14th Screen Awards explained

Number:	14
Award:	Screen Awards
Date:	10 January 2008
Site:	Bandra Kurla Complex Ground, Mumbai
Host:	Sajid Khan
Best Picture:	Chak De! India
Best Direction:	Shimit Amin and Aamir Khan
Best Direction Film:	(Chak De! India and Taare Zameen Par)
Best Actor:	Shah Rukh Khan
Best Actor Film:	(Chak De! India)
Best Actress:	Kareena Kapoor
Best Actress Film:	(Jab We Met)
Most Wins:	Taare Zameen Par (7)
Most Nominations:	Taare Zameen Par (16)
Channel:	StarPlus
Network:	Disney Star
Last:	13th
Next:	15th

The 14th Screen Awards also The Nokia 14th Annual Screen Awards ceremony, presented by Indian Express Group, honored the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2007. The ceremony was held on 10 January 2008 at Bandra Kurla Complex Ground, Mumbai.^[1] Hosted by Sajid Khan,^[2] it was telecasted on 27 January 2008 on StarPlus.^[3]

Taare Zameen Par led the ceremony with 16 nominations, followed by Guru and Life in a... Metro with 14 nominations each and Chak De! India with 12 nominations.

Taare Zameen Par won 7 awards, including Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (both for Aamir Khan), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Awards

The winners and nominees have been listed below. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger .^[4] ^[5] ^[6]

Main Awards

Best Film	Best Director
*Chak De! India* Guru Life in a... Metro Om Shanti Om Taare Zameen Par	Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par Shimit Amin – Chak De! India Anurag Basu – Life in a... Metro Farah Khan – Om Shanti Om Mani Ratnam – Guru
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India* as Hockey Coach Kabir Khan** Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant "Guru" Desai Akshaye Khanna – Gandhi, My Father as Harilal Gandhi Amitabh Bachchan – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadeb Gupta Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap	*Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met* as Geet Dhillon** Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – Guru as Sujata "Suju" Desai Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par* as Ram Shankar Nikumbh** Darshan Jariwala – Gandhi, My Father as Mahatma Gandhi Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manikdas Dasgupta Sharman Joshi – Life in a... Metro as Rahul Vipin Sharma – Taare Zameen Par as Nandkishore "Nandu" Awasthi	*Chak De*	Girls – Chak De! India as Various Konkona Sen Sharma – Life in a... Metro as Shruti Ghosh Shefali Shah – Gandhi, My Father as Kasturba Gandhi Tisca Chopra – Taare Zameen Par as Maya Awasthi
Best Actor in a Negative Role – Male / Female	Best Actor in a Comic Role – Male / Female
Pankaj Kapur – The Blue Umbrella as Nandkishore "Nandu" Khatri Arjun Rampal – Om Shanti Om as Mukesh "Mike" Mehra Pavan Malhotra – Black Friday as Tiger Memon Vivek Oberoi – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Mahindra "Maya" Dolas	Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar "Majnu" Pandey Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary Nana Patekar – Welcome as Uday Shankar Shetty Vinay Pathak – Bheja Fry as Ranjeet Thadani
Best Child Artist	Most Promising Debut Director
Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi Ali Haji – Ta Ra Rum Pum as Ranvir "Champ" Singh Angelina Idnani – Ta Ra Rum Pum as Priya "Princess" Singh Dhruv Piyush Panjuani – Apna Asmaan as Buddhi Kumar and Aryabhatta Shreya Sharma – The Blue Umbrella as Biniya	Aamir Khan – Taare Zameen Par Feroz Abbas Khan – Gandhi, My Father R. Balki – Cheeni Kum Reema Kagti – Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. Sajid Khan – Heyy Babyy
Most Promising Newcomer – Male	Most Promising Newcomer – Female
*Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya* as Raj** Neil Nitin Mukesh – Johnny Gaddaar as Johnny	*Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om* as Shantipriya/Sandhya "Sandy" Bansal** Sonam Kapoor – Saawariya as Sakina
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
A. R. Rahman – Guru Monty Sharma – Saawariya Pritam – Life in a... Metro Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Taare Zameen Par	Prasoon Joshi – "Maa" – Taare Zameen Par Gulzar – "Bol Na Halke Halke" – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Sameer Anjaan – "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya Sayeed Quadri – "In Dino" – Life in a... Metro
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Soham Chakrabarty – "In Dino" – Life in a... Metro KK – "Aankhon Mein Teri" – Om Shanti Om Shaan – "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya Shankar Mahadevan – "Maa" – Taare Zameen Par Shankar Mahadevan – "Taare Zameen Par" – Taare Zameen Par	Shreya Ghoshal – "Barso Re" – Guru Chinmayi – "Tere Bina" – Guru Shreya Ghoshal – "Yeh Ishq Haye" – Jab We Met Sunidhi Chauhan – "Sajnaji Vaari" – Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.

