Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role


The Filmfare Best Villain Award was given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise an actor who had delivered an outstanding performance in a negative role. Although the awards started in 1954, this category was first introduced in 1992 and has not been awarded since 2007.

Superlatives

As the award was instituted in 1991, it could not be given to some of the famous Bollywood villains of the preceding decades:
CategoryNameSuperlativeNotes
Most AwardsNana Patekar
Ashutosh Rana		2 awardsAwards resulted from 3 nominations
Awards resulted from 2 nominations
Most NominationsAmrish Puri7 nominationsNominations resulted in 0 awards.
Most Nominations without a WinAmrish Puri7 nominations–

Ashutosh Rana is the only actor to have won the award twice in a row, in 1998 and 1999. Amrish Puri was nominated consecutively for three years from 1991 to 1993. Also, Danny Dengzongpa is the only actor to have been nominated twice in the same year in 1994, although he failed to win.
Priyanka Chopra and Abhishek Bachchan are the only actors to have been nominated in another acting category along with the Best Villain category for the same role. Priyanka Chopra was nominated for her role in Aitraaz in the Best Supporting Actress category. Abhishek Bachchan was nominated as well for Yuva.
In 1997, Kajol became the first female actor to be nominated in this category and win the award for her role in . She and Priyanka Chopra are the only female actors who won this award. Other actresses to have been nominated are Urmila Matondkar for Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya in 2001, Shabana Azmi for Makdee in 2002, Bipasha Basu for Jism in 2003, Preity Zinta for Armaan in 2003 and Amrita Singh for Kalyug in 2005.
Abhishek Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra are the only actors to be nominated in the supporting category for the same role.
Preity Zinta for Armaan in 2003 is the only actor to be nominated for the Best Actress award as well as this award in the same year.

Multiple nominations

The following 16 actors have received Best Villain nominations. The list is sorted by the number of total awards.

Winners and nominees

In the list below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees. The films are listed by the years when the award was presented.

1990s

Note :- Sadashiv Amrapurkar became first Actor to win this Award.
Note :- Shah Rukh Khan became first Actor to win this Award as a Lead Actor of the movie Anjaam
Note :- Mithun Chakraborty won this Award for his villainous role as Amavas.
Note :- Arbaaz Khan became the first actor to win this Award as a debutant.
Note :- Kajol became the first Actress to win this Award
Note :- Ashutosh Rana became the first Actor to win this Award twice and consecutively.
Note :- Priyanka Chopra became second and the last actress to win this Award
Note :- Nana Patekar tied with Ashutosh Rana for becoming a winner of this Award most no. of times.
Note :- Saif Ali Khan became last Actor to win this Award.