POPULAR AWARD CATEGORY NOMIEES Best Screenplay Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Anurag Basu &Tani Basu Barfi ! 2 Gauri Shinde English Vinglish 3 Juhi Chaturvedi Vicky Donor Sanjay Chouhan &Tigmanshu 4 Dhulia Paan Singh Tomar 5 Sujoy Ghosh Kahaani Best Story Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Anurag Basu & Tani Basu Barfi ! 2 Bhavesh Mandalia & Umesh Shukla OMG - Oh My God 3 Gauri Shinde English Vinglish 4 Juhi Chaturvedi Vicky Donor Sanjay Chouhan & Tigmanshu 5 Dhulia Paan Singh Tomar 6 Sujoy Ghosh & Advaita Kala Kahaani Best Dialogue Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Bhavesh Mandalia & Umesh Shukla OMG - Oh My God 2 Gauri Shinde English Vinglish 3 Juhi Chaturvedi Vicky Donor 4 Ritesh Shah Kahaani 5 Sanjeev Datta Barfi ! Zuisham Quadri, Akhilesh, Sachin Ladia & Anurag 6 Kashyap Gangs of Wasseypur Best Choreography Sr. No. Entries Song Film 1 Bosco - Caesar Daaru Desi Cocktail Chinta Ta Ta Chita 2 Bosco - Caesar Chita Rowdy Rathore 3 Farah Khan Radha Student Of The Year 4 Ganesh Acharya Chikni Chameli Agneepath Vaibhavi 5 Merchant Ishq Shava Jab Tak Hai Jaan Best Lyrics Sr. No. Entries Song Film Ayushmann Khurrana & Rochak 1 Kohli Paani Da Rang Vicky Donor 2 Gulzar Saans Jab Tak Hai Jaan 3 Irshad Kamil Tum Hi Ho Bandhu Cocktail Talaash - The Answer Lies 4 Javed Akhtar Jee Le Zaraa Within 5 Sayeed Quadri Phir Le Aya Dil Barfi ! 6 Varun Grover Womaniya Gangs of Wasseypur Best Music Sr. No. Entries Film 1 A.R. Rahman Jab Tak Hai Jaan 2 Ajay - Atul Agneepath 3 Pritam Barfi ! 4 Pritam Cocktail 5 Sneha Khanwalkar Gangs of Wasseypur Best Male Singer Sr. No. Entries Song Film 1 Amitabh Bachchan Ekla Chalo Re Kahaani 2 Ayushmann Khurrana Paani Da Rang Vicky Donor 3 Mika Singh & Wajid Chinta Ta Ta Chita Chita Rowdy Rathore 4 Mohit Chauhan Ala Barfi Barfi ! 5 Neeraj Sridhar Tumhi Ho Bandhu Cocktail 6 Nikhil Paul George Main Kya Karoon Barfi ! Best Female Singer Sr. No. Entries Song Film Raabta (Female 1 Hamsika Version) Agent Vinod 2 Kavita Seth Tumhi Ho Bandhu Cocktail 3 Neeti Mohan Ishq Wala Love Student Of The Year 4 Rekha Jha & Khushboo Raaj Womaniya Gangs Of Wasseypur 5 Shalmali Kholgade Pareshan Ishaqzaade 6 Shreya Ghoshal Saans Jab Tak Hai Jaan 7 Shreya Ghoshal Chikni Chameli Agneepath Best Performance In A Comic Role Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Abhishek Bachchan Bol Bachchan 2 Anu Kapoor Vicky Donor 3 Johnny Lever Housefull - 2 4 Kirron Kher Ajab Gazabb Love 5 Krushna Bol Bachchan 6 Rishi Kapoor Student Of The Year 7 Riteish Deshmukh Kya Super Kool Hain Hum Best Performance In A Negative Role Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Bipasha Basu Raaz - 3 2 Rishi Kapoor Agneepath 3 Sanjay Dutt Agneepath 4 Saswata Chatterjee Kahaani 5 Tigmanshu Dhulia Gangs of Wasseypur Best Actor In A Supporting Role Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Anu Kapoor Vicky Donor 2 Nawazuddin Siddiqui Kahaani Talaash - The Answer Lies 3 Nawazuddin Siddiqui Within 4 Piyush Sharma Gangs of Wasseypur 5 Saurabh Shukla Barfi ! Best Actress In A Supporting Role Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Anushka Sharma Jab Tak Hai Jaan 2 Diana Penty Cocktail 3 Dolly Ahluwalia Vicky Donor 4 Gauhar Khan Ishaqzaade 5 Priya Anand English Vinglish 6 Zarina Wahab Agneepath Most Promising Debut - Male Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Arjun Kapoor Ishaqzaade 2 Ayushmann Khurrana Vicky Donor 3 Parambrata Chatterjee Kahaani 4 Siddharth Malhotra Student Of The Year 5 Varun Dhawan Student Of The Year Most Promising Debut - Female Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Alia Bhatt Student Of The Year 2 Diana Penty Cocktail Huma 3 Qureshi Gangs of Wasseypur 4 Ileana D'Cruz Barfi ! 5 Yami Gautam Vicky Donor Most Promising Debut - Director Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Arbaaz Khan Dabangg 2 2 Gauri Shinde English Vinglish 3 Karan Malhotra Agneepath 4 Rajesh Mapuskar Ferrari Ki Sawaari 5 Shakun Batra Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu Best Actor In A Leading Role Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Ayushmann Khurrana Vicky Donor 2 Hrithik Roshan Agneepath 3 Irrfan Khan Paan Singh Tomar 4 Manoj Bajpayee Gangs of Wasseypur 5 Ranbir Kapoor Barfi ! 6 Shahrukh Khan Jab Tak Hai Jaan Best Actress In A Leading Role Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Deepika Padukone Cocktail 2 Kareena Kapoor Heroine 3 Parineeti Chopra Ishaqzaade 4 Priyanka Chopra Barfi ! Sridevi Boney 5 Kapoor English Vinglish 6 Vidya Balan Kahaani Best Director Sr. No. Entries Film 1 Anurag Basu Barfi ! 2 Anurag Kashyap Gangs of Wasseypur 3 Gauri Shinde English Vinglish 4 Homi Adajania Cocktail 5 Shoojit Sircar Vicky Donor 6 Sujoy Ghosh Kahaani 7 Tigmanshu Dhulia Paan Singh Tomar Best Film Sr. No. Producers Film 1 Ashvini Yardi, Akshay Kumar & Paresh Rawal OMG - Oh My God 2 Kushal Kantilal Gada & Sujoy Ghosh Kahaani 3 Ronnie Screwvala & Siddharth Roy Kapur Barfi ! 4 Saif Ali Khan, Dinesh Vijan & Sunil Lulla Cocktail 5 Sunil Lulla, John Abraham & Ronnie Lahiri Vicky Donor 6 Sunil Lulla, R. Balki, R.K. Damani, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala & Ilana Rossein English Vinglish Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Guneet Monga, Sunil Bohra & Anurag Gangs Of 7 Kashyap Wasseypur .