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.
Chak De! India won nine awards, three of which were popular awards: Best Picture, Best Performance In A Leading Role Male and Best Director. Om Shanti Om won six awards. Other multiple winners included Life in a... Metro with three awards and Jab We Met, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Guru and Saawariya, with two awards each. In addition, Partner received one award.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Note – Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par did not compete for the awards and the movie did not receive a single nomination.

Popular awards

Best PictureBest Director

  • Shimit Amin – Chak De! India
  • * Anurag Basu – Life in a... Metro
  • * Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met
  • * Mani Ratnam – Guru
  • * Priyadarshan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
  • * David Dhawan – Partner
    • 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
  • * Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma
  • * Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi/Manjulika
    • 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
  • * 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
  • * Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty
  • * Paresh Rawal – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Batukshankar Upadhyay
  • * Rajpal Yadav – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Chhote Pandit / Lal Hanuman
  • * 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
  • * Shilpa Shukla – Chak De! India as Bindiya Naik
  • * Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi/Manjulika
    • Male Debutant StarFemale Debutant Star
  • Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya as Ranbir Raj
  • Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shanti Priya / Sandy

    • Musical awards

    Backstage awards

    Technical awards

    Special awards

    IIFA Award for Style Diva of the Year

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