Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction

Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction

Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction is awarded to the film production designers and art directors who render the most spectacular and appropriate visual artistry to a Hindi film.

The Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction is presented by Filmfare in its annual Filmfare Awards, to the production designer and art director who with the Art Department team, design and develop the most striking visual artistry for a Hindi film of the preceding year. Such artistry renders the overall look of the film and its sequences to the viewers and is conceptualised, crafted and finalised in accordance with the film’s theme and background and the emotions involved in its scenes. The category was introduced in 1956, two years after the inception of awards.

Prominent Records in Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction
Noted art directors Shanti Das, Ajit Banerjee, M. R. Acharekar, Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Sharmishta Roy, Bansi Chandragupta and Sudhendu Roy have won the Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction for most number of times, holding 3 wins each. Other art directors Sabu Cyril, Samir Chanda, Ravi Verman, S. S. Samel, N. B. Kulkarni, Madhukar Shinde and T. K. Desai have won the award twice each.

Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction at 61st Filmfare Awards
In the 61st Filmfare Awards of 2016, the film ‘Bajirao Mastani’ bagged the Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction for its much resplendent and magnificent sets and visual backgrounds. Sujeet Sawant, Sriram Iyengar and Saloni Dhatrak were presented the award for making ‘Bajirao Mastani’ a visual spectacle with their production designs.

List of Winners of Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction
The list of winning production designers and art directors of Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction from 1991 to 2016 and the respective films for which they were recognised are highlighted hereunder.

Year	Winning Art Director	Film
2016	Sujeet Sawant, Sriram Iyengar & Saloni Dhatrak	Bajirao Mastani
2015	Subrata Chakraborty & Amit Ray	Haider
2014	Acropolis Design	Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2013	Rajat Podar	Barfi!
2012	Shashank Tere	Delhi Belly
2011	Mukund Gupta	Do Dooni Chaar
2010	Helen Jones & Sukanta Panigrahi	Dev.D
2009	Vandana Kataria & Angelica Bhowmick	Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
2008	Samir Chanda	Guru
2007	Samir Chanda	Omkara
2006	Keshto Mondal, Tanushree Sarkar & Pradeep Sarkar	Parineeta
2005	Sabu Cyril	Yuva
2004	Munish Sappal	Pinjar
2003	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	Devdas
2002	Sharmishta Roy	Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
2001	Not Awarded
2000	Not Awarded
1999	Sharmishta Roy	Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
1998	Sharmishta Roy	Dil To Pagal Hai
1997	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	Khamoshi: The Musical
1996	Bijon Dasgupta	Prem
1995	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	1942: A Love Story
1994	Sabu Cyril	Gardish
1993	Ravi Verman	Angaar
1992	Ravi Verman	Hum
1991	Nitish Roy	Ghayal

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