21st IIFA Awards explained

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.^[1] However, on 24 November 2021, the IIFA organising team declared the name of winners of all categories through their Instagram handle.^[2]

The following is a list of nominees,^[3] technical award winners^[4] and popular award winners.^[5]

Gully Boy led the ceremony with 17 nominations, followed by Article 15 and Kabir Singh with 8 nominations each, and 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

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 —Ronnie Screwvala	Aditya Dhar – Anubhav Sinha – Article 15 Sandeep Reddy Vanga – Kabir Singh Sujoy Ghosh – Badla Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy
Shahid Kapoor – Kabir Singh Ayushmann Khurrana – Article 15 Hrithik Roshan – Super 30 Ranveer Singh – Gully Boy Vicky Kaushal –	Alia Bhatt – Gully Boy Kareena Kapoor – Good Newwz Priyanka Chopra – The Sky Is Pink Taapsee Pannu – Badla Vidya Balan – Mission Mangal
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
Abhimanyu Dassani – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota	Ananya Panday – Student of the Year 2

Music Awards

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
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

Reema Kagti & Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy Aditya Dhar – Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15 Nitesh Tiwari, Nikhil Mehrotra & Piyush Gupta – Chhichhore Sanjiv Dutta – Super 30	Vijay Maurya – Gully Boy
Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15	Nitin Baid – Gully Boy
Jay Oza – Gully Boy	Bosco–Caesar & Tushar Kalia – "Ghunghroo" – War
Shashwat Sachdev –	YFX (YRF Studios) – War
Bishwadeep Dipak Chatterjee & Ravi Soni –	Ravi Soni –

Superlatives

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
scope=row style="text-align:center"	17	Gully Boy
8	Article 15
	Kabir Singh
scope=row rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;"	6
War
scope=row style="text-align:center;"	4	Kesari
scope=row rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;"	3	Badla
Good Newwz
scope=row rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;"	2	Super 30
The Sky Is Pink

Films that received multiple awards

Nominations	Film
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6	Gully Boy
scope=row rowspan=2 style="text-align:center"	4	Kabir Singh
War
scope=row rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;"	3

Notes and References

1. Web site: 21st IIFA Awards ceremony in Indore to be hosted by Salman Khan, postponed . 2 April 2020 . www.seelatest.com . en-us . 2020-05-17.
2. News: IIFA Awards 2020: Here's the complete winner list . 26 November 2021 . Masala.com.
3. Web site: IIFA - International Indian Film Academy . IIFA - International Indian Film Academy . en . 2020-05-17.
4. Web site: IIFA Technical Awards 2020: All the Winners!. International Indian Film Academy Awards. 2 June 2020.
5. News: IIFA Awards 2020 - Popular Award Winners . 28 November 2021 . . 25 November 2021 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211126055921/https://iifa.com/blog/blog-details/iifa-awards-2020---popular-award-winners . 26 November 2021 .