7th Filmfare Awards

The 7th Filmfare Awards were held in 1960.
Sujata led the ceremony with 8 nominations, followed by Anari with 7 nominations, Chhoti Bahen with 6 nominations and Dhool Ka Phool with 4 nominations.
Anari won 5 awards, including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Main Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Sujata – Bimal Roy Productions – Bimal Roy * Anari – L. B. Lachman * Chhoti Bahen – Prasad Productions Pvt. Ltd. – L. V. Prasad	Bimal Roy – Sujata * L. V. Prasad – Chhoti Bahen * V. Shantaram – Navrang
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Raj Kapoor – Anari* as Raj Kumar** * Dilip Kumar – Paigham as Ratan Lal * Dev Anand – Love Marriage as Sonu/Sunil Kumar	Nutan – Sujata as Sujata* Mala Sinha – Dhool Ka Phool as Meena Khosla * Meena Kumari – Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan as Ratna
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Manmohan Krishna – Dhool Ka Phool as Abdul Rashid * Mehmood – Chhoti Bahen as Mahesh * Raaj Kumar – Paigham as Ram Lal	*Lalita Pawar – Anari* as Mrs. L. D'Sa** * Anita Guha – Goonj Uthi Shehnai as Ramkali "Rami" * Shashikala – Sujata as Rama Chowdhury
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Shankar–Jaikishan – Anari* S. D. Burman – Sujata * Shankar–Jaikishan – Chhoti Bahen	Shailendra – "Sab Kuch Seekha Humne" from Anari Majrooh Sultanpuri – "Jalte Hain Jiske Liye" from Sujata Sahir Ludhianvi – "Tu Hindu Banega" from Dhool Ka Phool
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Mukesh – "Sab Kuch Seekha Humne" from Anari *Talat Mehmood – "Jalte Hain Jiske Liye" from Sujata	Award won by a male singer *Lata Mangeshkar – "Bhaiya Mere" from Chhoti Bahen
Best Story	Best Dialogue
Subodh Ghosh – Sujata * Dhruv Chatterjee – Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan * Mukhram Sharma – Dhool Ka Phool	Ramanand Sagar – Paigham Inder Raj Anand – Anari* Inder Raj Anand – Chhoti Bahen*

Biggest winners

Movie	Awards	Nominations
Anari	5	7
Sujata	4	8
Navrang	2	3
Kaagaz Ke Phool	2	2
Dhool Ka Phool	1	4
Paigham	1	3
Chhoti Bahen	0	6
Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan	0	2