Filmfare Award 1959

The 6th Filmfare Award was presented at the beginning of the year. There are 15 different categories for this award. There are multiple nominations only for the popularity awards .

Winners and nominees

Most of the Filmfare Awards

Madhumati (9 Filmfare Awards )

category	Movie title	winner	Nominations
Best movie	Madhumati	Bimal Roy	Sadhna Madhumati Talaq
Best director	Madhumati	Bimal Roy	Bimal Roy for Madhumati B. R. Chopra for Sadhna Mahesh Kaul for Talaq
Best Actor	Kali Pani	Dev Anand	Dev Anand for Kali Pani Raj Kapoor for Phir Subah Hogi Dilip Kumar for Madhumati
Best main actress	Sadhna	Vyjayantimala	Meena Kumari for Sahara Vyjayantimala for Madhumati Vyjayantimala for Sadhna
Best supporting actor	Madhumati	Johnny Walker	Johnny Walker for Madhumati Rehman Sohrab Modi for Yahudi
The best supporting actress	Kali Pani	Nalini Jaywant	Lalita Pawar for Parvarish Leela Chitnis for Sadhna Nalini Jaywant for Kali Pani
Best story	Sadhna	Mukhram Sharma	Mukhram Sharma for Sadhna Mukhram Sharma for Talaq Ritwik Ghatak for Madhumati
Best music	Madhumati	Salil Choudhury	OP Nayyar for Phagun Shankar-Jaikishan for Yahudi Salil Choudhury for Madhumati
Best lyrics	Yeh Mera Diwanapan Hai - Yahudi	Shailendra	Sahir Ludhianvi for Aurat Ne Janam Diya - Sadhna Shailendra for Meri Jaan, Meri Jaan - Yahudi Shailendra for Yeh Mera Diwanapan Hai - Yahudi
Best playback singer	Aaja Re Pardesi - Madhumati	Lata Mangeshkar	Lata Mangeshkar for Aaja Re Pardesi - Madhumati
Best dialogue	Madhumati	Rajinder Singh Bedi
Best cut	Madhumati	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Best camera	Madhumati ( black and white film )	Dilip Gupta
Best production design	Madhumati ( black and white film )	Sudhendu Roy
Best tone	Chandan	Ishan Ghosh