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Colors Screen Awards

Colors Screen Awards, which is also referred as Screen Awards or Star Screen Awards are recognitions given in the form of Film Awards to Bollywood productions for their excellence, instituted by the Express Group Chairman Viveck Goenka. These awards are in existence since 1994 and the awardees are decided by a panel of juries consisting of distinguished persons in film industry.

Colors Screen Awards are presented in an illustrious function when most of the film celebrities assemble and participate every year and the awards recognize films from all the film production regions of the country, through different editions bearing different names.

History

The Colors Screen Awards were started as the Screen Awards by the Express Group Chairman Viveck Goenka in the year 1994. These awards are intended to be the honor from the Film fraternity itself to the members of the Fraternity, as opposed to other awards given in the country for the best film features. These awards are also annual awards given taking entries from the previous Calendar Year.

The Colors Screen Awards are presented in a colorful function every year for Hindi films and Marathi films, TV productions and non-film music and these function is celebrated in the month of January. These Awards come in several editions such as the Screen Weekly Awards, Screen Videocon Awards, Star Screen Awards and Colors Screen Awards.

Till the year 2001, these awards were sponsored by Videocon International and because of this these were called Screen Videocon Awards. Colors Awards for South Indian films, Screen had been conducting three editions, under the banner Screen Awards for excellence in South Indian Cinema. The awards for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada cinema come under this Edition.

These ceremonies are telecasted in a presentable manner in prime time slots and even hours together on specific dates with illustrious hosts anchoring the function.

Awards

Jury Awards is the category covering the recognition of Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Villain, Best Comedian, Best Music Director, Best Lyricist, Best Male Playback, Best Female Playback, Most Promising Newcomer – Male, Most Promising Newcomer – Female.
Popular Choice Awards cover the Best Actor andBest Actress categories.

Technical Awards offer recognition of the Best Story, Best Screenplay, Best Dialogue, Best Background Music, Best Editing, Special Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Action, Best Cinematography, Best Choreography and Best Sound Design.

Special Awards is a category which is specially meant for

  • Lifetime Achievement
  • Jodi No. 1
  • Best Actor (Critics)
  • Best Actress (Critics)
  • Best Child Artist

Special Jury Award is another important category, which recognizes the Entertainer of the Year, Best Animation Film, Best Film in English, Screen Award Best Jodi of Decade etc.

Among the Special Jury Awards significant ones are

  • Screen Award for Showman of the Millennium given to  Raj Kapoor  in the year 2002
  • Screen Award for Best Performer of The Year given to  Ekta Kapoor in 2012
  • Screen Legend of Indian Cinema Award - Amitabh Bachchan in the year 2013

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