Friday, August 15, 2014

Highest Grossing Stars

By Anant Mathur (August 15, 2014)

Here are some interesting statistics... Below is a list of Bollywood actors and how many times in their career as a lead actor they had the highest grossing film of the year. Since 2014 is not over yet I'm not including it in the list.


No.
Actor


No. of Highest Grossing films of the year
Notes
12.
Abhishek Bachchan
2
He has been nominated 10 times for Filmfare, 3 times in the Best Actor category but never received a Filmfare Best Actor awards. His films rarely find success at the box office; the only films to reach the top are Dhoom 2 and Dhoom 3 which also starred Hrithik Roshan and Aamir Khan, respectively.
11.
Sunny Deol
2
Deol made his debut in the film Betaab for which he was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award. He has been nominated 6 times for Filmfare, 5 times in the Best Actor category and has received 1 Filmfare Best Actor award. His last film to rule the box office was Gadar Ek Prem Katha (2001)
10.
Hrithik Roshan
3
He made his film debut with a leading role in his father, Rakesh's romantic thriller Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000). His performance in the film earned him Filmfare Awards for Best Actor and Best Male Debut. He has been nominated 13 times for Filmfare, 11 times in the Best Actor category and has received 3 Filmfare Best Actor awards. His last film to rule the box office was Dhoom 2 (2006).
9.
Anil Kapoor
4
He has been nominated 15 times for Filmfare, 8 times in the Best Actor category and has received 2 Filmfare Best Actor awards. His last film to rule the box office was No Entry (2005).
8.
Manoj Kumar
4
He has been honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India. He was nominated 13 times for Filmfare awards in various categories. He has been nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor award 4 times, winning once for Beimaan (1972).
7.
Raj Kapoor
5
He was the winner of 2 National Film Awards and 11 Filmfare Awards in India, and a two-time nominee for the Palme d'Or grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his films Awaara (1951) and Boot Polish (1954). His performance in Awaara was ranked as one of the top ten greatest performances of all time by Time magazine. He has been nominated 18 times for Filmfare, 6 times in the Best Actor category and has received 2 Filmfare Best Actor awards. His last film to rule the box office was Sangam (1964).
6.
Shahrukh Khan
5
He has received 14 Filmfare Awards from 30 nominations, including 8 for Best Actor; tied for the most in the category with Dilip Kumar. His last film to rule the box office was Om Shanti Om (2007),
5.
Dharmendra
5
He has been nominated 8 times for Filmfare, 4 times in the Best Actor category but has never received a Filmfare Best Actor awards. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema. His last film to rule the box office was Hukumat (1987).
4.
Aamir Khan
5
He has been nominated 24 times for Filmfare, 17 times in the Best Actor category and has received 2 Filmfare Best Actor awards. From 1989 to 1997 he had 9 consecutive Filmfare Best actor nominations winning once for Raja Hindustani (1996). He won Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut (Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak). He was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri in 2003 and the Padma Bhushan in 2010. His last film to rule the box office was Dhoom 3 (2013).
3.
Amitabh Bachchan
6
His last film to rule the box office as a lead actor was Coolie (1983). He is the most-nominated performer in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 39 nominations overall. He has received 5 Filmfare Best Actor awards.
2.
Dilip Kumar
7
With 7 highest grossing films of the box office as a lead actor, he also holds the Guinness World Record for winning the maximum number of awards by an Indian actor. He has received many awards throughout his career, including 8 Filmfare Best Actor awards and 19 Filmfare nominations.
1.
Salman Khan
9
He is the undisputed king of the Box Office having appeared in the highest grossing film nine separate years during his career, a record that remains unbroken. Salman had 3 consecutive highest grossing films of the year Dabangg (2010), Bodyguard (2011) and Ek Tha Tiger (2012). His last film to rule the box office was Ek Tha Tiger (2012). He has been nominated 15 times for Filmfare, 8 times in the Best Actor category but has never received a Filmfare Best Actor awards. He has won Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut (Maine Pyaar Kiya) and Best Supporting Actor (Kuch Kuch Hota Hai).




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