6th IIFA Awards


The 2005 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 6th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2004 and took place between 9–11 June 2005.
The weekend began with the IIFA Inaugural Press Conference at which IIFA Brand Ambassador, actor Amitabh Bachchan, officially launched the three-day extravaganza.
This was followed by the IIFA World Premiere held at the centuries-old Pathe Tuschinski Theatre. The film screened was Pradeep Sarkar's Parineeta.
This was the first year where the IIFA Film Festival was held which showcased some of the best films Indian Cinema has to offer. It was inaugurated by Yash Chopra and was held at the Pathe Tuschinski Theatre.
An IIFA Workshop was also held which served as a unique meeting between some prominent filmmakers from India and Dutch film professionals. Key speakers at the workshop included Karan Johar, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar and Abhishek Bachchan. The workshop also featured a screening of the blockbuster Kal Ho Naa Ho.
Other events included the FICCI-IIFA Global Business Forum and the IIFA Foundation Celebrity Cricket Match. The IIFA Foundation Celebrity Cricket Match saw teams captained by Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan face against each other with Hrithik's team emerging as the victors.
The official ceremony took place on 11 June 2005, at the Amsterdam Arena, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 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 Shahrukh Khan along with director Karan Johar co-hosted the ceremony. Along with the award distribution, the ceremony also included performances by international pop group Bombay Rockers, international magician Hans Kolak, Salman Khan, Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora, Esha Deol, Isha Sharvani, Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Daler Mehndi. It also included Abhishek Bachchan's first-ever international performance.
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi received a total of thirteen nominations out of the total twenty nine but could only manage to win five, out of which only the was among the popular one. Veer-Zaara on the other hand won seven out of its eleven nominations. Among them the popular awards included:.
Other multiple awards winners included Aitraaz, Dhoom and Murder with three awards each and Main Hoon Na and Maqbool receiving two awards each.
In addition movies receiving a single awards included, Chameli for, Swades for, for, Hum Tum for and Yuva for

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 Dubai, UAE in 2006.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Popular awards

Best PictureBest Director

  • Yash Chopra – Veer-Zaara
  • * Ashutosh Gowarikar – Swades
  • * Farah Khan – Main Hoon Na
  • * Kunal Kohli – Hum Tum
  • * David Dhawan – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
    • Best Performance In A Leading Role MaleBest Performance In A Leading Role Female
  • Shah Rukh Khan – Veer-Zaara as Veer Pratap Singh
  • * Salman Khan – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Sameer Malhotra
  • * Saif Ali Khan – Hum Tum as Karan Kapoor
  • * Shah Rukh Khan – Swades as Mohan Bhargava
  • * Nana Patekar – Ab Tak Chhappan as Inspector Sadhu Agashe
  • Rani Mukerji – Hum Tum as Rhea Prakash
  • * Kareena Kapoor – Aitraaz as Priya Saxena/Malhotra
  • * Priyanka Chopra – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Rani Singh
  • * Shilpa Shetty – Phir Milenge as Tamanna Sahni
  • * Urmila Matondkar – Ek Hasina Thi as Sarika Vartak
    • Best Performance In A Supporting Role MaleBest Performance In A Supporting Role Female
  • Abhishek Bachchan – Yuva as Lallan Singh
  • * Amitabh Bachchan – Veer-Zaara as Choudhary Sumer Singh
  • * Pankaj Kapur – Maqbool as Jahangir Khan
  • * Paresh Rawal – Aitraaz as Advocate Patel
  • * Zayed Khan – Main Hoon Na as Lakshman Prasad Sharma a.k.a. Lucky
  • Rani Mukerji – Veer-Zaara as Saamiya Siddiqui
  • * Rani Mukerji – Yuva as Shashi Biswas
  • * Divya Dutta – Veer-Zaara as Shabbo
  • * Esha Deol – Dhoom as Sheena
  • * Kishori Ballal – Swades as Kaveri Amma
    • Best Performance In A Comic RoleBest Performance In A Negative Role
  • Akshay Kumar – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Arun Khanna a.k.a. Sunny
  • * Arshad Warsi – Hulchul as Lucky
  • * Paresh Rawal – Hulchul as Kishen / Murari twins brother
  • * Uday Chopra – Dhoom as Sub-Inspector Ali Akbar Fateh Khan
  • * Ritesh Deshmukh – ' as Amar
  • John Abraham – Dhoom as Kabir
  • * Ajay Devgn – Khakee as Yashwant Angre
  • * Saif Ali Khan – Ek Hasina Thi as Karan Singh Rathod
  • * Sanjay Dutt – Musafir as Billa
  • * Suniel Shetty – Main Hoon Na as Raghavan / Major Raghav Dutta
    • Best Debut DirectorFemale Debutant Star
  • Farah Khan – Main Hoon Na
  • Ayesha Takia – ' as Priya

    • Musical awards

    Backstage awards

    Technical awards

    Special awards

    Lifetime Achievement Award

    The following eleven films received multiple nominations:
    The following films received multiple awards: