The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2024 nominations announced

The nominations for the 15th edition of The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2024 have been announced. Scheduled from August 15 to August 25, the festival will see Shah Rukh Khan competing with actors like Diljit Dosanjh, Vikrant Massey, Fahadh Faasil and others for the Best Actor trophy. Shah Rukh’s two films – Dunki and Jawan – are also nominated in the Best Film category, along with other popular films like 12th Fail, Amar Singh Chamkila, Chandu Champion and more.

Alia Bhatt competes in the Best Actress category with the debutant Alizeh Agnihotri. Other actresses vying for the trophy include Nitanshi Goel, Sanya Malhotra and others. Similarly, the country’s top filmmakers – Imtiaz Ali, Kabir Khan, Karan Johar, Rajkumar Hirani – are competing for the Best Director trophy.

Here is the list of nominations:

BEST FILM NOMINATION LIST:

1. 12th Fail (Hindi)

2. Amar Singh Chamkila (Hindi)

3. Chandu Champion (Hindi)

4. Dunki (Hindi)

5. Jawan (Hindi)

6. Maharaja (Tamil)

7. Premalu (Malayalam)

8. Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Hindi)

BEST FILM – CRITICS CHOICE

1. Dear Jassi (Punjabi)

2. Girls Will Be Girls (English/Hindi)

3. Kaathal – The Core (Malayalam)

4. Kabuliwala (Bengali)

5. Laapataa Ladies (Hindi)⁠

6. Rapture (Garo)

7. ⁠Sapta Sagaradaache Ello – Side A (Kannada)

8. ⁠Thadavu (The Sentence) (Malayalam)

BEST ACTOR

1. Diljit Dosanjh – Amar Singh Chamkila

2. Fahadh Faasil – Aavesham

3. Kartik Aaryan – Chandu Champion

4. Mammootty – Kaathal – The Core

5. Mithun Chakraborty – Kabuliwala

6. Ranveer Singh – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani

7. Shah Rukh Khan – Dunki & Jawan

8. Sparsh Shrivastava – Laapataa Ladies

9. Vicky Kaushal – Sam Bahadur

10. Vikrant Massey – 12th Fail

BEST ACTRESS

1. Alia Bhatt – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani

2. Alizeh Agnihotri – Farrey

3. Beena R Chandran – Thadavu (The Sentence)

4. Jyothika – Kaathal – The Core

5. Nitanshi Goel – Laapataa Ladies

6. Parvathy Thiruvothu – Ullozhukku (Undercurrent)

7. Pratibha Ranta – Laapataa Ladies

8. Preeti



Panigrahi – Girls will be Girls

9. Sanya Malhotra for Mrs

10. Swathi Reddy – Month of Madhu

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Imtiaz Ali – Amar Singh Chamkila

2. Kabir Khan – Chandu Champion

3. Karan Johar – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani

4. ⁠Nithilan Saminathan – Maharaja

5. ⁠Rahul Sadasivan – Bramayugam

6. ⁠Rajkumar Hirani – Dunki

7. ⁠Vidhu Vinod Chopra – 12th Fail

BEST DIRECTOR – CRITICS CHOICE

1. Christo Tomy – Ullozhukku (Undercurrent)

2. Diwa Shah – Bahadur – The Brave

3. Dominic Sangma – Rimdogittanga (Rapture)

4. Hemanth Rao – Sapta Sagaradaache Ello – Side A

5. ⁠Kiran Rao – Laapataa Ladies

6. ⁠Saurav Rai – Guras

7. Shuchi Talati – Girls will be Girls

8. ⁠Sumanth Bhat – Mithya

BEST OTT SHOW

1. Dhootha (Telugu)

2. Heeramandi (Hindi)

3. Kohrra (Hindi)

4. Made in Heaven 2 (Hindi)

5. Panchayat Season 3 (Hindi)

6. Poacher (Malayalam)

7. The Railway Men (Hindi)

BEST ACTOR OTT

1. Arjun Mathur – Made in Heaven 2

2. Babil Khan – The Railway Men

3. Gulshan Devaiah – Guns & Gulaabs

4. Jitendra Kumar – Panchayat Season 3

5. Naveen Chandra – Inspector Rishi

6. R. Madhavan – The Railway Men

7. Roshan Mathew – Poacher

8. Suvinder Vicky – Kohrra

BEST ACTRESS OTT

1. Harleen Sethi – Kohrra

2. Karishma Tanna – Scoop

3. Neena Gupta – Panchayat Season 3

4. Nimisha Sajayan – Poacher

5. Parvathy Thiruvothu – Dhootha

6. Shriya Pilgaonkar – The Broken News 2

7. Sobhita Dhulipala – Made in Heaven 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY

1. Farming the Revolution

2. Flickering Lights

3. Headhunting to Beatboxing

4. Indi(r)a’s Emergency

5. Insides and Outsides

6. Trolley Times

BEST FILM – SUBCONTINENT

1. Barir Naam Shahana (A House Named Shahana) – Bangladesh

2. Paradise – Sri Lanka

3. The Monk and the Gun – Bhutan

4. The Red Suitcase – Nepal

5. Wakhri (One of a Kind) – Pakistan