26th Filmfare Awards (1979)
The 26th Filmfare Awards honored the best Bollywood films of 1978.
"Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki" won the Best Film award.
Amitabh Bachchan won the Best Actor award for his role in "Don".
Nutan won the Best Actess award for her role in "Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki".
Satyajit Ray won the Best Director award for "The Chess Players (a.k.a. Shatranj Ke Khilari)".
- WINNER
Best Film - Critics
Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan
- Saeed Akhtar Mirza
Best Film
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
- Raj Khosla
Best Actor
Don
- Amitabh Bachchan
Trishul
- Amitabh Bachchan
Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
- Amitabh Bachchan
Best Actress
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
- Nutan
Ghar
- Rekha
Satyam Shivam Sundaram - Love Sublime
- Zeenat Aman
Best Supporting Actor
The Chess Players (a.k.a. Shatranj Ke Khilari)
- Saeed Jaffrey
Best Supporting Actress
Apnapan
- Reena Roy
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
- Asha Parekh
Best Director
The Chess Players (a.k.a. Shatranj Ke Khilari)
- Satyajit Ray
Best Music Director
Satyam Shivam Sundaram - Love Sublime
- Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar, Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma
Best Cinematographer
Satyam Shivam Sundaram - Love Sublime
- Radhu Karmakar
Best Editing
Badaltey Rishtey
- B. Prasad
Best Playback Singer - Female
Don
- Asha Bhosle
for "Ye mera dil pyar ka deewana"
Best Playback Singer - Male
Don
- Kishore Kumar
for "O khaike paan banaraswala"
Best Lyrics
Apnapan
- Anand Bakshi
for "Aadmi musafir hai"
Best Dialogue
Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
- Rahi Masoom Reza
Best Story
Ghar
- Dinesh Thakur
Best Actor in a Comic Role
Chor Ke Ghar Chor
- Deven Verma