International Indian Film Academy Awards

The International Indian Film Academy Awards are presented annually by the International Indian Film Academy to honor both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood. The awards began in the year 2000 and its first ceremony was held in London at The Millennium Dome.

After that it was organized in the various parts of the world like in

2000- London

2001- Sun City

2002- Genting Highlands

2003- Johannesburg

2004- Singapore

2005- Amsterdam

2006- Dubai

2007- Sheffield

2008- Bangkok

2009- Macau

2010- Colombo

2011- Toronto

Popular awards

* Best Film
* Best Director
* Best Actor
* Best Actress
* Best Supporting Actor
* Best Supporting Actress
* Best Actor In a Villainous Role
* Best Actor In a Comic Role
* Best Music Director
* Best Lyrics
* Best Playback Singer Male
* Best Playback Singer Female

Toronto to host IIFA Awards in 2011

In December 2009 it was announced that members of the Indian Film Fraternity and the IIFA Advisory Board, Canada will be hosting the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA). The IIFA Weekend and IDEA IIFA Awards ceremony will be held in the Greater Toronto Area from 16th -19th June 2011.

Joined by key members of the Indian Film Industry, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty also thanked IIFA for the honour of hosting the IIFA Weekend and Awards 2011 in Toronto. Toronto is an ideal choice for IIFA 2011 as it is considered as the global city which is very well known for it's culture and entertainment scene.

The announcement came at a green carpet celebration of cultural ties that bind nearly 600 thousand Ontarians to India. The IIFA Weekend will also cap a four-day celebration of Indian Cinema, including a Film Festival, various film briefings, a world-wide film premiere, a trade and business Forum, an IIFA Foundation event and escalate into the night of nights, the IDEA IIFA Awards.

The organizers have said that the decision for the 2010 edition will be announced soon. The first IIFA Awards were held at the Millennium Dome in London in 2000 and have gone on to various cities like Sun City, Dubai, Amsterdam, Singapore, Yorkshire amongst others, with the most recent being celebrated n Macau.

The IIFA Weekend is expected to witness over 500 people from the Indian film industry and about 40 thousand visitors to Toronto, with an international television audience of more than 350 million.

Farhan wanted an IIFA after Rock On after Filmfare

Rock On! grabbed seven trophies at the recently held Filmfare Awards, director-actor Farhan Akhtar wants to walk away with more awards at the forthcoming International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards.




Arjun Rampal, who played an important role in in the film, feels it is a very credible way of involving members of the film industry to nominate the deserving candidates for the awards.

Manmohan Shetty, producer and IIFA advisory board member told that IIFA has grown into an event over the last nine years. Now as it's the 10th year of IIFA, the celebration will be surely bigger.

IIFA Awards 2009

Ashutosh Gowariker's 'Jodhaa Akbar' won as many as 10 awards including the best movie at the 10th edition of International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) award ceremony held at Macau.





Hrithik Roshan took away with himself the best actor award while Ashutosh Gowariker won the best director award for the film 'Jodhaa Akbar'.

Bollywood's sizzling actress Priyanka Chopra won the best actress award for her performance in Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Fashion' . Kangna Ranaut was honoured with the best supporting actress award at IIFA.

The IIFA actor of the decade went to Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan while Aishwarya Rai grabbed the actress of the decade award. Singer Javed Ali walked away with the best male playback singer award for the song Jashn-e-bahaara' in 'Jodhaa Akbar' while Shreya Ghoshal was named the best female playback singer for 'Teri ore' in 'Singh is Kinng.

About IIFA Awards

The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) is an award ceremony rather an effort to promote Indian Cinema popular as bollwood on a worldwide scale, thus reaching out to millions of its fans.



This pioneering effort is headed by Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., India’s first and premier event management and entertainment agency.

As global cinema rapidly emerges, a prominent place for Indian Cinema is reserved. IIFA constantly endeavours to showcase to the world the wealth of talent Indian Cinema has to offer.

It takes hundreds of bollywood luminaries to the foreign destination for the purpose of honouring the best of Indian cinema. Fans of Indian cinema from all over the world converge to celebrate Indian cinema, whereas millions worldwide catch the telecast from the comforts of their home.

On its journey of celebrating Indian Cinema Cinema across the world, IIFA spreads the magic of Indian cinema to various exotic locales around the world. Starting with the Millennium Dome, London, IIFA has traveled through Sun City, Malaysia, Johannesburg, Singapore, Amsterdam & Dubai, & in 2007, comes to you from Yorkshire.

In 2009, the awards were held in Macau, China.

The business of Indian Cinema is provided an impetus by IIFA.

Jodha Akbar Sweeps all 2009 Film Awards

Jodha Akbar, a love story between one of the greatest Mughal Emperors that ruled Hindustan (India), Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, and the fiery young Rajput Princess, Jodhaa Bai,is an epic drama that weaves together romance and communal harmony.




Set in the sixteenth century, the movie starts off with a narration by the legendary Indian film actor Amitabh Bachchan, telling the story of the young prince.

Director Ashutosh Gowariker has presented this historical love epic with all the grandeur of the Mughal era. There are majestic palaces, and imposing battle scenes, colorful costumes and imposing jewelry. The film gives audiences three and a half hours of regal extravaganza complete with romance and action, suspense and drama, music and dance.

