The Nokia 15th (is it 15th) Annual Star Screen Awards is the first Awards ceremony in India in the year 2009. The biggest night for honoring excellence in cinema is here and the film fraternity is all set to celebrate it in grand style. The Nokia 15th Annual Star Screen Awards commemorates and rewards the people behind putting the biggest and the most remarkable pieces of cinematic entertainment in the year 2008. This will be aired exclusively on India’s leading Hindi General Entertainment Channel, Star Plus on January 25 at….pm. The hosts for the evening are Farah Khan, Sajid Khan & Shreyas Talpade.

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The Red Carpet is decked up to witness the most spectacular Awards nite. This year, the Red Carpet is designed as a Box Office Hall of Fame. All the stars walked the RED Carpet before the inauguration of the final awards night. The red carpet had the entire film fraternity grace it including Akshay Kumar, Ranbir Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Prateek Babbar, Tushar Kapoor, Jitendra, Bipasha Basu, Mughda Godse, Kangna Ranaut, Sonali Kulkarna, Tanushree Dutta, Koena Mitra, Anupam & Kiron Kher, Genellia D’Souze, Asin, Katrina Kaif, Hard Kaur, Zayed Khan, Rakhi Sawant, Prachi Desai, Tabu, Aishwarya Rai, Gul Panag, Jimmy Shergil, Amir Bashir and Sahana Goswami, Chunky and Bhavna Pandey to name a few.

Star Screen rewarded the best films and talents in 29 categories like the Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor(male & female), Best Actor in Supporting role(male and female), Best Actor in a Negative role(male & female), Best Actor in a Comic role(male & female), Best Playback Singer(male & female, best lyrics, Best Editing, Best Screenplay, Best Dialogues, Best Story, Best Music, Best Background Score, Best Choreographer, Best Child Artist, Best English Film, Best Sound Effects, Special Effects, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Animation film, Most Promising Debut(male & female) and the Most Promising Director.
The winners of Nokia 15th Annual STAR Screen Awards:

Best Film
Jodhaa Akbar

Best Director
Ashutosh Gowarikar - Jodhaa Akbar
Neeraj Pandey - A Wednesday!

Best Actor (Male)
Hrithik Roshan - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Actor (Female)
Priyanka Chopra - Fashion

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)
Arjun Rampal - Rock On!!

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
Shahana Goswami - Rock On!!

Best Actor in a Negative Role (Male/Female)
Akshaye Khanna - Race

Best Actor in a Comic Role (Male/Female)
Tusshar Kapoor - Golmaal Returns

Best Background Music
A. R. Rahman - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Music
A. R. Rahman - Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na

Best Playback Singer (Male)
KK - Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)

Best Playback Singer (Female)
Shilpa Rao - Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)

Best Lyrics
Anvita Dutt Guptan - Khuda Jaane (Bachna Ae Haseeno)

Most Promising Newcomer (Male)
Farhan Akhtar - Rock On!!

Most Promising Newcomer (Female)
Asin Thottumkal - Ghajini

Best Story
Neeraj Pandey - A Wednesday!

Best Screenplay
Shiraz Ahmed - Race

Best Editing
Rock On!!

Best Art Direction
Rock On!!

Best Cinematography
Rock On!!

Best Popular Actor Award
Akshay Kumar - Singh Is Kinng

Best Popular Actress Award
Aishwarya Rai - Jodhaa Akbar

Best Animation Film
Roadside Romeo

Best Jodi
John Abraham - Abhishek Bachchan (Dostana)

Lifetime Achievement Award
Sanjay Khan

Ramnath Goenka Award
A Wednesday!

Watch the 15th Annual Star Screen Awards on January 26 at 7.30 pm for RED carpet and 8 pm for the awards ceremony.

-Sampurn Media