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The State Awards instituted the individual award in 1968 as the "Bharat Award for the Best Actor"; in 1975, it was renamed as the "Rajat Kamal Award for the Best Actor". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Throughout the past 45 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, the Government of India has presented a total of 52 "Best Actor" awards to 40 actors.
He has been the most domestically successful Indian actor. [26] Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (born 27 December 1965), better known as Salman Khan (pronunciation: [səlˈmaːn xaːn];) is one of the biggest and among the most economically viable actors of India. In the 2010s, every movie he acted in as the main lead commanded over 100 crores.
In 2001, he was ranked as the "Most Powerful Indian Film Star" by Forbes. [193] On 10 September 2001 he was awarded the "Actor of the Century" award at the Alexandria International Film Festival. Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni presented Bachchan with the award in recognition of his contribution to international cinema. [194]
Celebrity 100 was an annual list compiled and published by Forbes magazine from 1999 to 2020, preceded by the Forbes Top 40 entertainers list. Until 2014, the rankings were made based on a complex combination of factors, including earnings, social media following, magazine covers and a range of qualitative metrics, with the aim of "measuring power".
Dilip Kumar also holds the record for most consecutive wins, having won the award for three years in a row from 1956 to 1958. Six other actors have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Rajesh Khanna (1971–72), Sanjeev Kumar (1976–77), Amitabh Bachchan (1978–79), Naseeruddin Shah (1981–82), Shah Rukh Khan (1998–99), and Ranbir Kapoor (2012–13).
The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals from 1973 until 2020, and by the NFDC since 2021.
For his performance as an alcoholic in Devdas, he received various Best Actor awards in India including Filmfare, IIFA, Screen, and Zee Cine Awards. [7] Khan was nominated for a Filmfare Award for Best Actor for three of his 2004 releases: the masala film Main Hoon Na , the star-crossed romance Veer-Zaara , and the social drama Swades , winning ...
He regularly features in listings of the most influential people in Indian culture, and in 2008, Newsweek named him one of their fifty most powerful people in the world. In 2022, Khan was voted one of the 50 greatest actors of all time in a readers' poll by Empire, and in 2023, Time named him as one of the most influential people in the world. [3]