Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist

Five lyricists won the award thrice: Shakeel Badayuni, Shailendra, Sameer, Prasoon Joshi and Irshad Kamil.

In 2005, Javed Akhtar was the single nominee, having all the five nominations of this category to his credit (and eventually winning for "Tere Liye" from Veer-Zaara).

Irshad Kamil and Gulzar were the most successful lyricist of 2010s with three wins each.

First ever female lyricist to be nominated for the award was Preeti Sagar for the song "Mero Gaam Katha Parey" from the film Manthan in 1978.

Rashmi Singh became the first woman to won the award in 2015 for "Muskurane Ki Wajah" from CityLights.