Nominations for Nokia 16th Annual Star Screen Awards 2009

Best Film
3 Idiots
Dev D
Kaminey
Love Aaj Kal
Paa

Best Director
Anurag Kashyap - Dev D
Imtiaz Ali - Love Aaj Kal
R Balki - Paa
Rajkumar Hirani - 3 Idiots
Vishal Bhardwaj - Kaminey

Best Actor (Male)
Aamir Khan - 3 Idiots
Amitabh Bachchan - Paa
Ranbir Kapoor - Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Ranbir Kapoor - Rocket Singh - Salesman Of The Year
Saif Ali Khan - Love Aaj Kal
Shahid Kapoor - Kaminey

Best Actor (Female)
Deepika Padukone - Love Aaj Kal
Kareena Kapoor - 3 Idiots
Katrina Kaif - New York
Priyanka Chopra - Kaminey
Priyanka Chopra - What's Your Raashee?
Vidya Balan - Paa

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)
Abhimanyu Singh - Gulaal
R Madhavan - 3 Idiots
Rishi Kapoor - Love Aaj Kal
Rishi Kapoor - Luck By Chance
Sharman Joshi - 3 Idiots

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
Arundhati Naag - Paa
Divya Dutta - Delhi-6
Gauhar Khan - Rocket Singh - Salesman Of The Year
Neha Dhupia - Raat Gayi Baat Gayi
Shahana Goswami - Firaaq

Best Actor in a Negative Role
Amole Gupte - Kaminey
Boman Irani - 3 Idiots
Kay Kay Menon - Gulaal
Mahesh Manjrekar - Wanted
Manish Choudhary - Rocket Singh - Salesman Of The Year

Best Actor in a Comic Role
D Santosh - Rocket Singh - Salesman Of The Year
Omi Vaidya - 3 Idiots
Paresh Rawal - De Dana Dan
Sanjay Mishra - All The Best
Vinay Pathak - Raat Gayi Baat Gayi

Best Background Music
Amit Trivedi - Dev D
Ilaiyaraja - Paa
Salim-Sulaiman - Rocket Singh - Salesman Of The Year
Shantanu Moitra, Atul Raninga, Sanjay Wandrekar - 3 Idiots
Vishal Bhardwaj - Kaminey

Best Music
A R Rahman - Delhi-6
Pritam - Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Pritam - Love Aaj Kal
Pritam - Tum Mile
Vishal Bhardwaj - Kaminey

Best Playback Singer Female
Kavita Seth - Iktara - Wake Up Sid
Rekha Bhardwaj - Genda Phool - Delhi-6
Shreya Ghoshal - Zoobi Doobi - 3 Idiots
Shilpa Rao - Mudi Mudi - Paa
Sunidhi Chauhan - Mere Sang - New York

Best Lyrics
Amitabh Bhattacharya - Emosanal Attyachaar - Dev D
Irshad Kamil - Chor Bazari - Love Aaj Kal
Javed Akhtar - Sapnon Se Bhare Naina - Luck By Chance
Piyush Mishra - Ranaji - Gulaal
Prasoon Joshi - Man Ko Ati Bhavey - London Dreams

Best Story
Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani - 3 Idiots
Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Malhotra, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Sanjay Maurya - Gulaal
Imtiaz Ali - Love Aaj Kal
Nandita Das, Shuchi Kothari - Firaaq
R Balki - Paa

Best Screenplay
Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra - 3 Idiots
Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane - Dev D
Imtiaz Ali - Love Aaj Kal
Pankaj Advani - Sankat City
R Balki - Paa

Best Dialogue
Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani - 3 Idiots
Imtiaz Ali - Love Aaj Kal
Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane - Dev D
R Balki - Paa
Vishal Bhardwaj - Kaminey

Best Editing
Aarti Bajaj - Dev D
Aarti Bajaj - Love Aaj Kal
Anil Naidu - Paa
Meghna Manchanda Sen, Sreekar Prasad - Kaminey
Rajkumar Hirani - 3 Idiots

Best Sound
Bishwadeep Chatterjee, Nihar Ranjan Samel - 3 Idiots
Dileep Subramaniam - Love Aaj Kal
Sanjay Maurya, Allwin Rego - Dev D
Shajith Koyeri, Subhash Sahu, P M Satheesh - Kaminey
Tapas Nayak - Paa

Best Special Effects
Charles Darby - Aladin
Prime Focus Ltd - Blue

Best Cinematography
C.K. Muraleedharan - 3 Idiots
P.C. Sreeram - Paa
Rajeev Ravi - Dev D
Shankar Raman - Frozen
Tassaduq Hussain - Kaminey

Best Art Directon
Acropolis, Rajnish Hedaa, Sumit, Snigdha Basu - 3 Idiots
Sabu Cyril - Aladin
Samir Chanda - Delhi-6
Samir Chanda - Kaminey
Sukanta Panigrahy, Helen Jones - Dev D

Best Choreography
Ahmed Khan - Prem Ki Naiiyya - Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Avit Dias - Aal Izz Well - 3 Idiots
Bosco- Caesar - Zoobi Doobi - 3 Idiots
Prasanna - Marjaani - Billu
Baawre - Vaibhavi Merchant - Luck By Chance

Best Action
James D Bomalick - Blue
Huan-Chiu Ku - Chandni Chowk To China
Shyam Kaushal - Kaminey
Tinu Verma - Acid Factory
Vijayan Master - Wanted

Most Promising Newcomer (Male)
Amole Gupte - Kaminey
Chandan Roy Sanyal - Kaminey
Navin Kaushik - Rocket Singh - Salesman Of The Year
Omi Vaidya - 3 Idiots

Most Promising Newcomer (Female)
Gauhar Khan - Rocket Singh - Salesman Of The Year
Giselle Monteiro - Love Aaj Kal
Jesse Randhawa - Gulaal
Kalki Koechlin - Dev D
Mahie Gill - Dev D

Most Promising Debut Director
Ayan Mukerji - Wake Up Sid
Nandita Das - Firaaq
Pankaj Advani - Sankat City
Shivajee Chandrabhushan - Frozen
Zoya Akhtar - Luck By Chance

Best Child Artiste
Jahan Bativala - Little Zizou
Iyanah Bativala - Little Zizou
Rahul Kumar - 3 Idiots
Parzan Dastur- Sikandar
Pratik Katare - Paa

Best Ensemble Cast
Delhi-6
Firaaq
Gulaal
Luck By Chance
Sankat City