath (1975) Pran (1976) Prem Chopra (1977) Shriram Lagoo (1978) Amjad Khan (1982) Naseeruddin Shah (1984) Akshay Kumar (2005) |
2 | Raaj Kumar (1966) Naseeruddin Shah (1984) Amitabh Bachchan (1979) Shahrukh Khan (2005) |
3 |
| Oldest winner | Amitabh Bachchan | 67 | Amrish Puri | 65 | Amitabh Bachchan | 67 |
| Oldest nominee | Dilip Kumar | 69 | Amrish Puri Ashok Kumar |
65 | Dilip Kumar | 69 |
| Youngest winner | Rishi Kapoor | 21 | Prateik Babbar | 22 | Rishi Kapoor | 21 |
| Youngest nominee | Darsheel Safary | 11 | Prateik Babbar | 22 | Darsheel Safary | 11 |
13 actors account for 45 of the 56 awards recognised thus far. Dilip Kumar and Shahrukh Khan, with 8 wins, have more Best Actor awards than any other actor. Amitabh Bachchan has 5 wins, Hrithik Roshan has 4 wins, and Rajesh Khanna and Naseeruddin Shah have 3 wins each.
Dilip Kumar also holds the record for most consecutive wins, having won the award for three years in a row from 1956 to 1958. Five other actors have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Rajesh Khanna (1971–72), Sanjeev Kumar (1976–77), Amitabh Bachchan (1978–79), Naseeruddin Shah (1981–82) and Shahrukh Khan (1998–99).
Actors who have won both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards include Ashok Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Shammi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff and Nana Patekar. Two actors were nominated for both these awards for the same performance: Ashok Kumar for Aashirwad (1970) and Kamal Haasan for Saagar (1986). In both occasions, they won the Best Actor award.
Three actors have won the award for their debut performances: Rishi Kapoor for Bobby (1973), Anupam Kher for Saaransh (1985) and Hrithik Roshan for Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2001). Other actors who got nominated in this category for their debut performances are Sunny Deol for Betaab (1984) and Darsheel Safary for Taare Zameen Par (2008), who, at the age of 11, became the youngest Best Actor nominee in the history of Filmfare.
Aamir Khan has the highest number of consecutive nominations, having been nominated for the award every year from 1989 till 1997, eventually winning 9th time for Raja Hindustani in 1997.
Amitabh Bachchan holds the record for most Best Actor nominations, with 27, followed by Dilip Kumar and Shahrukh Khan, who have 19 nominations each. Bachchan and Khan also hold the record for the highest number of Best Actor nominations in a single year, having been nominated thrice in 1979 and 2005, respectively. Moreover, Kumar, Bachchan and Khan are the most awarded actors in the overall acting categories, with 8 awards each: Kumar and Khan are the winners of 8 Best Actor awards, and Bachchan is the winner of 5 Best Actor awards and 3 Best Supporting Actor awards. Bachchan is the most-nominated performer in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 36 nominations overall.
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