The Bollywood Movie Awards was an annual film award ceremony held between 1999 and 2007 in Long Island

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, New York

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, United States

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, celebrating films and actors from the Bollywood

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 film industry based in Mumbai

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, India

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.

History

The award ceremony was introduced in 1992 by Kamal Dandona, the head of The Bollywood Group and was originally titled, "Nataraj Awards." It was re-named Bollywood Movie Awards in 1997. Michael Jackson

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 won a Humanitarian Award in 1999, Richard Gere

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 a Man of Conscience award, and Sharon Stone

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 an award connected to her work with AIDS

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. During the 2007 ceremonies, Danny Glover

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 received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Global Entertainment and Mira Nair

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 for Pride of India Award. Phylicia Rashad

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 and Donald Trump

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 also made appearances.

Fans

Fans of Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 films nominated their favorite stars for each respective award category on the Bollywood Group's official website.

Awards

• Best Film
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Film
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Director
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Director
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Actress
  Frequent winners include Kajol and Urmila Matondkar .The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Supporting Actor
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actress
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Supporting Actress
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Villain
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Villain
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Comedian
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Comedian
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Male Debut
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Male Debut
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Female Debut
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Female Debut
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Critics Award Male
  Bollywood Movie Award - Critics Award Male
  The winners are listed below:...
  
  
• Critics Award Female
  Bollywood Movie Award - Critics Award Female
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Most Sensational Actor
  Bollywood Movie Award - Most Sensational Actor
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Most Sensational Actress
  Bollywood Movie Award - Most Sensational Actress
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Lyricist
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Lyricist
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Music
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Music Director
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Singer Male
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Playback Singer Male
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Singer Female
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Playback Singer Female
  The winners are listed below:--See also:* Filmfare Best Female Playback Award* Bollywood Movie Awards* Bollywood* Cinema of India...
  
  
• Best Costume Designer
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Costume Designer
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Choreography
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Choreography
  The winners are listed below:-...
  
  
• Best Story
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Story
  The winners of the "Bollywood Movie Award -Best Story"-External links:**** *...
  
  
• Best Dialogue
  Bollywood Movie Award - Best Dialogue
  The winners of the "Bollywood Movie Award -Best Dialogue"-External links:**...
  
  

External links

• Official website
• Booray for Bollywood! - Esquire
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• Saavn - Social networking site for Bollywood music and movies
• B'wood razzmatazz at film awards in NY - CNN-IBN