Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress

Superlatives

• Two actresses have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Manisha Koirala and Tabu.
• Manisha Koirala is the only actress who has won the award for a non-Hindi film. She won her first award in 1996 for the Tamil film Bombay, which was dubbed in Hindi.
• Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor are the only siblings who have both won the award.
• There has been a tie in 2003 and 2020. In 2003 Manisha Koirala and Rani Mukerji were both given the award. In 2020 Taapsee Pannu and Bhumi Pednekar won this award for the same film which is Saand Ki Aankh.
• Neena Gupta is the eldest recipient, winning the award for Badhaai Ho at age 59.
• Zaira Wasim is the youngest recipient, winning the award for Secret Superstar at age 17.
• Eight actresses have won the Best Actress awards in both the popular and critics categories; in chronological order, they are Dimple Kapadia, Karisma Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and Alia Bhatt.
• Rani Mukerji is the only actress to win both Best Actress Critics and Popular awards during the same year for Black.
• Nine actresses have won the award without receiving a Best Actress nomination. In chronological order they are: Farida Jalal for Mammo, Manisha Koirala for Bombay and Company, Shefali Shah for Satya, Kareena Kapoor for Dev, Tabu for Cheeni Kum, Shahana Goswami for Rock On!!, Mahi Gill for Dev.D, Richa Chadda for Gangs of Wasseypur and Shilpa Shukla for B.A. Pass. Among these, Shah, Goswami and Chadda were nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Award.
• Kareena Kapoor Khan, Kangana Ranaut, and Priyanka Chopra, have all won acting awards for Best Female Debut, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress Popular and Best Actress Critics.
• Rani Mukerji, Karisma Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia have won Best Actress Popular and Best Supporting Actress.
• Kangana Ranaut won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in and Sonam Kapoor won the National Film Award - Special Jury Award / Special Mention for Neerja.

  Multiple nominees

• 5 Nominations: Tabu
• 3 Nominations: Manisha Koirala, Kangana Ranaut
• 2 Nominations: Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Alia Bhatt, Taapsee Pannu, Radhika Madan, Bhumi Pednekar

  Multiple Winners

• 4 Wins: Tabu
• 3 Wins: Manisha Koirala
• 2 Wins: Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor

  List of winners

Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance

1990s

• 1991

• 1992

• 1993 Dimple Kapadia as Shanichari – Rudaali
• 1994

• 1995 Farida Jalal as Mammo – Mammo
• 1996 Manisha Koirala as Shaila Banu – Bombay
• 1997 Manisha Koirala as Annie Braganza –

  Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress

• 1998 Tabu as Gehna – Virasat
• 1999 Shefali Shah as Pyari Mhatre – Satya

  2000s

• 2000 Tabu as Panna – Hu Tu Tu
• 2001 Tabu as Aditi Pandit – Astitva
• 2002 Karisma Kapoor as Zubeidaa Suleiman Seth – Zubeidaa
• 2003 Manisha Koirala as Saroja – Company Rani Mukerji as Suhani Sharma – Saathiya
• 2004 Urmila Matondkar as Swati – Bhoot
• 2005 Kareena Kapoor as Aaliya – Dev
• 2006 Rani Mukerji as Michelle McNally – Black
• 2007 Kareena Kapoor as Dolly Mishra – Omkara
• 2008 Tabu as Nina Verma – Cheeni Kum
• 2009 Shahana Goswami as Debbie Mascarenhas – Rock On!!

  2010s

• 2010 Mahi Gill as Parminder 'Paro' – Dev.D
• 2011 Vidya Balan as Krishna Verma – Ishqiya
• 2012 Priyanka Chopra as Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes – 7 Khoon Maaf
• 2013 Richa Chadda as Nagma Khatun – Gangs of Wasseypur
• 2014 Shilpa Shukla as Sarika – B.A. Pass
• 2015 Alia Bhatt as Veera Tripathi – Highway
• 2016 Kangana Ranaut Tanuja Trivedi and Kumari Kusum Sangwan – Tanu Weds Manu Returns
• 2017 Sonam Kapoor as Neerja Bhanot – Neerja
• 2018 Zaira Wasim as Insia Malik – Secret Superstar
• *Kangana Ranaut - Rangoon as Julia
• *Sridevi – Mom as Devki Sabarwal
• *Swara Bhaskar - Anaarkali of Aarah as Anaarkali
• *Vidya Balan – Tumhari Sulu as Sulochana Dubey
• 2019 Neena Gupta as Priyamvada Kaushik - Badhaai Ho
• *Anushka Sharma - Sui Dhaaga as Mamta Sharma
• *Alia Bhatt – Raazi as Sehmat Khan
• *Radhika Madan - Pataakha as Champa 'Badki' Kumari
• *Taapsee Pannu - Mulk as Aarti Malhotra/Mohammed
• *Tabu – Andhadhun'' as Simi

  2020s

• '2020 Bhumi Pednekar and Taapsee Pannu - Saand Ki Aankh as Chandro Tomar and Prakashi Tomar
• Bhumi Pednekar – Sonchiriya as Indumati Tomar
• Kangana Ranaut – Judgementall Hai Kya as Bobby
• Radhika Madan – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota as Supriya 'Supri'
• Sanya Malhotra – Photograph'' as Miloni Shah