Filmfare Award for Best Actor
The Filmfare Award for Best Actor is an award, which is presented annually at the Filmfare Awards to an actor via a jury; it is given by Filmfare for Hindi films. The award was first given in 1954. The most recent winner, as of 2025, are Kartik Aaryan and Abhishek Bachchan.
Superlatives
- Dilip Kumar holds the record for the most consecutive wins, having received the Best Actor award for three consecutive years from 1956 to 1958. Six other actors have won in consecutive years: Rajesh Khanna, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Shah Rukh Khan, and Ranbir Kapoor.
- Several actors have won both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards. These include Ashok Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Shammi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar, Farhan Akhtar, Rishi Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, and Rajkummar Rao.
- Three actors were nominated for both categories—Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor—for the same role: Raaj Kumar for Kaajal, Ashok Kumar for Aashirwad, and Kamal Haasan for Saagar. Ashok Kumar and Kamal Haasan won the Best Actor award, while Raaj Kumar won for Best Supporting Actor.
- A total of ten actors have won Best Actor in both the Popular and Critics categories: Anupam Kher, Shah Rukh Khan, Anil Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Aamir Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Ranveer Singh, and Rajkummar Rao. Four of them won both awards in the same year: Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan, and Ranbir Kapoor.
- Three actors won Best Actor for their debut performances: Rishi Kapoor, Anupam Kher, and Hrithik Roshan. Other debut nominees include Sunny Deol and Darsheel Safary.
- Darsheel Safary became the youngest Best Actor nominee at age 11 for Taare Zameen Par, while Rishi Kapoor became the youngest winner at age 21 for Bobby.
- Aamir Khan holds the record for the most consecutive nominations, with nine between 1989 and 1997, winning for Raja Hindustani. Amitabh Bachchan followed with eight consecutive nominations from 1976 to 1983, winning in 1978 and 1979 for Amar Akbar Anthony and Don, respectively.
- Dilip Kumar was the most awarded actor of the 1950s, winning four times. He continued his success in the 1960s with three more wins. Rajesh Khanna led the 1970s with three Best Actor awards. The 1980s saw Naseeruddin Shah emerge as the most recognized, also with three wins. Shah Rukh Khan dominated the 1990s with four wins. Hrithik Roshan was the leading actor of the 2000s with four awards, while Ranbir Kapoor received the most wins in the 2010s, securing three Best Actor trophies.
- Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan hold the record for the most Best Actor nominations in a single year, with three each: Bachchan in 1979 and 1983, and Khan in 2005.
- Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, and Shah Rukh Khan are the most awarded actors across all acting categories at Filmfare, each with eight wins. Kumar and Khan have eight Best Actor awards, while Bachchan has five Best Actor and three Best Supporting Actor awards. Bachchan is also the most nominated actor in major acting categories with a total of 42 nominations.
- Amitabh Bachchan has been nominated in this category across six decades and has won in four of them. Dilip Kumar has nominations across five decades and wins in three. Shah Rukh Khan has received nominations in four decades and has won in three.
- Hrithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan, and Salman Khan are the only actors to be nominated twice for the same role. Roshan was nominated multiple times for the characters Rohit Mehra and Krishna Mehra in the Krrish series, winning in 2004 for Koi... Mil Gaya. Shah Rukh Khan was nominated for Don, and Salman Khan for Dabangg.
- The character Devdas is the only role to have earned two actors the Best Actor award: Dilip Kumar in 1956 and Shah Rukh Khan in 2003.
- Ranbir Kapoor is the only actor to win Best Actor for portraying a real-life Best Actor winner, receiving the award for Sanju, based on the life of Sanjay Dutt.
- On three occasions, two actors from the same film were nominated for Best Actor:
- * Dostana : Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha
- * Shakti : Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan
- * Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam : Ajay Devgn and Salman Khan
- Irrfan Khan is the only actor to receive the Best Actor award posthumously, winning in 2021 for Angrezi Medium.
- Ashok Kumar, Nana Patekar, and Amitabh Bachchan have each won both the National [Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|National Film Award] and the Filmfare Award for Best Actor for the same role. Bachchan has done so twice.
Multiple wins
Multiple nominations
Winners and nominees
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