Smita Patil Memorial Award for Best Actress

Smita Patil Memorial Award
Smita Patil Memorial Award
Awarded for	Smita Patil Memorial Award
Sponsored by	Priyadarshni Academy
First awarded	1986
Website	Official website

The Smita Patil Memorial Award for Best Actress is an honour established in 1986 by the Priyadarshni Academy in memory of actress Smita Patil. It is awarded every other year to an Indian actress for her contribution to Indian cinema in the period prior to the ceremony, irrespective of a particular performance.

Recipients

Year	Honoree	Ref.
1987	Tanvi Azmi	^[1]
1988	Deepika Chikhlia	^[2]
1989	Roopa Ganguly	^[3]
1990	Sridevi	^[4]
1991	Dimple Kapadia	^[5]
1992	Pooja Bhatt	^[6]
1993	Meenakshi Sheshadri	^[7]
1994	Manisha Koirala	^[8]
1996	Madhuri Dixit	^[9]
1998	Tabu	^[10]^[11]
2000	Aishwarya Rai	^[12]^[13]
2002	Karisma Kapoor	^[14]^[15]
2004	Urmila Matondkar	^[16]
2006	Kareena Kapoor	^[17]^[18]
2008	Preity Zinta	^[19]^[20]
2010	Vidya Balan	^[21]^[22]
2012	Deepika Padukone	^[23]^[24]
2014	Priyanka Chopra	^[25]
2016	Katrina Kaif	^[26]^[27]
2018	Anushka Sharma	^[28]^[29]
2020	Taapsee Pannu	^[30] -
2021	Kiara Advani	^[31]
2022	Alia Bhatt	^[32]

Controversy

The choice of Katrina Kaif, who is not renowned for her acting abilities, for the award in 2016 met with wide criticism by both the press and the public on social networks.^[27] Columnist Sneha Bengani described her selection as "a grave insult to Patil" and further wrote that it "mocks all the previous recipients".^[33] Others defended the choice.^[34]

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Smita Patil Memorial Award for Best Actress

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Recipients

Controversy

References

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