Sholay is one such film of Indian cinema whose dialogues and songs are still famous. A cult film that was liked by everyone from children to old people and it got a lot of praise even in foreign countries. But do you know that this superhit film got only one Filmfare Award? Which film got nominated in 9 categories? Sholay was nominated for 9 Filmfare Awards and the only winner was M.S. Shinde who won the award for Best Editing. Yes the film received nominations for Best Film Best Director Best Actor Best Supporting Actor Best Comedian Best Story Best Music Director Best Lyricist and Best Playback Singer along with Best Editing. This film won just one award Sholay got only one award out of nine nominations - for Best Editing. Almost all the other awards were given to Amitabh Bachchans film Deewar. Yes it was the film Deewar that won most of these awards. These awards include- Best Film (Gulshan Rai) Best Director (Yash Chopra) Best Supporting Actor (Shashi Kapoor) Best Story (Salim-Javed) Best Screenplay (Salim-Javed) Best Dialogue (Salim-Javed) Best Sound (M.A. Sheikh) Why Sholay is considered an all time favourite? Sholay might have not won Filmfare Awards but it did win three awards at the Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards in 1976. Sholay also received a special award at the 50th Filmfare Awards in 2005 - Best Film of 50 Years. Sholay was released in 1975 and starred Dharmendra Amitabh Bachchan Hema Malini Sanjeev Kumar etc. It was directed by Ramesh Sippy and written by the Salim-Javed duo. The film was released in theatres on 15 August 1975 and held the record of the highest grossing film of Indian cinema until 1994. This record was broken by Hum Aapke Hain Kaun released in 1994. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Sholay.