Chetak Screen Awards nominations: Dhurandhar leads race; Saiyaara, Homebound among top contenders; check full list

Dhurandhar – Aejaz Gulab, Sea Young Oh, Yannick Ben, Ramazan Bulut

Jaat – Ram Laxman, V Venkat, Peter Hein, Anl Arasu

Best Actor (Female)

Triptii Dimri – Dhadak 2

Yami Gautam Dhar – Haq

Sonal Madhushankar – Humans in the Loop

Konkona Sen Sharma – Metro… In Dino

Monika Panwar – Nishaanchi

Radhika Apte – Sister Midnight

Kriti Sanon – Tere Ishk Mein

Best Actor (Female) – OTT Film

Fatima Sana Shaikh – Aap Jaisa Koi

Sanya Malhotra – Mrs

Radhika Apte – Saali Mohabbat

Saba Azad – Songs of Paradise

Mia Maelzer – Stolen

The Great Shamsuddin Family – Farida Jalal

Shreya Chaudhry – The Mehta Boys

Best Actor (Male)

Vicky Kaushal – Chhaava

Siddhant Chaturvedi – Dhadak 2

Ranveer Singh – Dhurandhar

Vishal Jethwa – Homebound

Ishaan Khatter – Homebound

Manoj Bajpayee – Jugnuma: The Fable

Adarsh Gourav – Superboys Of Malegaon

Best Actor (Male) – OTT film

Manoj Bajpayee – Inspector Zende

Abhishek Bachchan – Kaalidhar Laapata

Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Raat Akeli Hai The Bansal Murders

Abhishek Banerjee – Stolen

Shubham Vardhan – Stolen

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)

Divya Dutta – Chhaava

Sheeba Chadha – Haq

Shalini Vatsa – Homebound

Dolly Ahluwalia – Sitaare Zameen Par

Manjiri Pupala – Superboys Of Malegaon

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)

Akshaye Khanna – Dhurandhar

Rakesh Bedi – Dhurandhar

Naseeruddin Shah – Gustaakh Ishq

Saurabh Shukla – Jolly LLB 3

Deepak Dobriyal – Jugnuma: The Fable

Best Background Score

Chhaava – AR Rahman

Dhurandhar – Shashwat Sachdev

Haq – Sandeep Chowta

Homebound – Naren Chandavarkar, Benedict Taylor

Saiyaara – John Stewart Eduri

Best Choreography

Azaad – Ui Amma – Bosco Leslie Martis

Deva – Bhasad Macha – Bosco Leslie Martis

Dhurandhar – Shararat – Vijay Ganguly

Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari – Panwadi Song – Ganesh Acharya

Thamma – Dilbar Ki Aankhon Ka – Vijay Ganguly

Best Cinematography

Dhurandhar – Vikash Nowlakha

Homebound – Pratik Shah

Humans in the Loop – Monica Tiwari, Harshit Saini, Gunjan Jaywant

Jugnuma: The Fable – Sunil Ramkrishna Borkar

Superboys of Malegaon – Swapnil. S. Sonawane (ISC)

