Filmfare Award for Best Story

Most Nominations – Filmfare Award for Best Story

Name	Nominations	Wins
Salim-Javed	6	2
Gulshan Nanda	6	0
Mukhram Sharma	5	2
Jaideep Sahni	4	0
Javed Akhtar	3	0
Hrishikesh Mukherjee	3	1
Sachin Bhowmick	3	1
Manoj Kumar	3	1
Juhi Chaturvedi	3	1
Zoya Akhtar	3	0
Akhtar Mirza	2	2
Gulzar	2	1
C.V. Sridhar	2	1

Most Wins – Filmfare Award for Best Story

Name	Wins	Nominations
Mukhram Sharma	2	5
Akhtar Mirza	2	2
Salim-Javed	2	6
Hrishikesh Mukherjee	1	3
Sachin Bhowmick	1	3
Manoj Kumar	1	3
Juhi Chaturvedi	1	3
Gulzar	1	2
C.V. Sridhar	1	2

Best Story Award (1950s)

+ Indicates Winner

Award No.	Year	Writer	Film
2nd	1955	+Mukhram Sharma	Aulad
3rd	1956	+Rajinder Singh Bedi	Garam Coat
		Manoranjan Ghose	Jagriti
		Mukhram Sharma	Vachan
4th	1957	+Amiya Chakrabarty	Seema
5th	1958	+Akhtar Mirza	Naya Daur
6th	1959	+Mukhram Sharma	Sadhna
		Mukhram Sharma	Talaaq
		Ritwik Ghatak	Madhumati

Best Story Award (1960s)

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Award No.	Year	Writer	Film
7th	1960	+Subodh Ghosh	Sujata
		Dhruva Chatterjee	Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan
		Mukhram Sharma	Dhool Ka Phool
8th	1961	+Ruby Sen	Masoom
		Saghir Usmani	Chaudhvin Ka Chand
		Salil Chowdhury	Parakh
9th	1962	+ C. V. Sridhar	Nazrana
		C. J. Pavri	Kanoon
		Mohan Kumar	Aas Ka Panchhi
10th	1963	+K.P. Kottarakara	Rakhi
		Bimal Mitra	Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
		Jawar N. Sitaraman	Main Chup Rahungi
11th	1964	+Jarasandha	Bandini
		B.R. Films	Gumrah
		C. V. Sridhar	Dil Ek Mandir
12th	1965	+Ban Bhatt	Dosti
		Inder Raj Anand	Sangam
		Khwaja Ahmad Abbas	Shehar Aur Sapna
13th	1966	+Akhtar Mirza	Waqt
		Gulshan Nanda	Kaajal
		Ramanand Sagar	Arzoo
14th	1967	+R. K. Narayan	Guide
		Hrishikesh Mukherjee	Anupama
		Nihar Ranjan Gupta	Mamta
15th	1968	+Manoj Kumar	Upkaar
		Ashapoorna Devi	Mehrban
		Protiva Bose	Aasra
16th	1969	+Sachin Bhowmick	Brahmachari
		Gulshan Nanda	Neel Kamal
		Ramanand Sagar	Aankhen

Best Story Award (1970s)

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Award No.	Year	Writer	Film
17th	1970	+Vasant Kanetkar	Aansoo Ban Gaye Phool
		Hrishikesh Mukherjee	Aashirwad
		Sachin Bhowmick	Aradhana
18th	1971	+Chandrakant Kakodkar	Do Raaste
		Gulshan Nanda	Khilona
		Sachin Bhowmick	Pehchan
19th	1972	+ Hrishikesh Mukherjee	Anand
		Gulshan Nanda	Kati Patang
		Gulshan Nanda	Naya Zamana
20th	1973	+Basu Bhattacharya	Anubhav
		Manoj Kumar	Shor
21st	1974	+Salim-Javed	Zanjeer
		Gulzar	Koshish
		Khwaja Ahmad Abbas	Achanak
		Mulraj Razdan	Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar
		Shakti Samanta	Anuraag
22nd	1975	+Ishraq-Suja	Garm Hava
		Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay	Kora Kagaz
		Manoj Kumar	Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
		N. T. Rama Rao	Bidaai
		Shyam Benegal	Ankur
23rd	1976	+Salim–Javed	Deewaar
		Kamleshwar	Aandhi
		Salim-Javed	Sholay
		Shaktipada Rajguru	Amanush
		Vijay Tendulkar	Nishant
24th	1977	+Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay	Arjun Pandit
		Ashapoorna Devi	Tapasya
		Gulshan Nanda	Mehbooba
		Kamleshwar	Mausam
		Pamela Chopra	Kabhi Kabhie
25th	1978	+Sharat Chandra Chatterji	Swami
		Asrani	Chala Murari Hero Banne
		Bhusan Bangali	Kinara
		Raju Saigal	Doosra Aadmi
		Shanker Shesh	Gharaonda
26th	1979	+Dinesh Thakur	Ghar
		Chandrakant Kakodkar	Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
		Laxmikant Sharma	Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
		Salim-Javed	Trishul
		Samaresh Basu	Kitaab

