13th IIFA Awards


The 2012 IIFA Awards, officially the 13th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honouring the films of 2011 took place between 7–9 June 2012. The official ceremony took place on 9 June 2012, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore for the second time after 2004. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. Actors Shahid Kapoor and Farhan Akhtar co-hosted the ceremony the first time. The IIFA Red Carpet was hosted by Karan Tacker
In related events, IIFA Rocks, also known as the IIFA Music and Fashion Extravaganza took place on 8 June 2012 at the Esplanade Concert Hall. The event was hosted by Ayushmann Khurrana and Chitrangada Singh. During the event, all technical awards were presented to the winners. It was telecast on 1 & 7 July on popular Hindi Entertainment channel Star Plus.
The Dirty Picture led the ceremony with 10 nominations, followed by Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara with 9 nominations, Rockstar with 8 nominations, Bodyguard with 7 nominations, and 7 Khoon Maaf with 5 nominations.
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara won 9 awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Following the IIFA Voting Weekend, which occurred from 31 March – 1 April 2012, the nominees, along with the winners of the technical awards were announced on 4 May 2012 on the IIFA website by Sabbas Joseph, director of Wizcraft International Entertainment.
The winners will be announced during the main awards ceremony on 9 June 2012. The technical awards will be given to their respective winners during the IIFA Rocks on 8 June 2012.

Popular awards

Best FilmBest Director
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – Eros International, Excel Entertainment and UTV Motion Pictures
Zoya Akhtar – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
  • * Imtiaz Ali – Rockstar
  • * Milan Luthria – The Dirty Picture
  • * Raj Kumar Gupta – No One Killed Jessica
  • * Rohit Shetty – Singham
    • Best Actor In A Leading RoleBest Actress In A Leading Role
    Ranbir Kapoor – Rockstar as Janardhan Jakhar / Jordan
  • * Ajay Devgn – Singham as Inspector Bajirao Singham
  • * Amitabh Bachchan – Aarakshan as Prabhakar Anand
  • * Hrithik Roshan – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as Arjun
  • * Salman Khan – Bodyguard as Lovely Singh
  • * Shah Rukh Khan – Don 2 as Don
    		• Vidya Balan – The Dirty Picture as Reshma/Silk
  • * Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu as Tanuja Trivedi
  • * Kareena Kapoor – Bodyguard as Divya
  • * Mahie Gill – Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster as Madhavi
  • * Priyanka Chopra – 7 Khoon Maaf as Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes
    • Best Actor In A Supporting RoleBest Actress In A Supporting Role
    Farhan Akhtar – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as Imraan
  • * Abhay Deol – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as Kabir
  • * Emraan Hashmi – The Dirty Picture as Abraham
  • * Naseeruddin Shah – The Dirty Picture as Suryakant
  • * Randeep Hooda – Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster as Lalit/Babloo
    		• Parineeti Chopra – Ladies vs Ricky Bahl as Dimple Chaddha
  • * Divya Dutta – Stanley Ka Dabba as Ms. Rosy
  • * Kalki Koechlin – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as Natasha
  • * Sonali Kulkarni – Singham as Megha Kadam
  • * Swara Bhasker – Tanu Weds Manu as Payal
    • Male Debutant StarFemale Debutant Star
    Vidyut Jamwal – Force as VishnuParineeti Chopra – Ladies vs Ricky Bahl as Dimple Chaddha
    Best Performance In A Comic RoleBest Performance In A Negative Role
    Riteish Deshmukh – Double Dhamaal as Roy
  • * Deepak Dobriyal – Tanu Weds Manu as Pappi
  • * Divyendu Sharma – Pyaar Ka Punchnama as Nishant aka Liquid
  • * Paresh Rawal – Ready as Balidaan Bhardwaj
  • * Pitobash – Shor in the City as Mandook
    		• Prakash Raj – Singham as Jaikant Shikre
  • * Boman Irani – Don 2 as Vardhaan
  • * Irrfan Khan – 7 Khoon Maaf as Wasiullah Khan
  • * Naseeruddin Shah – The Dirty Picture as Suryakant
  • * Vidyut Jamwal – Force as Vishnu
    • Best Story-
    Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar
  • * Rockstar – Imtiaz Ali
  • * Stanley Ka Dabba – Amole Gupte
  • * Tanu Weds Manu – Himanshu Sharma
  • * The Dirty Picture – Rajat Aroraa
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    Superlatives

    AwardsFilm
    9Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
    6Rockstar
    4Ra.One
    4The Dirty Picture
    2Ladies vs Ricky Bahl
    2Singham