16th Annual IIFA 2015 Awards in Kuala Lumpur: India’s Oscars, Winners

India recently completed its version of the Oscar's. The International Indian Film Academy is a three-day-long affair, unlike the Oscars, that does its best to compete with Hollywood on the glamor scale. It is convened to celebrate everything in Indian cinema and unabashedly pat itself on the back. This year, it took place in Kuala Lumpur and, of course, drew the who's-who of Bollywood.

This year was a changing of the guard so to speak. The youth of Bollywood has been making its presence known and seem to have stepped up and said, "It's our time."

"With Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor hosting the event, IIFA this year is focusing on younger generations. Even leading nominations for the awards were bagged by either young directors or actors be it's Alia (Bhatt) for 2 States or Vikas Bahl for Queen," Spokesman of the IIFA Andre Timmins said.

Notable winners include Kangana Ranaut for Best Lead Actress for Queen, Shahid Kapoor for Best Lead Actor for Haider. Queen also won best picture and Rajkumar Hirani won best director for PK.

As expected in anything Bollywood, there was plenty of singing and dancing. From Z News India, here is a partial list of winners:

Best Performance in a Negative Role:

Kay Kay Menon for Haider

Best Debut- Male:

Tiger Shroff for Heropanti

Best Debut - Female:

Kirti Sanon for Heropanti

Best Performance in a Comic Role:

Varun Dhawan for Main Tera Hero

Best Playback Singer- female:

Kanika Kapoor for "Baby doll" from Ragini MMS2

Best Playback Singer- male:

Ankit Tiwari for "Galliyaan" from Ek Villian

Best Music:

Shankar Ehsaan Loy for 2 States

Best Debut Direction:

Sajid Nadiadwsla for Kick & Umang Kumar for Mary Kom

Best Costume Designing:

Dolly Ahluwalia for Haider

Best Sound Mixing:

Debajit Changmai for Haider

Best Action:

Parvez Shaikh and Andy Armstrong for Bang Bang

Best Choreography:

Ahmed Khan for Jumme Ki Raat for Kick

Best Screenplay:

Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar, Parveez Shaikh for Queen

Best Dialogue Award:

Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani for PK

Best Background Score:

Vishal Bhardwaj for Haider

Best Cinematography:

Binod Pradhan for 2 States

Best Editing:

Anurag Kashyap and Abhijit Kokate for Queen

Special Effects (Visuals):

Reupal Rawal from Prime Focus for Kick

Best Production Design:

Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray for Haider

Best Sound Design:

Shajith Koyeri Haider

Best Song Recording:

Eric Pillai for the song Teri Galiyaan for Ek Villian

Best Make-Up:

Preetisheel Singh and Clover Wootton for Haider