2017 IIFA awards: Alia and Shahid win Best Actors for Udta Punjab

The 18th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards was announced on 15 July 2017 at MetLife Stadium, in East Rutherford, New Jersey. On the occasion, the Hindi films of 2016 were awarded by the International Indian Film Academy.

Alia Bhatt and Shahid Kapoor bagged the Best Actors for Udta Punjab, where as the best film award went to Neerja.

List of the awards and awardees

• Best Film: Neerja

• Best Actor in a Leading Role: Shahid Kapoor for Udta Punjab

• Best Actress in a Leading Role: Alia Bhatt for Udta Punjab

• Best Director: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury for Pink

• Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Anupam Kher for M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story

• Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Shabana Azmi for Neerja

• Best Performance in a Comic Role: Varun Dhawan for Dishoom

• Best Performance in a Negative Role: Jim Sarbh for Neerja

• Best Music Direction: Ae Dil Hai Mushkil – Pritam Chakraborty

• Best Lyrics: Channa Mereya from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil – Amitabh Bhattacharya

• Best Male Playback Singer: Amit Mishra for "Bulleya" – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

• Best Female Playback Singer: Tulsi Kumar for "Soch Na Sake" – Airlift and Kanika Kapoor for "Da Da Dasse" – Udta Punjab

• Best Debut (Male): Diljit Dosanjh for Udta Punjab

• Best Debut (Female): Disha Patani for MS Dhoni: The Untold Story

• Best Sound Design: Pranav Shukla – Mirzya

• Best Background Score: Pritam Chakraborty - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

• Best Action: Larnell Stovall, Parvez Shaikh, `ANL` Arasu - Sultan

• Best Choreography: Adil Shaikh - Kapoor & Sons

• Best Costume Design: Manish Malhotra – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

• Best Editing: Bodhaditya Bandyopadhyay – Pink

• Best Production Design: Aparna Sud & Anna Ipe - Neerja

• Best Sound Mixing: Anuj Mathur  – Sultan

• Best Special Effects: Red Chillies VFX – Fan

• Best Cinematography: Anil Mehta, ISC & WICA - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

• Best Dialogue: Ritesh Shah - Pink

• Best Makeup: Greg Cannom - Fan

• Best Screenplay: Ritesh Shah – Pink

• Best Sound Recording: Shadab Rayeen for Deewani Mastani – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

• Woman of the Year (in a special category): Taapsee Pannu for Pink

Karan Johar and Saif Ali Khan were the hosts for the evening

About IIFA awards

The awards are annually presented by the International Indian Film Academy to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood, the Hindi language film industry. The ceremony of the awards, instituted in 2000, is held in different countries around the world every year with the most recent was held in New Rutherford Jersey on 14-15 July 2017.