11th IIFA Awards
# 11th IIFA Awards

The 2010 IIFA Awards, officially the 11th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2009 and took place between 3 – 5 June 2010. The official ceremony took place on 5 June 2010, at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 23 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. The ceremony was hosted by Boman Irani, Ritesh Deshmukh and Lara Dutta.

In related events, the IIFA Music and Fashion Extravaganza took place on 4 June 2010 at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall. During the event, all technical awards were presented to the winners.

3 Idiots led the ceremony with 22 nominations, followed by Love Aaj Kal with 12 nominations, and Kaminey and Paa with 9 nominations each.

3 Idiots won 16 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Rajkumar Hirani), Best Actress (for Kareena Kapoor), Best Supporting Actor (for Sharman Joshi) and Best Villain (for Boman Irani), thus becoming the most–awarded film at the ceremony.

Other winners were Aladin, Love Aaj Kal and Paa with 3 awards, and All the Best: Fun Begins, Delhi–6, Dev.D, Kal Kissne Dekha, Kaminey and Wake Up Sid with 1 award.

## Background

The awards began in 2000 and the first ceremony was held in London at The Millennium Dome. From then on the awards were held at locations around the world signifying the international success of Bollywood. The next award ceremony was announced to be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2011. The award ceremonies are held in various places around the world.

## Winners of and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

### Popular awards

| Best Picture | Best Director |
| - | - |
| 3 Idiots – Vinod Chopra Productions Dev.D – UTV Spot Boy and Bindass Kaminey – UTV Motion Pictures Love Aaj Kal – Illuminati Films and Eros International Paa – Reliance Big Pictures, MAD Entertainment Ltd. and Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Wake Up Sid – Dharma Productions | Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots Anurag Kashyap – Dev.D Ayan Mukerji – Wake Up Sid Imtiaz Ali – Love Aaj Kal R. Balki – Paa Vishal Bhardwaj – Kaminey |
| Best Performance In A Leading Role Male | Best Performance In A Leading Role Female |
| Amitabh Bachchan – Paa as Auro Aamir Khan – 3 Idiots as Ranchhoddas "Rancho" Shamaldas Chanchad / Phunsukh Wangdu Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid as Siddharth "Sid" Mehra Saif Ali Khan – Love Aaj Kal as Jai Vardhan Singh Salman Khan – Wanted as Radhe / Rajveer Shekhawat Shahid Kapoor – Kaminey as Charlie Sharma / Guddu Sharma | Kareena Kapoor – 3 Idiots as Pia Sahastrabudhhe (tie) Vidya Balan – Paa as Vidya (tie) Deepika Padukone – Love Aaj Kal as Meera Pandit Mahie Gill – Dev.D as Parminder (Paro) Priyanka Chopra – Kaminey as Sweety Shekhar Bhope |
| Best Performance In A Supporting Role Male | Best Performance In A Supporting Role Female |
| Sharman Joshi – 3 Idiots as Raju Rastogi Abhimanyu Singh – Gulaal as Rananjay Singh "Ransa" Abhishek Bachchan – Paa as Amol Arte Irrfan Khan – New York as Roshan R. Madhavan – 3 Idiots as Farhan Qureshi Rishi Kapoor – Love Aaj Kal as Veer Singh | Divya Dutta – Delhi–6 as Jalebi Arundhati Nag – Paa as Vidya's mother Kalki Koechlin – Dev.D as Leni/Chandramukhi (Chanda) Kirron Kher – Kurbaan as Aapa Supriya Pathak – Wake Up Sid as Sarita |
| Best Performance In A Comic Role | Best Performance In A Negative Role |
| Sanjay Dutt – All the Best: Fun Begins as Dharam Kapoor Ajay Devgn – All the Best: Fun Begins as Prem Chopra Govinda – Life Partner as Jeet Oberoi Johnny Lever – De Dana Dan as Kaala Krishna Murari Omi Vaidya – 3 Idiots as Chatur Ramalingam (Silencer) | Boman Irani – 3 Idiots as Viru Sahastrabudhhe (Virus) Amole Gupte – Kaminey as Sunil Shekhar Bhope (Bhope Bhau) Arya Babbar – Jail as Kabir Malik Kay Kay Menon – Gulaal as Dukey Bana Prakash Raj – Wanted as Gani Bhai / Shanshuddin Azgar Gani |
| Male Debutant Star | Female Debutant Star |
| Omi Vaidya – 3 Idiots as Chatur Ramalingam (Silencer) (tie) Jackky Bhagnani – Kal Kissne Dekha as Nihaal Singh (tie) | Jacqueline Fernandez – Aladin as Jasmine (tie) Mahi Gill – Dev.D as Parminder (Paro) (tie) |

### Musical awards

| Best Music Director | Best Lyrics |
| - | - |
| Pritam – Love Aaj Kal A. R. Rahman – Delhi–6 Amit Trivedi – Dev.D Shantanu Moitra – 3 Idiots Vishal Bhardwaj – Kaminey | Swanand Kirkire – 3 Idiots Amitabh Bhattacharya – Dev.D Gulzar – Kaminey Irshad Kamil – Love Aaj Kal Prasoon Joshi – Delhi–6 |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Best Female Playback Singer |
| Shaan for "Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh" – 3 Idiots Atif Aslam for "Tu Jaane Na" – Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Mohit Chauhan for "Masakali" – Delhi-6 Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for "Aaj Din Chadheya" – Love Aaj Kal Sonu Nigam for "All Izz Well" – 3 Idiots Sukhwinder Singh and Vishal Dadlani for "Dhan Te Nan" – Kaminey | Kavita Seth for "Iktara" – Wake Up Sid Rekha Bhardwaj for "Sasural Genda Phool" – Delhi–6 Shilpa Rao for "Mudi Mudi" – Paa Shreya Ghoshal for "Zoobi Doobi" – 3 Idiots Sunidhi Chauhan for "Chor Bazaari" – Love Aaj Kal Tulsi Kumar for "Haafiz Khuda" – 8 x 10 Tasveer |
| Best Background Score |
| 3 Idiots – Sanjay Wandrekar, Atul Raninga and Shantanu Moitra |

### Backstage awards

| Best Story | Best Screenplay |
| - | - |
| 3 Idiots – Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra Dev.D – Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane Love Aaj Kal – Imtiaz Ali Paa – R. Balki Wake Up Sid – Ayan Mukerji | 3 Idiots – Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
| Best Dialogue |
| 3 Idiots – Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi |

### Technical awards

| Best Art Direction | Best Action |
| - | - |
| Aladin – Sabu Cyril | Kaminey – Shyam Kaushal |
| Best Cinematographer | Best Choreography |
| 3 Idiots – C. K. Muraleedharan | Love Aaj Kal – Bosco Martis and Caesar Gonsalves |
| Best Costume Design | Best Editing |
| Love Aaj Kal – Anaita Shroff Adajania and Dolly Ahluwalia | 3 Idiots – Rajkumar Hirani |
| Best Makeup | Best Sound Recording |
| Paa – Christien Tinsley and Domini Till | 3 Idiots – Bishwadeep Chatterjee and Nihal Ranjan Samel |
| Best Sound Re–Recording | Best Special Effects |
| 3 Idiots – Anup Dev | Aladin – Charles Darby and Eyecube Labs |

### Special awards

**Green Globe Award**

* Vivek Oberoi

**Habitat Humanity Ambassadorship Award**

* Salman Khan

**Outstanding Achievement in Cinema**

* Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (Indian Cinema – Male)
* Zeenat Aman (Indian Cinema – Female)
* Anil Kapoor (International Cinema)
