The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Weekend & Awards celebrated the best of Indian cinema and revealed the winners from 2026. Celebrating excellence across Indian cinema and digital entertainment, the IIFA Awards 2026 and IIFA Digital Awards 2026 recognise the exceptional talent, creativity and cinematic achievements that captivated audiences over the past year.
Recognising outstanding talent, creativity and cinematic excellence, the IIFA Awards 2026 honours the finest achievements in Indian cinema across the Popular Categories, Technical Categories, and Debut Categories – Best Male and Best Female.
IIFA AWARDS 2026
Dhurandhar emerged as a standout winner at the IIFA Awards 2026, earning recognition across direction, acting, original storytelling and music. Homebound celebrates three credited winners in the Best Story (Adapted) category, while Avatar: Fire & Ash is recognised in the Best International Film category, with three credited recipients.
Additionally, IIFA Awards 2026 celebrates emerging talent, honouring Rasha Thadani for Best Female Debut for Azaad and Ahaan Panday for Best Male Debut for Saiyaara, recognising two promising new talents making their mark on Indian cinema.
Dhurandhar lead the IIFA Awards 2026 Technical Category winners, earning recognition across cinematography, screenplay, dialogues, editing and sound design, while Chhaava shined with wins in sound mixing, background score and visual effects. War 2 also takes home the award for choreography for ‘Aavan Jaavan’.
IIFA DIGITAL AWARDS 2026
In the Series Category, The Ba**ds of Bollywood made its mark with wins for Best Picture and Direction for Aryan Khan, alongside supporting performance honours for Anya Singh and Raghav Juyal. Paatal Lok S2 also shines, with Jaideep Ahlawat and Tillotama Shome winning for their leading performances, alongside four credited winners for Best Story (Original).
Applauding the creativity and impact of entertainment across all formats we now present and the winner is…
Full winners list
Debut Categories
Best Female Debut: Rasha Thadani – Azaad
Best Male Debut: Ahaan Panday – Saiyaara
Technical Categories
Best Choreography: Bosco Leslie Martis – Aavan Jaavan, War 2
Best Cinematography: Vikash Nowlakha – Dhurandhar
Best Screenplay: Aditya Dhar – Dhurandhar
Best Dialogues: Aditya Dhar – Dhurandhar
Best Editing: Shivkumar V. Panicker – Dhurandhar
Best Sound Design: Bishwadeep Chatterjee – Dhurandhar
Best Sound Mixing: Alok De – Chhaava
Best Background Score: A R Rahman – Chhaava
Best Music Direction: Shashwat Sachdev – Dhurandhar
Best Lyrics: Irshad Kamil – Saiyaara
Best Playback Singer (Male): Faheem Abdullah – Saiyaara
Best Playback Singer (Female): Shreya Ghoshal – Saiyaara (Reprise – Female)
Best Visual Effects: Assemblage Entertainment, Redefine – Chhaava
Digital Film Winners
Best Picture – Baramulla
Best Story (Original) – Baramulla
Best Direction – Karan Tejpal for Stolen
Best Performance in a Leading Role (Male) – Abhishek Banerjee (Stolen)
Best Performance in a Leading Role (Female) – Sanya Malhotra (Mrs)
Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Female) – Monika Panwar (Nishaanchi 2)
Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Male) – Avinash Tiwary (The Mehta Boys)
Digital Series winner
Best Series – The Ba**ds of Bollywood
Best Direction – Aryan Khan (The Ba**ds of Bollywood)
Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Female) – Anya Singh (The Ba**ds of Bollywood)
Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Male) – Raghav Juyal (The Ba**ds of Bollywood*)
Best Performance in a Leading Role (Male) – Jaideep Ahlawat (Paatal Lok 2)
Best Performance in a Leading Role (Female) – Tillotama Shome (Paatal Lok 2)
Best Original Story – Paatal Lok 2
Best Docuseries/Docufilm: Netflix Entertainment Services India LLP, Rakesh Roshan & Shashi Ranjan – The Roshans
Best Title Track: Ujwal Gupta – The Ba**ds of Bollywood
POPULAR AWARDS
Best Story (Original): Aditya Dhar – Dhurandhar
Best Story (Adapted): Basharat Peer, Sumit Roy, Neeraj Ghaywan – Homebound
Best Actress (Supporting Role): Huma Qureshi – Jolly LLB 3
Best Actor (Supporting Role): Sanjay Dutt – Dhurandhar
Best Actor in a Negative Role: Akshaye Khanna – Dhurandhar
Best Director: Aditya Dhar – Dhurandhar
Best Actress (Leading Role): Aneet Padda – Saiyaara
Best Actor (Leading Role): Ranveer Singh – Dhurandhar
Best Film: Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar, Lokesh Dhar – Dhurandhar
