7th Stardust Award (2009)

The 7th Stardust Awards ceremony was held on 15th February 2009 in Mumbai and recognised the Hindi films that were produced in 2008. The ceremony took place at MMRDA Grounds, Bandra, India. The hosts for the evening were "Golmaal" star Tusshar Kapoor and Minissha Lamba. The ceremony was studded with live performances from the "Slumdog Millionaire" star Anil Kapoor performing at his super-hit tracks from "Ram Lakhan" to "Jai Ho", Amisha Patel, Minissha Lamba, Neetu Chandra, Priyanka Chopra and Salman Khan.

- WINNER

Best Film - Searchlight

A Wednesday! - Neeraj Pandey, Shital Bhatia, Anjum Rizvi, Ronnie Screwvala
Dasvidaniya - Shashant Shah, Azam Khan, Vinay Pathak
Shaurya The Last Lear
Aamir - Raj Kumar Gupta, Ronnie Screwvala
Mithya - Rajat Kapoor
Mumbai Meri Jaan - Nishikant Kamat
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! - Dibakar Banerjee, Ronnie Screwvala

Best Director - Searchlight

A Wednesday! - Neeraj Pandey
Dasvidaniya - Shashant Shah
The Last Lear - Rituparno Ghosh
Aamir - Rajkumar Gupta
Mithya - Rajat Kapoor
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! - Dibakar Banerjee
Mumbai Meri Jaan - Nishikant Kamat

Best Actor - Searchlight

The Last Lear - Amitabh Bachchan
A Wednesday! - Anupam Kher
Dasvidaniya - Vinay Pathak
Shaurya - Rahul Bose
Aamir - Rajeev Khandelwal
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! - Abhay Deol

Best Actress - Searchlight

Welcome To Sajjanpur - Amrita Rao
Hari Puttar - A Comedy Of Terrors - Sarika
Mumbai Meri Jaan - Soha Ali Khan
Shaurya - Minissha Lamba
The Last Lear - Preity Zinta
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! - Neetu Chandra

Star of the Year - Female

Fashion - Priyanka Chopra
Dostana - Priyanka Chopra
Sarkar Raj - Aishwarya Rai
Golmaal Retunes - Kareena Kapoor
Singh Is Kinng - Katrina Kaif

Hottest New Film Maker

Ghajini - A.R. Murugadoss
Ugly Aur Pagli - Sachin Khot
Heroes - Samir Karnik
Golmaal Returns - Rohit Shetty
Dostana - Tarun Mansukhani
Heroes - Samir Karnik
Rock On!! - Abhishek Kapoor
Jannat - Kunal Deshmukh
Bachna Ae Haseeno - Siddharth Anand

New Musical Sensation Singer - Male

Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na - Benny Dayal for "Pappu Can't Dance Salah"
Hello - Wajid for "Bang Bang Bang"
Rock On!! - Farhan Akhtar for "Tum Ho Toh"
Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na - Rashid Ali for "Kabhi Kabhi Aditi Zindagi"
Yuvvraaj - Vijay Prakash for "Manmohini Morey"
Drona - Dhruv Ghanekar for "Drona"

New Musical Sensation Singer - Female

Ugly Aur Pagli - Anmol Malik for "Talli"
Race - Monali for "Zara Zara Touch Me"
Bachna Ae Haseeno - Shilpa Rao for "Khuda Jaane"
Rock On!! - Dominique Cerejo for "Ye Tumhari Meri Baatein"
Jodhaa Akbar - Bela Shende for "Mann Mohanaa"
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic - Anusha Mani for "Lazy Lamhe"

Superstar of Tomorrow - Male

Rock On!! - Farhan Akhtar
Woodstock Villa - Sikander Kher
Love Story 2050 - Harman Baweja
My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves - Nikhil Dwivedi
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na - Imran Khan
Haal-E-Dil - Adhyayan Suman

