Announced IIFA 2010 Nominations

After a successful year for Indian cinema, with astral performances at the box office, the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) announced the nominations for the IIFA Awards 2010. The 11th celebrations of the Videocon IIFA Weekend and Micromax IIFA Awards were held in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on June 3rd - 5th, 2010 respectively.


The Popular categories of the Micromax IIFA Awards 2010 included awards like Best Film, Best Direction, Performance in a Leading Role - Male and Female, Performance in a Supporting Role - Male and Female, Performance in a Comic Role, Performance in a Negative Role, Music Direction, Best Story, Best Lyrics and Best Playback Singer. The online voting for the Awards went live on the 10th of May, 2010 and were disclosed to audiences of Indian Cinema, across the world. Lets have a quick look at the nominations which were announced for the IIFA 2010 Awards-

Best Film category-

Vidu Vinod Chopra- 3 IDIOTS
Boney Kapoor- WANTED
Anurag Kashyap and Ronnie Screwvala - DEV D
Vishal Bharadwaj and Ronnie Screwvala- KAMINEY
Sunil Manchanda and AB Corp-PAA

Best Direction nominations were-

Rajkumar Hirani- 3 IDIOTS
Anurag Kashyap- DEV D
Ayan Mukerji- WAKE UP SID
Vishal Bharadwaj- KAMINEY
Imtiaz Ali- LOVE AAJ KAL
R.Balki-PAA

Performance in a leading role- Male-

Aamir Khan- 3 IDIOTS
Amitabh Bachchan- PAA
Saif Ali Khan- LOVE AAJ KAL
Salman Khan- WANTED
Shahid Kapoor- KAMINEY
Ranbir Kapoor-WAKE UP SID

Performance in a leading role-Female-

Kareena Kapoor- 3 IDIOTS
Priyanka Chopra- KAMINEY
Deepika Padukone-LOVE AAJ KAL
Vidya Balan-PAA
Mahie Gill- DEV D

Performance in a supporting role-Male-

Sharman Joshi- 3 IDIOTS
Irrfan- NEW YORK
R. Madhavan- 3 IDIOTS
Abhimanyu Singh- GULAL
Abhishek Bachchan- PAA
Rishi Kapoor- LOVE AAJ KAL

Performance in a supporting role-Female

Divya Dutta- DELHI 6
Supriya Pathak- WAKE UP SID
Kirron Kher- KURRBAN
Kalki Koechlin- DEV D
Arundhati Naag- PAA

Performance in a comic role

Govinda- LIFE PARTNER
Sanjay Dutt- ALL THE BEST
Omi Vaidya- 3 IDIOTS
Ajay Devgn- ALL THE BEST
Johny Lever- DE DANA DAN

Performance in a negative role-

Boman Irani- 3 IDIOTS
Amol Gupte- KAMINEY
Prakash Raj- WANTED
Kay Kay Menon- GULAL
Arya Babbar- JAIL

Best story nominations were-

Imtiaz Ali- LOVE AAJ KAL
R.Balki- PAA
Abhijat Joshi,Raj Kumar Hirani & Vidu Vinod Chopra- 3 IDIOTS
Ayan Mukherji- WAKE UP SID
Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane- DEV D

Best lyrics-

Swanand Kirkire- 3 IDIOTS
Prasoon Joshi- DELHI 6
Irshad Kamil- LOVE AAJ KAL
Gulzar- KAMINEY
Amitabh Bhattacharya- DEV D

Playback singer-Male-

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan-Aaj Din Chadiya (LOVE AAJ KAL)
Sukhvinder Singh & Vishal Dadlani- Dan Te Nan (KAMINEY)
Shaan- Behti Hawa Sa Tha Who (3 IDIOTS)
Mohit Chauhan- Masakali (DELHI 6)
Sonu Nigam- All Izz Well (3 IDIOTS)
Atif Aslam- Tu Jaane Na (AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI)

Playback singer-Female-

Tulsi Kumar-Hafiz Khuda (8X10 TASVEER)
Shreya Ghoshal- Zoobi Doobi ( 3 IDIOTS)
Kavita Seth- Ek Tara (WAKE UP SID)
Rekha Bharadwaj- Sasural Genda Phool (DELHI 6)
Sunidhi Chauhan - Chor Baazari (LOVE AAJ KAL)
Shilpa Rao- Moodi Moodi (PAA)