The Filmfare Best Screenplay Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films.

Multiple

Both Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Rajkumar Hirani won the award twice jointly.

Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay

List of winners

1960s

1969 Nabendu Ghosh – Majhli Didi

1970s

1970 Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Anokhi Raat

1971 Vijay Anand – Johny Mera Naam

1972 Basu Chatterjee – Sara Akash

1973 Arvind Mukherjee – Amar Prem

1974 Salim–Javed – Zanjeer

1975 Shama Zaidi, Kaifi Azmi – Garm Hava

1976 Salim–Javed – Deewaar

1977 Basu Chatterjee – Chhoti Si Baat

1978 Lekh Tandon, Vrajendra Kaur, Madhusudan Kalekar – Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye 1979 Kamleshwar – Pati Patni Aur Woh

Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay

1980s

1980 Girish Karnad, B.V. Karanth – Godhuli

1981 Vijay Tendulkar – Aakrosh

1982 K. Balachander – Ek Duuje Ke Liye

1983 Salim–Javed – Shakti

1984 Vijay Tendulkar – Ardh Satya

1985 Mrinal Sen – Khandhar

1986 Goutam Ghose, Partha Banerjee – Paar

1987 Not Awarded

1988 Not Awarded

1989 Nasir Hussain – Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak

1990s

1990 Shiv Kumar Subramaniam – Parinda

1991 Basu Chatterjee – Kamla Ki Maut

1992 Tapan Sinha – Ek Doctor Ki Maut

1993 Aziz Mirza, Manoj Lalwani – Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman

1994 Robin Bhatt, Javed Siddiqui, Akash Khurana – Baazigar

1995 Sooraj R. Barjatya – Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! 1996 Aditya Chopra – Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge 1997 Rajkumar Santoshi – Ghatak: Lethal 1998 Subhash Ghai – Pardes 1999 Karan Johar – Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay

2000s

2000 John Matthew Matthan – Sarfarosh

2001 Honey Irani, Ravi Kapoor – Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai

2002 Farhan Akhtar – Dil Chahta Hai

2003 Mani Ratnam – Saathiya

2004 Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Lajan Joseph – Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. 2005 Mani Ratnam – Yuva 2006 Nina Arora, Manoj Tyagi – Page 3 2007 Jaideep Sahni – Khosla Ka Ghosla 2008 Anurag Basu – Life In A... Metro 2009 Yogendra Vinayak Joshi, Upendra Sidhaye – Mumbai Meri Jaan

2010s

2010 Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Abhijat Joshi – 3 Idiots

2011 Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane – Udaan

2012 Akshat Verma – Delhi Belly

2013 Sanjay Chauhan and Tigmanshu Dhulia – Paan Singh Tomar

2014 Chetan Bhagat, Abhishek Kapoor, Supratik Sen & Pubali Chaudhari – Kai Po Che! 2015 Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi – PK 2016 Juhi Chaturvedi – Piku 2017 Shakun Batra, Ayesha Devitre - Kapoor & Sons 2018 Shubhashish Bhutiani - Mukti Bhawan 2019 Sriram Raghavan, Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti, Yogesh Chandekar, Hemanth Rao – Andhadhun Anubhav Sinha – Mulk Bhavani Iyer and Meghna Gulzar – Raazi Nandita Das – Manto Raj and DK – Stree

2020s

2020 Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti - Gully Boy

Anubhav Sinha, Gaurav Solanki - Article 15

Balwinder Singh Janjua - Saand Ki Aankh

Jagan Shakti, R Balki, Dharma, Nidhi Singh, Saket Kodiparthi - Mission Mangal

Manish Gupta, Ajay Bahl - Section 375

Sudip Sharma - Sonchiriya

2021 Rohena Gera - Sir

Anubhav Sinha, Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul - Thappad

Anurag Basu - Ludo

Kapil Sawant, Rajesh Krishnan -Lootcase

Prakash Kapadia, Om Raut -Tanhaji

2022 Shubendu Bhattacharya and Ritesh Shah – Sardar UdhamAastha Tiku – SherniAniruddha Guha – Rashmi RocketDibakar Banerjee and Varun Grover – Sandeep Aur Pinky FaraarKabir Khan, Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan and Vasan Bala – 83Sandeep Shrivastava – Shershaah2023 Harshavardhan Kulkarni, Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary – Badhaai Do Aakash Kaushik – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2Jaspal Singh Sandhu And Rajeev Barnwal – VadhNeeraj Yadav – An Action HeroSanjay Leela Bhansali and Utkarshini Vashishtha – Gangubai KathiawadiVivek Ranjan Agnihotri – The Kashmir Files''

References

Screenplay

Screenwriting awards for film