Superstar of Tomorrow - Female

Ghajini - Asin
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - Anushka Sharma
Sorry Bhai! - Chitrangda Singh
Jannat - Sonal Chauhan
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na - Genelia Dsouza
Rock On!! - Prachi Desai

Standout Performance by a Lyricist

Tashan - Kausar Munir for "Falak Tak"
Welcome To Sajjanpur - Ashok Mishra for "Sita Ram Sita Ram"
Jodhaa Akbar - Kashif for "Khwaja Mere Khwaja"
Dasvidaniya - Kailash Kher for "Muskura"

Standout Performance by a Music Director

Drona - Dhruv Ghanekar
One Two Three - Raghav Sachar
Hijack - Justin - Uday
Mere Baap Pehle Aap - Vidyasagar
Dasvidaniya / Pranali - Kailash Kher, Naresh, Paresh

Hottest Film of the Year

Ghajini
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
U Me Aur Hum
Hello
Phoonk

Exciting New Face - Male

1920 - Rajneesh Duggal

Exciting New Face - Female

Mission Istaanbul - Shreya Saran
Woodstock Villa - Neha Uberoi
1920 - Adah Sharma
Phoonk - Amruta Khanvilkar
Yuvvraaj - Aushima Sawhney

The New Menace

Jodhaa Akbar - Nikitin Dheer
Sarkar Raj - Rajesh Shringapure
Black And White - Anurag Sinha
Kidnap - Imran Khan

Best Actor / Actress - Negative Role

Tashan - Anil Kapoor
Race - Akshaye Khanna
Drona - Kay Kay Menon
Karzzzz - Urmila Matondkar
Race - Katrina Kaif

Most Promising Director

Rock On!! - Abhishek Kapoor

Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema

Dev Anand

Pride of the Industry

Feroz Khan

Special Award

Anil Kapoor for "The first mainstream Indian actor to take India to Hollywood and winning Global Recognition"

Breakthrough Performance - Male

Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na - Prateik Babbar
U Me Aur Hum - Sumeet Raghavan
Jannat - Samir Kochhar
Heroes - Vatsal Sheth
Rock On!! - Purab Kohli
Fashion - Arjan Bajwa
Jodhaa Akbar - Sonu Sood

Breakthrough Performance - Female

Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na - Manjari Phadnis
Kidnap - Vidya Malvade
Rock On!! - Shahana Goswami
Fashion - Mugdha Godse
Bhram - Sheetal Menon

Best Film - Drama

Singh Is Kinng - Anees Bazmee, Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - Aditya Chopra, Aditya Chopra, Yash Chopra
Jodhaa Akbar - Ashutosh Gowariker, Ronnie Screwvala
Dostana - Tarun Mansukhani, Hiroo Johar, Karan Johar
Yuvvraaj - Subhash Ghai
Fashion - Madhur Bhandarkar, Ronnie Screwvala
Jannat - Kunal Deshmukh, Mukesh Bhatt
Race - Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla, Kumar Sadhuram Taurani, Ramesh Sadhuram Taurani

Best Director - Drama

Jodhaa Akbar - Ashutosh Gowarikar
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi - Aditya Chopra
Singh Is Kinng - Anees Bazmee
Sarkar Raj - Ram Gopal Varma
Yuvvraaj - Subhash Ghai
Fashion - Madhur Bhandarkar
Race - Abbas-Mustan

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Golmaal Returns - Tusshar Kapoor
Race - Anil Kapoor
Rock On!! - Arjun Rampal
Golmaal Returns - Shreyas Talpade
Dostana - Bobby Deol
Yuvvraaj - Anil Kapoor

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Fashion - Kangna Ranaut
U Me Aur Hum - Divya Dutta
Dostana - Sushmita Mukherjee
Singh Is Kinng - Neha Dhupia
Hello - Gul Panag
Bachna Ae Haseeno - Bipasha Basu
Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic - Amisha Patel
Dostana - Kirron Kher

Style Icon Of The Year - Male

Saif Ali Khan

Style Icon Of The Year - Female

Kareena Kapoor