That Devdas swept the awards was only anticipated, winning in Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director categories but to name a few. However, the surprise, or rather shock of the evening was Madhuri Dixit losing out on Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Chandramukhi in Devdas. Instead Sushmita Sen walked away with the award for her role in Filhaal. This has caused quite a bit of a stir with a number of web polls resulting in an almost unanimous public support for Madhuri winning the award. However, it's the jury that decides and speculation of Rakhee gunning for her daughter's film Filhaal winning some awards will certainly raise a few eyebrows.

Zee Cine Awards 2003 will certainly make the history books for joint awarding Best Female Playback Singers to Kavita Subramaniam and Shreya Gosai for their efforts in Dola Re Dola from Devdas. Also Nadeem-Shravan (Raaz) and A.R. Rehman (Saathiya) were joint winners for Best Music, which was unsuspecting from a hopeful Ismail Darbar for his musical score, Devdas.

Despite Devdas winning ample awards, The Legend Of Bhagat Singh and Saathiya picked up a generous amount of trophies too. The List of Winners can be found below.

BEST FILM: Devdas

BEST DIRECTOR: Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Devdas)

BEST STORY: Jaideep Sahni (Company)

BEST ACTOR: Shah Rukh Khan (Devdas)

BEST ACTRESS: Aishwarya Rai (Devdas)

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Vivek Oberoi (Company)

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Sushmita Sen (Filhaal)

BEST ACTOR IN A NEGATIVE ROLE: Ajay Devgan (Deewangee)

BEST ACTOR IN COMIC ROLE: Paresh Rawal (Awara Paagal Deewana)

BEST MALE DEBUT: Vivek Oberoi (Company)

BEST FEMALE DEBUT: Malini Sharma (Raaz)

BEST MUSIC: Nadeem Shravan (Raaz) and A R Rahman (Saathiya)

BEST LYRICIST: Gulzar (Saathiya)

BEST MALE PLAYBACK: Sonu Nigam (Title song, Saathiya)

BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK: Shreya Ghosal and Kavita Subramaniam (Dola re dola; Devdas)

BEST BACKGROUND SCORE: A R Rahman (The Legend of Bhagat Singh)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER: Binod Pradhan (Devdas)

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER: Saroj Khan (Maar dala, Devdas)

BEST SOUND: Robert Taylor (Saathiya)

BEST EDITING: A V Mayekar (The Legend of Bhagat Singh)

BEST SCREENPLAY: Mahesh Bhatt (Raaz)

BEST DIALOGUE: Piyush Mishra, Ranjeet Kapoor, Rajkumar Santoshi (The Legend of Bhagat Singh)

BEST ACTION: Amin Ghani (The Legend of Bhagat Singh)

BEST ART DIRECTOR: Nitish Roy (23rd March 1931 Shaheed)

BEST COSTUME: Neeta Lulla, Abu-Sandeep, Reza Shariffi (Devdas)

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Hema Malini

QUEEN OF HEARTS: Preity Zinta

TRUE INDIAN ACTRESS: Aishwarya Rai

DYNAMIC DUO: Dino Morea, Bipasha Basu

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