12th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards - winners

On Saturday night, Toronto was host to the 12th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards, the culmination three days of festivities celebrating Indian culture and cinema. The sold-out event with a crowd of 22,000 took place at the Rogers Centre was hosted by Riteish Deshmukh and Boman Iran. Unfortunately, the ceremony began 90 minutes late.

Dabangg (Fearless) was the big winner of the night taking ten awards. Its wins included Best Film, Performance in a Negative Role (Sonu Sood), Screenplay, Music, Playback Singer (both Male and Female) and Choreography.

Band Baaja Baaraat was next with six awards including Best Actress (Anushka Sharma) and Male Debutant (Ranveer Singh). Sharma and Singh together were named the Best On-Screen Couple. My Name Is Khan followed closely with five wins including Best Direction (Karan Johar) and Lead Actor (Shah Rukh Khan).  Khan plays a man with Asperger syndrome.

Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai had led 12 nominations but its only win of the evening was for Prachi Desai in the Supporting Actress category.

Performers who took part in the evening included Kangana Ranaut, Bobby Deol, Shilpa Shetty of Big Brother fame, Priyanka Chopra and Bipasha Basu. Among the Hollywood attendees were Hilary Swank and Cuba Gooding Jr. who were also presenters. Canadian stars included Lisa Ray and Tom Green.

Ontario has the second-largest Indian diaspora in the world, topping 600,000 out of a total population of 13 million, and about half-a-million in the Greater Toronto Area. “Their passion for Indian cinema has become ours [all Ontarians] too,” said Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.

On Sunday, TIFF Bell Lightbox begins a retrospective of Indian film icon Raj Kapoor.

Last year's big winner was the comedy 3 Idiots in a ceremony that took place in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Winners list for the 12th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards

Best Film
Dabangg, Arbaaz Khan Productions

Best Direction
My Name Is Khan, Karan Johar

Performance In A Leading Role Male
My Name Is Khan, Shah Rukh Khan

Performance In A Leading Role Female
Band Baaja Baaraat, Anushka Sharma

Performance In A Supporting Role Male
Raajneeti, Arjun Rampal

Performance In A Supporting Role Female
Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai, Prachi Desai

Performance In A Comic Role
Housefull, Riteish Deshmukh

Performance In A Negative Role
Dabangg, Sonu Sood

Debutant Star Award (Male)
Band Baaja Baaraat, Ranveer Singh

Debutant Star Award (Female)
Dabangg, Sonakshi Sinah

Music Direction
Dabangg, Sajid - Wajid & Lalit Pandit

Story
My Name Is Khan, Shibani Bhatija

Lyrics
My Name Is Khan, Niranjan Iyengar - Sajdaa

Playback Singer Male
Dabangg, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan - Tere Mast Mast Do Nain

Playback Singer Female
Dabangg, Mamta Sharma - Munni Badnam

Screenplay
Dabangg, Dilip Shukla, Abhinav Kashyap

Dialogue
Ishqiya, Vishal Bhardwaj

Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema
Irrfan Khan

Lifetime Achievement Award
Asha Bhonsle

Outstanding Contribution to Indian cinema
Dharmendra (50 years in cinema)

Outstanding Achievement in Indian cinema
Sharmila Tagore

Best On-Screen Jodi (Couple)
Anuksha Sharma and Ranveer Singh, Band Baaja Baaraat

Special ‘Green’ Award
Priyanka Chopra


2011 IIFA Technical Winners List (previously announced)

Cinematographer
Sudeep Chatterjee, Guzaarish

Editing
Namrata Rao, Band Baaja Baaraat

Art Director
Sabu Cyril, Robot

Choreography
Farah Khan - Munni Badnam, Dabangg

Action
S. Vijayan, Dabangg

Sound Recording
Pritam Das, Love, Sex Aur Dhokha

Song Recording
Vijay Dayal - Ainvayi Ainvayim, Band Baaja Baaraat

Sound Re-recording
Leslie Fernandes, Dabangg

Special Effects
Indian Artists, Robot

Background Score
Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy, My Name Is Khan

Costume Designing
Niharika Khan, Band Baaja Baaraat

Make-up
Banu (For Rajnikant), Robot

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