21st IIFA Awards

The 21st International Indian Film Academy Awards were supposed to take place in Indore from March 27 to 29, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were postponed.[1]

21st IIFA Awards

The following is a list of nominees,[2] and technical winners.[3]

Winners and nominees

Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Article 15 Gully Boy Kabir Singh Kesari Uri: The Surgical Strike	Anubhav Sinha — Article 15 Sujoy Ghosh — Badla Zoya Akhtar — Gully Boy Sandeep Reddy Vanga — Kabir Singh Aditya Dhar — Uri: The Surgical Strike
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ayushmann Khurrana — Article 15 Ranveer Singh — Gully Boy Shahid Kapoor — Kabir Singh Hrithik Roshan — Super 30 Vicky Kaushal — Uri: The Surgical Strike	Taapsee Pannu — Badla Kareena Kapoor Khan — Good Newwz Alia Bhatt — Gully Boy Vidya Balan — Mission Mangal Priyanka Chopra Jonas — The Sky Is Pink
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Kumud Mishra — Article 15 Diljit Dosanjh — Good Newwz Siddhant Chaturvedi — Gully Boy Vijay Varma — Gully Boy Vishal Jethwa — Mardaani 2	Sayani Gupta — Article 15 Amrita Singh — Badla Yami Gautam — Bala Kiara Advani — Good Newwz Amruta Subhash — Gully Boy

Music Awards

Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Gully Boy Kabir Singh Kesari Marjaavaan War	Divine & Ankur - "Apna Time Aayega" - Gully Boy Divine & Naezy - "Mere Gully Mein" - Gully Boy Irshad Kamil - "Bekhayali" - Kabir Singh Kumaar - "Tera Ban Jaunga" - Kabir Singh Manoj Muntashir - "Teri Mitti" - Kesari
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Ranveer Singh, Divine & Naezy - "Mere Gully Main" - Gully Boy Sachet Tandon - "Bekhayali" - Kabir Singh B Praak - "Teri Mitti" - Kesari Arijit Singh - "Dil Hi Toh Hai" - The Sky Is Pink Arijit Singh - "Ghungroo" - War	Aakanksha Sharma - "Naina Yeh" - Article 15 Jasleen Royal - "Jahan Tu Chala" - Gully Boy Vibha Saraf - "Kab Se Kab Tak" - Gully Boy Shreya Ghoshal - "Yeh Aaina" - Kabir Singh Shilpa Rao - "Ghungroo" - War

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Dialogue
Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki — Article 15 Nitesh Tiwari, Nikhil Mehrotra & Piyush Gupta — Chhichhore Reema Kagti & Zoya Akhtar — Gully Boy Sanjiv Dutta — Super 30 Aditya Dhar — Uri: The Surgical Strike	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 — Uri: The Surgical Strike	Anuj Mathur - YRF Studios & Pritam Das — War

Superlatives

Films that received multiple nominations

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

References

1. "21st IIFA Awards ceremony in Indore to be hosted by Salman Khan, postponed". www.seelatest.com. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
2. "IIFA - International Indian Film Academy". IIFA - International Indian Film Academy. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
3. "IIFA Technical Awards 2020: All the Winners!". International Indian Film Academy Awards. Retrieved 2 June 2020.