Dadasaheb Phalke Awards 2018: Akshay, Sonam among the list of winners

Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation award is one of the most prestigious awards in Indian cinema and is the highest official recognition for film personalities in the country.

This year, the winners are Akshay Kumar for Best actor in a leading role for Padman and Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, Sonam Kapoor for Best actress in a leading role for Pad Man, R. Balki best Director for Padman.

The list of other winners include Bhumi Pednekar, Shree Narayan Singh Armaan Malik, Neeti Mohan, Amit Sadh, Sanjay Mishra, Aditya Narayan Jha, Konkana Sen, Maniesh Paul, Kainaat Arora, Bhumi Trivedi, Aruna Bhatia, Shital Bhatia, Virendra Arora, Twinkle Khanna, Piyu Chohan, Siddharth Kannan, Arshi Khan, Sandip Marwah, Luv Ranjan, Nusrat Bharuch, Ishita Raj Sharma, Amjad Bagadwa, Farida Jalal. Apart from the mainstream awards, 22 Technical Awards will be presented to the technicians. Certificate of appreciation will be awarded to Eco Fashion Designer Nidhi Bhardwaj and Swati Mehrotra for Best Footwear Designer. 

The awards ceremony will see live performances by Kainaat Arora, Arshi Khan, Piyu Chouhan, Arvind Neel Waghela, Santok Singh and many more. 

Dadasaheb Phalke - The father of Indian cinema who had brought revolution to the Indian film industry. The film fraternity owes its evolution and success to the great Dadasaheb Phalke.  The main aim of these awards is to honor artist, technicians for their contribution toward the industry.

Dadasaheb Phalke film foundation awards is the only awards supported by Federation of western India Cine employees (FWIC) show is executed by Glocal Thinkers. These are the only awards which felicitate the technicians and is nominated and voted by 27 prominent film association across the country.