IIFA 2026 Winners List: Dhurandhar Wins 12 Awards

The 26th IIFA Awards were announced on 30 October 2026, and one film took over the night. Dhurandhar won 12 awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor. On the OTT side, Aryan Khan’s The Ba***ds of Bollywood won Best Series.

Here is the full IIFA 2026 winners list, in simple words.

Dhurandhar: The Big Winner of IIFA 2026

Aditya Dhar’s film won in 12 categories:

• Best Film: Jyoti Deshpande, Aditya Dhar, Lokesh Dhar
• Best Director: Aditya Dhar
• Best Actor: Ranveer Singh
• Best Supporting Actor: Sanjay Dutt
• Best Performance in a Negative Role: Akshaye Khanna
• Best Music Direction: Shashwat Sachdev
• Best Story (Original): Aditya Dhar
• Best Screenplay: Aditya Dhar
• Best Dialogues: Aditya Dhar
• Best Cinematography: Vikash Nowlakha
• Best Editing: Shivkumar V. Panicker
• Best Sound Design: Bishwadeep Chatterjee

Aditya Dhar alone took home five awards: Director, Story, Screenplay, Dialogues and Film (as producer).

Best Actor and Best Actress at IIFA 2026

Saiyaara Wins Big in Music and Debut Awards

Saiyaara may not have won Best Film, but it did very well in music and new talent:

• Best Lyrics: Irshad Kamil (title song)
• Best Male Singer: Faheem Abdullah (title song)
• Best Female Singer: Shreya Ghoshal (Saiyaara Reprise)
• Best Male Debut: Ahaan Panday
• Best Female Debut: Rasha Thadani won this for Azaad

Other Film Winners

• Best International Film: Avatar: Fire & Ash
• Best Story (Adapted): Basharat Peer, Sumit Roy and Neeraj Ghaywan for Homebound
• Best Choreography: Bosco Leslie Martis for Aavan Jaavan (War 2)

Chhaava won most of the technical awards outside Dhurandhar’s sweep:

• Best Background Score: A.R. Rahman
• Best Sound Mixing: Alok De
• Best Special Effects: Assemblage Entertainment and Redefine

IIFA Digital Awards 2026 Winners

Series

The Ba***ds of Bollywood was the star of the OTT side.

• Best Series: The Ba***ds of Bollywood (Red Chillies Entertainment)
• Best Direction: Aryan Khan
• Best Supporting Actress: Anya Singh
• Best Supporting Actor: Raghav Juyal
• Best Title Track: Ujwal Gupta, for Number 1

Paatal Lok Season 2

Paatal Lok Season 2 also won big:

• Best Actor: Jaideep Ahlawat
• Best Actress: Tillotama Shome
• Best Original Story: Sudip Sharma, Tamal Sen, Rahul Kanojia and Abhishek Banerjee

Digital Films

• Best Picture: Baramulla
• Best Story: Aditya Dhar, Monal Thakkar and Aditya Suhas Jambhale (Baramulla)
• Best Direction: Karan Tejpal (Stolen)
• Best Actor: Abhishek Banerjee (Stolen)
• Best Actress: Sanya Malhotra (Mrs.)
• Best Supporting Actor: Avinash Tiwary (The Mehta Boys)
• Best Supporting Actress: Monika Panwar (Nishanchi 2)

Docuseries and Reality

• Best Docuseries/Docufilm: The Roshans
• Best Reality/Non-Scripted Show: The Traitors

Quick Takeaways

• Dominant Sweep: Dhurandhar won 12 awards and dominated the night.
• Top Acting Honors: Ranveer Singh won Best Actor and Aneet Padda won Best Actress.
• Aryan Khan Triumph: Aryan Khan won Best Direction for his very first series.
• Aditya Dhar Double Hit: Aditya Dhar also had a hit on OTT, as Baramulla won Best Picture in the digital category.

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