6th IIFA Awards


The 2005 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 6th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2004 and took place between 9–11 June 2005.
The weekend began with the IIFA Inaugural Press Conference at which IIFA Brand Ambassador, actor Amitabh Bachchan, officially launched the three-day extravaganza.
This was followed by the IIFA World Premiere held at the centuries-old Pathe Tuschinski Theatre. The film screened was Pradeep Sarkar's Parineeta.
This was the first year where the IIFA Film Festival was held which showcased some of the best films Indian Cinema has to offer. It was inaugurated by Yash Chopra and was held at the Pathe Tuschinski Theatre.
An IIFA Workshop was also held which served as a unique meeting between some prominent filmmakers from India and Dutch film professionals. Key speakers at the workshop included Karan Johar, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar and Abhishek Bachchan. The workshop also featured a screening of the blockbuster Kal Ho Naa Ho.
Other events included the FICCI-IIFA Global Business Forum and the IIFA Foundation Celebrity Cricket Match. The IIFA Foundation Celebrity Cricket Match saw teams captained by Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan face against each other with Hrithik's team emerging as the victors.
The official ceremony took place on 11 June 2005, at the Amsterdam Arena, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 29 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus for the first time. Actors Fardeen Khan and Shahrukh Khan along with director Karan Johar co-hosted the ceremony. Along with the award distribution, the ceremony also included performances by international pop group Bombay Rockers, international magician Hans Kolak, Salman Khan, Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora, Esha Deol, Isha Sharvani, Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Daler Mehndi. It also included Abhishek Bachchan's first-ever international performance.
Veer-Zaara led the ceremony with 10 nominations, followed by Mujhse Shaadi Karogi with 9 nominations, Aitraaz with 8 nominations, Swades with 7 nominations, and Dhoom with 6 nominations.
Veer-Zaara won 7 awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Music Director, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.
Other multiple awards winners included Mujhse Shaadi Karogi with 5 awards, Aitraaz, Dhoom and Murder with 3 awards each, and Main Hoon Na and Maqbool receiving 2 awards each.
In addition, movies receiving a single award included, Chameli for, Swades for, Taarzan: The Wonder Car for, Hum Tum for and Yuva for.
Shah Rukh Khan received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Swades and Veer-Zaara, winning for the latter.
Rani Mukerji set an unmatched record by becoming the only actress till date to win both popular female acting awards in the same year, winning Best Actress for Hum Tum and Best Supporting Actress for Veer-Zaara. She also received an additional Best Supporting Actress nomination for her performance in Yuva.

Background

The awards began in 2000 and the first ceremony was held in London at The Millennium Dome. From then on the awards were held at locations around the world signifying the international success of Bollywood. The next award ceremony was announced to be held in Dubai, UAE in 2006.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in '''boldface.'''

Popular awards

Best PictureBest Director

  • Yash Chopra – Veer-Zaara
  • * Ashutosh Gowarikar – Swades
  • * David Dhawan – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
  • * Farah Khan – Main Hoon Na
  • * Kunal Kohli – Hum Tum
    • Best Performance in a Leading Role – MaleBest Performance in a Leading Role – Female
  • Shah Rukh Khan – Veer-Zaara as Veer Pratap Singh
  • *Nana Patekar – Ab Tak Chhappan as Inspector Sadhu Agashe
  • * Saif Ali Khan – Hum Tum as Karan Kapoor
  • * Salman Khan – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Sameer Malhotra
  • *Shah Rukh Khan – Swades as Mohan Bhargava
  • Rani Mukerji – Hum Tum as Rhea Prakash
  • *Kareena Kapoor – Aitraaz as Priya Saxena/Malhotra
  • * Preity Zinta – Veer-Zaara as Zaara Hayaat Khan
  • *Priyanka Chopra – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Rani Singh
  • *Shilpa Shetty – Phir Milenge as Tamanna Sahni
  • *Urmila Matondkar – Ek Hasina Thi as Sarika Vartak
    • Best Performance in a Supporting Role – MaleBest Performance in a Supporting Role – Female
  • Abhishek Bachchan – Yuva as Lallan Singh
  • * Amitabh Bachchan – Veer-Zaara as Choudhary Sumer Singh
  • * Pankaj Kapur – Maqbool as Jahangir Khan
  • * Paresh Rawal – Aitraaz as Advocate Patel
  • * Zayed Khan – Main Hoon Na as Lakshman Prasad Sharma a.k.a. Lucky
  • Rani Mukerji – Veer-Zaara as Saamiya Siddiqui
  • *Divya Dutta – Veer-Zaara as Shabbo
  • *Esha Deol – Dhoom as Sheena
  • *Kishori Ballal – Swades as Kaveri Amma
  • * Rani Mukerji – Yuva as Shashi Biswas
    • Best Performance in a Comic RoleBest Performance in a Negative Role
  • Akshay Kumar – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Arun Khanna a.k.a. Sunny
  • *Arshad Warsi – Hulchul as Lucky
  • * Paresh Rawal – Hulchul as Kishen / Murari
  • * Ritesh Deshmukh – Masti as Amar
  • *Uday Chopra – Dhoom as Sub-Inspector Ali Akbar Fateh Khan
  • John Abraham – Dhoom as Kabir
  • * Ajay Devgn – Khakee as Yashwant Angre
  • *Priyanka Chopra – Aitraaz as Sonia Roy
  • * Saif Ali Khan – Ek Hasina Thi as Karan Singh Rathod
  • * Sanjay Dutt – Musafir as Billa
  • * Suniel Shetty – Main Hoon Na as Raghavan / Major Raghav Dutta
    • Best Debut DirectorFemale Debutant Star
  • Farah Khan – Main Hoon Na
  • Ayesha Takia – Taarzan: The Wonder Car as Priya

    • Musical awards

    Backstage awards

    Technical awards

    Special awards

    Source:

    Lifetime Achievement Award

    • V. K. Murthy
    • Shabana Azmi

      Samsung Style Icon Award

    • Hrithik Roshan

      Samsung Style Diva Award

    • Preity Zinta

      Global Indian Media Personality Trophy

    • Aishwarya Rai

      Superlatives

    AwardsFilm
    7Veer-Zaara
    5Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
    3Aitraaz
    3Dhoom
    2Main Hoon Na
    2Maqbool
    2Murder