Deepika Padukone: Three Complete Deep Dives: Awards, Wealth, and the Family She Has Deliberately Protected

58 Wins, 129 Nominations — and the One Award That Still Hasn’t Come

Deepika Padukone has received 129 award nominations and won 58 of them across 19 years — a ratio that reflects both the consistent quality of her output and the frequency with which she is recognised by multiple award bodies simultaneously for the same performance. The headline number, however, slightly obscures the more interesting story about which awards she has won and which have remained elusive.​

Her Filmfare Award record is the most precise account of her career arc. She has won the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award for Om Shanti Om (2007), two Filmfare Critics Awards for Best Actress — for Cocktail (2012) and Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013) — and the Filmfare Best Actress (Popular) award for Piku (2015). Nominations without wins include Bajirao Mastani (2015), Padmaavat (2018), Chhapaak (2020), and Pathaan (2023). The pattern reveals something interesting: her most critically unanimous performances — particularly in Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat — did not convert to wins at Filmfare, where popular vote and jury decisions split against her in years when competition was unusually strong. She has won three IIFA Best Actress awards, nine Screen Awards across various categories, three Stardust Awards, and six Zee Cine Awards.

What she has not yet won — and what remains the most significant gap in an otherwise comprehensive trophy cabinet — is the National Film Award for Best Actress. Her performances in Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat were both expected by critics to be competitive, and Chhapaak was submitted as a strong contender in the social drama category. None converted. This is not unusual for commercially dominant actresses in Indian cinema — the National Award jury has historically preferred performances from parallel or regional cinema over mainstream Bollywood — but it remains a visible absence.​

Beyond formal film awards, her recognition outside the industry is arguably more impressive than the statuettes inside it. She was selected as a jury member at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival — the first Indian woman to serve on that jury since Sharmila Tagore in 2009. In 2025, she was named a jury member for the LVMH Prize — one of the most prestigious appointments in global fashion, decided by the luxury group that owns Louis Vuitton, Dior, Givenchy, and 75 other brands. Time magazine has placed her on its 100 Most Influential People list. Forbes has included her multiple times on its global World’s Highest-Paid Entertainers list. CNN-IBN gave her its Special Achievement Award in 2013 specifically for “reinventing herself as a leading lady with acting chops” — a citation that captures the commercial and critical dual achievement of that extraordinary year precisely.

Her Padma Shri from the Government of India, awarded in 2018, was recognition of a career contribution that by that point had already included five years of consistent box office dominance and the founding of The Live Love Laugh Foundation, which had already run two national mental health campaigns. The award was given the same year as Padmaavat‘s release — making January to March 2018 perhaps the most formally recognised quarter of her professional life.​

₹500 Crore at 40: What the Numbers Actually Break Down to

Deepika Padukone turned 40 on January 5, 2026, with an estimated net worth of ₹500 crore ($60 million) — a figure built across six distinct income streams that are worth examining individually because they reflect a financial architecture more sophisticated than most Indian actresses have built.

Her film income is now reported at ₹15–30 crore per film, with the upper figure applicable to marquee productions like King (2026) and Love & War (2026). This places her as the highest-paid Indian actress per film by a significant margin — the nearest comparable figure for any other Indian actress is estimated at ₹10–15 crore. Her Ka Productions income adds a separate revenue layer: as a producer on Pathaan, Jawan, Fighter, and Kalki 2898 AD, her profit-sharing arrangements across those four films alone — which collectively grossed over ₹25 billion worldwide — would have generated producer-side income well above her acting fees for each project.

Her brand endorsement income is estimated at ₹80–120 crore annually, with individual contracts at the luxury segment commanding ₹15–20 crore per deal. In 2022, she launched 82°E, her own skincare brand — named after the longitude that runs through India — which has since built a significant consumer following and adds a direct-to-consumer revenue stream that endorsement-only arrangements cannot provide. The brand’s product range spans face serums, sunscreens, moisturisers, and body care, positioned at the premium segment of Indian skincare.

Her real estate portfolio is the most substantial known asset base among Indian actresses. The couple’s primary residence is a quadruplex in Bandra purchased for ₹119 crore — an 11,266 sq. ft. spread with a 1,300 sq. ft. exclusive terrace, located close to Shah Rukh Khan’s Mannat on the same Bandstand strip. They also own a 5BHK apartment in Beaumonde Towers, Worli (purchased for ₹40 crore), a bungalow in Alibagh valued at ₹22 crore covering 9,000 sq. metres with five bedrooms, and a serviced apartment in Bangalore (₹6.79 crore) purchased jointly with her father Prakash Padukone in 2021. Total known real estate assets across these properties exceed ₹190 crore — a figure that represents roughly 38% of her total estimated net worth and reflects a deliberate diversification strategy beyond film income.​

Dua, the Name That Took Two Months, and a Privacy Decision Both Parents Held Together

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh’s daughter Dua Padukone Singh was born on September 8, 2024, at HN Reliance Foundation Hospital in Mumbai. The birth announcement came without photographs — a carefully worded statement on their respective social media accounts with a single request: “We request privacy and blessings at this time and will update the world when we are ready.”

The name took two months to decide. Deepika has described the process as something both she and Ranveer refused to rush — they wanted to hold the baby, observe her personality beginning to develop, and allow the right name to arrive rather than arriving at the hospital with a shortlist. The idea for “Dua” came to Deepika in the middle of the night while Ranveer was away on a shoot, and she texted it to him immediately. “It felt like a beautiful summary of what she means to us and why she means what she means to us,” she said. Dua is an Arabic word meaning “prayer” — specifically the act of calling out to a higher power in hope and gratitude. Given that Deepika has spoken publicly about her depression and the years it took her to understand her own emotional needs, naming her daughter “prayer” carries personal resonance that is not accidental.

The couple revealed the name in November 2024 — two months after the birth — and then kept Dua entirely absent from public visibility for over a year, including requesting paparazzi agencies to not photograph her if spotted during family outings. The deliberateness of this privacy was consistent with choices they had made since their wedding — the Lake Como ceremony that excluded all media, the six-year private engagement, the refusal to turn their relationship into content. On Diwali, October 21, 2025, they posted the first family photograph on Instagram — Deepika and Dua twinning in red, Ranveer in cream — and the post broke engagement records within hours. Ranveer has spoken about how thoroughly Deepika’s life has reoriented around Dua since her birth: “Everything in Deepika’s life now revolves around Dua. Everything else comes secondary, sometimes even her own health.”​

What makes the couple’s parenting approach notable within the context of Indian celebrity culture is the consistency of their boundary-setting. Most Bollywood couples eventually leverage their children as content — baby photographs, birthday posts, airport appearances with the child prominently featured — because it is among the highest-engagement content any celebrity can generate. Deepika and Ranveer waited thirteen months before sharing a single image, and when they did share it, the context was a personal festival celebration rather than a publicity campaign. Both parents are in full production schedules in 2026 — Deepika shooting King and Love & War, Ranveer preparing for multiple concurrent projects — but every interview either has given since Dua’s birth has located her as the primary organising fact of their daily lives, around which everything else is arranged.