Filmfare Award for Best Story

List of winners

1950s

• 1955 Mukhram Sharma – Aulad
• 1956 Rajinder Singh Bedi – Garam Coat
• * Manoranjan Ghose – Jagriti
• * Mukhram Sharma – Vachan
• 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 – Gumrah
• * C. V. Sridhar – Dil Ek Mandir
• 1965 Ban Bhatt – Dosti
• * Inder Raj Anand – Sangam
• * Shehar Aur Sapna – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
• 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 Razdan – Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar
• * Shakti Samanta – Anuraag
• 1975 Ishraq-Suja – 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
• * Shanker Shesh – Gharaonda
• * Raju Saigal – Doosra Aadmi
• 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
• * Salim-Javed – Kaala Patthar
• * Sailesh Dey – Gol Maal
• * Shyam Benegal – Junoon
• * Kasinadhuni Viswanath – Sargam
• 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 no award given
• 1988 no award given
• 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 – '
• 1993 no award given
• 1994 Sutanu Gupta – Damini – Lightning
• 1995 Ishraq-Suja – 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 Aditya 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
• * 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 – '
• *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
• * Nitin Kakkar - Filmistaan
• * Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi - PK
• * Anurag Kashyap - Ugly
• * Imtiaz Ali - Highway
• 2016 K. V. Vijayendra Prasad – Bajrangi Bhaijaan
• *Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay - Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
• *Olivia Stewart - Titli
• *R. Balki - Shamitabh
• *Juhi Chaturvedi - Piku
• 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''

  2020s

• 2020 Anubhav Sinha, Gaurav Solanki - Article 15
• * Vasan Bala - Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota '
• * Jagan Shakti - Mission Mangal
• * Nitesh Tiwari, Piyush Gupta and Nikhil Mehrotra - Chhichhore
• * Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti - Gully Boy
• * Abhishek Chaubey, Sudip Sharma - Sonchiriya''