17th Star Screen Awards: Nominations screened & selected

“It took seven years and much effort before the film finally got made. I was glad enough that Udaan was appreciated by critics and the audience but 14 nominations at the Screen awards have come as a great surprise,” said Motwane. His competitor for the Best Director trophy Maneesh Sharma,says that despite Yash Raj Films’ backing,his Band Baaja Baarat was close to being written off before its release. “Unlike most other YRF productions,it didn’t boast of big names. But to be nominated for the Best Film Award is overwhelming,” says Sharma.

The surprises don’t end with the statistics. The Star Screen Awards,keeping with its tradition of being fair,has gone beyond the popular faces and star system when nominating actors for the top honour. Alongside the likes of Hrithik Roshan for his moving performance in Guzaarish and Salman Khan for his portrayal of the swashbuckling cop are veterans such as Rishi Kapoor for Do Dooni Char,Naseeruddin Shah for Ishqiya and Paresh Rawal for Road To Sangam. Konkona Sen Sharma’s nomination for Best Actor In A Comic Role is also a first.These are only a few glimpses into the surprises that the country’s biggest awards will throw up on January 6 at MMRDA Ground in Bandra-Kurla Complex. Meanwhile,here’s a detailed look at the nominations.

Best Film

Band Baaja Baaraat

Love Sex Aur Dhokha

Peepli [Live

Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai

Raajneeti

Udaan

Best Director

Anusha Rizvi (Peepli [Live)

Dibakar Banerjee (Love Sex Aur Dhokha)

Maneesh Sharma (Band Bajaa Baaraat)

Prakash Jha (Raajneeti)

Milan Luthria (Once Upon A Time

In Mumbaai)

Vikramaditya Motwane (Udaan)

Best Actor (Male)

Ajay Devgn (Once Upon A Time

In Mumbaai)

Hrithik Roshan (Guzaarish)

Naseeruddin Shah (Ishqiya)

Paresh Rawal (Road To Sangam)

Ranbir Kapoor (Raajneeti)

Rishi Kapoor (Do Dooni Chaar)

Salman Khan (Dabangg)

Shah Rukh Khan (My Name Is Khan)

Best Actor (Female)

Anushka Sharma

(Band Baaja Baaraat)

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Guzaarish)

Kajol (My Name Is Khan)

Neetu Singh (Do Dooni Chaar)

Vidya Balan (Ishqiya)

Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male)

Arshad Warsi (Ishqiya)

Nana Patekar (Raajneeti)

Raghubir Yadav (Peepli [Live)

Ram Kapoor (Udaan)

Sikandar (Khelein Hum Jee

Jaan Sey)

Vikram (Raavan)

Best Actor in A Supporting Role (Female)

Amrita Puri (Aisha)

Neha Chauhan (Love Sex Aur Dhokha)

Prachi Desai (Once Upon A Time

In Mumbaai)

Shernaaz Patel (Guzaarish)

Zarina Wahab (Rakht Charitra)

Best Actor In a Negative Role (Male/Female)

Emran Haashmi (Once Upon A Time

In Mumbaai)

Manoj Bajpai (Raajneeti)

Ronit Roy (Udaan)

Sonu Sood (Dabangg)

Vivek Oberoi (Rakht Charitra)

Best Actor In A Comic Role (Male/Female)

Konkona Sen Sharma (Atithi…Tum

Kab Jaoge?)

Paresh Rawal (Atithi… Tum Kab Jaoge?)

Pradhuman Singh (Tere Bin Laden)

Sanjay Mishra (Phans Gaye Re Obama)

Tusshar Kapoor (Golmaal 3)

Best Background Music

Vishal Bhardwaj (Ishqiya)

Wayne Sharpe (Lahore)

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (My Name Is Khan)

A R Rahman (Raavan)

Wayne Sharpe (Raajneeti)

Amit Trivedi (Udaan)

Best Music

Sajid-Wajid (Dabangg)

Vishal-Shekhar (I Hate Luv Storys)

Vishal Bhardwaj (Ishqiya)

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (Karthik

Calling Karthik)

Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (My Name Is Khan)

Pritam (Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai)

Indian Ocean & Others (Peepli [Live)

Best Playback Singer (Male)

Aadesh Srivastava (Mora piya/ Raajneeti)

Mohit Chauhan (Pee loon / Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai)

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (Sajda / My Name Is Khan; Dil to baccha hai ji / Ishqiya)

Shafqat Amanat Ali (Bin tere / I Hate

Luv Storys)

Shafqat Amanat Ali (Tere naina/ My Name Is Khan)

Shankar Mahadevan (Noor-e-khuda/ My Name Is Khan)

Best Playback Singer (Female)

Shreya Ghoshal (Bahara/ I Hate Luv Storys)

Mamta Sharma (Munni badnaam

hui/ Dabangg)

Sunidhi Chauhan (Sheila ki jawani/ Tees Maar Khan)