Best Costume

Chhaava – Sheetal Iqbal Sharma

Dhurandhar – Smriti Chauhan

Gustaakh Ishq – Manish Malhotra, Shivank Vikram Kapoor

Homebound – Rohit Chaturvedi

Superboys of Malegaon – Bhawna Sharma

Best Dialogue

Dhurandhar – Aditya Dhar

Haq – Reshu Nath

Homebound – Neeraj Ghaywan, Varun Grover, Shreedhar Dubey

Jolly LLB 3 – Subhash Kapoor

Superboys of Malegaon – Varun Grover, Shoaib Zulfi Nazeer

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Best Director

Laxman Ramchandra Utekar – Chhaava

Aditya Dhar – Dhurandhar

Suparn S Varma – Haq

Neeraj Ghaywan – Homebound

Raam Reddy — Jugnuma: The Fable

Mohit Suri – Saiyaara

Reema Kagti – Superboys Of Malegaon

Best Director – OTT film

Arati Kadav – Mrs

Honey Trehan – Raat Akeli Hai – The Bansal Murders

Karan Tejpal – Stolen

Anusha Rizvi – The Great Shamsuddin Family

Boman Irani – The Mehta Boys

Best Editing

Dhurandhar – Shivkumar V. Panicker

Haq – Ninad Khanolkar

Homebound – Nitin Baid

Saiyaara – Devendra Murdeshwar, Rohit Makwana

Superboys of Malegaon – Anand Subaya

Best Film

Dhadak 2 – Karan Johar, Umesh Kumar Bhansal, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta, Meenu Aroraa, Somen Mishra, Pragati Deshmukh, Marijke DeSouza

Dhurandhar – Jyoti Deshpande, Lokesh Dhar, Aditya Dhar

Haq – Vineet Jain, Vishal Gurnani, Harman Baweja, Juhi Parekh Mehta, Amrita Pandey, Suparn S Varma, Rowena Baweja, Sandeep Singh

Homebound – Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta, Somen Mishra, Marijke DeSouza, Melita Toscan Du Plantier

Saiyaara – Akshaye Widhani

Sitaare Zameen Par – Aamir Khan, Aparna Purohit

Superboys Of Malegaon – Zoya Akhtar (Producer), Reema Kagti (Producer), Ritesh Sidhwani (Producer), Farhan Akhtar (Producer), Angad Dev Singh (Co-Producer), Kassim Jagmagia (Co-Producer), Vishal Ramchandani (Co-Producer)

Chhaava – Dinesh Vijan

Best Film for Gender Sensitivity

Dhadak 2 – Karan Johar, Umesh Kumar Bhansal, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta, Meenu Aroraa,  Somen Mishra, Pragati Deshmukh, Marijke DeSouza

Haq – Vineet Jain, Vishal Gurnani, Harman Baweja, Juhi Parekh Mehta, Amrita Pandey, Suparn S Varma, Rowena Baweja, Sandeep Singh

Humans in the Loop – Mathivanan Rajendran, Sarabhi Ravichandran, Shilpa Kumar, Aranya Sahay

Mrs – Jyoti Deshpande, Harman Baweja, Pammi Baweja, Smitha Baliga

The Great Shamsuddin Family – Alok Jain, Ajit Andhare, Mahmood Farooqui

Best Film Writing (Story & Screenplay)

Dhurandhar – Aditya Dhar

Haq – Reshu Nath

Homebound – Basharat Peer, Neeraj Ghaywan, Sumit Roy

Humans in the Loop – Aranya Sahay

Superboys of Malegaon – Varun Grover

Best Hairstyling & Make-Up

Chhaava – Shrikant Desai

Dhurandhar – Preetisheel Singh D’souza

Emergency – Elizabeth Lawson Zeiss, Dhananjay M. Prajapat

Homebound – Khyati Malhotra

Superboys of Malegaon – Tarannum Khan, Avan Contractor, Dianne Commissariat

Best Lyrics

Dhurandhar – Gehra Hua – Irshad Kamil

Gustaakh Ishq – Ul Julool Ishq – Gulzar

Homebound – Yaar Mere – Varun Grover

Saiyaara – Saiyaara Title Track – Irshad Kamil

Superboys of Malegaon – Bande – Javed Akhtar

Best OTT Film

Mrs – Jyoti Deshpande, Harman Baweja, Pammi Baweja, Smitha Baliga

Raat Akeli Hai – The Bansal Murders – Ronnie Screwvala, Honey Trehan, Abhishek Chaubey

Stolen – Gaurav Dhingra

The Great Shamsuddin Family – Alok Jain, Ajit Andhare, Mahmood Farooqui

The Mehta Boys – Boman Irani, Danesh Irani, Shujaat Saudagar, Vikesh Bhutani

Best Playback Singer (Female)

