Awards’ list of Salaam Bombay

Salaam Bombay was a wonderful Bollywood movie which was released in 1988. It was directed by Mira Nair. The movie was screenwritten by Sooni Taraporevala. The film mainly revolved around the street children of Bombay (now Mumbai). The movie belonged to a very unique genre and received many awards.


It was the second movie of India to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Here we present you the list of awards bagged by Salaam Bombay

Salaam Bombay won.

1988: Audience Award, Cannes Film Festival
1988: Golden Camera, Cannes Film Festival
1988: National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi
1988: National Film Award for Best Child Artist: Shafiq Syed [1]
1988: National Board of Review Awards: Top Foreign Film
1988 : Lilian Gish Award Excellence in Feature Film, Los Angeles Women in Film Festival (tied with Elysium)
1988: Jury Prize, Montréal World Film Festival (tied with The Dawning)
1988: Most Popular Film, Montréal World Film Festival
1988: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Montréal World Film Festival

Salaam Bombay was nominated for

1989: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1990: BAFTA Film Award Best Film not in the English Language
1989: César Award for Best Foreign Film
1990: Filmfare Best Director Award
1989: Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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Best Directors at Filmfare Awards

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The Filmfare Best Director Award is one of the Popular Award presented by the magazine Filmfare to the directors working in the Indian film Industry. It is a part of the magazine's annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films and was first presented in 1954 in the inaugral year.


Bimal Roy leads the winners with seven Best Director Filmfare awards, followed by Raj Kapoor and Yash Chopra, with four in kitty. Chopra has the most nominations, 12, followed by Roy with 7, and Raj Kapoor, Gulzar, Subhash Ghai and Mahesh Bhatt with 6 nominations each.

Sai Paranjpye is the only woman to have ever won the Best Director award. She won it for Sparsh in 1985. Paranjpye had earlier been nominated for Chashme Buddoor in 1982. Other women directors to have been nominated are Mira Nair for Salaam Bombay! in 1990 and Farah Khan for Main Hoon Na in 2005 and for Om Shanti Om in 2008.

Bimal Roy also has the distinction of winning the award thrice in a row, on two separate occasions (1954-1956 and 1959-1961). Mahesh Bhatt is the only other director to have been nominated thrice in a row (1984-1986). Also, no director has ever won if he/she has been nominated twice in the same year - Gulzar in 1974, Basu Chatterjee in 1977 and Hrishikesh Mukherjee in 1980.