Filmfare Award for Best Story

The Filmfare Award for Best Story is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a writer who wrote a film's story.

1950s

 * 1955 Mukhram Sharma – Aulad
 * 1956 Mukhram Sharma – Vachan
 * Manoranjan Ghose – Jagriti
 * Rajinder Singh Bedi – Garam Coat
 * 1957 Amiya Chakrabarty – Seema
 * 1958 Akhtar Mirza – Naya Daur
 * 1959 Mukhram Sharma – Sadhna
 * Mukhram Sharma – Talaaq
 * Ritwik Ghatak – Madhumati

1960s

 * 1960 Subodh Ghosh – Sujata
 * Dhruva Chatterjee – Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan
 * Mukhram Sharma – Dhool Ka Phool
 * 1961 Ruby Sen – Masoom
 * Saghir Usmani – Chaudhvin Ka Chand
 * Salil Chowdhury – Parakh
 * 1962 C. V. Sridhar – Nazrana
 * C. J. Pavri – Kanoon
 * Mohan Kumar – Aas Ka Panchhi
 * 1963 K.P. Kottarakara – Rakhi
 * Bimal Mitra – Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
 * Jawar N. Sitaraman – Main Chup Rahungi
 * 1964 Jarasandha – Bandini
 * B.R. Films (Story Dept.) – Gumrah
 * C. V. Sridhar – Dil Ek Mandir
 * 1965 Ban Bhatt – Dosti
 * Inder Raj Anand – Sangam
 * Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Shehar Aur Sapna
 * 1966 Akhtar Mirza – Waqt
 * Gulshan Nanda – Kaajal
 * Ramanand Sagar – Arzoo
 * 1967 R. K. Narayan – Guide
 * Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Anupama
 * Nihar Ranjan Gupta – Mamta
 * 1968 Manoj Kumar – Upkaar
 * Ashapoorna Devi – Mehrban
 * Protiva Bose – Aasra
 * 1969 Sachin Bhowmick – Brahmachari
 * Gulshan Nanda – Neel Kamal
 * Ramanand Sagar – Aankhen

1970s

 * 1970 Vasant Kanetkar – Aansoo Ban Gaye Phool
 * Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Aashirwad
 * Sachin Bhowmick – Aradhana
 * 1971 Chandrakant Kakodkar – Do Raaste
 * Gulshan Nanda – Khilona
 * Sachin Bhowmick – Pehchan
 * 1972 Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Anand
 * Gulshan Nanda – Kati Patang
 * Gulshan Nanda – Naya Zamana
 * 1973 Basu Bhattacharya – Anubhav
 * Manoj Kumar – Shor
 * 1974 Salim–Javed – Zanjeer
 * Gulzar – Koshish
 * Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – Achanak
 * Mulraj Rajda – Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar
 * Shakti Samanta – Anuraag
 * 1975 Kaifi Azmi, Ismat Chughtai – Garm Hava
 * Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay – Kora Kagaz
 * Manoj Kumar – Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
 * N. T. Rama Rao – Bidaai
 * Shyam Benegal – Ankur
 * 1976 Salim–Javed – Deewaar
 * Kamleshwar – Aandhi
 * Salim–Javed – Sholay
 * Shaktipada Rajguru – Amanush
 * Vijay Tendulkar – Nishant
 * 1977 Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay – Arjun Pandit
 * Ashapoorna Devi – Tapasya
 * Gulshan Nanda – Mehbooba
 * Kamleshwar – Mausam
 * Pamela Chopra – Kabhi Kabhie
 * 1978 Sharat Chandra Chatterji – Swami
 * Asrani – Chala Murari Hero Banne
 * Bhusan Bangali – Kinara
 * Raju Saigal – Doosra Aadmi
 * Shanker Shesh – Gharaonda
 * 1979 Dinesh Thakur – Ghar
 * Chandrakant Kakodkar – Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
 * Laxmikant Sharma – Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
 * Salim–Javed – Trishul
 * Samaresh Basu – Kitaab

1980s

 * 1980 Shanker Shesh – Dooriyaan
 * K. Viswanath – Sargam
 * Ruskin Bond – Junoon
 * Sailesh Dey – Gol Maal
 * Salim–Javed – Kaala Patthar
 * 1981 Vijay Tendulkar – Aakrosh
 * D. N. Mukherjee – Khubsoorat
 * Esmayeel Shroff – Thodisi Bewafaii
 * Ram Kalkar – Aasha
 * Shabd Kumar – Insaaf Ka Tarazu
 * 1982 Chetan Anand – Kudrat
 * Jaywant Dalvi – Chakra
 * K. Balachander – Ek Duuje Ke Liye
 * Leela Phansalkar – Baseraa
 * Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad – Kalyug
 * 1983 Samaresh Basu – Namkeen
 * Achla Nagar – Nikaah
 * Kamna Chandra – Prem Rog
 * Sagar Sarhadi – Bazaar
 * Salim–Javed – Shakti
 * 1984 S. D. Panvalkar – Ardh Satya
 * Balu Mahendra – Sadma
 * Javed Akhtar – Betaab
 * Mahesh Bhatt – Arth
 * Mohan Kumar – Avtaar
 * 1985 Mahesh Bhatt – Saaransh
 * Gyav Dev Agnihotri – Ghar Ek Mandir
 * Javed Akhtar – Mashaal
 * Shabd Kumar – Aaj Ki Awaaz
 * Sudhir Mishra – Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho!
 * 1986 Aleem Masroor – Tawaif
 * C. T. Khanolkar – Ankahee
 * Javed Akhtar – Arjun
 * K. K. Singh – Ram Teri Ganga Maili
 * Mahesh Bhatt – Janam
 * Rajan Roy – Saaheb
 * 1987 Not Awarded
 * 1988 Not Awarded
 * 1989 Subodh Ghosh – Ijaazat

1990s

 * 1990 K. Vishwanath – Eeshwar
 * Aditya Bhattacharya – Raakh
 * J. P. Dutta – Batwara
 * Joy Augustine – Goonj
 * 1991 Rajkumar Santoshi – Ghayal
 * 1992 Honey Irani – Lamhe
 * Ramapada Chowdhury – Ek Doctor Ki Maut
 * Sai Paranjpye – Disha
 * Sujit Sen, Nana Patekar – Prahaar: The Final Attack
 * 1993 Not Awarded
 * 1994 Sutanu Gupta – Damini – Lightning
 * 1995 K. K. Singh – Krantiveer
 * 1996 Ram Gopal Varma – Rangeela
 * 1997 Gulzar – Maachis
 * 1998 Kamal Haasan – Virasat
 * 1999 Mahesh Bhatt – Zakhm

2000s

 * 2000 Vinay Shukla – Godmother
 * 2001 Honey Irani – Kya Kehna
 * 2002 Ashutosh Gowariker – Lagaan
 * 2003 Jaideep Sahni – Company
 * 2004 Nagesh Kukunoor – 3 Deewarein
 * 2005 Yash Chopra– Veer-Zaara
 * 2006 Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain, Shiv Kumar Subramaniam – Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
 * 2007 Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra – Lage Raho Munna Bhai
 * Jaideep Sahni – Khosla Ka Ghosla
 * Kamlesh Pandey – Rang De Basanti
 * Karan Johar – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
 * Kersi Khambatta – Being Cyrus
 * Mahesh Bhatt – Gangster
 * 2008 Amol Gupte – Taare Zameen Par
 * Jaideep Sahni – Chak De! India
 * Mani Ratnam – Guru
 * Rahul Dholakia, David N. Donihue – Parzania
 * Vibha Singh – Dharm
 * 2009 Abhishek Kapoor – Rock On!!
 * Aseem Arora – Heroes
 * Dibakar Banerjee, Urmi Juvekar – Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
 * Neeraj Pandey – A Wednesday
 * Santosh Sivan – Tahaan

2010s

 * 2010 Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots
 * Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Malhotra, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Sanjay Maurya – Gulaal
 * Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal
 * Jaideep Sahni – Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year
 * Zoya Akhtar – Luck By Chance
 * 2011 Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane – Udaan
 * 2012 Sanjay Chauhan – I Am Kalam
 * Akshat Verma – Delhi Belly
 * Amol Gupte – Stanley Ka Dabba
 * Rajat Arora – The Dirty Picture
 * Reema Kagti, Zoya Akhtar – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
 * 2013 Juhi Chaturvedi – Vicky Donor
 * 2014 Subhash Kapoor – Jolly LLB
 * 2015 Rajat Kapoor – Ankhon Dekhi
 * Anurag Kashyap – Ugly
 * Imtiaz Ali – Highway
 * Nitin Kakkar – Filmistaan
 * Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi – PK
 * 2016 V. Vijayendra Prasad – Bajrangi Bhaijaan
 * Juhi Chaturvedi – Piku
 * Olivia Stewart – Titli
 * R. Balki – Shamitabh
 * Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay – Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
 * 2017 Shakun Batra, Ayesha Devitre Dhillon – Kapoor & Sons.
 * 2018 Amit V Masurkar – Newton
 * Amit Joshi – Trapped
 * Rahul Dahiya – G Kutta Se
 * Shanker Raman and Sourabh Ratnu – Gurgaon
 * Shubhashish Bhutiani – Mukti Bhawan
 * Suresh Triveni – Tumhari Sulu
 * 2019 Anubhav Sinha – Mulk
 * Anudeep Singh – Mukkabaaz
 * Raj and DK – Stree
 * Sharat Katariya – Sui Dhaaga
 * Akshat Ghildial, Shantanu Srivastava and Jyoti Kapoor – Badhaai Ho (Withdrawn)

2020s

 * 2020 Anubhav Sinha, Gaurav Solanki – Article 15
 * Abhishek Chaubey, Sudip Sharma – Sonchiriya
 * Jagan Shakti – Mission Mangal
 * Nitesh Tiwari, Piyush Gupta and Nikhil Mehrotra – Chhichhore
 * Vasan Bala – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota
 * Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti – Gully Boy
 * 2021 Anubhav Sinha, Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul – Thappad
 * Hardik Mehta – Kaamyaab
 * Juhi Chaturvedi – Gulabo Sitabo
 * Rajesh Krishnan, Kapil Sawant – Lootcase
 * Rohena Gera – Sir
 * Shubham – Eeb Allay Ooo!
 * 2022 Abhishek Kapoor, Supratik Sen and Tushar Paranjape – Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui
 * Dibakar Banerjee and Varun Grover – Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
 * Kanika Dhillon – Haseen Dilruba
 * Nandha Periyasamy – Rashmi Rocket
 * Seema Pahwa – Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi
 * 2023 Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary – Badhaai Do
 * Anirudh Iyer – An Action Hero
 * Jaspal Singh Sandhu And Rajeev Barnwal – Vadh
 * Niren Bhatt – Bhediya
 * Sunil Gandhi – Uunchai
 * 2024 Amit Rai – OMG 2
 * Devashish Makhija – Joram
 * Anubhav Sinha – Bheed
 * Atlee – Jawan
 * Ishita Moitra, Shashank Khaitan, Sumit Roy – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
 * Parijat Joshi, Tarun Dudeja – Dhak Dhak
 * Karan Shrikant Sharma – Satyaprem Ki Katha
 * Siddharth Anand – Pathaan