IIFA Awards 2015 Dates, Venue & Nominations

The International Indian Film Academy Awards (also known as IIFA Awards) are a set of awards presented annually by the International Indian Film Academy to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood, the Hindi language film industry. The event continues the tradition of taking place in different countries around the world every year with the most recent one being held in Tampa Bay Area, Florida USA and the next IIFA Awards 2015 being held for the 16th time at Stadium Putra in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 5-7 June 2015.

Here are the nominations of the much anticipated IIFA Awards 2015:-

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male)
• Shahid Kapoor – Haider
• Aamir Khan – PK
• Shah Rukh Khan – Happy New Year
• Arjun Kapoor – 2 States
• Hrithik Roshan – Bang Bang
• Randeep Hooda – Highway

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female)
• Kangana Ranaut – Queen
• Alia Bhatt – 2 States
• Priyanka Chopra – Mary Kom
• Anushka Sharma – PK
• Deepika Padukone – Happy New Year
• Rani Mukherji – Mardaani

Best Picture
• PK – Vinod Chopra Films and Rajkumar Hirani Films
• Queen – Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Vikramaditya Motwane and Anurag Kashyap
• 2 States – Sajid Nadiadwala and Karan Johar
• Haider – UTV Motion Pictures and Vishal Bhardwaj Pictures
• Highway – Sajid Nadiadwala and Imtiaz Ali
• Mary Kom – Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Best Director
• Rajkumar Hirani – PK
• Vikas Bahl – Queen
• Vishal Bhardwaj – Haider
• Abhishek Varman – 2 States
• Imtiaz Ali – Highway

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male)
• Ronit Roy – 2 States
• Ritesh Deshmukh – Ek Villain
• Kay Kay Menon – Haider
• Randeep Hooda – Kick
• Inaamulhaq – Filmistaan
• Naseeruddin Shah – Finding Fanny

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female)
• Tabu – Haider
• Amrita Singh – 2 States
• Lisa Haydon – Queen
• Juhi Chawla – Gulaab Gang
• Huma Qureshi – Dedh Ishqiya

Best Actor in a Comic Role
• Sharib Hashmi – Filmistaan
• Sanjay Dutt – PK
• Varun Dhawan – Main Tera Hero
• Govinda – Happy Ending

Best Actor in a Negative Role
• Ritesh Deshmukh – Ek Villain
• Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Kick
• Kay Kay Menon – Haider

Best Music Direction
• Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy – 2 States
• Mithoon – Banjara
• Zaroorat & Hamdard, Ankit Tiwari – Galliyan,
• Adnan Dhool (Soch) – Awari
• Rabbi Ahmed-Awari – Ek Villain
• Vishal Bhardwaj – Haider
• Mithoon, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Pritam, Arko Pravo Mukherjee – Yaariyan

Best Story
• Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar, Parveez Shaikh – Queen
• Chetan Bhagat – 2 States
• Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani – PK

Lyrics
• Manoj Muntashir – Galliyan – Ek Villain
• Rashmi Singh – Muskurane – Citylights
• Amitabh Bhattacharya – Mast Magan – 2 States

Playback Singer Male
• Ankit Tiwari – Galliyan – Ek Villain
• Arijit Singh – Muskurane – Citylights
• Mika Singh – Jumme Ki Raat – Kick
• Sukhwinder Singh – Bismil – Haider

Playback Singer Female
• Kanika Kapoor – Baby Doll – Ragini MMS 2
• Sultana & Jyoti Nooran – Patakha Guddi – Highway
• Shreya Ghoshal – Samjhawan – Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania