11th FOIOA 2026 Nominations Announced!

Nominations for the 11th FOI Online Awards, 2026 were announced on Friday, 23rd January 2026 on its Official Instagram handle. The annual online poll brings together a community of film-buffs to vote and elect nominees across 20+ categories celebrating various film crafts and artists. 11th FOIOA nominations were announced across 22 categories for feature films released in 2025. Winners' Announcement will follow on Friday 6th February, 2026. The complete nominations list follows:

FEATURE FILM

Dhadak 2 – Karan Johar, Umesh Kumar Bansal, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta, Meenu Aroraa, Somen Mishra & Pragati Deshmukh

Ghich Pich – Ankur Singla, Simran Dhir & Sushil Kumar Singla

Homebound – Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta & Somen Mishra

Humans In The Loop – Mathivanan Rajendran, Sarabhi Ravichandran, Shilpa Kumar & Aranya Sahay

Jugnuma: The Fable – Pratap Reddy, Sunmin Park, Raam Reddy & Juhi Agarwal

Stolen – Gaurav Dhingra

Superboys Of Malegaon – Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar & Reema Kagti

The Great Shamsuddin Family – Alok Jain, Ajit Andhare & Mahmood Farooqui

DIRECTION

Homebound – Neeraj Ghaywan

Humans In The Loop – Aranya Sahay

Jugnuma: The Fable – Raam Reddy

Stolen – Karan Tejpal

Superboys Of Malegaon – Reema Kagti

WRITING – ORIGINAL

Ghich Pich – Ankur Singla & Karmaditya Bagga

Humans In The Loop – Aranya Sahay

Jugnuma: The Fable – Raam Reddy & Varun Grover

Second Chance – Subhadra Mahajan

The Great Shamsuddin Family – Anusha Rizvi

WRITING – ADAPTED

Dhadak 2 – Rahul Badwelkar & Shazia Iqbal

Haq – Reshu Nath

Homebound – Neeraj Ghaywan, Basharat Peer, Sumit Roy, Varun Grover & Shreedhar Dubey

Raat Akeli Hai: The Bansal Murders – Smita Singh

Superboys Of Malegaon – Varun Grover & Shoaib Zulfi Nazeer

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Dheera Johnson, Second Chance

Radhika Apte, Sister Midnight

Sanya Malhotra, Mrs.

Sonal Madhushankar, Humans In The Loop

Yami Gautam Dhar, Haq

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Abhishek Banerjee, Stolen

Adarsh Gourav, Superboys Of Malegaon

Ishaan Khatter, Homebound

Ranveer Singh, Dhurandhar

Vishal Jethwa, Homebound

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Farida Jalal, The Great Shamsuddin Family

Mia Maelzer, Stolen

Priyanka Bose, Agra

Puja Sarup, The Mehta Boys

Shalini Vatsa, Homebound

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Akshaye Khanna, Dhurandhar

Deepak Dobriyal, Jugnuma: The Fable

Nitesh Pandey, Ghich Pich

Shashank Arora, Superboys Of Malegaon

Shubham Vardhan, Stolen

CASTING & ENSEMBLE

Dhurandhar – Mukesh Chhabra

Ghich Pich – Vikas Pal & Karmaditya Bagga

Nishaanchi – Gautam Kishanchandani

Superboys Of Malegaon – Nandini Shrikent & Karan Mally

The Great Shamsuddin Family – Dilip Shankar

(along with the credited ensemble cast of the respective films)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Jugnuma: The Fable – Sunil Ramkrishna Borkar

Second Chance – Swapnil Suhas Sonawane

Sister Midnight – Sverre Sørdal

Stolen – Isshaan Ghosh

The Mehta Boys – Krish Makhija

FILM EDITING

Homebound – Nitin Baid

Humans In The Loop – Swaroop Reghu & Aranya Sahay

Sister Midnight – Napoleon Stratogiannakis

Stolen – Shreyas Beltangdy

Superboys Of Malegaon – Anand Subaya

SOUND DESIGN & MIXING

Dhurandhar – Bishwadeep Chatterjee, Prabhal Pradhan & Justin Jose K

Humans In The Loop – Kalhan Raina, Santwana Bhayaskar, Tony Tom & Aparajita Sen

Second Chance – Anirban Borthakur, Vidhaat Thothathri Raman, Rinku Pathak & Niladri Shekhar Roy

