Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist

Superlatives

• Gulzar holds the record for the most wins in this category, with 13 awards, followed by Javed Akhtar with 8, and Anand Bakshi and Amitabh Bhattacharya with 4.
• Five lyricists have won the award three times each: Shakeel Badayuni, Shailendra, Sameer, Prasoon Joshi, and Irshad Kamil. Shakeel Badayuni holds the record for the most consecutive wins, having received the award in three successive years.
• In 2005, Javed Akhtar became the only lyricist to receive all five nominations in a single year, ultimately winning for the song "Tere Liye" from Veer-Zaara. This set the record for the most nominations by a lyricist in a single year, surpassing Anand Bakshi, who had received four of the five nominations in 1981.
• Anand Bakshi was nominated for 13 consecutive years, from 1970 to 1982, accumulating a total of 23 nominations. Despite his consistent presence, he secured only two wins during this period. In 1981, all four of his nominations lost to Gulzar, and in 1998, all three of his nominations lost to Javed Akhtar.
• Shailendra was the first recipient of the award in 1959. The 1960s were dominated by Shakeel Badayuni, who won three times. Verma Malik received two awards in the 1970s. Gulzar was the most awarded lyricist in the 1980s, with four wins. In the 1990s, Sameer and Javed Akhtar won three times each. Javed Akhtar continued his dominance in the 2000s with five wins. In the 2010s, Irshad Kamil and Gulzar both secured three awards each.
• As of 2022, only five women have been nominated for the Best Lyricist award. The first female nominee was Preeti Sagar in 1978, for the song "Mero Gaam Katha Parey" from Manthan. Rashmi Singh became the first woman to win the award, in 2015, for "Muskurane Ki Wajah" from CityLights.
• Kausar Munir became the second female lyricist to win, for the song "Lehra Do" from 83 in 2022. She is also the only female lyricist to receive multiple nominations, including multiple nominations in a single year. Of the total nine nominations ever received by female lyricists, five belong to Munir.
• Other female nominees include Rani Malik, nominated in 1991 for "Dheere Dheere" from Aashiqui, and Anvita Dutt, nominated in 2016 for "Gulaabo" from Shaandaar.