who won first filmfare award for best actor
1st Filmfare Awards This led to the section where David announced the awards. No nominations were announced, just the winners. Keep with the voting process, where the readers of the magazine,[3] decided the winners through postal votes, even the awards were given away by readers, chosen via a lucky draw. For example, the Best Film trophy was given by Ambassador Allen to a reader, Saijuddin from Hyderabad, who in turn presented it to Bimal Roy. This was followed by Best Actress which was won by Meena Kumari for Baiju Bawra, Best Actor went to Dilip Kumar for Daag.[2] Next, Ace music director Naushad won his first and only Filmfare Award.[4] The final award Best Director was won by Bimal Roy, present by Sonny Cordiero, a reader from Mumbai.[2]