Sister Midnight – Christopher Wilson, Gunjan Augustine Sah & Gunnar Óskarsson

Stolen – Susmit Bob Nath, Vipul Nigam & Niladri Shekhar Roy

MUSIC DIRECTION – SCORE

Ghich Pich – Ritwik De

Humans In The Loop – "Khwabgah" Saransh Sharma

Mrs. – Sagar Desai

Second Chance – Quan Bay

Superboys Of Malegaon – Sachin-Jigar

MUSIC DIRECTION – ALBUM

Aap Jaisa Koi – Justin Prabhakaran & Rochak Kohli

Dhadak 2 – Rochak Kohli, Tanishk Bagchi, Javed-Mohsin & Shreyas Puranik

Metro... In Dino – Pritam

Saiyaara – Mithoon, Sachet-Parampara, Rishabh Kant, Vishal Mishra, Tanishk Bagchi, Faheem Abdullah & Arslan Nizami

Tere Ishk Mein – A.R. Rahman

ORIGINAL SONG

"Saare Jag Mein" from Aap Jaisa Koi – Justin Prabhakaran, Raj Shekhar, Abhay Jodhpurkar & Aanandi Joshi

"Ul Jalool Ishq" from Gustaakh Ishq – Vishal Bhardwaj, Gulzar, Shilpa Rao & Papon

"Qayde Se" from Metro... In Dino – Pritam, Amitabh Bhattacharya & Papon

"Saiyaara" from Saiyaara – Tanishk Bagchi, Faheem Abdullah, Arslan Nizami & Irshad Kamil

"Deewaana Deewaana" from Tere Ishk Mein – A.R. Rahman & Irshad Kamil

LYRICIST

Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Ajeeb O Gareeb" from Azaad

Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Qayde Se" from Metro... In Dino

Gulzar – "Ul Jalool Ishq" from Gustaakh Ishq

Manan Bhardwaj – "Neend Bhi Teri" from Nishaanchi

Shashwat Dwivedi – "Filam Dekho" from Nishaanchi

VOCALIST – FEMALE

Madhubanti Bagchi – "Filam Dekho" from Nishaanchi

Madhubanti Bagchi – "Uyi Amma" from Azaad

Shilpa Rao – "Tere Zikr Mein" from Tere Ishk Mein

Shilpa Rao – "Ul Jalool Ishq" from Gustaakh Ishq

Shreya Ghoshal – "Saiyaara Reprise – Female" from Saiyaara

VOCALIST – MALE

Faheem Abdullah – "Aawaara Angaara" from Tere Ishk Mein

Faheem Abdullah – "Saiyaara" from Saiyaara

Papon – "Qayde Se (Film Version)" from Metro... In Dino

Raghav Chaitanya – "Dil Ka Kya" from Metro... In Dino

Sonu Nigam – "Pardesiya" from Param Sundari

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Dhurandhar – Saini S. Johray

Jugnuma: The Fable – Juhi Agarwal

Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story Of Jallianwala Bagh – Rita Ghosh

Sister Midnight – Shruti Gupte

Superboys Of Malegaon – Sally White

COSTUME DESIGN

Chhaava – Sheetal Iqbal Sharma

Dhurandhar – Smriti Chauhan

Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story Of Jallianwala Bagh – Sheetal Iqbal Sharma

Phule – Aparna Shah

Superboys Of Malegaon – Bhawna Sharma

CHOREOGRAPHY

"Bar Bar" from Mrs. – Brinda Parameswar

"Birangay" from Azaad – Bosco Leslie Martis

"Janaab-e-Aali" from War 2 – Bosco Leslie Martis

"Shararat" from Dhurandhar – Vijay Ganguly

"Uyi Amma" from Azaad – Bosco Leslie Martis

ACTION DIRECTION

120 Bahadur – Marek Svitek & Amritpal Singh

Baaghi 4 – Vvenkat, Kecha Khamphakdee, Stun Siva & Kevin Kumar

Chhaava – Parvez Shaikh & Todor Lazaroy

Dhurandhar – Aejaz Gulab, Sea Young Oh, Yannick Ben & Ramazan Bulut

War 2 – Spiro Razatos, Franz Spilhaus, Anl Arasu, Oh Sea Young, Craig Macrae & Sunil Rodrigues (Rod)

Winners' Announcement to follow on Friday, 6th February, 2026.