Critics' Choice Film Awards 2020 nominations: Gully Boy, Article 15 compete for best film; Nivin Pauly, Mammootty get best actor nods

While the first edition of Critics'  Choice Film Awards witnessed the best film category for varied languages, for the second season the makers have upped the ante by introducing Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Film as well as Best Writing across Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati and Kannada. This year, India’s official entry to Oscars 2020 Gully Boy has scored a nod for the Best Film category. Abhishek Chaubey’s underappreciated dacoit drama Sonchiriya is also nominated in various categories. Virus, Unda, Helen_, Jallikattu,_ Kumbalangi Nights are nominated in the Best Malalyam Film category. National Award winning Gujarati movie Hellaro has secured nominations for best film, actor, writing among others. Critics’ Choice Film Awards 2020 will take place on 14 March. Check out the full list of nominations here Hindi: Best Actor (Male) Ranveer Singh- Gully Boy Manoj Bajpayee- Sonchiriya Gulshan Devaiah- Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota Ayushmann Khurrana- Article 15 Nawazuddin Siddiqui- Photograph Best Actor (Female): Kangana Ranaut- Judgementall Hai Kya Geetika Vidya Ohlyan- Soni Sanya Malhotra- Photograph Bhumi Pednekar- Saand Ki Aankh Yami Gautam- Bala Best Director: Vasan Bala- Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota Zoya Akhtar- Gully Boy Abhishek Chaubey - Sonchiriya Anubhav Sinha- Article 15 Ivan Ayr- Soni Best Film: Gully Boy Sonchiriya Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota Soni Article 15 Best Writing: Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti- Gully Boy Vasan Bala- Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota Ivan Ayr, Kislay- Soni Anubhav Sinha, Gaurav Solanki- Article 15 Ravinder Randhawa, Aijaz Khan, Sumit Saxena- Hamid Gujarati: Best Actor (Male): Jimit Trivedi- Cheel Zadap Maulik Nayak- Montu Ni Bittu Malhar Thakar- Saheb Siddharth Randeria- Chaal Jeevi Laiye Jayesh More- Hellaro Best Actor (Female): Aarohi Patel- Chaal Jeevi Laiye Diksha Joshi- Dhunki Shraddha Dangar- Hellaro Best Director: Abhinn-Manthan- Chasani: Mithash Zindagi Ni Abhishek Shah- Hellaro Vijaygiri Bava- Montu Ni Bittu Vipul Mehta- Chaal Jeevi Laiye Best Film: Chasani: Mithash Zindagi Ni Hellaro Chaal Jeevi Laiye Best Writing: Vipul Mehta, Jainish Ejardar- Chaal Jeevi Laiye Veer Vashisht, Abhinn - Manthan, Manthan Joshi- Chasani: Mithash Zindagi Ni Abhishek Shah, Prateek Gupta, Saumya Joshi- Hellaro Bengali Best Actor (Male) Kaushik Ganguly- Kedara Riddhi Sen- Nagarkirtan Prosenjit Chatterjee- Robibaar Ritwick Chakraborty- Jyesthoputro Best Actor (Female): Swastika Mukherjee- Kia and Cosmos< /em> Jaya Ahsan- Robibaar Koneenica Banerjee- Mukherjee Dar Bou Jaya Ahsan- Bijaya Best Director: Atanu Ghosh- Robibaar Indraadip Dasgupta- Kedara Buddhadep Dasgupta- Urojahaj Best Film: Kedara Robibaar Urojahaj Best Writing: Churni Ganguly- Tarikh Indraadip Dasgupta- Kedara Atanu Ghosh- Robibaar Malayalam Best Actor (Male): Suraj Venjaramoodu- Vikrithi Nivin Pauly- Moothon Mammootty- Unda Soubin Shahir- Kumbalangi Nights Asif Ali- Kettyolaanu Ente Malakha Best Actor (Female): Parvathy- Uyare Anna Ben- Helen Rajisha Vijayan- June Nimisha Sajayan- Chola Manju Warrier- Prathi Poovankozhi Best Director: Madhu C Narayan- Kumbalangi Nights Aashiq Abu- Virus Lijo Jose Pellissery- Jallikattu Khalid Rahman- Unda Mathukutty Xavier- Helen Best Film: Virus Unda Helen Jallikattu Kumbalangi Nights Best Writing Syam Pushkaran- Kumbalangi Nights Khalid Rahman, Harshad PK- Unda Muhsin Parari, Sharfu, Suhas- Virus Alfred Kurian Joseph, Noble Babu Thomas, Mathukutty Xavier- Helen Girish AD, Dinoy Poulose- Thanneer Mathan Dinangal Kannada Best Actor (Male): Rishi- Kavaludaari Rishabh Shetty- Bell Bottom Raghavendra Rajkumar- Ammana Mane Raj B Shetty- Katha Sangama Darshan- Yajamana Best Actor (Female): B Jayashree- Mookajjiya Kanasugalu Teju Belawadi- Gantumoote Haripriya- Bell Bottom Ananya Kashyap- Mundina Nildana Radhika Chetan- Mundina Nildana Best Director Jayathirtha- Bell Bottom Hemanth M Rao- Kavaludaari P Sheshadri- Mookajjiya Kanasugalu Roopa Rao- Gantumoote Kiranraj K, Chandrajith Belliappa, Shashi Kumar P, Rahul PK, Jamadagni Manoj, Karan Ananth, Jayshankar A.- Katha Sangama Best Film Bell Bottom Kavaludaari (Crossroads) Mookajjiya Kanasugalu Gantumoote Katha Sangama (Collection of Stories) Best Writing Dayananda T K- Bell Bottom Hemath M Rao- Kavaludaari Roopa Rao- Gantumoote Screenplay: P Sheshadri, based on a novel by Shivaram Karanth- Mookajjiya Kanasugalu Kiranraj K, Chandrajith Belliappa, Shashi Kumar P, Rahul PK, Jamadagni Manoj, Karan Ananth, Jayshankar A- Katha Sangama Telugu Best Actor (Male) Nani- Jersey Priyadarshi- Mallesham Chiranjeevi- Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy Rao Ramesh- Prati Roju Pandage Rajendra Prasad- Oh! 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