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Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction

Annual award for Hindi films

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ1414560 ↗
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The Filmfare Best Art Direction Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films.

Although the overall awards started in 1954, the award for this category started in 1956.

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“Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction” enters the record as annual award for Hindi films. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Filmfare, Award and Best can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1954, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Filmfare, Award and Best.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1414560. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1954 and 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.