This year, the International Indian Film Academy’s 9th Annual weekend is going to be held in Bangkok, Thailand from June 6th to the 8th. The weekend culminates in an awards ceremony honoring the best films of 2007. The nominations for these prestigious awards were announced and Guru, Chak De India and Bhool Bhulaiyaa lead with 9 nominations each.
The nominees are:
Best Picture
Guru
Chak De India
Jab We Met
Om Shanti Om
Life In A Metro
Partner
Best Direction
Anurag Basu – Life In A… Metro
Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met
Mani Ratnam – Guru
Priyadarshan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Shimit Amin – Chak De India
David Dhawan – Partner
Performance in a Leading Role (Male)
Abhishek Bachchan – Guru
Akshay Kumar – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Salman Khan – Partner
Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De India
Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met
Performance in a Leading Role (Female)
Aishwarya Rai – Guru
Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om
Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met
Tabu – Cheeni Kum
Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Performance in a Supporting Role (Male)
Anil Kapoor – Welcome
Govinda – Partner
Irrfan Khan – Life In A… Metro
Mithun Chakraborty – Guru
Rajat Kapoor – Bheja Fry
Performance in a Supporting Role (Female)
Chitrashi Rawat – Chak De India
Konkona Sen Sharma – Life In A… Metro
Rani Mukerji – Saawariya
Vidya Balan – Guru
Zohra Sehgal – Cheeni Kum
Performance in a Comic Role
Govinda – Partner
Irrfan Khan – Life In A… Metro
Paresh Rawal – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Rajpal Yadav – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Vinay Pathak – Bheja Fry
Performance in a Negative Role
Arjun Rampal – Om Shanti Om
Kay Kay Menon – Life In A … Metro
Shilpa Shukla – Chak De India
Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Viveik Oberoi – Shootout At Lokhandwala
Best Story
Anurag Basu – Life In A… Metro
Feroz Abbas Khan – Gandhi My Father
Imtiaz Ali – Jab We Met
Jaideep Sahni – Chak De India
Mani Ratnam – Guru
R. Balki – Cheeni Kum
Music Direction
A.R. Rahman – ‘Barso Re Barso Re’ (Guru)
Mika Ganpat – ‘Ganpat’ (Shootout At Lokhandwala)
Monty Sharma – ‘Saawariya’ (Saawariya)
Pritam – ‘Hare Ram Hare Ram’ (Bhool Bhulaiyaa)
Sajid – Wajid – ‘Do U Wanna Partner’ (Partner)
Salim – Sulaiman – ‘Chak De India’ (Chak De India)
Lyrics
Gulzar – ‘Tere Bina’ (Guru)
Jaideep Sahni – ‘Chak De India’ (Chak De India)
Javed Akhtar – ‘Main Agar Kahoon’ (Om Shanti Om)
Sameer – ‘Jab Se Tere Naina’ (Saawariya)
Sayeed Quadri – ‘In Dino’ (Life In A… Metro)
Playback Singer (Male)
KK – ‘Aankhon Mein Teri’ (Om Shanti Om)
Neeraj Shridhar – ‘Hare Ram Hare Ram’ (Bhool Bhulaiyaa)
Shaan – ‘Jabse Tere Naina’ (Saawariya)
Sukhvinder Singh – ‘Chak De India’ (Chak De India)
Wajid, Laabh Janjuwa – ‘Soni De Nakhre’ (Partner)
Playback Singer (Female)
Shreya Ghoshal – ‘Barso Re’ (Guru)
Shreya Ghoshal – ‘Dholna’ (Bhool Bhulaiyaa)
Shreya Ghoshal – ‘Thode Badmash’ (Saawariya)
Shreya Ghoshal – ‘Ye Ishq Hai’ (Jab We Met)
Sunidhi Chauhan – ‘Aaja Nachle’ (Aaja Nachle)
As you probably noticed one film is surprisingly missing, Taare Zameen Par. To read why, see our article titled Taare Zameen Par not sent in to IIFA.
