The 31st Filmfare Awards were held in 1984, with the Indian New Wave Cinema at its peak. Betaab and Masoom led the ceremony with 8 nominations each, followed by Arth with 7 nominations and Ardh Satya with 6 nominations. Ardh Satya and Masoom, both notable films of the Parallel Cinema genre, won 5 awards each, thus becoming the most-awarded films at the ceremony, with the former winning Best Film, Best Director (for Govind Nihalani) and Best Supporting Actor (for Sadashiv Amrapurkar), and the latter winning Best Actor (for Naseeruddin Shah).