On April 26th in London, England, the winners of the Zee Cine Awards will be announced. The nominees for the categories are:
Best Film
Chak De India – Aditya Chopra, Yash Raj Films
Guru – Mani Ratnam, G. Srinivasan
Jab We Met – Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Pvt. Ltd.
Life in a Metro – Ronnie Screwvalla, UTV Motion Pictures
Om Shanti Om – Shah Rukh Khan, Red Chillies Entertainment
Taare Zameen Par – Aamir Khan, Aamir Khan Productions
Best Director
Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par
Anurag Basu – Life in a Metro
Farah Khan – Om Shanti Om
Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met
Mani Ratnam – Guru
Shamit Amin – Chak De India
Best Actor (Male)
Abhishek Bachchan – Guru
Akshay Kumar – Namastey London
Amitabh Bachchan – Cheeni Kum
Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De India
Shah Rukh Khan – Om Shanti Om
Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met
Best Actor (Female)
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan- Guru
Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om
Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met
Katrina Kaif – Namaste London
Tabu – Cheeni Kum
Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyya
Most Popular Track Of The Year
‘Barso Re’ – Guru
‘Dard-E-Disco’ – Om Shanti Om
‘Do You Wanna Partner’ – Partner
‘Hare Ram Hare Krishna’ – Bhool Bhulaiya
‘In Dino’ – Life In A Metro
‘Mauja Hi Mauja’ – Jab We Met
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Male)
Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par
Bobby Deol – Naqaab
Irrfan Khan – Life In A.. Metro
Mithun Chakraborty – Guru
Shreyas Talpade – Om Shanti Om
Best Actor In A Supporting Role (Female)
Chitrashi – Chak De India
Konkona Sen Sharma – Life In A.. Metro
Lara Dutta – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Shilpa Shetty – Life In A.. Metro
Tisca Chopra – Taare Zameen Par
Best Actor In A Negative Role (Male/Female)
Vivek Oberoi – Shootout At Lokhandwala
Arjun Rampal – Om Shanti Om
Neil Nitin Mukesh – Johnny Gaddar
Pawan Malhotra – Black Friday
Shilpa Shukla – Chak De India
Best Actor In A Comic Role (Male/Female)
Anil Kapoor – Welcome
Nana Patekar – Welcome
Riteish Deshmukh – Heyy Baby
Tusshar Kapoor – Dhol
Vinay Pathak – Bheja Fry
Best Playback Singer (Male)
KK – ‘Aankhon Mein Teri’ Om Shanti Om
Shaan – ‘Jab Se Tere Naina’ Saawariya
Soham – ‘In Dino’ Life In A.. Metro
Sukhwinder Singh, Salim Merchant & Marianna D Cruz – ‘Kuchh Kariye’ Chak De India
Sonu Nigam – ‘Main Agar Kahoon’ Om Shanti Om
Best Playback Singer (Female)
Mahalaxmi Iyer – ‘Bolna Halke’ Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Mahalaxmi Iyer – ‘Salaam-e-Ishq’ Salaam-e-Ishq
Shreya Ghosal – ‘Barso Re Megha’ Guru
Shreya Ghosal – ‘Yeh Ishq’ Jab We Met
Sunidhi Chauhan – ‘Sajnaji Vaari Vaari’ Honeymoon Travels P Ltd
Best Lyrics
Gulzar – ‘Tere Bina’ Guru
Javed Akhtar – ‘Main Agar Kahoon’ Om Shanti Om
Prasoon Joshi – ‘Maa’ Taare Zameen Par
Sameer – ‘Jab Se Tere Naina’ Saawariya
Sayeed Quadri – ‘In Dino’ Life In A.. Metro
Best Music
A R Rahman – Guru
Pritam – Life in a Metro
Pritam, Sandesh Shandilya – Jab We Met
Sajid-Wajid – Partner
Vishal-Shekhar – Om Shanti Om
Most Promising Debut Director
Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par
Feroz Abbas Khan – Gandhi My Father
R Balakrishna – Cheeni Kum
Reema Kagti – Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd
Sajid Khan – Heyy Babyy
Most Promising Debut (Male)
Himesh Reshammiya – Aap Ka Suroor
Neil Nitin Mukesh – Johnny Gaddar
Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya
Most Promising Debut (Female)
Sonam Kapoor – Saawariya
Jiah Khan – Nishabd
Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om
Most Promising Debut (Child Artiste)
Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par
Druv Piyush Panjuani – Apna Aasmaan
Swini Khera – Cheeni Kum
We will continue our series on predicting who will win and of course will report who took home the trophies so be sure to check back here for all the Zee Cine awards news!!