8th Annual BFJA Awards

The 8th Annual Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards were held on 1945, honoring the best Indian cinema in 1944.^[1]

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

References

This page was last edited on 3 September 2021, at 12:03