The nominations for the Screenwriters Association Awards 2025 (SWA Awards 2025) were announced on Saturday. Imtiaz Ali’s Amar Singh Chamkila has bagged 8 nominations in Feature Film Category while Panchayat 3 and Freedom at Midnight got most nods in series.
Amar Singh Chamkila has been nominated across all categories— best story, best screenplay, best dialogues (all three by Imtiaz Ali and Sajid Ali), and best lyrics for Irshad Kamil. The best debut category (films) is led by three filmmakers behind the acclaimed, widely discussed movies: Shuchi Talati for Girls Will Be Girls, Biplab Goswami and Sneha Desai for India's Oscar Submission Laapataa Ladies and Bodhayan Roychaudhury for Sector 36.
Here's a complete list of nominations:
Nominations for Feature Film- Best Debut category
Girls Will Be Girls - Shuchi Talati
Laapataa Ladies - Biplab Goswami & Sneha Desai
Sector 36 - Bodhayan Roychaudhury
Nominations for Feature Film-Best Story category
Amar Singh Chamkila - Imtiaz Ali & Sajid Ali
Berlin - Atul Sabharwal
CTRL - Avinash Sampath
Fairy Folk - Karan Gour
Madgaon Express - Kunal Kemmu
Nominations for Feature Film-Best Screenplay category
Amar Singh Chamkila - Imtiaz Ali & Sajid Ali
Berlin - Atul Sabharwal
CTRL - Avinash Sampath & Vikramaditya Motwane
Fairy Folk - Karan Gour
Madgaon Express - Kunal Kemmu
Nominations for Feature Film-Best Dialogue category
Amar Singh Chamkila - Imtiaz Ali & Sajid Ali
CTRL - Sumukhi Suresh
Fairy Folk - Karan Gour
Jo Tera Hai Who Mera Hai - Devang Tiwari & Amit Pradhan
Madgaon Express - Kunal Kemmu
Stree 2 - Niren Bhatt
Nominations for Feature Film-Best Lyrics category
Amar Singh Chamkila - Irshad Kamil (‘Baaja’, ‘Bol Mohabbat’, ‘Ishq Mitaye’, ‘Naram Kaalja’, ‘Vida Karo’)
Mr. & Mrs. Mahi - Sagar (‘Tu Hai Toh’)
Nominations for Web Drama - Best Screenplay category
Freedom At Midnight - Abhinandan Gupta, Adwitiya Kareng Das, Gundeep Kaur & Revanta Sarabhai
Gyaarah Gyaarah - Sunjoy Shekhar, Puja Banerji & Umesh Bist
IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack - Anubhav Sinha & Trishant Srivastava
Lootere - Vishal Kapoor & Suparn S Varma
Maharani: Season 3 - Subhash Kapoor & Nandan Singh
Nominations for Web Drama - Best Dialogue category
Freedom At Midnight - Divy Nidhi Sharma & Ethan Taylor
Gyaarah Gyaarah - Gautam Govind Sharma & Sameer Saral Sharma
IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack - Anubhav Sinha & Trishant Srivastava
Lootere - Vishal Kapoor
Maharani: Season 3 - Umashankar Singh
Nominations for Web Comedy/Musical/Romance - Best Story category
Bandish Bandits: Season 2 - Atmika Didwania, Karan Singh Tyagi, Anand Tiwari, Sejal Pachisia & Digant Patil
Cubicles: Season 4 - Shreyansh Pandey, Avinash Singh & Vijay Verma
Gullak: Season 4 - Shreyansh Pandey & Vidit Tripathi
Panchayat - Season 3 - Chandan Kumar
Raat Jawaan Hai - Khyati Anand-Puthran
Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper - Puneet Krishna
Nominations for Web Comedy/Musical/Romance - Best Screenplay category
Gullak: Season 4 - Vidit Tripathi
Mamla Legal Hai - Saurabh Khanna & Kunal Aneja
Panchayat - Season 3 - Chandan Kumar
Raat Jawaan Hai - Khyati Anand-Puthran
Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper - Puneet Krishna, Arati Raval, Sumit Purohit & Karan Vyas
Nominations for Web Comedy/Musical/Romance - Best Dialogue category
Gullak: Season 4 - Vidit Tripathi
Mamla Legal Hai - Saurabh Khanna & Kunal Aneja
Panchayat - Season 3 - Chandan Kumar
Raat Jawaan Hai - Khyati Anand-Puthran
Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper - Puneet Krishna & Sumit Purohit
Nominations for Television-Best Story category
Anupamaa - Namita Rakesh Vartak
Bas Itna Sa Khwaab - Agastaya Jain & Priya Ramanathan
Jubilee Talkies - Amitabh Singh Ramkshatra
Kavya – Ek Jazbaa, Ek Junoon - Shabia Walia, Malavika Asthana & S. Manasvi
Megha Barsenge - Saurabh Tewari, Shivani Singh & Amitabh Singh Ramkshatra
Nominations for Television-Best Screenplay category
Bas Itna Sa Khwaab - Lakshmi Jayakumar
Iss Ishq Ka… Rabb Rakha - Leena Gangopadhyay
Kavya – Ek Jazbaa, Ek Junoon - Malavika Asthana
Megha Barsenge - Saurabh Tewari, Pranjal Saxena & Shashank Kunwar
Pushpa Impossible - Shabia Walia & Rajesh Joshi
Nominations for Television-Best Dialogue category
Anupamaa - Divy Nidhi Sharma & Aparajita Sharma
Bas Itna Sa Khwaab - Veeshakha Peeyush
Mehndi Wala Ghar - Pranjal Saxena & Shashank Kunwar
Tenali Rama – Season 2 - Lawrence John
Nominations for TV/Web-Best Lyrics category
Panchayat - Season 3 - JUNO (Asman Rootha)
Big Girls Don’t Cry - Anvitaa Dutt (Title Track), Shashwat Sachdev (Pehli Sharam)
Gullak: Season 4 - JUNO (Feeling Nayi Hai)
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar - Sanjay Leela Bhansali & A M Turaz (Saiyaan Hatto Jaao)
Citadel: Honey Bunny - Akhil (Zaroori Toh Nahi)