FOI Online Awards

FOI Online Awards
Awarded for	Best in Hindi Films
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Films of India Online Awards, or shortly, FOI Online Awards is an online poll, researched and organized by an anonymous film institute in India. For a fair judgement, the name of the film institute has not been disclosed. The poll is organised yearly in the month of February, to judge the best of Bollywood/Hindi films released in the previous year. The awards are considered distinctive in their strict and unbiased nomination selection procedure, which garnered much appreciation for them. The first FOI Online Awards will be announced on 14 February 2016, after the public voting.

Procedure

FOI Online Awards were first started in the year 2016, to judge the best of 2015. The awards are affiliated to movies released in Hindi (Bollywood) only. A ‘Jury then Public’ scheme of awarding is followed. The jury members research and shortlist the nominees of each category, and through an online poll, the public decides the winner. The organizer also provides space for the public to mention some performances that haven't been nominated and awards a special mention to them. All procedures are conducted online, including the final announcements.

1st FOI Online Awards, (2016)

1st editions of FOI Online Awards are scheduled to be announced on 14 February 2016, to honour the best of Bollywood films in 2015. The nominations were announced category-wise up to 30 January 2016 and public voting has been opened from 30th January to 13th February 2016. The announcement of winners would be done online through the award organiser's Twitter portal on 14th February, 2016. The nominations are as follows:

