Filmfare Awards (Best Actress Category) - Rare Facts

Actress with Most Awards Nutan, with five wins, has more Best Actress wins than any other actress.Nutan is also the oldest winner of the Filmfare Award.She won it for films like Seema, Sujata, Bandini,Milan and Mein Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki.



However, the oldest nominee is Sharmila Tagore. The youngest nominee and winner of the award is Dimple Kapadia who was nominated when she was as young as 16 years.



Actress with Most Nominations Madhuri Dixit has 13 nominations to her credit.She has won the award four times alongwith Meena Kumari and Kajol.

Actress with Most Nominations without ever winning Tabu, Manisha Koirala with some 5 nominations.

Actress with Most Nominations in the same year Shabana Azmi has 4 to her credit.

Seven actresses have won the award twice; in chronological order, they are Waheeda Rehman, Dimple Kapadia, Rekha, Sridevi, Karisma Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai, and Rani Mukerji.

Four actresses have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Meena Kumari (1954-55), Jaya Bhaduri (1974-75), Shabana Azmi (1984-85), Rani Mukerji (2005-06).

There has been only one tie in the history of this category. This occurred in 1974 when Jaya Bhaduri and Dimple Kapadia were both given the award.



Only once have siblings been nominated for the Best Actress Award during the same year: Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor in 2002.

In 1962, Meena Kumari was the only nominee, nominated three times, for Aarti, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, and Main Chup Rahungi.