Shreya Ghoshal (Noor-e-khuda/ My Name

Is Khan)

Rekha Bhardwaj (Ab mujhe koi/Badi dheere jali,Ishqiya)

Best Lyrics

Gulzar (Dil to baccha hai/ Ishqiya)

Gulzar (Ibn-e-batuta/ Ishqiya)

Irshad Kamil (Pee loon / Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai)

Niranjan Iyengar (Noor-e-khuda/

My Name Is Khan)

Niranjan Iyengar (Sajda/

My Name Is Khan)

Vishal Dadlani (Bin tere /

I Hate Luv Storys)

Best Story

Shivani Bhatija (My Name Is Khan)

Anusha Rizvi (Peepli [Live)

Vikramaditya Motwane & Anurag

Kashyap (Udaan)

Amit Rai (Road To Sangam)

Shyam Benegal (Well Done Abba)

Best Screenplay

Habib Faisal (Band Baaja Baaraat)

Abhinav Kashyap (Dabangg)

Habib Faisal,Rahil Qaazi (Do Dooni Chaar)

Anjum Rajabali & Prakash Jha (Raajneeti)

Vikramaditya Motwane & Anurag

Kashyap (Udaan)

Best Dialogue

Vikramaditya Motwane & Anurag

Kashyap (Udaan)

Anjum Rajabali & Prakash Jha (Raajneeti)

Abhinav Singh Kashyap (Dabangg)

Habib Faisal (Do Dooni Chaar)

Habib Faisal (Band Baaja Baaraat)

Best Editing

Namrata Rao (Band Baaja Baaraat)

Pranav Dhiwar (Dabangg)

Namrata Rao (Love Sex Aur Dhokha)

Namrata Rao (Ishqiya)

Hemanti Sarkar (Peepli [Live )

Santosh Mondal (Raajneeti)

Best Sound

PM Satheesh & Shajith Koyeri (Ishqiya)

Subhash Sahoo (Once Upon A Time

In Mumbaai)

Hari Kumar Nair & Anup Dev (Peepli [Live)

Vikram Joglekar (Road,Movie)

Kunal Sharma (Udaan)

Best Cinematography

Vishal Sinha (Allah Ke Banday)

Sudeep Chatterjee (Guzaarish)

Nikos Andritsakis (Love Sex Aur Dhokha)

Aseem Mishra (Once Upon A Time

In Mumbaai)

Santosh Sivan,V.Manikandan (Raavan)

Mahendra Shetty (Udaan)

Best Special effects

Azaga Sawmi (Dabangg)

Tata Elxsi,VCL (Prince)

Srinivas Mohan (Robot)

Kireet Khurana,Arun Mane,Viral Thakkar,Argha Sengupta,Yunus Bukhari (Toonpur Ka Superrhero)

Best Art Direction

Sachin Sagare (Allah Ke Banday)

Mukund Gupta (Do Dooni Chaar)

Nitin Chandrakant Desai (Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey)

Nitin Chandrakant Desai (Ishqiya)

Samir Chanda (Well Done Abba)

Aditya Kanwar (Udaan)

Best Choreography

Sandeep Soparrkar (Fire / Kites)

Farah Khan (Munni badnaam / Dabangg)

Farah Khan (Sheila ki jawani / Tees Maar Khan)

Vaibhavi Merchant (Ainwayi ainwayi

/ Band Baaja Baaraat)

Longinus Fernandes (Udi/ Guzaarish)

Best Action

Master Vijayan (Dabangg)

Spiro Razatos (Kites)

Javed-Eijaz (Rakht Charitra)

Allan Amin (Prince)

Most Promising Newcomer Male

Ali Zafar (Tere Bin Laden)

Omkar Das Manikpuri (Peepli [Live)

Ranveer Singh (Band Baaja Baaraat)

Rajat Barmecha (Udaan)

Suriya (Rakht Charitra)

Most Promising Newcomer (female)

Aditi Vasudevan (Do Dooni Chaar)

Radhika Apte (Rakht Charitra)

Sandeepa Dhar (Isi Life Mein)

Swati Sen (Antardwand)

Sonakshi Sinha (Dabangg)

Most Promising Debut Director

Abhishek Sharma (Tere Bin Laden)

Anusha Rizvi (Peepli [Live)

Abhinav Singh Kashyap (Dabangg)

Abhishek Chaubey (Ishqiya)

Habib Faisal (Do Dooni Chaar)

Maneesh Sharma (Band Baaja Baaraat)

Vikramaditya Motwane (Udaan)

Best Child Artiste

Ayaan Boradia (Udaan)

Darsheel Safary (Bumm Bumm Bole)

Diya Sonecha (We Are Family)

Madan Deodhar (Allah Ke Banday)

Tanay Chheda (My Name Is Khan)

Varun Bhagwat (Allah Ke Banday)

Best Ensemble Cast

Love Sex Aur Dhokha

Phans Gaye Re Obama

Peepli [Live