Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress
The 2025 recipient: Pratibha Ranta
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Critics
Country	India
First award	Dimple Kapadia, Drishti (1992)[1]
Currently held by	Pratibha Ranta, Laapataa Ladies (2025)
Website	Filmfare Awards

TheFilmfare Critics Award for Best Actress is given byFilmfare as part of its annualFilmfare Awards forHindi–language films.

• Tabu holds the record for the maximum number of wins in this category, having won the award 5 times (1998, 2000, 2001, 2008 and 2023), followed byManisha Koirala andRani Mukerji who have both won the award 3 times each, with Koirala winning in 1996, 1997 and 2003, and Mukerji winning in 2003, 2006 and 2024. and four actresses with 2 awards each (in chronological order):Dimple Kapadia (1992 & 1993),Kareena Kapoor (2005 & 2007),Vidya Balan (2011 & 2022),Bhumi Pednekar (2020 & 2023) andShefali Shah (1999 & 2024).
• Tabu also holds the record for the maximum number of nominations in the category (6), followed byTaapsee Pannu andVidya Balan with 5 nominations each,Bhumi Pednekar with 4 nominations, andManisha Koirala,Rani Mukerji,Kangana Ranaut,Kareena Kapoor Khan andAlia Bhatt with 3 nominations each.
• 3 actresses have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they areDimple Kapadia (1992–93),Manisha Koirala (1996–97) andTabu (2000–01).
• There have been 4 ties in 2003, 2020, 2023 and 2024. In 2003,Manisha Koirala andRani Mukerji were both given the award forCompany andSaathiya. In 2020,Taapsee Pannu &Bhumi Pednekar won the award for the same film,Saand Ki Aankh (2019). In 2023, Bhumi Pednekar andTabu both tied for the award, winning forBadhaai Do andBhool Bhulaiyaa 2. In 2024, Rani Mukerji andShefali Shah tied for the award, winning forMrs. Chatterjee vs Norway andThree of Us.
• Neena Gupta is the eldest recipient, winning the award forBadhaai Ho (2018) at age 59.
• Zaira Wasim is the youngest recipient, winning the award forSecret Superstar (2017) at age 17.^[2]
• 9 actresses have won awards in bothBest Actress and Best Actress (Critics) categories; in chronological order, they areDimple Kapadia,Karisma Kapoor,Rani Mukerji,Kareena Kapoor,Vidya Balan,Priyanka Chopra,Kangana Ranaut,Alia Bhatt andTaapsee Pannu. Manisha Koirala have also won Best Actress - Tamil for her performance in Bombay and she is only actress to win critics award for a non hindi film.
• Rani Mukerji is the only actress to win both Best Actress (Critics) and Popular awards during the same year (2006) forBlack.
• 11 actresses have won the award without receiving aBest Actress nomination. In chronological order they are:Farida Jalal forMammo (1995),Manisha Koirala forBombay (1996) &Company (2003),Shefali Shah forSatya (1999) &Three of Us (2023),Kareena Kapoor forDev (2005),Tabu forCheeni Kum (2008),Shahana Goswami forRock On!! (2009),Mahi Gill forDev.D (2010),Richa Chadha forGangs of Wasseypur (2013),Shilpa Shukla forB.A. Pass (2014), andBhumi Pednekar andTaapsee Pannu both forSaand Ki Aankh (2019). Among these, Shah, Goswami and Chadha were nominated forBest Supporting Actress.
• Tabu,Kareena Kapoor,Priyanka Chopra,Vidya Balan andKangana Ranaut have all won theFilmfare Award for Best Female Debut, whileDimple Kapadia,Farida Jalal,Karisma Kapoor, Ranaut, Kapoor, Tabu and Chopra have all wonBest Supporting Actress. Moreover, Kareena Kapoor has won theFilmfare Special Award, whileTaapsee Pannu has also won theFilmfare OTT Award for Best Actress in a Web Original Film.

(Between 1991 and 1992, there was one special category known as the Outstanding Performance In A Non-Commercial Film, and was awarded without prior nomination to acknowledge an actor of either sex.)

Year	Photos of winners	Actress	Role	Film
1991 (36th)	Award Won by an Actor
1992 (37th)		Dimple Kapadia ‡	Sandhya	Drishti[3]

(From 1993 until 1997, there was one special category known as the Critics Award for Best Performance, and was awarded without prior nomination to acknowledge an actor of either sex.)

Year	Photos of winners	Actress	Role	Film
1993 (38th)		Dimple Kapadia ‡	Shanichari	Rudaali
1994 (39th)	Award Won by an Actor
1995 (40th)		Farida Jalal ‡	Mammo	Mammo
1996 (41st)		Manisha Koirala ‡	Shaila Banu	Bombay
1997 (42nd)			Annie Braganza	Khamoshi: The Musical

(The category is officially divided into two separate categories to acknowledge both male and female actors individually.)

