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

13th IIFA Awards
The official logo of the 13th IIFA Awards
Date	7 June 2012– 9 June 2012
Site	Singapore Indoor Stadium Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
Hosted by	Shahid Kapoor Farhan Akhtar
Highlights
Best Picture	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Direction	Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
Best Actor	Ranbir Kapoor (Rockstar)
Best Actress	Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture)
Most awards	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara(9)
Most nominations	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara(14)
Television coverage
Channel	Star Plus
Network	STAR TV

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. On television it aired on 1 & 7 July on popular Hindi Entertainment channel Star Plus.

Winners and nominees

Following the IIFA Voting Weekend,[1] 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.

Films receiving the most nominations were Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara with fourteen, followed by The Dirty Picture with ten. 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

Zoya Akhtar (Best Director)

Ranbir Kapoor (Best Actor)

Vidya Balan (Best Actress)

Farhan Akhtar (Best Supporting Actor)

Parineeti Chopra (Best Supporting Actress)

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

Musical awards

Best Music Direction	Best Lyrics
A.R. Rahman – Rockstar Vishal Bhardwaj – 7 Khoon Maaf Sohail Sen – Mere Brother Ki Dulhan Vishal-Shekhar – Ra.One Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara	"Naadan Parindey" from Rockstar – Irshad Kamil "Teri Meri" from Bodyguard – Shabbir Ahmed "Darling" from 7 Khoon Maaf – Gulzar "Khwabon Ke Parindey" from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – Javed Akhtar "Ishq Sufiyana" from The Dirty Picture – Rajat Aroraa
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Mohit Chauhan for "Naadan Parindey" – Rockstar Ash King for "I Love You" – Bodyguard Rahat Fateh Ali Khan for "Teri Meri" – Bodyguard Mika Singh for "Subha Hone Na De" – Desi Boyz Kamal Khan for "Ishq Sufiana" – The Dirty Picture	Shreya Ghoshal for "Teri Meri" – Bodyguard Shreya Ghoshal for "Ooh La La" – The Dirty Picture Usha Uthup and Rekha Bhardwaj for "Darling" – 7 Khoon Maaf Sunidhi Chauhan for "Te Amo" – Dum Maaro Dum Harshdeep Kaur for "Katiya Karun" – Rockstar
Best Song Recording	Best Background Score
Ra.One – Vishal-Shekhar for "Chammak Challo"	Rockstar – A. R. Rahman

Technical awards

Best Action	Best Special Effects
Singham – Jai Singh Nijjar	Ra.One – Red Chillies VFX
Best Choreography	Best Cinematography
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – Bosco-Caesar for "Señorita"	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – Carlos Catalan
Best Costume Design	Best Dialogue
The Dirty Picture – Niharika Khan	The Dirty Picture – Rajat Aroraa
Best Editing	Best Makeup
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – Anand Subaya	The Dirty Picture – Vikram Gaikwad
Best Production Design	Best Screenplay
Ra.One – Sabu Cyril	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar
Best Sound Mixing	Best Sound Recording
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – Anuj Mathur and Baylon Fonseca	Ra.One – Resul Pookutty and Amrit Pritam Dutta

Special awards

Category	Recipient(s)
Hottest Pair of the year	Ranbir Kapoor & Nargis Fakhri for Rockstar
IIFA Lifetime Achievement award	Rekha
Special Award for cinema at 100	Zohra Sehgal
IIFA outstanding contribution to Environment	Dia Mirza
IIFA outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema (Male)	Ramesh Sippy
IIFA outstanding contribution to Indian Cinema (Female)	Vijayashanti
IIFA outstanding contribution to International Cinema	Liv Ullmann

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following eleven films received multiple nominations: 14 nominations: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara 10 nominations: The Dirty Picture 9 nominations: Rockstar 7 nominations: Bodyguard 5 nominations: 7 Khoon Maaf, Singham and Ra.one 4 nominations: Tanu Weds Manu 2 nominations: No One Killed Jessica, Don 2, Force, Ladies vs Ricky Bahl, Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster and Stanley Ka Dabba

The following films received multiple awards: 9 awards: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara 6 awards: Rockstar 5 awards: The Dirty Picture 4 awards: Ra.one

See also

• International Indian Film Academy Awards
• Bollywood
• Cinema of India

References

1. Editorial, Glamsham (4 May 2012). "ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA, THE DIRTY PICTURE dominate IIFA 2012 Nominations". Glamsham. Glamsham. Retrieved 1 June 2012.

External links

• IIFA.com Official website
• IIFA Weekend Promotional Website
• indya.com Star Plus – Official broadcaster of IIFA
• IIFA on BBC Asian Network