West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards

West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards commonly referred as WBFJA Awards, is given by The West Bengal Film Journalists' Association.^[1] The association was founded in 2013 in Kolkata.^[2] The award show is called Cinemar Somaborton (transl. Cinema Convocation).

West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards
Current: 8th WBFJA Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in Indian Bengali cinema
Country	India
Presented by	West Bengal Film Journalists' Association
First award	2013; 12 years ago (2013)
Final award	2024
Website	WBFJA

Overview

WBFJA can be called the successors of BFJA the oldest association of film critics in India, which was founded in 1939. BFJA used to felicitate Indian Cinema every year. In 2013, the last BFJA Awards were held in Kolkata, same year as the WBFJA was founded. That was the time WBFJA decided to be the successor of BFJA by giving awards to the Bengali Cinema in particular.

In 2017, four years after establishment WBFJA decided to hold their first award ceremony and to honor the Bengali Films of the previous year. Unlike BFJA, WBFJA Awards are only for the Bengali Films.^[3] In 2018, after success of their first award show they announced the 2nd edition of WBFJA Awards.^[4] In 2019, they announced their 3rd edition.^[5]

Ceremonies

Ceremony	Year	Date	Best Film	Best Director	Best Actor	Best Actress
1st WBFJA Award	2017		Cinemawala	Kaushik Ganguly	Paran Bandopadhyay, Prosenjit Chatterjee	Rituparna Sengupta
2nd WBFJA Award	2018		Mayurakshi	Kaushik Ganguly	Soumitra Chatterjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee	Jaya Ahsan
3rd WBFJA Award	2019	13 January 2019	Pupa	Srijit Mukherji	Jisshu Sengupta	Rituparna Sengupta, Sudipta Chakraborty
4th WBFJA Award	2020	14 January 2020	Nagarkirtan	Kaushik Ganguly	Riddhi Sen	Subhashree Ganguly
5th WBFJA Award	2021-2022	16 January 2022	Borunbabur Bondhu	Anik Dutta	Parambrata Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee	Aparajita Auddy
			Binisutoy	Atanu Ghosh	Ritwick Chakraborty, Paran Bandopadhyay	Jaya Ahsan
6th WBFJA Awards	2023	8 January 2023	Dostojee, Aparajito	Anik Dutta	Dev, Ritwick Chakraborty	Gargi Roychowdhury
7th WBFJA Award	2024	14 January 2024	Shesh Pata	Atanu Ghosh	Prosenjit Chatterjee	Churni Ganguly, Swastika Mukherjee
8th WBFJA Awards	2025	12 January 2025	Manikbabur Megh	Debaloy Bhattacharya Srijit Mukherji	Chandan Sen	Rituparna Sengupta

Awards

WBFJA has 18 awards in the popular category and 8 awards in the technical category.^[6]

Popular awards

• Best Film
• Best Director
• Best Actor in a Leading Role
• Best Actress in a Leading Role
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• Best Actor in a Negative Role
• Best Actor in a Comic Role
• Best Music
• Best Male Playback Singer
• Best Female Playback Singer
• Best Background Score
• Most Promising Director
• Most Promising Actor
• Most Promising Actress
• Most Popular Film of the Year
• Most Popular Actor of the Year
• Lifetime Achievement Award

Technical awards

• Best Art Director
• Best Screenplay
• Best Cinematographer
• Best Costume Designer
• Best Sound Designer
• Best Make-Up Artist
• Best Editor
• Best Lyricist

Lifetime Achievement Award

Year	Honouree	Profession	ref
2021	Victor Banerjee	Actor	[7]
2020	Soumendu Roy	Cinematographer	[8]
2019	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Director	[9]
2018	Tarun Majumdar	Director	[10]
2017	Madhabi Mukherjee	Actress	[11]

See also

• Bengali cinema