# 16th IIFA Awards

The 2015 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 16th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honouring the best Hindi films of 2014, took place on 5 June 2015. The official ceremony took place on 7 June 2015 in Ritz Carlton Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Colors for the first time. The ceremony was co–hosted by actors Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh, for the first time as hosts. This show was telecasted on colors on Sunday 5 July 2015, 8pm.
IIFA Rocks, otherwise known as the IIFA Music and Fashion Extravaganza took place on 5 June 2015.
2 States led the ceremony with 9 nominations, followed by Haider with 8 nominations, PK with 6 nominations, and Ek Villain and Queen with 5 nominations each.
Haider won 9 awards, including Best Actor (for Shahid Kapoor), Best Supporting Actress (for Tabu), and Best Villain (Kay Kay Menon), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

## Winners and nominees
### Popular awards

| Best Film | Best Director |
| Queen – Phantom Films 2 States – Dharma Productions, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Haider – UTV Motion Pictures, VB Pictures Highway – Window Seat Films, Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment Mary Kom – Bhansali Productions PK – Vinod Chopra Films, Rajkumar Hirani Films | Rajkumar Hirani – PK Abhishek Varman – 2 States Imtiaz Ali – Highway Vikas Bahl – Queen Vishal Bhardwaj – Haider |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Shahid Kapoor – Haider as Haider Meer Aamir Khan – PK as PK Arjun Kapoor – 2 States as Krish Malhotra Hrithik Roshan – Bang Bang as Rajveer / Jai Nanda Randeep Hooda – Highway as Mahabir Bhati Shah Rukh Khan – Happy New Year as Chandramohan Manohar Sharma a.k.a. Charlie | Kangana Ranaut – Queen as Rani Mehra Alia Bhatt – 2 States as Ananya Swaminathan Anushka Sharma – PK as Jagat "Jaggu" Janani Sahni Deepika Padukone – Happy New Year as Mohini Joshi Priyanka Chopra – Mary Kom as Mary Kom Rani Mukerji – Mardaani as Shivani Shivaji Roy |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Riteish Deshmukh – Ek Villain as Rakesh Mahadkar Inaamulhaq – Filmistaan as Aftaab Kay Kay Menon – Haider as Khurram Meer Naseeruddin Shah – Finding Fanny as Ferdinand "Ferdie" Pinto Randeep Hooda – Kick as Himanshu Tyagi Ronit Roy – 2 States as Vikram Malhotra (Krish's father) | Tabu – Haider as Ghazala Meer Amrita Singh – 2 States as Kavita Malhotra (Krish's mother) Huma Qureshi – Dedh Ishqiya as Muniya Juhi Chawla – Gulaab Gang as Sumitra Devi Lisa Haydon – Queen as Vijayalakshmi |
| Best Male Debut | Best Female Debut |
| Tiger Shroff – Heropanti as Bablu | Kriti Sanon – Heropanti as Dimpy |
| Best Performance In A Comic Role | Best Performance In A Negative Role |
| Varun Dhawan – Main Tera Hero as Seenu Govinda – Happy Ending as Armaan Sanjay Dutt – PK as Bhairon Singh Sharib Hashmi – Filmistaan as Sunny | Kay Kay Menon – Haider as Khurram Meer Nawazuddin Siddiqui – Kick as Shiv Gajra Ritesh Deshmukh – Ek Villain as Rakesh Mahadkar |
| Best Story | Debutant Director |
| Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar, Parveez Shaikh – Queen Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani – PK Chetan Bhagat – 2 States | Sajid Nadiadwala – Kick Omung Kumar – Mary Kom |

### Special awards

* IIFA Award for Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema
* Subhash Ghai
* IIFA Award for Woman of the Year
* Deepika Padukone

### Musical awards

| Best Music Direction | Best Lyrics |
| 2 States – Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy Ek Villain – Mithoon, Ankit Tiwari and Soch Haider – Vishal Bhardwaj Yaariyan – Pritam Chakraborty, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Mithoon, Arko Pravo Mukherjee | Manoj Muntashir – "Galliyan" – Ek Villain  Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Mast Magan" – 2 States Rashmi Singh – "Muskurane" – CityLights |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Best Female Playback Singer |
| Ankit Tiwari – Galliyan" – Ek Villain Arijit Singh – "Muskurane" – CityLights Mika Singh – "Jumme Ki Raat" – Kick Sukhwinder Singh – "Bismil" – Haider | Kanika Kapoor – "Baby Doll" – Ragini MMS 2 Nooran Sisters – "Patakha Guddi" – Highway Shreya Ghoshal – "Samjhawan" – Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania |
| Best Sound Design | Best Background Score |
| Shajith Koyeri – Haider | Vishal Bhardwaj – Haider |

### Technical awards

| Best Action | Best Special Effects |
| Parvez Shaikh & Andy Armstrong – Bang Bang | Reupal Rawal (Prime Focus) – Kick |
| Best Choreography | Best Cinematography |
| Ahmed Khan – Kick | Binod Pradhan – 2 States |
| Best Costume Design | Best Dialogue |
| Dolly Ahluwalia – Haider | Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani – PK |
| Best Editing | Best Makeup |
| Anurag Kashyap & Abhijit Kokate – Queen | Preetisheel Singh & Clover Wootton – Haider |
| Best Production Design | Best Screenplay |
| Subrata Chakraborty & Amit Ray – Haider | Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar & Parveez Shaikh – Queen |
| Best Sound Mixing | Best Sound Recording |
| Debajit Changmai – Haider | Eric Pillai – "Galliyan" – Ek Villain |

## Superlatives

Films with multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 9 | 2 States |
| 8 | Haider |
| 6 | PK |
| 5 | Ek Villain |
| 5 | Queen |
| 4 | Highway |
| 4 | Kick |
| 3 | Mary Kom |
| 2 | CityLights |
| 2 | Filmistaan |
| 2 | Happy New Year |
Films with multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 9 | Haider |
| 5 | Queen |
| 4 | Ek Villain |
| 3 | Kick |
| 2 | 2 States |
| 2 | Heropanti |
| 2 | PK |