The name of the winners of Critics’ Choice Awards 2021 has been announced on 14th February, with Hansal Mehta’s Scam 1992 bagging the ‘Best Series Award’ and Eeb Allay Ooo and short film Bebaak winning top honours.
From Sushmita Sen (for Aarya) to Manoj Bajpayee (for Bhonsle) to Tillotama Shome (for Sir), many of the films, web series and actors were honoured with an award under various categories.
The winners took to their twitter handles, thanking the Film Critics Guild for awarding them with such an honour. Manoj Bajpayee took to twitter and dedicated his award to the film’s team, “Thank you @CCSSAwards!!! It’s all due to the vision of my director #DevashishMakhija and support of all producers and @saugatam @SonyLIV @Bhonsle_film Marches on!!!”
Congratulating the winners, Anupama Chopra, Chairperson, Film Critics Guild, stated that she is thrilled that in such a difficult year, the Guild could celebrate storytelling with much energy and sparkle.
Here are the winners:
Short films
Best Short Film – Bebaak
Best Director – Shazia Iqbal for Bebaak
Best Actor – Adil Hussain for Meal
Best Actress – AmrutaSubhash for The Booth
Best Writing – Shazia Iqbal for Bebaak (Dying Wind In Her Hair)
Feature films
Best Film – Eeb Allay Ooo
Best Director – Prateek Vats for Eeb Allay Ooo
Best Actor – Manoj Bajpayee for Bhonsle
Best Actress -TillotamaShome for Sir
Best Supporting Actor – Pankaj Tripathi for GunjanSaxena: The Kargil Girl
Best Supporting Actress – Sai Pallavi for PaavaKadhaigal
Best Writing – Sachy for AyyappanumKoshiyum
Best Cinematography – SiddharthDiwan for Bulbbul
Best Editing – Mahesh Narayanan for C U Soon
Gender Sensitivity Award – Thappad
Series
Best Series – Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
Best Actor – Pratik Gandhi for Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
Best Actress – Sushmita Sen for Aarya
Best Supporting Actor – Abhishek Banerjee for PaatalLok
Best Supporting Actress – Swastika Mukherjee for PaatalLok
Best Writing – SumitPurohit, SauravDey, Vaibhav Vishal, Karan Vyas for Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
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