26th Screen Awards

The 26th Star Screen Awards ceremony honoured the best Indian Hindi-language films released between December 2018 and November 2019. The ceremony was held on 8 December 2019[1] and broadcast in India on Star Plus on 31 December 2019.[3]

26th Screen Awards
Date	8 December 2019
Site	Mumbai, India
Hosted by	Kartik Aaryan[1]
Highlights
Best Film	Gully Boy
Best Direction	Zoya Akhtar (Gully Boy)
Best Actor	Ranveer Singh (Gully Boy)
Best Actress	Alia Bhatt (Gully Boy)
Most awards	Gully Boy (11)[2]
Television coverage
Network	Star Plus

Winners

Main awards

Best Film	Best Director
Gully Boy Uri: The Surgical Strike Kabir Singh War Mission Mangal	Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike Siddharth Anand – War Sandeep Vanga – Kabir Singh Jagan Shakti – Mission Mangal
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ranveer Singh – Gully Boy as Murad Ahmed Akshay Kumar – Kesari as Ishar Singh Hrithik Roshan – War as Kabir Akshay Kumar – Mission Mangal as Rakesh Dhawan Shahid Kapoor – Kabir Singh as Dr. Kabir Rajdheer Singh Vicky Kaushal – Uri: The Surgical Strike as Vihaan Singh Shergill	Alia Bhatt – Gully Boy as Safeena Firdausi Kangana Ranaut – Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi as Rani Lakshmi Bai Katrina Kaif – Bharat as Kumud Raina Taapsee Pannu – Badla as Naina Sethi Vidya Balan – Mission Mangal as Tara Shinde
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Gulshan Devaiah – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota as Karate Mani / Jimmy Manoj Pahwa – Article 15 as Bhramadatt Singh Soham Majumdar – Kabir Singh as Shiva Varun Sharma – Chhichhore as Gurmeet "Sexa" Singh Dhillon Vijay Raaz – Dream Girl as Rajpal Kirar Vijay Varma – Gully Boy as Moeen	Kamini Kaushal – Kabir Singh as Sadhna Kaur "Dadi" Zaira Wasim – The Sky Is Pink as Aisha Chaudhary Amrita Singh – Badla as Rani Kaur Seema Pahwa – Bala as Mausi Vaani Kapoor – War As Naina
Most Promising Newcomer – Male	Most Promising Newcomer – Female
Siddhant Chaturvedi – Gully Boy as MC Sher Abhimanyu Dassani – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota as Surya Karan Deol – Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas as Karan Sehgal Mohit Raina – Uri: The Surgical Strike as Karan Kashyap Nandish Sandhu – Super 30 as Pranav Kumar Zaheer Iqbal – Notebook as Kabir Kaul	Sara Ali Khan – Kedarnath as Mandakani "Mukku" Mishra Mrunal Thakur – Super 30 as Supriya Ananya Panday – Student of the Year 2 as Shreya Randhawa Tara Sutaria – Student of the Year 2 as Mridula "Mia" Chawla Sahher Bambba – Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas as Saher Sethi Pranutan Bahl – Notebook as Firdaus
Most Promising Debut Director	Best Comedian
Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike	Yami Gautam – Bala as Pari Mishra Ayushmann Khurrana – Dream Girl as Karamveer Singh/Pooja Akshay Kumar – Housefull 4 as Bala Madhuri Dixit – Total Dhamaal as Bindiya "Bindu" Patel Kartik Aaryan – Luka Chuppi as Vinod "Guddu" Shukla

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Critics' awards

Best Film
Article 15 – Anubhav Sinha Bala – Amar Kaushik The Sky Is Pink – Shonali Bose Section 375 – Ajay Bahl Chhichhore – Nitesh Tiwari
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ayushmann Khurrana – Article 15 & Bala Farhan Akhtar – The Sky Is Pink Akshaye Khanna – Section 375 Sushant Singh Rajput – Chhichhore	Bhumi Pednekar – Saand Ki Aankh & Tapsee Pannu – Saand Ki Aankh Priyanka Chopra - The Sky Is Pink Bhumi Pednekar – Bala Richa Chadda – Section 375

Special Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award	Star Plus Baat Nayi Award
Prem Chopra	Luka Chuppi
Entertainer of the Year	Fresh Face of the Year
Ranveer Singh – Gully Boy[2] & Shahid Kapoor – Kabir Singh[6]	Ananya Panday – Student of the Year 2[1]

Technical Awards

Best Music
Gully Boy & Kabir Singh
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Sachet Tandon – "Bekhayali" (Kabir Singh)	Shreya Ghoshal & Vaishali Mhade– "Ghar More Pardesiya" (Kalank)
Best Lyrics	Best Production Design
Divine & Ankur Tewari – "Apna Time Aayega" (Gully Boy)	Gully Boy
Best Film Writing (Story and Screenplay)	Best Dialogue
Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15	Vijay Maurya – Gully Boy
Best Editing	Best Cinematography
Ewan Mulligan – Article 15	Jay Oza – Gully Boy
Best Action	Best Choreography
Aditya Dhar–Uri: The Surgical Strike	Remo D'Souza – "First Class" (Kalank)
Best Sound Design	Best Costume Design
Bishwadeep Chatterjee – Uri: The Surgical Strike	Poornamrata Singh – Gully Boy

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References

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2. Radhakrishnan, Manjusha (9 December 2019). "Bollywood celebrated at Star Screen Awards: Who won what". Gulf News. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
3. "Star Screen Awards 2019 Telecast Date, Time & Channel". RDDU ENTERTAINMENT. 2019-12-28. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
4. "Star Screen 2019: Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt win top honours for Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy [paid award]". Firstpost. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
5. "Watch Star Screen Awards Season 5 Episode 4 on Hotstar Premium". Hotstar. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
6. "Winners of Star Screen Awards 2019". Bollywood Hungama. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
7. Kerner, Lou (9 December 2019). "Star Screen Awards 2019 Winners List – Who won Star Screen Awards this year?". Gulf News. Retrieved 23 December 2019.