Best Story Award (1980s)

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Award No.	Year	Writer	Film
27th	1980	+Shanker Shesh	Dooriyaan
		Kasinadhuni Viswanath	Sargam
		Sailesh Dey	Gol Maal
		Salim-Javed	Kaala Patthar
		Ruskin Bond	Junoon
28th	1981	+Vijay Tendulkar	Aakrosh
		D. N. Mukherjee	Khubsoorat
		Esmayeel Shroff	Thodisi Bewafaii
		Ram Kalkar	Aasha
		Shabd Kumar	Insaaf Ka Tarazu
29th	1982	+Chetan Anand	Kudrat
		Jaywant Dalvi	Chakra
		K. Balachander	Ek Duuje Ke Liye
		Leela Phansalkar	Baseraa
		Shyam Benegal	Kalyug
		Girish Karnad
30th	1983	+Samaresh Basu	Namkeen
		Achla Nagar	Nikaah
		Kamna Chandra	Prem Rog
		Sagar Sarhadi	Bazaar
		Salim–Javed	Shakti
31st	1984	+S. D. Panvalkar	Ardh Satya
		Balu Mahendra	Sadma
		Javed Akhtar	Betaab
		Mahesh Bhatt	Arth
		Mohan Kumar	Avtaar
32nd	1985	+Mahesh Bhatt	Saaransh
		Gyav Dev Agnihotri	Ghar Ek Mandir
		Javed Akhtar	Mashaal
		Shabd Kumar	Aaj Ki Awaaz
		Sudhir Mishra	Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!
33rd	1986	+Aleem Masroor	Tawaif
		C. T. Khanolkar	Ankahee
		Javed Akhtar	Arjun
		K. K. Singh	Ram Teri Ganga Maili
		Mahesh Bhatt	Janam
		Rajan Roy	Saaheb
-	1987	No Ceremony
-	1988	No Ceremony
34th	1989	Subodh Ghosh	Ijaazat

Best Story Award (1990s)

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Award No.	Year	Writer	Film
35th	1990	+K. Vishwanath	Eeshwar
		Aditya Bhattacharya	Raakh
		J. P. Dutta	Batwara
		Joy Augustine	Goonj
36th	1991	+Rajkumar Santoshi	Ghayal
37th	1992	+ Honey Irani	Lamhe
		Ramapada Chowdhury	Ek Doctor Ki Maut
		Sai Paranjpye	Disha
		Nana Patekar	Prahaar: The Final Attack
		Sujit Sen
38th	1993	Not Awarded
39th	1994	+Sutanu Gupta	Damini
40th	1995	+Ishraq-Suja	Krantiveer
41st	1996	+Ram Gopal Varma	Rangeela
42nd	1997	+Gulzar	Maachis
43rd	1998	+Kamal Haasan	Virasat
44th	1999	+Mahesh Bhatt	Zakhm

* The award was not given in the year 1993.

Best Story Award (2000s)

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Award No.	Year	Writer	Film
45th	2000	Vinay Shukla	Godmother
46th	2001	Honey Irani	Kya Kehna
47th	2002	Ashutosh Gowariker	Lagaan
48th	2003	Jaideep Sahni	Company
49th	2004	Nagesh Kukunoor	3 Deewarein
50th	2005	Aditya Chopra	Veer-Zaara
51st	2006	+Shiv Kumar Subramaniam	Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
		+Sudhir Mishra
		+Ruchi Narain
52nd	2007	+Rajkumar Hirani	Lage Raho Munna Bhai
		+Vidhu Vinod Chopra
		Jaideep Sahni	Khosla Ka Ghosla
		Kamlesh Pandey	Rang De Basanti
		Karan Johar	Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
		Kersi Khambatta	Being Cyrus
		Mahesh Bhatt	Gangster
53rd	2008	+Amol Gupte	Taare Zameen Par
		Jaideep Sahni	Chak De! India
		Mani Ratnam	Guru
		Rahul Dholakia	Parzania
		David N. Donihue
		Vibha Singh	Dharm
54th	2009	+Abhishek Kapoor	Rock On
		Aseem Arora	Heroes
		Dibakar Banerjee	Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
		Urmi Juvekar
		Neeraj Pandey	A Wednesday
		Santosh Sivan	Tahaan

Best Story Award (2010s)

