The 65th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by

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, honored the best Indian

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. The ceremony was held on 15 February 2020 in

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and broadcast on

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the following day. This is the first time in six decades that a Filmfare ceremony was held outside

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and

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were hosts of the award ceremony. A curtain raiser ceremony was held in

on 2 February 2020, which honoured the winners of technical and short film awards. In the same function, the nominations for popular awards were also announced. Actress

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was the host of this ceremony. ''

Gully Boy ''Gully Boy'' is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film directed by Zoya Akhtar, and written by Akhtar and Reema Kagti. The film was produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar under the banners of Tiger Baby Films and Excel ...

'' led the ceremony with 19 nominations, followed by '' Uri: The Surgical Strike'' with 13 nominations and '' Article 15'' and ''

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'' with 11 nominations each. ''Gully Boy'' won a record 13 awards, the most awards for a single film in a year, thus breaking the record set by ''Black'' (2005) with 11 wins at the 51st Filmfare Awards. Additionally, it also became the second film to win all four acting awards, having been achieved previously 21 years earlier by ''

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'' (1998) at the 44th Filmfare Awards. The ceremony proved to be highly controversial, as fans called out Filmfare for snubbing highly acclaimed films like ''

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'', '' Kesari'' and ''Uri: The Surgical Strike'' in favor of ''Gully Boy.'' Subsequently, when the

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went to the

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song "Apna Time Aayega" from ''Gully Boy'' instead of the

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song "

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" from ''Kesari'', lyricist

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expressed his disappointment at the decision on

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, pledging not to attend future award ceremonies, and gained support from fans and other musicians alike.

Winners and nominees

Source:

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Popular awards

Critics' Awards

Special Awards

Technical awards

Nominations for the Technical awards were announced on 31 January 2020 and the winners were subsequently awarded on 2 February 2020.

Short Film Awards

Winners for the short film awards were announced on 2 February 2020.

Controversies

''Gully Boy'' attracted controversy over its 13 wins at the 65th Filmfare Awards. Several

users and fans were extremely disappointed and made calls to boycott the awards, with #BoycottFilmfare trending on the micro-blogging site. While many thought that the film was a deserving winner, others were unhappy and even termed the awards as "snub fare", calling it a move to "justify sending it as a nomination for the Oscars". Subsequently, when the Best Lyricist went to the

song "Apna Time Aayega" instead of the

song "

" from the 2019

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film '' Kesari'', lyricist

tweeted his disappointment at the decision, pledging not to attend future award ceremonies, and gained support from fans and other musicians alike.

Superlatives

References

External links

Filmfare Official Website

Filmfare Awards 2020
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