At the Screen Awards 2026, Aditya Dhar’s spy thriller Dhurandhar emerged as the night’s biggest winner, with a haul of 14 awards. Ranveer Singh was declared Best Actor while Aditya Dhar won the Best Director's award for the film. Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound was honoured with the Best Film award at the star-studded ceremony in Mumbai on Sunday.
While Dhurandhar impressed the jury with its scale and performances, Homebound, portraying a tale of gritty realism, was named Best Film.
Homebound stars Vishal Jethwa and Ishaan Khatter as childhood friends in a small North Indian village who aspire to secure a police job that could change their lives. Co-starring Janhvi Kapoor and Reem Shaikh, the film competed in the Best Film category with Chhaava, Dhadak 2, Dhurandhar, Haq, Saiyaara, Sitaare Zameen Par and Superboys Of Malegaon.
Among other notable winners from Dhurandhar was Akshaye Khanna. His role of the gangster Rehman Dakait won him the Best Supporting Actor (Male) award.
Here’s a look at the winners:
Best Film
Dhadak 2
Dhurandhar
Haq
Homebound – Winner
Saiyaara
Sitaare Zameen Par
Superboys Of Malegaon
Chaava
Best Actor (Female)
Triptii Dimri (Dhadak 2)
Yami Gautam (Haq) – Winner
Konkona Sen Sharma (Metro In Dino)
Monika Panwar (Nishaanchi)
Radhika Apte (Sister Midnight)
Kriti Sanon (Tere Ishk Mein)
Best Actor (Male)
Vicky Kaushal (Chhaava)
Siddhant Chaturvedi (Dhadak 2)
Ranveer Singh (Dhurandhar) – Winner
Vishal Jethwa (Homebound)
Ishaan Khatter (Homebound)
Manoj Bajpayee (Jugnuma: The Fable)
Adarsh Gourav (Superboys Of Malegaon)
Best Director
Laxman Ramchandra Utekar (Chhaava)
Aditya Dhar (Dhurandhar) – Winner
Suparn S Varma (Haq)
Neeraj Ghaywan (Homebound)
Raam Reddy (Jugnuma: The Fable)
Mohit Suri (Saiyaara)
Reema Kagti (Superboys Of Malegaon)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
Divya Dutta (Chhaava)
Sheeba Chadha (Haq)
Shalini Vatsa (Homebound) – Winner
Dolly Ahluwalia (Sitaare Zameen Par)
Manjiri Pupala (Superboys Of Malegao)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)
Akshaye Khanna (Dhurandhar) – Winner
Rakesh Bedi (Dhurandhar)
Naseeruddin Shah (Gustaakh Ishq)
Saurabh Shukla (Jolly LLB 3)
Deepak Dobriyal (Jugnuma: The Fable)
Best Action
120 Bahadur
Chhaava
Deva
Dhurandhar – Winner
Jaat
Best Background Score
Chhaava (AR Rahman)
Dhurandhar (Shashwat Sachdev) – Winner
Haq (Sandeep Chowta)
Homebound (Naren Chandavarkar, Benedict Taylor)
Saiyaara (John Stewart Eduri)
Best Choreography
Azaad – Ui Amma (Bosco Leslie Martis)
Deva – Bhasad Macha (Bosco Leslie Martis)
Dhurandhar – Shararat (Vijay Ganguly) – Winner
Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari – Panwadi Song (Ganesh Acharya)
Thamma – Dilbar Ki Aankhon Ka (Vijay Ganguly)
Best Cinematography
Dhurandhar (Vikash Nowlakha) – Winner
Homebound (Pratik Shah)
Humans in the Loop (Monica Tiwari, Harshit Saini, Gunjan Jaywant)
Jugnuma: The Fable (Sunil Ramkrishna Borkar)
Superboys of Malegaon (Swapnil. S. Sonawane (ISC)
Best Costume
Chhaava (Sheetal Iqbal Sharma) – Winner
Dhurandhar (Smriti Chauhan) – Winner
Gustaakh Ishq (Manish Malhotra, Shivank Vikram Kapoor)
Homebound (Rohit Chaturvedi)
Superboys of Malegaon (Bhawna Sharma)
Best Dialogue
Dhurandhar (Aditya Dhar) – Winner
Haq (Reshu Nath)
Homebound (Neeraj Ghaywan, Varun Grover, Shreedhar Dubey)
Jolly LLB 3 (Subhash Kapoor)
Superboys of Malegaon (Varun Grover, Shoaib Zulfi Nazeer)
Best Editing
Dhurandhar (Shivkumar V. Panicker) – Winner
Haq (Ninad Khanolkar)
Homebound (Nitin Baid)
Saiyaara (Devendra Murdeshwar, Rohit Makwana)
Superboys of Malegaon (Anand Subaya)
Best Film for Gender Sensitivity
Dhadak 2
