7th IIFA Awards

The 2006 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 7th International [Indian Film Academy Awards] ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2005 and took place between 15 and 17 June 2006.
The official ceremony took place on 17 June 2006, at the Dubai International Convention Centre, in Dubai, UAE. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 29 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. Actors Fardeen Khan and Lara Dutta co-hosted the ceremony. Fardeen had also co-hosted the 2005 IIFA awards while Lara had hosted the 2002 awards
The weekend began with the IIFA Inaugural Press Conference. This was followed by the IIFA World Premiere of Jagmohan Mundra's 'Provoked'. The world premiere also featured south Indian films viz., Chandramukhi, Kannathil Muthamittal, Nayakan, Pokiri, Autograph, Anniyan and Ayutha Ezhuthu. A unique IIFA Foundation Fashion Extravaganza was also hosted to raise funds for the IIFA Foundation.
Parineeta led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Black with 7 nominations, Bunty Aur Babli with 6 nominations, and Iqbal with 5 nominations.
Black won 9 awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.
Other multiple awards winners included Parineeta with 6 awards, Bunty Aur Babli with 4 awards and Aashiq Banaya Aapne, Apaharan and Dus receiving 2 awards each. In addition movies receiving a single award included, Sarkar for, Salaam Namaste for, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi for and Iqbal for.
Saif Ali Khan received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Parineeta and Salaam Namaste, but lost to Amitabh Bachchan, who himself received dual nominations in the category for his performances in Black and Sarkar, winning for the former.
Rani Mukherji received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Black and Bunty Aur Babli, winning for the former,

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 Sheffield, England in 2007.

Winners and nominees

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

Popular awards

Best Picture	Best Director
Black – Applause Entertainment * Bunty Aur Babli – Yash Raj Films * Iqbal – Mukta Arts * No Entry – Sahara One and S K Films Enterprises * Page 3 – Sahara One and Light House Films Pvt. Ltd. * Parineeta – Vinod Chopra Productions	Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Black * Madhur Bhandarkar – Page 3 * Nagesh Kukunoor – Iqbal * Pradeep Sarkar – Parineeta * Prakash Jha – Apaharan
Best Performance In A Leading Role Male	Best Performance In A Leading Role Female
*Amitabh Bachchan – Black* as Debraj Sahai** * Amitabh Bachchan – Sarkar as Subhash Nagre * Saif Ali Khan – Parineeta as Shekhar Rai * Saif Ali Khan – Salaam Namaste as Nikhil "Nick" Arora * Shah Rukh Khan – Paheli as Kishanlal/The Ghost as Prem	*Rani Mukerji – Black* as Michelle McNally** * Konkona Sen Sharma – Page 3 as Madhvi Sharma * Rani Mukerji – Bunty Aur Babli as Vimmi Saluja / Babli * Preity Zinta – Salaam Namaste as Ambar "Amby" Malhotra / Hambar * Vidya Balan – Parineeta as Lalita
Best Performance In A Supporting Role Male	Best Performance In A Supporting Role Female
*Abhishek Bachchan – Sarkar* as Shankar Nagre** * Amitabh Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli as Dashrath Singh * John Abraham – Garam Masala as Shyam "Sam" * Naseeruddin Shah – Iqbal as Mohit * Sanjay Dutt – Parineeta as Girish	*Ayesha Kapur – Black* as Young Michelle McNally** * Juhi Chawla – My Brother...Nikhil as Anamika * Lara Dutta – No Entry as Kaajal * Shernaz Patel – Black as Catherine McNally * Shweta Prasad – Iqbal as Khadija
Best Performance In A Comic Role	Best Performance In A Negative Role
*Javed Jaffrey – Salaam Namaste* as Jaggu Yadav aka Crocodile Dundee** * Akshay Kumar – Garam Masala as Makrand 'Mac' Godpure * Boman Irani – Waqt: The Race Against Time as Nattu, Pooja's father * Eesha Koppikhar – Kyaa Kool Hai Hum as Sub-Inspector Urmila Martodkar * Ritesh Deshmukh – Bluffmaster! as Aditya Srivastav aka Dittu	*Nana Patekar – Apaharan* as Tabrez Alam** * Ajay Devgn – Kaal as Kaali Pratap Singh * Amrita Singh – Kalyug as Simi Roy * Nana Patekar – Bluffmaster! as Chandrakant Parekh aka Chandru * Pankaj Kapoor – Dus as Himmat Mehendi/Jamwaal
Male Debutant Star	Female Debutant Star
*Shiney Ahuja – Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi* as Vikram Malhotra**	*Vidya Balan – Parineeta* as Lalita**

Special awards

Source:

Most Glamorous Star of the Year

Preity Zinta

Outstanding Achievement In Indian Cinema

Asha Parekh

Superlatives

Awards	Film
9	Black
6	Parineeta
4	Bunty Aur Babli
2	Aashiq Banaya Aapne
2	Apaharan
2	Dus