Filmfare Awards
Nominee Category Award Year
Meena Kumari Best Actress 10th Filmfare Awards 1963
Mohammed Rafi Best Male Playback Singer 16th Filmfare Awards 1969
Asha Bhosle Best Female Playback Singer 20th Filmfare Awards 1973
Kishore Kumar Best Male Playback Singer 32nd Filmfare Awards 1985
Alka Yagnik Best Female Playback Singer 39th Filmfare Awards 1994
Javed Akhtar Best Lyricist 50th Filmfare Awards 2005
Records -- Artists with all nominations in a single category
Meena Kumari ( 1963 ) Mohammed Rafi ( 1969 ) Asha Bhosle ( 1973 ) Kishore Kumar ( 1985 ) Alka Yagnik ( 1994 ) Javed Akhtar ( 2005 )
The Filmfare Awards are a set of awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Hindi-language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the most prestigious film events in India. The awards were first introduced by The Times Group in 1954, the same year as the National Film Awards. They were initially referred to as the Clare Awards or The Clares after Clare Mendonca, the editor of The Times of India. A dual voting system was developed in 1956. Under this system, in contrast to the National Film Awards, which are decided by a panel appointed by Indian Government, the Filmfare Awards are voted on by both the public and a committee of experts. The ceremony had been sponsored by various private organisations in the past as well as in present provisions. During several years in the 1990s, a live ceremony was broadcast to television audiences but was later discontinued due to unknown reasons. Since 2000, a recorded and edited version of the awards ceremony was televised on SET a week or two after the ceremony has been held already. Since 2018, the ceremony has been televised on Colors. The 65th Filmfare Awards event was held on the 16th of February 2020 at Sarusajai Stadium, Guwahati. The Filmfare Awards have been often referred to as the Hindi film industry's equivalent to the Academy Awards in the United States.