Haq – Winner
Humans in the Loop
Mrs
The Great Shamsuddin
Family
Best Film Writing (Story & Screenplay)
Dhurandhar (Aditya Dhar)
Haq (Reshu Nath)
Homebound (Basharat Peer, Neeraj Ghaywan, Sumit Roy) – Winner
Humans in the Loop (Aranya Sahay)
Superboys of Malegaon (Varun Grover)
Best Hairstyling & Make-Up
Chhaava (Shrikant Desai)
Dhurandhar (Preetisheel Singh D’souza) – Winner
Emergency (Elizabeth Lawson Zeiss, Dhananjay M. Prajapat)
Homebound (Khyati Malhotra)
Superboys of Malegaon (Tarannum Khan, Avan Contractor, Dianne Commissariat)
Best Song
Dhurandhar – Title Track, Dhurandhar (Shashwat Sachdev, Charanjit Ahuja)
Dhurandhar – Gehra Hua (Shashwat Sachdev)
Saiyaara – Title Track, Saiyaara (Tanishk Bagchi, Faheem Abdullah, Arslan Nizami) – Winner
Saiyaara – Barbaad (The Rish)
Saiyaara – Humsafar (Sachet-Parampara)
Best Lyrics
Dhurandhar – Gehra Hua (Irshad Kamil)
Gustaakh Ishq – Ul Julool Ishq (Gulzar) – Winner
Homebound – Yaar Mere (Varun Grover)
Saiyaara – Saiyaara Title Track (Irshad Kamil)
Superboys of Malegaon – Bande (Javed Akhtar)
Best Playback Singer (Male)
Dhurandhar – Dhurandhar Title Track (Hanumankind, Sudhir Yaduvanshi, Shashwat Sachdev, Mohd. Sadiq)
Dhurandhar – Gehra Hua (Arijit Singh, Shashwat Sachdev, Armaan Khan)
Saiyaara – Saiyaara Title Track (Faheem Abdullah) – Winner
Saiyaara – Dhun (Arijit Singh)
Saiyaara – Barbaad (Jubin Nautiyal)
Best Playback Singer (Female)
Dhurandhar – Shararat (Jasmine Sandlas, Madhubanti Bagchi)
Metro In Dino – Qayde Se (Shreya Ghoshal)
Saiyaara – Saiyaara Title Track (Shreya Ghoshal) – Winner
Saiyaara – Barbaad (Shilpa Rao)
Saiyaara – Humsafar (Parampara Tandon)
Best Production Design
Chhaava (Subrata Chakraborty, Amit Ray)
Dhurandhar (Saini S. Johray) – Winner
Gustaakh Ishq (Madhumita Sen, Ajay Sharma)
Homebound (Khyatee Kanchan)
Superboys of Malegaon (Sally White)
Haq (Sonam Singh, Abhijit Gaonkar)
Kesari Chapter 2 (Rita Ghosh)
Best Sound Design
Chhaava (Bishwadeep Chatterjee)
Dhurandhar (Bishwadeep Chatterjee) – Winner
Homebound (Sanjay Maurya, Allwin Rego)
Humans in the Loop (Kalhan Raina)
Saiyaara (Ganesh Gangadharan)
Best Special Effects
120 Bahadur
Chhaava
Dhurandhar – Winner
Jugnuma: The Fable
Thamma
Breakthrough Debut Director
Shazia Iqbal (Dhadak 2) – Winner
Dibakar Das Roy (Dilli Dark)
Aranya Sahay (Humans in the Loop)
Karan Singh Tyagi (Kesari Chapter 2)
Karan Kandhari (Sister Midnight)
Breakthrough New Actor (Female)
Rasha Thadani (Azaad)
Sara Arjun (Dhurandhar)
Ridhima Singh (Humans in the Loop)
Aneet Padda (Saiyaara) – Winner
Shubhangi Dutt (Tanvi the Great)
Breakthrough New Actor (Male)
Mohit Agarwal (Agra)
Aaman Devgan (Azaad)
Samuel Abiola Robinson (Dilli Dark)
Aaishvary Thackeray (Nishaanchi)
Ahaan Panday (Saiyaara) – Winner
Best OTT Film
Mrs
Raat Akeli Hai
Stolen – Winner
The Great Shamsuddin Family
The Mehta Boys
Best Actor (Female) – OTT Film
Fatima Sana Shaikh (Aap Jaisa Koi)
Sanya Malhotra (Mrs) – Winner
Radhika Apte (Saali Mohabbat)
Saba Azad (Songs of Paradise)
Mia Maelzer (Stolen)
The Great Shamsuddin Family (Farida Jalal)
Shreya Chaudhry (The Mehta Boys)
Best Actor (Male) – OTT film
Manoj Bajpayee (Inspector Zende)
Abhishek Bachchan (Kaalidhar Laapata)
Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Raat Akeli Hai The Bansal Murders)
Abhishek Banerjee (Stolen) – Winner
Shubham Vardhan (Stolen)
Best Director – OTT film
Arati Kadav (Mrs)
Honey Trehan (Raat Akeli Hai – The Bansal Murders)
Karan Tejpal (Stolen) – Winner
Anusha Rizvi (The Great Shamsuddin Family)
Boman Irani (The Mehta Boys)
Best Script – OTT film
Mrs
Raat Akeli Hai – The Bansal Murders
Songs of Paradise
Stolen – Winner
The Mehta Boys