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Award No.	Year	Writer	Film
55th	2010	+Rajkumar Hirani	3 Idiots
		+Abhijat Joshi
		Anurag Kashyap	Gulaal
		Aparna Malhotra
		Raj Singh Chaudhary
		Sanjay Maurya
		Imtiaz Ali	Love Aaj Kal
		Jaideep Sahni	Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year
		Zoya Akhtar	Luck By Chance
56th	2011	+Anurag Kashyap	Udaan
		+Vikramaditya Motwane
57th	2012	+Sanjay Chauhan	I Am Kalam
		Akshat Verma	Delhi Belly
		Amol Gupte	Stanley Ka Dabba
		Rajat Arora	The Dirty Picture
		Zoya Akhtar	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
		Reema Kagti
58th	2013	+Juhi Chaturvedi	Vicky Donor
59th	2014	+Subhash Kapoor	Jolly LLB
60th	2015	+Rajat Kapoor	Ankhon Dekhi
		Anurag Kashyap	Ugly
		Imtiaz Ali	Highway
		Nitin Kakkar	Filmistaan
		Rajkumar Hirani	PK
		Abhijat Joshi
61st	2016	+K. V. Vijayendra Prasad	Bajrangi Bhaijaan
		Juhi Chaturvedi	Piku
		Olivia Stewart	Titli
		R. Balki	Shamitabh
		Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay	Detective Byomkesh Bakshy
62nd	2017	+Shakun Batra	Kapoor & Sons.
		+Ayesha Devitre Dhillon
63rd	2018	+Amit V Masurkar	Newton
		Amit Joshi	Trapped
		Rahul Dahiya	G Kutta Se
		Shanker Raman	Gurgaon
		Sourabh Ratnu
		Shubhashish Bhutiani	Mukti Bhawan
		Suresh Triveni	Tumhari Sulu
64th	2019	+ Anubhav Sinha	Mulk
		Anudeep Singh	Mukkabaaz
		Raj and DK	Stree
		Sharat Katariya	Sui Dhaaga
		Shantanu Srivastava*	Badhaai Ho
		Akshat Ghildial*
		Jyoti Kapoor

* Shantanu Srivastava and Akshat Ghildial withdrew their names from Filmfare Awards 2019. They were nominated for the film Badhaai Ho along with Jyoti Kapoor for the Filmfare Best Story Award.

Best Story Award (2020s)

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Award No.	Year	Writer	Film
65th	2020	+Anubhav Sinha	Article 15
		+Gaurav Solanki
		Abhishek Chaubey	Sonchiriya
		Sudip Sharma
		Jagan Shakt	Mission Mangal
		Nitesh Tiwari	Chhichhore
		Piyush Gupta
		Nikhil Mehrotra
		Vasan Bala	Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
		Zoya Akhtar	Gully Boy
		Reema Kagti
65th	2021	+Anubhav Sinha	Thappad
		+Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul
		Rohena Gera	Sir
		Hardik Mehta	Kaamyaab
		Rajesh Krsishnan	Lootcase
		Kapil Sawant
		Juhi Chaturvedi	Gulabo Sitabo
		Shubham	Eeb Allay Ooo

Salim-Javed-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 06 | Wins = 02

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
21st	1974	Zanjeer	Win
23rd	1976	Deewar	Win
		Sholay	Nomination
26th	1979	Trishul	Nomination
27th	1980	Kaala Patthar	Nomination
30th	1983	Shakti	Nomination

Gulshan Nanda-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 06 | Wins = 00

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
13th	1966	Kaajal	Nomination
16th	1969	Neel Kamal	Nomination
18th	1971	Khilona	Nomination
19th	1972	Kati Patang	Nomination
		Naya Zamana	Nomination
24th	1977	Mehbooba	Nomination

Mukhram Sharma-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 05 | Wins = 02

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
2nd	1955	Aulad	Win
3rd	1956	Vachan	Nomination
6th	1959	Sadhna	Win
		Talaaq	Nomination
7th	1960	Dhool Ka Phool	Nomination

Jaideep Sahni-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 04 | Wins = 00

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
48th	2003	Company	Nomination
52nd	2007	Khosla Ka Ghosla	Nomination
53rd	2008	Chak De India	Nomination
55th	2010	Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year	Nomination

Hrishikesh Mukherjee-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 03 | Wins = 01

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
14th	1967	Anupama	Nomination
17th	1970	Aashirwad	Nomination
19th	1972	Anand	Win

Sachin Bhowmick-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 03 | Wins = 01

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
16th	1969	Brahmachari	Win
17th	1970	Aradhana	Nomination
18th	1971	Pehchan	Nomination

Manoj Kumar-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 03 | Wins = 01

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
15th	1968	Upkaar	Win
20th	1973	Shor	Nomination
22nd	1975	Roti Kapda Aur Makaan	Nomination

Juhi Chaturvedi-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 03 | Wins = 01

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
58th	2013	Vicky Donor	Win
61st	2016	Piku	Nomination
66th	2021	Gulabo Sitabo	Nomination

Javed Akhtar-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 03 | Wins = 00

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
31st	1984	Betaab	Nomination
32nd	1985	Mashaal	Nomination
33rd	1986	Arjun	Nomination

Zoya Akhtar-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 03 | Wins = 00

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
55th	2010	Luck By Chance	Nomination
57th	2012	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara	Nomination
65	2020	Gully Boy	Nomination

Akhtar Mirza-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 02 | Wins = 02

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
5th	1958	Naya Daur	Win
13th	1966	Waqt	Win

Gulzar-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 02 | Wins = 01

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
21st	1974	Koshish	Nomination
42nd	1997	Maachis	Win

C.V. Sridhar-Nominations and Wins

Nominations = 02 | Wins = 01

Filmfare Award	Year	Film	Result
9th	1962	Nazrana	Win
11th	1964	Dil Ek Mandir	Nomination