Screen Awards - Annual Award Ceremony For Indian Cinema

Introduction 

The Screen Awards was an annual awards show honoring the best in Bollywood. It was held in India. A group of distinguished business executives chooses the award nominees and winners.

In 1995, The Indian Express Group's Screen film magazine launched the awards. Star India bought the magazine in 2015 and was later shut down. Even though Star India still sponsors the awards under the Star Screen Awards name.

The yearly ceremonies are named after the presenting network; the inaugural Star Screen Awards were shown on Star Plus from 2000 to 2011, after which the Colors Screen Awards were broadcast on Colors and the Life OK Screen Awards on Life OK for two years. Star still has television distribution rights as of 2019.

Table of contents

• Details

• History

• Award Categories

• Records/ Most Awarded

Details

History

The Chairman of The Express Group, Mr. Viveck Goenka, founded the Screen Awards in 1994 to recognize excellence in Indian cinema. The awards try to distinguish themselves from other famous honors as India's first awards given by the film fraternity to the film fraternity via a jury. Additionally, the awards ceremony is the first one held each year.

The Awards for Hindi and Marathi movies, TV shows, and non-film music are given annually in January. The awards have been given in several editions, including the Screen Weekly Awards, Screen Videocon Awards, Star Screen Awards, Colors Screen Awards, and Life OK Screen Awards. 

The awards were known as the Screen Videocon Awards until 2001, since Videocon International sponsored them. The Screen Awards for excellence in South Indian Cinema have been presented three times for South Indian regional cinema. The awards were given out in the categories of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada films.

The ceremony included the executive director and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences governor. The 23rd Star Screen Awards took place on December 4, 2016, and Star Plus aired them on December 31, 2016. Anil Jha was in charge of the event's conception and design, and Mohomed Morani and the Cineyug Group of Companies handled production and execution. The latest Screen Awards was aired in 2019, which marked the 26th edition of the award ceremony.

Award Categories

Records/ Most Awarded

• Most awards to a single film

Dangal - 12

Gully Boy - 12

Devdas - 11

• Most directing awards

Sanjay Leela Bhansali - 3

Ashutosh Gowariker - 2

Rakesh Roshan - 2

• PlayMost acting awards - male (Best Actor + Best Supporting Actor) in chronological order.

Amitabh Bachchan- 4

Shahrukh Khan- 4

Hrithik Roshan- 4

Anil Kapoor- 3

Saif Ali Khan- 3

• Most acting awards - female (Best Actress + Best Supporting Actress) in chronological order.

Vidya Balan- 5

Madhuri Dixit- 4

• Most awards for music direction

A.R. Rahman- 5

Pritam- 4

Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy- 3

• Most Lyricist Awards

Javed Akhtar- 5

Gulzar- 4

Anand Bakshi- 3

Prasoon Joshi- 3

• Most playback singer awards - male

Arijit Singh- 4

Sonu Nigam- 3

Sukhwinder Singh- 2

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan- 2

• Most playback singer awards - female

Shreya Ghoshal- 7

K.S.Chithra (includes South Indian languages)- 3

Kavita Krishnamurthy- 2

Alka Yagnik- 2

Sunidhi Chauhan- 2

• Youngest Best Actress Winner

Alia Bhatt for Udta Punjab, aged 23

• Youngest Best Actor Winner

Hritik Roshan for Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai, aged 27