Best Film	Best Director
Bajirao Mastani Bajrangi Bhaijaan Manjhi - The Mountain Man Masaan Talvar	Kabir Khan – Bajrangi Bhaijaan Meghna Gulzar – Talvar Neeraj Ghaywan – Masaan Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Bajirao Mastani Sriram Raghavan – Badlapur
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Akshay Kumar – Baby Amitabh Bachchan – Piku Irrfan Khan – Talvar Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Manjhi - The Mountain Man Ranveer Singh – Bajirao Mastani	Anushka Sharma – NH10 Deepika Padukone – Piku Kalki Koechlin – Margarita With A Straw Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu Returns Priyanka Chopra – Bajirao Mastani
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Deepak Dobriyal – Tanu Weds Manu Returns Irrfan Khan - Piku Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Badlapur Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Bajrangi Bhaijaan Sanjay Mishra – Masaan	Konkona Sen Sharma – Talvar Revathi – Margarita With A Straw Tabu - Drishyam Tanvi Azmi – Bajirao Mastani
Best Debut: Actor	Best Debut: Actress
Omkaar Kapoor – Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 Shashank Arora - Titli Vicky Kaushal – Masaan	Akshara Haasan - Shamitabh Bhumi Pednekar – Dum Laga Ke Haisha Harshaali Malhotra – Bajrangi Bhaijaan Shivani Raghuvanshi - Titli Shweta Tripathi – Masaan
Best Debut: Director	Best Music Direction
Harshavardhan Kulkarni - Hunterrr Kanu Behl – Titli Neeraj Ghaywan – Masaan	Amaal Mallik, Ankit Tiwari and Meet Bros Anjjan – Roy Ami Mishra, Jeet Ganguly and Mithoon – Hamari Adhuri Kahani A.R. Rahman – Tamasha Sachin-Jigar – Badlapur Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Bajirao Mastani
Best Playback Singer – Male	Best Playback Singer – Female
Ami Mishra – "Hasi" – Hamari Adhuri Kahani Arijit Singh – "Hamari Adhuri Kahani" – Hamari Adhuri Kahani Ankit Tiwari – "Tu Hai Ki Nahi" – Roy Lucky Ali – "Safarnama" – Tamasha Papon – "Moh Moh Ke Dhage" – Dum Laga Ke Haisha	Alka Yagnik – "Agar Tum Saath Ho" – Tamasha Monali Thakur – "Moh Moh Ke Dhange" – Dum Laga Ke Haisha Shreya Ghoshal – "Deewani Mastani" – Bajirao Mastani Shreya Ghoshal – "Mohe Rang Do Laal" – Bajirao Mastani Sunidhi Chauhan – "Girls Like To Swing" – Dil Dhadakne Do
Best Lyrics	Best Choreography
Gulzar – "Zinda" – Talvar Irshad Kamil – "Agar Tum Sath Ho" – Tamasha Kumaar – "Sooraj Dooba Hai" – Roy Varun Grover – "Moh Moh Ke Dhage" – Dum Laga Ke Haisha Varun Grover – "Tu Kisi Rail Se" – Masaan	Bosco-Caesar – "Gallan Goodiyaan" – Dil Dhadakne Do Pandit Birju Maharaj – "Mohe Rang Do Laal" – Bajirao Mastani Remo D'Souza – "Pinga" – Bajirao Mastani Remo D'Souza – "Vande Mataram" – ABCD 2
Best Story	Best Screenplay
Himanshu Sharma, Tanu Weds Manu Returns Juhi Chaturvedi, Piku K. V. Vijayendra Prasad, Bajrangi Bhaijaan Massimo Carlotto, Badlapur Shonali Bose, Margarita With A Straw	Juhi Chaturvedi, Piku Ketan Mehta and Mahendra Jhakar, Manjhi - The Mountain Man Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Bajirao Mastani Varun Grover, Masaan Vishal Bhardwaj, Talvar
Best Cinematography	Best Dialogues
Carlos Catalan, Dil Dhadakne Do Manu Anand, Dum Laga Ke Haisha Ravi Varman, Tamasha Sudeep Chatterjee, Bajirao Mastani	Himanshu Sharma, Tanu Weds Manu Returns Juhi Chaturvedi, Piku Luv Ranjan, Rahul Mody and Tarun Jain, Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 Prakash R. Kapadia, Bajirao Mastani Vishal Bhardwaj, Talvar
Best Editing	Best Background Score
Aarti Bajaj, Tamasha Hemal Kothari, Tanu Weds Manu Returns Manas Mittal and Namrata Rao, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! Shree Narayan Singh, Baby Sreekar Prasad, Talvar	Anupam Roy, Piku Sanchit Balhara, Bajirao Mastani Sanjoy Chowdhury, Baby Sanjoy Chowdhury, Roy
Best Sound Design	Best Production Design
Allwin Rego, Gillis Benardeau and Sanjay Maurya, Masaan Debasish Mishra, Baby Shajith Koyeri, Talvar	Amit Ray and Subrata Chakraborty, Hawaizaada Saloni Dhatrak, Sriram Iyengar and Sujeet Sawant, Bajirao Mastani Vandana Kataria, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
Best Costumes	Best Action Direction
Anju Modi and Maxima Basu, Bajirao Mastani Josie Paris and Salim Asgar Ali, Main Aur Charles Manish Malhotra, Manushi Nath and Rushi Sharma, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! Sahil Kochhar, Hawaizaada	Armin Sauer and Abdul Salaam Ansari, NH 10 Javed-Aejaz, Jazbaa Sham Kaushal, Bajirao Mastani Sham Kaushal, Phantom
Best Special Effects/VFX	Special Mentions
Prana Studios, Bombay Velvet Prana Studios, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy Prime Focus Limited, Bajirao Mastani	Pending
Films with Multiple Nominations	Individuals with Multiple Nominations
Bajirao Mastani: 18 Masaan and Talvar: 9 Piku: 7 Tamasha: 6 Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Dum Laga Ke Haisha and Tanu Weds Manu Returns: 5 Baby, Badlapur, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! and Roy: 4 Dil Dhadakne Do, Hamari Adhuri Kahani, Manjhi - The Mountain Man, Margarita With A Straw and Titli: 3 Hawaizaada, NH 10 and Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2: 2	Juhi Chaturvedi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Varun Grover: 3 Ami Mishra, Ankit Tiwari, Himanshu Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Neeraj Ghaywan, Prana Studios, Remo D'Souza, Sanjoy Chowdhury, Sham Kaushal and Shreya Ghoshal: 2
Films with Multiple Wins	Individuals with Multiple Wins
Pending	Pending

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