66th Filmfare Awards

The 66th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2020.
Ludo led the ceremony with 16 nominations each, followed by Thappad with 15 nominations, and Gulabo Sitabo and Tanhaji with 13 nominations each.
Thappad won 7 awards, including Best Film and Best Actress, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.
Pankaj Tripathi received dual nominations for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl and Ludo, but lost to Saif Ali Khan who the award for Tanhaji.
At age 88, Farrukh Jaffar set a record for becoming the oldest winner of an acting Filmfare Award, winning Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Gulabo Sitabo.
The ceremony was also noted as being the only to have two actors being nominated posthumously for the same award, with Irrfan Khan and Sushant Singh Rajput receiving Best Actor nominations for Angrezi Medium and Dil Bechara respectively, with Khan winning the award, thus becoming the only actor to win the Filmfare Best Actor award posthumously.

Winners and nominees

On 27 March 2021, winners were announced. Below is the list of winners:

Technical awards

Nominations for the Technical awards were announced on the same day.

Best Editing	Best Production Design	Best Choreography
Yasha Ramchandani – Thappad * Ajay Sharma – Ludo * Anand Subaya – Lootcase * Chandrashekhar Prajapati – Gulabo Sitabo * Jacques Comets, Baptiste Ribrault – Sir	Mansi Mehta – Gulabo Sitabo * Aditya Kanwar – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl * Anurag Basu – Ludo * Sandeep Meher – Panga * Sriram Kannan Iyengar, Sujeet Sawant – Tanhaji	Farah Khan – "Dil Bechara" – Dil Bechara* Ganesh Acharya – "Bhankas" – Baaghi 3 * Ganesh Acharya – "Shankara Re Shankara" – Tanhaji * Kruti Mahesh, Rahul Shetty – "Illegal Weapon" – Street Dancer 3D * Kruti Mahesh, Rahul Shetty – "Nachi Nachi" – Street Dancer 3D
Best Cinematography	Best Sound Design	Best Background Score
Avik Mukhopadhyay – Gulabo Sitabo * Archit Patel, Jay I. Patel – Panga * Keiko Nakahara – Tanhaji * Saumyananda Sahi – Eeb Allay Ooo! * Soumik Mukherjee – Thappad	Kaamod Kharade – Thappad* Abhishek Nair, Shijin Melvin Hutton – Ludo * Ali Merchant – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl * Bigyna Bhushan Dahal – Eeb Allay Ooo! * Diapankar Jojo Chaki, Nihar Ranjan Samal – Gulabo Sitabo * Lochan Kanvinde – Lootcase	Mangesh Dhakde – Thappad * A. R. Rahman – Dil Bechara * Pritam – Ludo * Sameer Uddin – Lootcase * Sandeep Shirodkar – Tanhaji
Best Costume Design	Best Action	Best Special Effects
Veera Kapur Ee – Gulabo Sitabo* Abilasha Sharma – Chhapaak * Ashish Dwyer – Ludo * Nachiket Barve, Mahesh Sheria – Tanhaji * Niharika Bhasin – Shakuntala Devi	Ramazan Bulut, Rp Yadav – Tanhaji * Ahmed Khan – Baaghi 3 * Harpal Singh – Chhalaang * Ivanov Victor, Andreas Nguyen – Khuda Haafiz * Manohar Verma – Lootcase	Prasad Sutar – Tanhaji * Jayesh Vaishnav – Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl * Mahesh Baria – Baaghi 3

Superlatives

Awards	Film
7	Thappad
6	Gulabo Sitabo
4	Tanhaji
2	Sir