Shah Rukh Khan Competes for Best Actor at IFFM 2024 Latest News: Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2024 Announces Nominations: Jawan, Chandu Champion, 12th Fail, Kaathal, Maharaja, Laapataa Ladies lead film nominations; By Sulena Majumdar Arora 11 Jul 2024 in Latest News New Update Listen to this article 0.75x 1x 1.5x 00:00 / 00:00 Follow Us Share Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2024 Announces Nominations: Jawan, Chandu Champion, 12th Fail, Kaathal, Maharaja, Laapataa Ladies lead film nominations; Made in Heaven 2, Kohrra, Poacher lead OTT nominations The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2024 returns with its 15th edition, announcing the most anticipated nominations of the year. As the largest Indian film festival held on foreign soil, IFFM nominations are year after year an indication of the diversity and depth of the content from across India. The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), backed and presented by the Victorian Government in Australia is an annual celebration of Indian cinema, showcasing the best films, digital series, and talents from India. The festival aims to promote cultural exchange and celebrate the diversity of Indian cinema on an international stage. This year the festival is set to commence on 15th August and conclude on 25th August. The IFFM awards have become the flagship award of this yearly award season that truly embodies the spirit of inclusion, diversity, languages, scale, and genres. This year, the festival will see King Khan aka Shah Rukh Khan, competing with some of the best talents across languages for the Best Actor category, including Vikrant Massey, Fahadh Faasil, Ranveer Singh, Kartik Aaryan, Mithun Chakraborty, among others. Similarly, actress Alia Bhatt will be competing for the coveted Best Actress category alongside the immensely talent Jyothika and Parvathy Thiruvothu, and emerging talents from "Laapataa Ladies" Nitanshi Goel and Pratibha Ranta. In the OTT category shows and talents of series including Heeramandi, Poacher, Made In Heaven Season 2 among others will be competing for the win. The winners of the prestigious IFFM 2024 Awards will be announced during the festival at their annual gala night on 16th and is set to be hosted at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne. Below are the list of nominations BEST FILM 12th Fail (Hindi) Amar Singh Chamkila (Hindi) Chandu Champion (Hindi) Dunki (Hindi) Jawan (Hindi) Maharaja (Tamil) Premalu (Malayalam) Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (Hindi) BEST FILM - CRITICS CHOICE Dear Jassi (Punjabi) Girls Will Be Girls (English/Hindi) Kaathal - The Core (Malayalam) Kabuliwala (Bengali) Laapataa Ladies (Hindi) Rapture (Garo) Sapta Sagaradaache Ello - Side A (Kannada) Thadavu (The Sentence) (Malayalam) BEST ACTOR Diljit Dosanjh - Amar Singh Chamkila Fahadh Faasil - Aavesham Kartik Aaryan - Chandu Champion Mammootty - Kaathal - The Core Mithun Chakraborty – Kabuliwala Ranveer Singh - Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Shah Rukh Khan – Dunki & Jawan Sparsh Shrivastava – Laapataa Ladies Vicky Kaushal - Sam Bahadur Vikrant Massey - 12th Fail BEST ACTRESS Alia Bhatt - Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Alizeh Agnihotri – Farrey Beena R Chandran - Thadavu (The Sentence) Jyothika – Kaathal - The Core Nitanshi Goel – Laapataa Ladies Parvathy Thiruvothu – Ullozhukku (Undercurrent) Pratibha Ranta – Laapataa Ladies Preeti Panigrahi - Girls will be Girls Sanya Malhotra for Mrs Swathi Reddy - Month of Madhu BEST DIRECTOR Imtiaz Ali – Amar Singh Chamkila Kabir Khan – Chandu Champion Karan Johar - Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani Nithilan Saminathan – Maharaja Rahul Sadasivan - Bramayugam Rajkumar Hirani - Dunki Vidhu Vinod Chopra - 12th Fail BEST DIRECTOR – CRITICS CHOICE Christo Tomy - Ullozhukku (Undercurrent) Diwa Shah - Bahadur - The Brave Dominic Sangma – Rimdogittanga (Rapture) Hemanth Rao - Sapta Sagaradaache Ello - Side A Kiran Rao - Laapataa Ladies Saurav Rai – Guras Shuchi Talati – Girls will be Girls Sumanth Bhat - Mithya BEST OTT SHOW Dhootha (Telugu) Heeramandi (Hindi) Kohrra (Hindi) Made in Heaven 2 (Hindi) Panchayat Season 3 (Hindi) Poacher (Malayalam) The Railway Men (Hindi) BEST ACTOR OTT Arjun Mathur - Made in Heaven 2 Babil Khan - The Railway Men Gulshan Devaiah – Guns & Gulaabs Jitendra Kumar – Panchayat Season 3 Naveen Chandra - Inspector Rishi R. Madhavan - The Railway Men Roshan Mathew – Poach er Suvinder Vicky - Kohrra BEST ACTRESS OTT Harleen Sethi - Kohrra Karishma Tanna - Scoop Neena Gupta – Panchayat Season 3 Nimisha Sajayan – Poacher Parvathy Thiruvothu – Dhootha Shriya Pilgaonkar – The Broken News 2 Sobhita Dhulipala - Made in Heaven 2 BEST DOCUMENTARY Farming the Revolution Flickering Lights Headhunting to Beatboxing Indi(r)a’s Emergency Insides and Outsides Trolley Times BEST FILM – SUBCONTINENT Barir Naam Shahana (A House Named Shahana) - Bangladesh Paradise – Sri Lanka The Monk and the Gun - Bhutan The Red Suitcase - Nepal Wakhri (One of a Kind) - Pakistan Read Also: Alanna Panday gave birth to a son, Ivor McCray shared the good news Kalki 2898 AD is inspired not by Harry Potter but by this movie Bigg Boss OTT 3: Munisha Khatwani Evicted in Weekend Ka Vaar Emraan Hashmi said this about working with Mallika Sherawat #Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2024 #Shah Rukh Khan Related Articles Latest Stories Read the Next Article