66th Filmfare Awards

66th Filmfare Awards
Presented on	27 March 2021 (2021-03-27)
Site	Film City, Mumbai
Hosted by	Rajkummar Rao Riteish Deshmukh [1]
Organized by	The Times Group
Official website	Filmfare Awards 2021
Highlights
Best Film	Thappad
Critics Award for Best Film	Eeb Allay Ooo!
Most awards	Thappad (7)
Most nominations	Ludo (16)
Television coverage
Network	Colors TV
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The 66th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2020.

Ludo led the ceremony with 16 nominations each, followed by Thappad with 15 nominations, and Gulabo Sitabo and Tanhaji with 13 nominations each.

Thappad won 7 awards, including Best Film and Best Actress (for Taapsee Pannu), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Pankaj Tripathi received dual nominations for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl and Ludo, but lost to Saif Ali Khan who the award for Tanhaji.

At age 88, Farrukh Jaffar set a record for becoming the oldest winner of an acting Filmfare Award, winning Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Gulabo Sitabo.

The ceremony was also noted as being the only to have two actors being nominated posthomously for the same award, with Irrfan Khan and Sushant Singh Rajput receiving Best Actor nominations for Angrezi Medium and Dil Bechara respectively, with Khan winning the award, thus becoming the only actor to win the Filmfare Best Actor award posthomously.