9th IIFA Awards


The 2008 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 9th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2007 and took place between 6 – 8 June 2008. The official ceremony took place on 8 June 2008, at the Siam Paragon in Bangkok, Thailand. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 27 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. Actors Boman Irani and Ritesh Deshmukh co-hosted the ceremony for the first time.
The IIFA Music and Fashion Extravaganza took place on 7 June 2008, as did the FICCI-IIFA Global Business Forum. On 6 June, The IIFA World Premiere was held at Major Cineplex, Bangkok which showcased Sarkar Raj, starring Indian Film icons Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, directed by Ram Gopal Varma.
Partner led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Guru with 10 nominations, Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Chak De! India with 9 nominations each, Life in a... Metro with 8 nominations and Jab We Met with 6 nominations.
Chak De! India won 9 awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.
Om Shanti Om won 6 awards. Other multiple winners included Life in a... Metro with 3 awards and Guru, Jab We Met, Saawariya and Shootout at Lokhandwala with 2 awards each. In addition, Partner received 1 award at the ceremony.
Konkona Sen Sharma received dual nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Laaga Chunari Mein Daag and Life in a... Metro, winning for the latter.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Popular awards

Best PictureBest Director
Chak De! India – Yash Raj Films
Shimit Amin – Chak De! India
  • * Anurag Basu – Life in a... Metro
  • * David Dhawan – Partner
  • * Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met
  • * Mani Ratnam – Guru
  • * Priyadarshan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
    • Best Performance In A Leading Role MaleBest Performance In A Leading Role Female
    Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India as Kabir Khan
  • * Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant "Guru" Desai
  • * Akshay Kumar – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Dr. Aditya Shrivastav
  • * Salman Khan – Partner as Prem
  • * Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap
    		• Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met as Geet Dhillon
  • *Aishwarya Rai – Guru as Sujata Desai
  • * Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shanti Priya / Sandy
  • * Katrina Kaif – Namastey London as Jasmeet 'Jazz' Malhotra
  • * Lara Dutta – Partner as Naina Sahni
  • *Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma
  • *Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi / Manmother
    • Best Performance In A Supporting Role MaleBest Performance In A Supporting Role Female
    Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty
  • * Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar Pandey
  • * Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary
  • * Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manik Dasgupta
  • * Rajat Kapoor – Bheja Fry as Ranjeet Thadani
    		• Konkona Sen Sharma – Life in a... Metro as Shruti
  • *Chitrashi Rawat – Chak De! India as Komal Chautala
  • *Katrina Kaif – Partner as Priya Jaisingh
  • * Konkona Sen Sharma – Laaga Chunari Mein Daag as Shubhavari Sahay / Chutki
  • *Rani Mukerji – Saawariya as Gulabji
  • *Vidya Balan – Guru as Meenakshi "Meenu" Saxena
  • *Zohra Sehgal – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadev's mother
    • Best Performance In A Comic RoleBest Performance In A Negative Role
    Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary
  • * Fardeen Khan – Heyy Babyy as Ali 'Al' Haider
  • * Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty
  • * Paresh Rawal – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Batukshankar Upadhyay
  • * Rajpal Yadav – Bhool Bhulaiyaa & Partner as Chhote Pandit / Lal Hanuman and Chota Don
  • * Riteish Deshmukh – Heyy Babyy as Tanmay Joglekar
  • * Vinay Pathak – Bheja Fry as Bharat Bhushan
    		• Vivek Oberoi – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Mahindra "Maya" Dolas
  • * Arjun Rampal – Om Shanti Om as Mukesh Mehra "Mike"
  • * Kay Kay Menon – Life in a... Metro as Ranjeet
  • * Rajat Bedi – Partner as Neil Bakshi
  • * Shilpa Shukla – Chak De! India as Bindiya Naik
  • * Tusshar Kapoor – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Dilip "Buwa" Kohok
  • * Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi / Manjulika
    • Male Debutant StarFemale Debutant Star
    Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya as Ranbir RajDeepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shanti Priya / Sandy

    Special awards

    Style Diva of the Year

    Style Icon of the Year

    Fresh Face of the Year

    Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema

    Outstanding Contribution by an Indian in International Cinema

    Achievement in Indian Cinema

    Superlatives

    AwardsFilm
    9Chak De! India
    6Om Shanti Om
    3Life in a... Metro
    2Guru
    2Jab We Met
    2Saawariya
    2Shootout at Lokhandwala