4th Filmfare Awards

The 4th Filmfare Awards were held on 5 May 1957, in Bombay, honoring the best films in Hindi cinema for the year 1956.^[1][2][3]

4th Filmfare Awards
Date	5 May 1957
Site	Bombay
Highlights
Best Film	Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje
Best Actor	Dilip Kumar for Devdas
Best Actress	Nutan for Seema
Most awards	Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (4)
Most nominations	Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (4)
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Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje led the ceremony with 4 nominations, followed by Devdas with 3 nominations, and C.I.D., Seema and Shree 420 with 2 nominations each.

Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje won 4 awards, including Best Film and Best Director (for V. Shantaram), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

While most of the nominated films were released in 1956, the films which won most of the main awards were 1955 releases. Devdas, Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje, Seema and Shree 420 were 1955 films, but were not considered for the 3rd Filmfare Awards.

For the first time in the history of Filmfare Awards did a winner refuse to accept their award – Vyjayanthimala, who won Best Supporting Actress for Devdas, declined her award as she thought that her role was not supporting and was equally important as that film's other female lead, Suchitra Sen.

Nutan won her first of five Best Actress awards for her performance in Seema.

Main Awards

V. Shantaram, Best Director

Motilal, Best Supporting Actor

Vyjayanthimala, Best Supporting Actress

Shankar-Jaikishan, Best Music Director

Best Film	Best Director
Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje – Rajkamal Kala Mandir – V. Shantaram	V. Shantaram – Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje
Best Actor	Best Actress
Dilip Kumar – Devdas as Devdas Mukherjee Raj Kapoor – Jagte Raho as Peasant	Nutan – Seema as Gauri
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Motilal – Devdas as Chunni Babu Johnny Walker – C.I.D. as Master	Vyjayanthimala – Devdas as Chandramukhi
Best Music Director	Best Story
Shankar–Jaikishan – Chori Chori O. P. Nayyar – C.I.D.	Amiya Chakravarty – Seema

Technical awards

Best Editing	Best Cinematography
G. G. Mayekar – Shree 420	Radhu Karmakar – Shree 420
Best Art Direction	Best Sound Design
Kanu Desai – Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje	A. K. Parmar – Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje

Superlatives

The following films had multiple wins and/or multiple nominations

Movie	Awards	Nominations
Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje	4	4
Devdas	3	3
Seema	2	2
Shree 420
C.I.D.	0

See also

• 11th Filmfare Awards
• 9th Filmfare Awards
• Filmfare Awards

References

1. The Times Group (5 May 1957). "Dilip Kumar". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
2. "The Winners 1956". The Times of India. Retrieved 23 February 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}
3. "The Nominations – 1956". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2012.

External links

• Winners and nominations of 4th Filmfare Awards at Internet Movie Database