26th Filmfare Awards
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki and Muqaddar Ka Sikandar led the ceremony with 9 nominations each, followed by Satyam Shivam Sundaram and Trishul with 6 nominations and Don with 5 nominations.
26th Filmfare Awards | |
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Date | 1979 |
Site | Bombay |
Highlights | |
Best Film | Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki |
Most awards | Don & Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (3) |
Most nominations | Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki & Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (9) |
The 26th Filmfare Awards were held in 1979.
Don and Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki won 3 awards each, thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony.
The ceremony was also notable as Nutan became the first actress in the history of Indian Cinema to win the Best Actress 5 times, breaking the record held by Meena Kumari (4 times) for 13 years. She was nominated for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki, winning the former. Her niece Kajol matched her record 32 years later, at the 55th Filmfare Awards with her 5th win for My Name Is Khan.
Main awards
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Best Film
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Comic Actor
Best Story
- Kitaab – Samaresh Basu
- Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki – Chandrakant Kakodkar
- Muqaddar Ka Sikandar – Laxmikant Sharma
- Trishul – Salim–Javed
Best Screenplay
Best Dialogue
Best Music
Best Lyrics
Apnapan – Anand Bakshi for Aadmi Musafir Hai
- Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se – Ravindra Jain for Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se
- Don – Anjaan for Khaike Paan
- Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki – Anand Bakshi for Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
- Satyam Shivam Sundaram – Pandit Narendra Sharma for Satyam Shivam Sundaram
Best Playback Singer, Male
Don – Kishore Kumar for Khaike Paan
- Apnapan – Mohammad Rafi for Aadmi Musafir Hai
- Muqaddar Ka Sikandar – Kishore Kumar for O Saathi Re
- Satyam Shivam Sundaram – Mukesh for Chanchal Sheetal
- Shalimar – Kishore Kumar for Hum Bewafa
Best Playback Singer, Female
Don – Asha Bhosle for Yeh Mera Dil
- Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se – Hemlata for Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se
- Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki – Shobha Gurtu for Saiyyan Rooth Gaye
- Muqaddar Ka Sikandar – Asha Bhosle for O Saathi Re
- Shalimar – Usha Uthup for One Two Cha Cha Cha
Best Art Direction
Des Pardes - T. K. Desai [1]
Best Cinematography
Satyam Shivam Sundaram - Radhu Karmakar [2]
Best Editing
Badaltey Rishtey - B. Prasad [3]
Critics' awards
Best Film
Master Raju
[KITAAB]
Best Documentary
Malfunction
Biggest Winners
- Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki – 3/9
- Don – 3/5
- Shatranj Ke Khiladi – 2/3
- Apnapan – 2/3
- Satyam Shivam Sundaram – 2/6
- Trishul – 0/6
- Muqaddar Ka Sikandar – 0/9