21st IIFA Awards

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The 21st International Indian Film Academy Awards were supposed to take place in Indore from 27 to 29 March 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were postponed.^[1] However, on 24 November 2021, the IIFA organising team declared the name of winners of all categories through their Instagram handle.^[2]

The following is a list of nominees,^[3] technical award winners^[4] and popular award winners.^[5]

Gully Boy led the ceremony with 17 nominations, followed by Article 15 and Kabir Singh with 8 nominations each, and Uri: The Surgical Strike and War with 6 nominations each.

Gully Boy won 6 awards, including Best Actress (for Alia Bhatt) and Best Supporting Actor (for Siddhant Chaturvedi), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Awards

Best Film

Best Director

Kabir Singh – Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar Murad Khetani and Ashwin Varde
Article 15 – Anubhav Sinha
Gully Boy – Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani
Kesari – Karan Johar, Akshay Kumar, Apoorva Mehta and Sunir Khetarpal
Uri: The Surgical Strike —Ronnie Screwvala

Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike
Anubhav Sinha – Article 15
Sandeep Reddy Vanga – Kabir Singh
Sujoy Ghosh – Badla
Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy

Best Actor

Best Actress

Shahid Kapoor – Kabir Singh
Ayushmann Khurrana – Article 15
Hrithik Roshan – Super 30
Ranveer Singh – Gully Boy
Vicky Kaushal – Uri: The Surgical Strike

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Kiara Advani – Good Newwz
Amrita Singh – Badla
Amruta Subhash – Gully Boy
Sayani Gupta – Article 15
Yami Gautam – Bala

Star Debut of the Year – Male

Star Debut of the Year – Female

Abhimanyu Dassani – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota

Ananya Panday – Student of the Year 2

Music Awards

Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Kabir Singh – Mithoon, Amaal Mallik, Vishal Mishra, Sachet–Parampara and Akhil Sachdeva Gully Boy – Divine, Naezy, Dub Sharma, Ankur Tewari, Spitfire, Sez on the beat, Rishi Rich, Raghu Dixit, Midival Punditz, Karsh Kale, Chandrashekhar Kunder, Jasleen Royal, Mickey McCleary, Ace, Ishq Bector, Prem-Hardeep, Viveick Rajagopalan and Kaam Bhaari Kesari – Tanishk Bagchi, Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Chirantan Bhatt, Jasbir Jassi, Gurmoh and Jasleen Royal Marjaavaan – Tanishk Bagchi, Meet Bros, Payal Dev, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Aditya Dev and Sanjoy Chowdhury War – Vishal–Shekhar	Manoj Muntashir – "Teri Mitti" – Kesari Divine & Ankur Tewari – "Apna Time Aayega" – Gully Boy Divine & Naezy – "Mere Gully Mein" – Gully Boy Irshad Kamil – "Bekhayali" – Kabir Singh Kumaar – "Tera Ban Jaunga" – Kabir Singh
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Arijit Singh – "Ghungroo" – War Arijit Singh – "Dil Hi Toh Hai" – The Sky Is Pink B Praak – "Teri Mitti" – Kesari Ranveer Singh, Divine & Naezy – "Mere Gully Mein" – Gully Boy Sachet Tandon – "Bekhayali" – Kabir Singh	Shreya Ghoshal – "Yeh Aaina" – Kabir Singh Aakanksha Sharma – "Naina Yeh" – Article 15 Jasleen Royal – "Jahan Tu Chala" – Gully Boy Shilpa Rao – "Ghungroo" – War Vibha Saraf – "Kab Se Kab Tak" – Gully Boy

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Dialogue
Reema Kagti & Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15 Nitesh Tiwari, Nikhil Mehrotra & Piyush Gupta – Chhichhore Sanjiv Dutta – Super 30	Vijay Maurya – Gully Boy
Best Screenplay	Best Editing
Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15	Nitin Baid – Gully Boy
Best Cinematography	Best Choreography
Jay Oza – Gully Boy	Bosco–Caesar & Tushar Kalia – "Ghunghroo" – War
Best Background Score	Best Special Effects
Shashwat Sachdev – Uri: The Surgical Strike	YFX (YRF Studios) – War
Best Sound Design	Best Sound Mixing
Bishwadeep Dipak Chatterjee & Ravi Soni – Uri: The Surgical Strike	Ravi Soni – Uri: The Surgical Strike

Superlatives

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
17	Gully Boy
8	Article 15
8	Kabir Singh
6	Uri: The Surgical Strike
6	War
4	Kesari
3	Badla
3	Good Newwz
2	Super 30
	The Sky Is Pink

Films that received multiple awards
Nominations	Film
6	Gully Boy
4	Kabir Singh
4	War
3	Uri: The Surgical Strike

References

^ "21st IIFA Awards ceremony in Indore to be hosted by Salman Khan, postponed". www.seelatest.com. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
^ "IIFA Awards 2020: Here's the complete winner list". Masala.com. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
^ "IIFA - International Indian Film Academy". IIFA - International Indian Film Academy. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
^ "IIFA Technical Awards 2020: All the Winners!". International Indian Film Academy Awards. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
^ "IIFA Awards 2020 - Popular Award Winners". IIFA Awards. 25 November 2021. Archived from the original on 26 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021.