8th Annual BFJA Awards

Main Awards

Best Indian Films (In Order of Merit)

• Ramshastri
• Udayer Pathey
• Shakuntala
• Wapas
• Sandhi
• Parakh
• Daasi
• Fashion
• Chadmabeshi
• Zameen

  Best Director

• Bimal Roy - Udayer Pathey

  Best Actor

• Radhamohan - Udayer Pathey

  Best Actress

• Sumitra Devi - Sandhi

  Best Actor in Supporting Role

• Biswanath Bhaduri - Udayer Pathey

  Best Actress in Supporting Role

• Rekha Mitra - Udayer Pathey

  Best Cinematographer

• Bimal Roy - Udayer Pathey

  Best Music Director

• Anil Bagchi - Sandhi

  Best Lyricist

• Sailen Roy - Udayer Pathey

  Best Audiographer

• Atul Chatterjee - Udayer Pathey

  Best Dialogue

• Sailen Roy - Udayer Pathey

  Best Art Director

• Souren Sen - Udayer Pathey

  Best Screenplay

• Udayer Pathey

  Hindi Section

Best Director

• Gajanan Jagirdar - Ramshastri

  Best Actor

• Gajanan Jagirdar - Ramshastri

  Best Actress

• Mehtab - Parakh

  Best Actor in Supporting Role

• Ananta Marathe - Ramshastri
• Shah Nawaz - Hamari Baat

  Best Actress in Supporting Role

• Kamala Chatterjee - Shankar Parvati

  Best Music Director

• R. C. Boral - Wapas

  Best Lyricist

• Narendra Sharma - Hamari Baat

  Best Cinematographer

• Sudhin Majumder - Wapas

  Best Audiographer

• A. K. Parmar - Shakuntala

  Best Dialogue

• Bhagabati Charan Varma - Hamari Baat

  Best Art Director

• Bal Gajbar - Shakuntala

  Best Screenplay

• Ramshastri

  Foreign Film Section

Ten Best Films

1. The Song of Bernadette
2. Madame Curie
3. Since You Went Away
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls
5. It Happened Tomorrow
6. The Constant Nymph
7. Going My Way
8. Mission to Moscow
9. Heaven Can Wait
10. Jane Eyre

    Best Director

• Leo McCarey - Going My Way

  Best Actor

• Robert Walker - Since You Went Away

  Best Actress

• Jennifer Jones - The Song of Bernadette