23rd IIFA Awards

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The 23rd International Indian Film Academy Awards, also known as the IIFA, was held on 26–27 May 2023, postponed from the original February date.^[2]^[3] The awards were once again held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The nominees were announced in December 2022.^[4] The ceremony was broadcast by Colors TV on 18 June.^[5]

Awards

The winners and nominees have been listed below. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Best Film	Best Director
Drishyam 2‡ Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Darlings Gangubai Kathiawadi Vikram Vedha	R. Madhavan – Rocketry: The Nambi Effect‡ Anees Bazmee – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Ayan Mukerji – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Jasmeet K. Reen – Darlings Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Gangubai Kathiawadi Vasan Bala – Monica, O My Darling
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Hrithik Roshan – Vikram Vedha* as Vedha Betal*‡ Abhishek Bachchan – Dasvi* as Ganga Ram Chaudhary Ajay Devgn – Drishyam 2 as Vijay Salgaonkar Anupam Kher – The Kashmir Files as Pushkar Nath Pandit Kartik Aaryan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 as Ruhaan Randhawa a.k.a. Rooh Baba Rajkummar Rao – Monica, O My Darling as Jayant "Johnny" Arkhedkar	*Alia Bhatt – Gangubai Kathiawadi* as Gangubai Kathiawadi*‡ Alia Bhatt – Darlings* as Badrunissa "Badru" Sheikh Shefali Shah – Darlings as Shamshunissa "Shamshu" Ansari Tabu – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 as Anjulika Chatterjee / Manjulika Chatterjee Yami Gautam – A Thursday as Naina Jaiswal
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Anil Kapoor – Jugjugg Jeeyo* as Bheem Saini*‡ Abhishek Banerjee – Bhediya* as Janardan "Jana" / JD Shah Rukh Khan – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva as Mohan Bhargav Sikandar Kher – Monica, O My Darling as Nishikant Adhikari Vijay Raaz – Gangubai Kathiawadi as Raziabai	*Mouni Roy – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva* as Junoon*‡ Nimrat Kaur – Dasvi* as Bimla Devi "Bimmo" Chaudhary Radhika Apte – Monica, O My Darling as ACP Vijayashanti Naidu Sheeba Chadha – Badhaai Do as Mrs. Thakur Tabu – Drishyam 2 as Meera Deshmukh
Best Debut – Male	Best Debut – Female
*Shantanu Maheshwari – Gangubai Kathiawadi* as Afsaan Badr-ur-Razzaq‡ Babil Khan – Qala as Jagan Batwal**‡	*Khushali Kumar – Dhokha: Round D Corner* as Saanchi Sinha**‡
Best Music Director	Best Lyricist
Pritam – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva‡ Oaff and Savera – Gehraiyaan Pritam – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Gangubai Kathiawadi Tanishk Bagchi, Pozy, Niranjan Dhar, Kanishk Seth and Vishal Shelke – Jugjugg Jeeyo	Amitabh Bhattacharya – "Kesariya" – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva‡ A. M. Turaz – "Jab Saiyaan" – Gangubai Kathiawadi Ankur Tewari – "Gehraiyaan" – Gehraiyaan Raj Shekhar – "Behney Do" – Rocketry: The Nambi Effect Varun Grover – "Atak Gaya Hai" – Badhaai Do
Best Male Playback Singer	Best Female Playback Singer
Arijit Singh – "Kesariya" – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva‡ Aditya Rao – "Behney Do" – Rocketry: The Nambi Effect Arijit Singh – "Deva Deva" – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Kanishk Seth – "Rangi Sari" – Jugjugg Jeeyo Mohit Chauhan – "Gehraiyaan (Reprise)" – Gehraiyaan	Shreya Ghoshal – "Rasiya" – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva‡ Jonita Gandhi – "Deva Deva" – Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva Kavita Seth – "Rangi Sari" – Jugjugg Jeeyo Lothika Jha – "Doobey" – Gehraiyaan Shreya Ghoshal – "Jab Saiyaan" – Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Story - Adapted
Aamil Keeyan Khan and Abhishek Pathak – Drishyam 2‡ ^[10]^[11] S.Hussain Zaidi and Jane Borges for Gangubai Kathiawadi Yogesh Chandekar for Monica O My Darling R.Madhavan for Rocketry: The Nambi Effect Pushkar, Gayatri and BA Fida for Vikram Vedha^[12]

References

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