Technical Awards

! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Story	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Screenplay
Amole Gupte – *Taare Zameen Par* Anurag Basu – Life in a... Metro Feroz Abbas Khan – Gandhi, My Father Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India	Anurag Basu – *Life in a... Metro* Amole Gupte – Taare Zameen Par Anurag Kashyap – Black Friday Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Dialogue	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Background Music
Amole Gupte – *Taare Zameen Par* Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India Sanjiv Dutta – Life in a... Metro Vijay Krishna Acharya – Guru	A. R. Rahman – Guru^[7] Raju Singh – Life in a... Metro Salim–Sulaiman – Chak De! India Sandeep Chowta – Om Shanti Om Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy – Taare Zameen Par
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Editing	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Cinematography
Amitabh Shukla – *Chak De! India* Aarti Bajaj – Black Friday Akiv Ali – Life in a... Metro Bunty Nagi – Shootout at Lokhandwala Pooja Ladha Surti – Johnny Gaddaar	Sudeep Chatterjee – *Chak De! India* Bobby Singh – Life in a... Metro Natarajan Subramaniam – Rajiv Menon – Guru Ravi K. Chandran – Saawariya
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Art Direction	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Sound Design
Nitin Chandrakant Desai – *Gandhi, My Father* Gautam Sen – Khoya Khoya Chand Omung Kumar – Saawariya Sabu Cyril – Guru Sabu Cyril – Om Shanti Om	Bishwadeep Chatterjee – Baylon Fonseca – Shootout at Lokhandwala H. Sridhar – Guru Hari Dwarak & Madhu Apsara – Johnny Gaddaar Manas Choudhury & Ali Merchant – Chak De! India
! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Best Choreography	! style="background:#eedd82;text-align:center;"	Best Action
Farah Khan – "Dhoom Taana" – *Om Shanti Om* Ganesh Hegde & Pappu Mallu – "Yun Shabnami" – Saawariya Saroj Khan – "Barso Re" – Guru Vaibhavi Merchant – "Aaja Nachle" – Aaja Nachle Vaibhavi Merchant – "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" – Jhoom Barabar Jhoom	Tinu Verma – *Apne* Abbas Ali Moghul – Awarapan Anthony Stone – Cash Javed Ejaz – Shootout at Lokhandwala
! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;" colspan="2"	Best Special Effects (Visual)
Red Chillies VFX – *Om Shanti Om* Red Chillies VFX – Chak De! India Tata Elxsi – Taare Zameen Par

Critics' Awards

! style="background:#eedd82; text-align:center;"	Critics Best Actor – Male	! style="background:#EEDD82;text-align:center;"	Critics Best Actor – Female
*Amitabh Bachchan – Cheeni Kum* as Buddhadev Gupta**	*Tabu – Cheeni Kum* as Nina Verma**

Special awards

Lifetime Achievement Award
Manoj Kumar
Ramnath Goenka Award
Rahul Dholakia – *Parzania*
Jodi No. 1
Shah Rukh Khan & Deepika Padukone (Om Shanti Om)

Superlatives

Multiple nominations! Nominations !! Film
16	Taare Zameen Par
14	Guru
14	Life in a... Metro
12	Chak De! India
10	Om Shanti Om
8	Saawariya
6	Gandhi, My Father
6	Jab We Met
5	Cheeni Kum
4	Shootout at Lokhandwala
3	Black Friday
	Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
	Johnny Gaddaar
2
	Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.
	Ta Ra Rum Pum
	The Blue Umbrella
	Welcome

Multiple wins! Awards !! Film
7	Taare Zameen Par
6	Chak De! India
4	Om Shanti Om
3	Guru
3	Life in a... Metro
2	Cheeni Kum

External links

The Screen Awards (2008) at the Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

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Web site: Jan 10 to be Mumbai's most glittering night . The Indian Express . 9 January 2008 . 25 May 2022.
Web site: Screen awards: Cinema's finest fill the night . The Financial Express . 11 January 2008 . 25 May 2022.
News: Nominees for 14th Annual Screen Awards. 2 January 2008. Bollywood Hungama. 25 May 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20090429081517/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/features/2008/01/02/3422/index.html. 29 April 2009. IndiaFM News Bureau.
News: Winners of 14th Annual Star Screen Awards. 11 January 2008. Bollywood Hungama. 25 May 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20111023075703/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/features/2008/01/11/3466/index.html. 23 October 2011. Bollywood Hungama News Network.
Web site: From taare zameen par to stars on stage, cinema's finest awards fill the glittering night . The Indian Express . 11 January 2008 . 25 May 2022.
Web site: The winning bonds . The Indian Express . 24 January 2008 . 25 May 2022.