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Star Screen Awards
Star Screen Awards, also called Screen Awards and Colors Screen Award, is a film award institution organized by the Express Group Chairman Mr. Vivek Goenka. This initiative came to force in 1994 and it is intended to encourage film professionals in Bollywood by recognizing them for their best performance in a particular year.
The nomination entries and award selection are vested with an independent panel of Jury consisting distinguished professionals in the film industry and film critics in the Society.
Awards Presentation Editions
The Star Screen Awards function is held in Mumbai when Hindi and Marathi films, TV and non-film music are recognized. This annually held glittering function is conducted in January each year, which has sessions to present the awards different editions, such as the Screen Weekly Awards, Screen Videocon Awards, Star Screen Awards, and Colors Screen Awards.
During the initial period, these awards were given in collaboration with Videocon International and therefore, it had its nomenclature as Screen Videocon Award. Likewise, Star Screen Awards were presented to regional Cinema too, such as Screen Awards for excellence in South Indian Cinema. This edition of Star Screen Awards was covering the films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
These awards are also telecasted under the banner Colors Screen Awards and its 18th and 19th editions were held in 2012 and 2013 in the month of January. The cine celebrity Shahrukh Khan was the host for 2012 Star Screen Awards festival
Distinguished Awards
Star Screen Awards are conferred on best performers in every aspect of film production, every category from Film, Director, Actor and many other participants of a film in technical and art work categories are covered in these awards.
The Star Screen Awards also marks those who have won the awards repeatedly by their consistent performance in the field, such as
- 3 Idiots recognized as a single film getting 10 awards
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali getting 3 awards, Rakesh Roshan and Ashutosh Gowariker with 2 awards each as Directors
- Shahrukh Khan (6), Hrithik Roshan (4), Amitabh Bachchan (2), Ajay Devgan (2), Ranbir Kapoor (2) ,Salman Khan (2) as those getting most acting Awards among Males
- Vidya Balan (4), Madhuri Dixit (3), Aishwarya Rai (3), Kareena Kapoor (3), Kajol (2), Rani Mukherjee (2), Katrina Kaif (2) as most awarded Actresses
- A R Rahman (5), Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (3), Rajesh Roshan (2), Nadeem-Shravan (2) as the Most awarded Music Directors
- Javed Akhtar (5), Anand Bakshi(3), Prasoon Joshi (3), Gulzar (3) as Most awarded Lyricists
- Sonu Nigam (3), Udit Narayan (2) Sukhwinder Singh (2), Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (2) as Most awarded Male Playback singers
- Shreya Ghoshal (5), Kavita Krishnamurthy (2), Alka Yagnik (2), Sunidhi Chauhan (2) as the Most awarded Female Playback Singers.
Besides the above, Star Screen Awards honored distinguished personalities of the industry with Awards such as, Screen Award for Showman of the Millennium was given to Raj Kapoor (2012) posthumously, Screen Award for Best Performer of The Year was conferred on Ekta Kapoor (2012) and Screen Legend of Indian Cinema Award was presented to Amitabh Bachchan (2013).
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