Hence, Jodha Akbar stole all the awards in the year 2009.

Hrithik Roshan, star of Indian superhero movie Krishh and Dhoom, shows the strong character of Akbar with ease. His tone and commanding presence make him a natural, and the scenes where he fights topless really show his raw strength. He won the IIFA Best Actor Award for his performance.

As Jodhaa, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan clearly shows us why she was once chosen as the most beautiful woman in the world.

The most touching scenes of the movie are the developing relationship between Jodhaa and Akbar. Many a time, these scenes don't have much dialogue, but the eyes do so much of the talking. The on-screen chemistry between Aishwarya and Hrithik is very strong, and they seem like the perfect couple.

The music and songs are a very critical element of any Indian movie, and this is no exception. Double Oscar winner A. R. Rahman won IIFA for Best Background Score, while Javed Akhtar got Best Lyricist and Javed Ali received Best Male Playback Singer award for the song 'Jashn-e-Bahaara'.

The movie swept 10 awards at the recent 10th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards in Macau, taking home trophies for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor.

Jodha Akbar also won awards for Best Costume Design (Neeta Lulla), Best Editing (Ballu Saluja), Best Art Direction (Nitin Chandrakant Desai) and Best Make Up (Madhav Kadam).

IIFA Awards most popular now

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Over the span of ten years, IIFA Awards, International Indian Film Academy Awards are hosted annually for excellence in Indian cinema at an exciting international venue. Over the last ten years, the IIFAs have become India’s most prestigious film awards in taking Indian cinema to a global audience.

This year 2009, they were held in Macau, China.

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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the IIFA Awards and it’s also the year when Indian cinema and Indian film professionals have arrived on the world stage. Indians have won Oscar and British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) as numerous of global awards this year. Thanks to path breaking filmmakers like Danny Boyle and Megan Mylan.

The IIFA Awards are fast on their way to becoming the Oscar of Indian cinema.

IIFA Green Carpet

It was Bachchan all the way at IIFA’s day one at Macau. Yet another Amitabh Bachchan statue was unveiled and the Bachchan family was present to witness the event.

IIFA, in an attempt to send out eco-friendly signals has rolled out a green carpet on day one.

Actress Sonam Kapoor too was present at the event. “I have had a massage, I have rehearsed, I have done a lot of things,” said the bubbly actress.

Lara Dutta said, "Riteish taught me how to gamble which is going to be a little bit later, but what’s more exciting is that I won. Because normally I don't gamble, I don't know how to play, so not too bad."

Former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen said, “I am here to promote my film.”

The current hot favourites, the little stars from Slumdog Millionaire were also spotted.

IIFA Winners 2009

The results are out at the prestigious International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards held at Macau, China, as they always choose a destination away from a India. And we have the round up of the glitz, glamour and those who clinched the trophy.

The biggest winner was Ashutosh Gowariker's historical romance Jodhaa Akbar. It swept the IIFA awards with a perfect 10 trophies - including Best Film, Best Actor (for Hrithik Roshan) and Best Director (for Gowariker).

Double Oscar-winning A R Rahman was honoured with the composer of the decade award. He also won Best Music Director for Jodhaa Akbar. Oscar winner Resul Pokkutty bagged Best Sound Recording for Ghajini.

As for the special awards commemorating 10 years of IIFA, Shah Rukh Khan was accorded the Best Male Actor of the Decade, while Aishwarya
Rai was crowned with Best Female.

Now, let's move on to the rest.

Why Big B did not Performed at IIFA 2009?

There is news going around in industry circles regarding Amitabh Bachchan’s non-performance on the Aladdin song at the recently concluded IIFA awards 2009.

Riteish Deshmukh along with newcomer Jacqueline Fernandes was to perform with the Big B. But when the award function was held, there was no sign of the Bachchan. One and all present were left wondering what must have gone wrong.


The reason behind it was later made clear that Aladdin’s director, Sujoy Ghosh had signed a deal with IIFA without informing Amitabh
Bachchan about his performance for the promotion of his forthcoming Aladdin at the awards.

So when Big B was informed about the same only 15 days before the award function, he immediately summoned Sujoy Ghosh and asked why he didn’t inform him early that he would get sufficient time for the rehearsals. He skipped the performance because of less time and his
involvement with IIFA.

The Aladin also stars Sanjay Dutt, Supriya Pathak and Saahil Khan and has been scheduled for a August 14th release date.

Anil Shines At IIFA 2009

This year 10th IIFA Awards saw few biggies with the controversies all over about the Bachchan’s, Kareena not performing, Pryianka-Shahid too opting out. In between this entire event 1, 2 ka 4 artist, Anil Kapoor grabbed the limelight.

Anil Kapoor was one of the stars who had all the media behind him. In the press conference he talked about his new show “24” and about her daughter Sonam Kapoor.

Alongside, he was given the best treatment when it comes to hospitality. “He was given one of the best and luxurious Presidential Suite for his three days stay at Macau. He interacted with his fans very nicely and seemed to be enjoying the treatment he got at the award function, adds the source.

Well it seems, Anil Kapoor benefited from the Khans & Kumars absence from the IIFA.