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Film award in India
The
4th
Filmfare Awards
were held on 5 May 1957, in Bombay, honoring the best films in Hindi cinema for the year 1956.
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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
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Technical awards
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Superlatives
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The following films had multiple wins and/or multiple nominations
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