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70th Filmfare Awards

2025 awards for Hindi cinema

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ136399693 ↗
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The 70th Filmfare Awards was presented by The Times Group, which honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2024.

Laapataa Ladies led the ceremony with a record 24 nominations, the most for a single film in a year, and won a leading 13 awards including, Best Film and Best Director (for Kiran Rao).

Ceremony

The ceremony, held at EKA Arena, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, honoured the films released in 2024. Shahrukh Khan hosted for the first time since the 63rd Filmfare Awards.

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced by Filmfare on 26 September 2025.The winners were announced in a ceremony held on 11 October 2025.

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Technical awards

Nominations for the technical awards were announced on 26 September 2025.

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