The Screen Awards was an annual awards ceremony held in India, honouring professional excellence in Bollywood. The nomination and award selection was done by a panel of distinguished professionals from the industry. The awards were introduced by Screen magazine of the Indian Express Group in 1995. The magazine was acquired by Star India in 2015 and subsequently closed down.^[1] Star India continues to sponsor the event under the Star Screen Awards title.

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Most recent Screen Award winners

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Award Best Actor Best Actress Winner Ranveer Singh (Gully Boy) Alia Bhatt (Gully Boy)   Award Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Winner Gulshan Devaiah (Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota) Kamini Kaushal (Kabir Singh)   Award Best Director Lifetime Achievement Awardee Winner Zoya Akhtar (Gully Boy) Prem Chopra

Previous Best Picture Stree Best Picture Gully Boy

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The name of each year's ceremony was determined by the presenting network: the first "Star Screen Awards" were telecast on Star Plus from 2000 until 2011, after which the "Colors Screen Awards" were broadcast on Colors and the "Life OK Screen Awards" on Life OK, each for a period of two years. As of 2019, Star continues to hold the television distribution rights to the event.^[2]

The Screen Awards, initiated by the chairman of the Express Group, Viveck Goenka, in 1994, focused on excellence in Indian films. The prizes were awarded by film industry insiders, as opposed to other award ceremonies, where winners are determined by juries. The Screen Awards were the first to be conducted annually.^[3]

Until 2001, the awards were sponsored by Videocon International and hence known as the Screen Videocon Awards.^[4] For regional film industries of South India, Screen has held three editions of the Screen Awards for excellence in South Indian Cinema, and prizes were awarded for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema.^{[citation needed]}

Most awards to a single film

• Dangal – 12
• Gully Boy – 12
• Devdas – 11

Most directing awards

• Sanjay Leela Bhansali – 3
• Ashutosh Gowariker – 2
• Rakesh Roshan – 2

Most acting awards – male (Best Actor + Best Supporting Actor), in chronological order

• Amitabh Bachchan (4 + 0) = 4
• Shahrukh Khan (4+0) = 4
• Hrithik Roshan (4 + 0) = 4
• Anil Kapoor (1 + 2) = 3
• Saif Ali Khan (0 + 3) = 3

Most acting awards – female (Best Actress + Best Supporting Actress), in chronological order

• Vidya Balan (5 + 0) = 5
• Madhuri Dixit (3 + 1) = 4

Most awards for music direction

• A.R. Rahman – 5
• Pritam – 4
• Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – 3

Most lyricist awards

• Javed Akhtar – 5
• Gulzar – 4
• Anand Bakshi – 3
• Prasoon Joshi – 3

Most playback singer awards – male

• Arijit Singh – 4
• Sonu Nigam – 3
• Sukhwinder Singh – 2
• Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – 2

Most playback singer awards – female

• Shreya Ghoshal – 7
• K.S.Chithra (includes for South Indian languages) – 3
• Kavita Krishnamurthy – 2
• Alka Yagnik – 2
• Sunidhi Chauhan – 2

Youngest Best Actress winner

• Alia Bhatt for Udta Punjab – aged 23

Youngest Best Actor winner

• Hritik Roshan for Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai – aged 27

• Hindi cinema
• Cinema of India