The 2003 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 4th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2002 and took place on 17 May 2003.
The official ceremony took place on 6 April 2002, at the Coca-Cola Dome, in Johannesburg. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 29 competitive categories.
Devdas led the ceremony with 5 nominations, and won a leading 16 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Sanjay Leela Bhansali), Best Actor (for Shah Rukh Khan), Best Actress (for Aishwarya Rai), and Best Supporting Actress (for Kirron Kher), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.
Ajay Devgan received dual nominations for Best Actor for his performances in Company and The Legend of Bhagat Singh, but lost to Shah Rukh Khan won the award for Devdas.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Popular awards
Best PictureBest Director Devdas Sanjay Leela Bhansali – DevdasBest Performance In A Leading Role MaleBest Performance In A Leading Role Female Shah Rukh Khan – Devdas as Devdas Mukherjee Ajay Devgan – Company as Malik Ajay Devgan – The Legend of Bhagat Singh as Bhagat Singh Amitabh Bachchan – Kaante as Yashvardhan Rampal 'Major' Akshaye Khanna – Deewangee as Raj Goyal Aishwarya Rai – Devdas as Parvati "Paro" Chakraborty Ameesha Patel – Humraaz as Priya Karisma Kapoor – Shakti: The Power as Nandini Madhuri Dixit – Devdas as Chandramukhi Rani Mukerji – Saathiya as Suhani SharmaBest Performance In A Supporting Role MaleBest Performance In A Supporting Role Female Mohanlal – Company as Srinivasan Ashutosh Rana – Raaz as Agni Swaroop Dilip Prabhavalkar – Encounter: The Killing as Ponappa Awadhe Jackie Shroff – Devdas as Chunnilal Sushant Singh – The Legend of Bhagat Singh as Sukhdev Kirron Kher – Devdas as Sumitra Chakraborty Kareena Kapoor – Mujhse Dosti Karoge as TinaBest Performance In A Comic RoleBest Performance In A Negative Role Mahesh Manjrekar – Kaante Akshaye Khanna – Humraaz Male Debutant StarFemale Debutant Star John Abraham – Jism Esha Deol – Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe
Musical awards Best Music DirectorBest Lyrics A. R. Rahman – Saathiya "Dola Re Dola" from Devdas – Nusrat BadrBest Male Playback SingerBest Female Playback Singer Sonu Nigam for "Saathiya" – Saathiya Shreya Ghoshal and Kavita Krishnamurthy for "Dola Re Dola" – DevdasBest Song RecordingBest Background score Devdas – Bishwadeep Chatterjee, Daman Sood, Tanay Gajjar Saathiya – A. R. Rahman
Backstage awards Best DialogueBest Screenplay Prakash Kapadia for Devdas Mahesh Bhatt for RaazBest Story Jaideep Sahni for Company
Technical awards Best CinematographyBest Choreography Binod Pradhan – Devdas Saroj Khan – DevdasBest Costume DesignBest Editing Devdas – Neeta Lulla, Abu Jani, Sandeep Khosla, Reza Shariffi Company – Chandan AroraBest MakeupBest Sound Recording Devdas – Arun Pillai Devdas – Jitendra Chaudhary, Vikramaditya Motwane, Kunal SharmaBest Sound Re-RecordingBest Special Effects Devdas – Leslie Fernandes Kaante – Prime FocusBest Art DirectionBest Action Devdas – Nitin Chandrakant Desai Company – Allan Amin
Special awards
Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema Kalyanji Virji Shah, Anandji Virji Shah and Dev Anand
Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema Aparna Sen
Outstanding Achievement by an Indian in South Africa Ajay Gupta – MD, Sahara Computers, SA
Samsung Style Diva of the Year Rekha
Samsung Style Icon of the Year Fardeen Khan
Fresh Faces Of The Year
John Abraham Esha Deol
Superlatives +Films with multiple nominationsNominationsFilm5Devdas2CompanyThe Legend of Bhagat Singh +Films with multiple awardsAwardsFilm16Devdas4CompanySaathiya2Kaante
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