The winners of the 6th FOI Online Awards for feature films released in the annual year 2020 have been finally announced. The annual online poll which considers votes by a community of film-buffs released nominations on 22nd January, 2021.
Eeb Allay Ooo! by Prateek Vats bagged the topmost honour this year. The film also bagged the award for Best Sound Design & Mixing. Anubhav Sinha's Thappad & Anvita Dutt's Bulbbul were at par to win the most number of categories (4 each). While Thappad bagged titles in the category of Best Original Screenplay, Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast, Best Editing and Best Lyricist; Bulbbul collected honours for Best Cinematography, Best Music Direction - Score, Best Costume Design & Best Visual Effects.
Besides the award categories, 5 Special Jury Mentions were also announced.
Check out the complete list of winners below:
Best Feature Film: Eeb Allay Ooo!
Best Direction: Gamak Ghar (Achal Mishra)
Best Original Screenplay: Thappad (Anubhav Sinha & Mrunmayee Lagoo)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Serious Men (Abhijeet Khuman, Bhavesh Mandalia, Nikhil Nair & Niren Bhatt)
Best Dialogues: Gulabo Sitabo (Juhi Chaturvedi)
Best Actor In A Leading Role: Manoj Bajpayee, Bhonsle
Best Actress In A Leading Role: Tillotama Shome, Is Love Enough? Sir
Best Actor In A Supporting Role: Pankaj Tripathi, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
Best Actress In A Supporting Role: Farrukh Jafar, Gulabo Sitabo
Best Performance By An Ensemble Cast: Thappad
Best Cinematography: Bulbbul (Siddharth Diwan)
Best Editing: Thappad (Yasha Pushpa Ramchandani)
Best Sound Design & Mixing: Eeb Allay Ooo! (Bigyna Bhushan Dahal & Sinoy Joseph)
Best Music Direction - Score: Bulbbul (Amit Trivedi)
Best Music Direction - Soundtrack: Love Aaj Kal (Pritam)
Best Original Song: Main Tumhara, Dil Bechara
Best Playback Singer – Male: KK, Aur Tanha, Love Aaj Kal
Best Playback Singer – Female: Rekha Bhardwaj, Dori Tutt Gaiyaan, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
Best Lyricist: Shakeel Azmi, Ek Tukda Dhoop, Thappad
Best Production Design: Gamak Ghar (Avni Goyal)
Best Costume Design: Bulbbul (Veera Kapur Ee)
Best Make-Up & Hair Styling: Chhapaak (Clover Wootton & Shrikant Desai)
Best Visual Effects: Bulbbul (RedChillies.VFX – Harry Hingorani & Puran Gurung)
Best Choreography: Illegal Weapon 2.0, Street Dancer 3D (Kruti Mahesh & Rahul Shetty)
Best Action Direction: Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Ramazan Bulut & R P Yadav)
SPECIAL JURY MENTIONS:
Devashish Makhija (Director) - Bhonsle
Enbee, Gaurav Godkhindi, Govind Vasantha, Prashant Pillai & Raghav Sachar (Music Directors) - Taish
Radhika Apte (Actress) - Raat Akeli Hai
Sooni Taraporevala (Director) - Yeh Ballet
Sunny Pawar (Actor) - Chippa
(Click here to view complete Nominations List)