Dhurandhar – Shararat – Jasmine Sandlas, Madhubanti Bagchi

Metro… In Dino – Qayde Se – Shreya Ghosal

Saiyaara – Saiyaara Title Track – Shreya Ghosal

Saiyaara – Barbaad – Shilpa Rao

Saiyaara – Humsafar – Parampara Tandon

Best Playback Singer (Male)

Dhurandhar – Dhurandhar Title Track – Hanumankind, Sudhir Yaduvanshi, Shashwat Sachdev, Mohd. Sadiq

Dhurandhar – Gehra Hua – Arijit Singh, Shashwat Sachdev, Armaan Khan

Saiyaara – Saiyaara Title Track – Faheem Abdullah

Saiyaara – Dhun – Arijit Singh

Saiyaara – Barbaad – Jubin Nautiyal

Best Production Design

Chhaava – Subrata Chakraborty, Amit Ray

Dhurandhar – Saini S. Johray

Gustaakh Ishq – Madhumita Sen, Ajay Sharma (EASEEL)

Homebound – Khyatee Kanchan

Superboys of Malegaon – Sally White

Haq – Sonam Singh, Abhijit Gaonkar (Megamind Studio)

Kesari Chapter 2 – Rita Ghosh

Best Script – OTT film

Mrs – Harman Baweja, Anu Singh Choudhary, Arati Kadav

Raat Akeli Hai – The Bansal Murders – Smita Singh

Songs of Paradise – Danish Renzu, Sunayana Kachroo, Niranjan Iyengar

Stolen – Karan Tejpal, Gaurav Dhingra, Swapnil Salkar (AGADBUMB)

The Mehta Boys – Alexander Dinelaris, Boman Irani

Best Song

Dhurandhar – Dhurandhar Title Track – Shashwat Sachdev, Charanjit Ahuja

Dhurandhar – Gehra Hua – Shashwat Sachdev

Saiyaara – Saiyaara Title Track – Tanishk Bagchi, Faheem Abdullah, Arslan Nizami

Saiyaara – Barbaad – The Rish

Saiyaara – Humsafar – Sachet-Parampara

Best Sound Design

Chhaava – Bishwadeep Chatterjee

Dhurandhar – Bishwadeep Chatterjee

Homebound – Sanjay Maurya, Allwin Rego

Humans in the Loop -Kalhan Raina

Saiyaara – Ganesh Gangadharan (YRF Studios)

Best Special Effects

120 Bahadur – NOLABEL, Frame X VFX Studio, Snow Team, Vishal Tyagi, Manish Tyagi

Chhaava – Somesh Samit Ghosh, Gary Brown, Simon Frame, Vishal Tyagi, Manish Tyagi

Dhurandhar – Envision VFX, Philm CGI, Resonance Digital, Dhruti Ranjan Sahoo, Vishal Tyagi, Raza Mohammed Shaikh, Gagan Kholi

Jugnuma: The Fable – Varun Ramanna

Thamma – James Austin, Somesh Ghosh, Kunal Jagdish Sodha, D. Nishtha Varsha, Vishal Tyagi

Breakthrough Debut Director

Shazia Iqbal – Dhadak 2

Dibakar Das Roy – Dilli Dark

Aranya Sahay – Humans in the Loop

Karan Singh Tyagi – Kesari Chapter 2

Karan Kandhari – Sister Midnight

Breakthrough New Actor (Female)

Rasha Thadani – Azaad

Sara Arjun – Dhurandhar

Ridhima Singh – Humans in the Loop

Aneet Padda – Saiyaara

Shubhangi Dutt – Tanvi the Great

Breakthrough New Actor (Male)

Mohit Agarwal – Agra

Aaman Devgan – Azaad

Samuel Abiola Robinson – Dilli Dark

Aaishvary Thackeray – Nishaanchi

Ahaan Panday – Saiyaara

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