It’s award season in Bollywood, and IIFA is just around the corner. Kickstarting the first leg of the celebrations in Jaipur today, this year marks IIFA’s silver jubilee celebrations. Set to take place from March 7 to 9 in the Pink City, it’s going to be a grand event this time. 2024 was a great year for Bollywood, with several movies that broke the box-office records. In this article, we are looking at the IIFA 2025 nominates under the following categories – Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Performance in a Leading Role (Female and Male), Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Female and Male), Best Performance in a Negative Role, Music Direction, and Playback Singer (Male and Female).
Full list of IIFA 2025 nominations
Best Picture
Laapataa Ladies- Produced by Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao, and Jyoti Deshpande
Kill- Produced by Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta, Guneet Monga Kapoor,
Achin Jain
Article 370- Produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar, and Lokesh Dhar
Stree 2 – Sarkate Ka Aatank- Produced by Dinesh Vijan and Jyoti Deshpande
Shaitaan- Produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Pathak, and Kumar Mangat Pathak
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3- Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, and Murad Khetani
Direction
Kiran Rao (Laapataa Ladies)
Nikhil Nagesh Bhat (Kill)
Amar Kaushik (Stree 2 – Sarkate Ka Aatank)
Siddharth Anand (Fighter)
Aditya Suhas Jhambale (Article 370)
Anees Bazmee (Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3)
Performance in a Leading Role (Female)
Nitanshi Goel (Laapataa Ladies)
Alia Bhatt (Jigra)
Yami Gautam (Article 370)
Katrina Kaif (Merry Christmas)
Shraddha Kapoor (Stree 2 – Sarkate Ka Aatank)
Performance in a Leading Role (Male)
Sparsh Shrivastava (Laapataa Ladies)
Rajkummar Rao (Srikanth)
Kartik Aaryan (Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3)
Abhishek A Bachchan (I Want To Talk)
Ajay Devgn (Maidaan)
Performance in a Supporting Role (Female)
Chhaya Kadam (Laapataa Ladies)
Vidya Balan (Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3)
Janki Bodiwala (Shaitaan)
Priyamani (Article 370)
Jyotika (Srikanth)
Performance in a Supporting Role (Male)
Ravi Kishan (Laapataa Ladies)
Abhishek Banerjee Stree 2 – (Sarkate Ka Aatank)
Fardeen Khan (Khel Khel Mein)
Rajpal Yadav (Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3)
Manoj Pahwa (Jigra)
Performance in a Negative Role
Raghav Juyal (Kill)
R. Madhavan (Shaitaan)
Gajraj Rao (Maidaan)
Vivek Gomber (Jigra)
Arjun Kapoor (Singham Again)
Music Direction
Ram Sampath (Laapataa Ladies)
Sachin – Jigar (Stree 2 – Sarkate Ka Aatank)
Sachin – Jigar, Tanishk Bagchi, Mitraz, Raghav, Talwiinder, Nds, Mc Square (Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya)
A.R. Rahman (Maidaan)
Pritam, Lijo George, Sachet – Parampara, Dj Chetas, Adiya Rikhari, Tanishk
Bagchi, Amaal Malik (Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3)
Playback Singer (Male)
Arijit Singh for Sajni (Laapataa Ladies)
Karan Aujla for Tauba Tauba (Bad Newz)
Diljit Dosanjh Baadshah for Naina (Crew)
Jubin Nautiyal for Dua (Article 370)
Mitraz for Akhiyan Gulab (Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya)
Playback Singer (Female)
Madhubanti Baghchi for Aaj ki Raat Stree 2 – (Sarkate Ka Aatank) Aaj ki Raat
Shreya Ghoshal for lAmi Je Tomar 3.0( Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3)
Shreya Ghoshal for Dheeme Dheeme( Laapataa Ladies)
Rekha Bhardwaj for Nikat( Kill)
Shilpa Rao For Ishq Jaisa Kuch (Fighter)
Performance in a Leading Role (Male) Web Film
Diljit Dosanjh for Amar Singh Chamkila
Vikrant Massey for Sector 36
Pankaj Tripathi for Murder Mubarak
Nawazuddin Siddiqui for Rautu ka Raaz
Pratik Gandhi for Agni
Performance in a Leading Role (Female) Web Film
Ananya Panday in CTRL
Parineeti Chopra for Amar Singh Chamkila
Preeti Panigrahi for Girls will be Girls
Taapsee Pannu for Phir Aayi Haseen Dillruba
Kriti Sanon for Do Patti
Performance in a Supporting Role (Female) Web Film
Karisma Kapoor for Murder Mubarak
Shahana Goswami for Despatch
Shalini Pandey for Maharaj
Anupriya Goenka for Berlin
Dimple Kapadia for Murder Mubarak
Performance in a Supporting Role (Male) Web Film
Deepak Dobriyal for Sector 36
Vijay Varma for Murder Mubarak
Sparsh Srivashtava for Ae Watan Mere Watan
Sunny Kaushal for Phir Aayi Haseen Dillruba
Jaideep Ahlawat for Maharaj
Best Director (Web Film)
Shuchi Talati for Girls will be Girls
Imtiaz Ali for Amar Singh Chamkila
Aditya Nimblakar for Sector 36
Siddharth P Malhotra for Maharaj
Rahul Dholakia for Agni
Best Story (Original)
Imtiaz Ali, Sajid Ali for Amar Singh Chamkila
Shuchi Talati for Girls Will Be Girls
Vipul Mehta, Sneha Desai for Maharaj
Kanika Dhillon for Do Patti
Rahul Dholakia for Agni
Best Series
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar
IC814: The Kandahar Hijack
Kota Factory Season 3
Gullak Season 4
Panchayat Season 3
Maamla Legal Hai
Performance in a Leading Role (Male) Series
Ravi Kishan for Maamla Legal Hai
Vijay Verma for IC814: The Kandahar Hijack
Manoj Bajpayee for Killer Soup
Jaideep Ahlawat for The Broken News Season 2
Jitendra Kumar for Panchayat Season 3
Varun Dhawan for Citadel: Honey Bunny
Performance in a Leading Role (Female) Series
Ananya Panday for Call Me Bae
Neena Gupta for Panchayat Season 3
Konkona Sen Sharma for Killer Soup
Huma Qureshi for Maharani Season 3
Shreya Chaudhry for Bandish Bandits Season 2
Performance in a Supporting Role (Male) Series
Faisal Malik for Panchayat Season 3
Arif Zakaria for Freedom at Midnight
Kay Kay Menon for Citadel: Honey Bunny
Raghubir Yadav for Panchayat Season 3
Durgesh Kumar for Panchayat Season 3
Performance in a Supporting Role (Female) Series
Richa Chadha for Heeramandi
Sanjeeda Sheikh for Heeramandi
Kani Kusruti for Maharani Season 3
Aaliyah Qureshi for Bandish Bandits Season 2
Sunita Rajwar for Panchayat Season 3