Year	Photos of winners	Actress	Role	Film
1998 (43rd)		Tabu ‡	Gehna	Virasat
1999 (44th)		Shefali Shah ‡	Pyari Mhatre	Satya

Year	Photos of winners	Actress	Role	Film
2000 (45th)		Tabu ‡	Panna Barve	Hu Tu Tu
2001 (46th)			Aditi Pandit	Astitva
2002 (47th)		Karisma Kapoor ‡	Zubeidaa Suleiman Seth	Zubeidaa
2003 (48th)		Manisha Koirala ‡	Saroja	Company
		Rani Mukerji ‡	Suhani Sharma	Saathiya
2004 (49th)		Urmila Matondkar ‡	Swati	Bhoot
2005 (50th)		Kareena Kapoor ‡	Aalia	Dev
2006 (51st)		Rani Mukerji ‡	Michelle McNally	Black
2007 (52nd)		Kareena Kapoor ‡	Dolly Mishra	Omkara
2008 (53rd)		Tabu ‡	Nina Verma	Cheeni Kum
2009 (54th)		Shahana Goswami ‡	Debbie Mascarenhas	Rock On!!

Year	Photos of winners	Actress	Role	Film
2010 (55th)		Mahi Gill ‡	Parminder "Paro"	Dev.D
2011 (56th)		Vidya Balan ‡	Krishna Verma	Ishqiya
2012 (57th)		Priyanka Chopra ‡	Susanna Anna–Marie Johannes	7 Khoon Maaf
2013 (58th)		Richa Chadda ‡	Nagma Khatun	Gangs of Wasseypur
2014 (59th)		Shilpa Shukla ‡	Sarika	B.A. Pass
2015 (60th)		Alia Bhatt ‡	Veera Tripathi	Highway
2016 (61st)		Kangana Ranaut ‡	Tanuja Trivedi and Kumari Kusum Sangwan	Tanu Weds Manu Returns
2017 (62nd)		Sonam Kapoor ‡	Neerja Bhanot	Neerja
2018 (63rd)		Zaira Wasim ‡	Insia Malik	Secret Superstar
		Kangana Ranaut	Julia	Rangoon
		Sridevi	Devki Sabarwal	Mom
		Swara Bhaskar	Anaarkali	Anaarkali of Aarah
		Vidya Balan	Sulochana "Sulu" Dubey	Tumhari Sulu
2019 (64th)		Neena Gupta ‡	Priyamvada "Babli" Kaushik	Badhaai Ho
		Alia Bhatt	Sehmat Khan	Raazi
		Anushka Sharma	Mamta Sharma	Sui Dhaaga
		Radhika Madan	Champa "Badki" Kumari	Pataakha
		Taapsee Pannu	Aarti Malhotra / Mohammed	Mulk
		Tabu	Simi	Andhadhun

Year	Photos of winners	Actress	Role	Film
2020 (65th)		Bhumi Pednekar ‡	Chandro Tomar	Saand Ki Aankh
		Taapsee Pannu ‡	Prakashi Tomar
		Bhumi Pednekar	Indumati Tomar	Sonchiriya
		Kangana Ranaut	Bobby	Judgementall Hai Kya
		Radhika Madan	Supriya "Supri"	Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
		Sanya Malhotra	Miloni Shah	Photograph
2021 (66th)		Tillotama Shome ‡	Ratna	Sir
		Bhumi Pednekar	Kajal "Kitty" Yadav	Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare
		Konkona Sen Sharma	Radha "Dolly" Yadav
		Sanya Malhotra	Shruti Choksi	Ludo
		Taapsee Pannu	Amrita Sabarwal	Thappad
		Vidya Balan	Shakuntala Devi	Shakuntala Devi
2022 (67th)		Vidya Balan ‡	Vidya Vincent	Sherni
		Supriya Pathak	Amma	Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi
		Taapsee Pannu	Rani Kashyap	Haseen Dilruba
2023 (68th)		Bhumi Pednekar ‡	Suman "Sumi" Singh	Badhaai Do
		Tabu ‡	Anjulika Chatterjee and Manjulika Chatterjee	Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2
		Kajol	Kolavennu Sujata Krishnan	Salaam Venky
		Neena Gupta	Manju Mishra	Vadh
		Taapsee Pannu	Mithali Raj	Shabaash Mithu
2024 (69th)		Rani Mukerji ‡	Debika Chatterjee	Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway
		Shefali Shah ‡	Shailaja Desai	Three of Us
		Deepti Naval	Sadhana Tripathi	Goldfish
		Fatima Sana Shaikh	Shashi Kumar Yadav "Sky"	Dhak Dhak
		Saiyami Kher	Anina “Ani” Dixit	Ghoomer
		Shahana Goswami	Pratima Mahto	Zwigato
2025 (70th)[4]		Pratibha Ranta ‡	Jaya Tripathi Singh / Pushpa Rani	Laapataa Ladies
		Alia Bhatt	Satyabhama "Satya" Anand	Jigra
		Kareena Kapoor Khan	Jasmeet "Jass" Bhamra	The Buckingham Murders
		Nitanshi Goel	Phool Kumari	Laapataa Ladies
		Vidya Balan	Kavya Ganeshan	Do Aur Do Pyaar

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