21st IIFA Awards

21st IIFA Awards
Date	24 November 2021
Highlights
Best Film	Kabir Singh
Most awards	Gully Boy (6)
Most nominations	Gully Boy (17)

The 21st International Indian Film Academy Awards were supposed to take place in Indore from 27 to 29 March 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were postponed. However, on 24 November 2021, the IIFA organising team declared the name of winners of all categories through their Instagram handle.

The following is a list of nominees, technical award winners and popular award winners.

Gully Boy led the ceremony with 17 nominations, followed by Article 15 and Kabir Singh with 8 nominations each, and Uri: The Surgical Strike and War with 6 nominations each.

Gully Boy won 6 awards, including Best Actress (for Alia Bhatt) and Best Supporting Actor (for Siddhant Chaturvedi), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Kabir Singh – Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar Murad Khetani and Ashwin Varde Article 15 – Anubhav Sinha Gully Boy – Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani Kesari – Karan Johar, Akshay Kumar, Apoorva Mehta and Sunir Khetarpal Uri: The Surgical Strike —Ronnie Screwvala	Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike Anubhav Sinha – Article 15 Sandeep Reddy Vanga – Kabir Singh Sujoy Ghosh – Badla Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy
Best Actor	Best Actress
Shahid Kapoor – Kabir Singh Ayushmann Khurrana – Article 15 Hrithik Roshan – Super 30 Ranveer Singh – Gully Boy Vicky Kaushal – Uri: The Surgical Strike	Alia Bhatt – Gully Boy Kareena Kapoor – Good Newwz Priyanka Chopra – The Sky Is Pink Taapsee Pannu – Badla Vidya Balan – Mission Mangal
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Siddhant Chaturvedi – Gully Boy Diljit Dosanjh – Good Newwz Kumud Mishra – Article 15 Vijay Varma – Gully Boy Vishal Jethwa – Mardaani 2	Kiara Advani – Good Newwz Amrita Singh – Badla Amruta Subhash – Gully Boy Sayani Gupta – Article 15 Yami Gautam – Bala
Star Debut of the Year – Male	Star Debut of the Year – Female
Abhimanyu Dassani – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota	Ananya Panday – Student of the Year 2

Music Awards

Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Kabir Singh – Mithoon, Amaal Mallik, Vishal Mishra, Sachet–Parampara and Akhil Sachdeva Gully Boy – Divine, Naezy, Dub Sharma, Ankur Tewari, Spitfire, Sez on the beat, Rishi Rich, Raghu Dixit, Midival Punditz, Karsh Kale, Chandrashekhar Kunder, Jasleen Royal, Mickey McCleary, Ace, Ishq Bector, Prem-Hardeep, Viveick Rajagopalan and Kaam Bhaari Kesari – Tanishk Bagchi, Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Chirantan Bhatt, Jasbir Jassi, Gurmoh and Jasleen Royal Marjaavaan – Tanishk Bagchi, Meet Bros, Payal Dev, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Aditya Dev and Sanjoy Chowdhury War – Vishal–Shekhar	Manoj Muntashir – "Teri Mitti" – Kesari Divine & Ankur Tewari – "Apna Time Aayega" – Gully Boy Divine & Naezy – "Mere Gully Mein" – Gully Boy Irshad Kamil – "Bekhayali" – Kabir Singh Kumaar – "Tera Ban Jaunga" – Kabir Singh
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Arijit Singh – "Ghungroo" – War Arijit Singh – "Dil Hi Toh Hai" – The Sky Is Pink B Praak – "Teri Mitti" – Kesari Ranveer Singh, Divine & Naezy – "Mere Gully Mein" – Gully Boy Sachet Tandon – "Bekhayali" – Kabir Singh	Shreya Ghoshal – "Yeh Aaina" – Kabir Singh Aakanksha Sharma – "Naina Yeh" – Article 15 Jasleen Royal – "Jahan Tu Chala" – Gully Boy Shilpa Rao – "Ghungroo" – War Vibha Saraf – "Kab Se Kab Tak" – Gully Boy

Technical Awards

Best Story	Best Dialogue
Reema Kagti & Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15 Nitesh Tiwari, Nikhil Mehrotra & Piyush Gupta – Chhichhore Sanjiv Dutta – Super 30	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 & Ravi Soni – Uri: The Surgical Strike	Ravi Soni – Uri: The Surgical Strike

Superlatives

Films that received multiple nominations

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

Films that received multiple awards

Nominations	Film
6	Gully Boy
4	Kabir Singh
	War
3	Uri: The Surgical Strike