IIFA Award For Best Actress

The IIFA Award for Best Actress is given by the International Indian Film Academy as part of its annual award ceremony for Hindi films, to recognise a female actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. The recipient is chosen by viewers and the winner is announced at the ceremony. The current winner of the Best Actress award is Kriti Sanon for '' Mimi''.

Superlatives

* Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor are the only siblings who won the award.
* Sridevi is the only actress who won the award posthumously.
* Rani Mukerji, Kangana Ranaut, Anushka Sharma, Tabu and Priyanka Chopra are the only recipients who also won the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress. Mukerji is the only actress who won both the awards in the same year (2005).
* Kareena Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Kangana Ranaut, Deepika Padukone and Kriti Sanon are the recipients who also won the IIFA Award for Best Debut.
* Kangana Ranaut is the only actress who won in all 3 big categories: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Female Debut.

Multiple winners

* 3 Wins : Rani Mukerji, Vidya Balan, Alia Bhatt
* 2 Wins : Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone

Winners and nominees

* Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.
† – Indicates the performance also ''won'' the Filmfare Award for Best Actress
‡ – Indicates the performance was also ''nominated'' for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress

2000s

* 2000 Aishwarya Rai – ''Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam'' as Nandini †
** Kajol – ''Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain'' as Megha ‡
** Karisma Kapoor – ''Biwi No.1'' as Pooja Mehra ‡
** Sonali Bendre – ''Sarfarosh'' as Seema
* 2001 Karisma Kapoor – ''Fiza'' as Fiza Ikramullah †
** Madhuri Dixit – '' Pukar'' as Anjali ‡
** Preity Zinta – ''Kya Kehna'' as Priya Baxi ‡
** Shilpa Shetty – ''Dhadkan'' as Anjali
** Tabu – ''Astitva'' as Aditi Pandit ‡
* 2002 Tabu – ''Chandni Bar'' as Mumtaz Ali Ansari ‡
** Ameesha Patel – '' Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'' as Sakina ‡
** Gracy Singh – ''Lagaan'' as Gauri
** Kajol – '' Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...'' as Anjali Sharma Raichand †
** Preity Zinta – ''Dil Chahta Hai'' as Shalini
* 2003 Aishwarya Rai – ''Devdas'' as Parvati "Paro" Chakraborty †
** Ameesha Patel – ''Humraaz'' as Priya Singhania ‡
** Karisma Kapoor – '' Shakti: The Power'' as Nandini ‡
** Madhuri Dixit – ''Devdas'' as Chandramukhi
** Rani Mukerji – '' Saathiya'' as Suhani Sharma ‡
* 2004 Preity Zinta – ''Kal Ho Naa Ho'' as Naina Catherine Kapur †
** Hema Malini – ''Baghban'' as Pooja Malhotra ‡
** Preity Zinta – '' Koi... Mil Gaya'' as Nisha ‡
** Rani Mukerji – '' Chalte Chalte'' as Priya Chopra ‡
** Urmila Matondkar – '' Bhoot'' as Swati ‡
* 2005 Rani Mukerji – '' Hum Tum'' as Rhea Prakash †
** Kareena Kapoor – ''Aitraaz'' as Priya Saxena
** Priyanka Chopra – ''Mujhse Shaadi Karogi'' as Rani Singh
** Shilpa Shetty – '' Phir Milenge'' as Tamanna Sahni ‡
** Urmila Matondkar – '' Ek Hasina Thi'' as Sarika Vartak ‡
* 2006 Rani Mukerji – ''Black'' as Michelle McNally †
** Konkona Sen Sharma – ''Page 3'' as Madhvi Sharma
** Preity Zinta – ''Salaam Namaste'' as Ambar "Ambi" Malhotra ‡
** Rani Mukerji – ''Bunty Aur Babli'' as Vimmi "Babli" Saluja ‡
** Vidya Balan – '' Parineeta'' as Lalita ‡
* 2007 Rani Mukerji – ''Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna'' as Maya Talwar ‡
** Aishwarya Rai – ''Dhoom 2'' as Sunehri ‡
** Kajol – '' Fanaa'' as Zooni Ali Baig †
** Kangana Ranaut – ''Gangster'' as Simran
** Kareena Kapoor – '' Omkara'' as Dolly Mishra ‡
** Vidya Balan – ''Lage Raho Munna Bhai'' as Jhanvi
* 2008 Kareena Kapoor – ''Jab We Met'' as Geet Dhillon †
** Aishwarya Rai – ''Guru'' as Sujata Desai ‡
** Deepika Padukone – ''Om Shanti Om'' as Shantipriya / Sandhya (Sandy) ‡
** Katrina Kaif – ''Namastey London'' as Jasmeet 'Jazz' Malhotra
** Tabu – ''Cheeni Kum'' as Nina Verma
** Vidya Balan – ''Bhool Bhulaiyaa'' as Avni S. Chaturvedi ‡
* 2009 Priyanka Chopra – ''Fashion'' as Meghna Mathur †
** Aishwarya Rai – ''Jodhaa Akbar'' as Jodhaa Bai ‡
** Asin – '' Ghajini'' as Kalpana Shetty ‡
** Bipasha Basu – ''Race'' as Sonia Singh
** Katrina Kaif – '' Singh Is Kinng'' as Sonia Singh

2010s

* 2010 Kareena Kapoor – ''3 Idiots'' as Pia Sahastrabudhhe ‡ (tied with) Vidya Balan – '' Paa'' as Vidya †
** Deepika Padukone – '' Love Aaj Kal'' as Meera Pandit ‡
** Mahie Gill – ''Dev D'' as Parminder 'Paro'
** Priyanka Chopra – ''Kaminey'' as Sweety Shekhar Bhope ‡
* 2011 Anushka Sharma – ''Band Baaja Baaraat'' as Shruti Kakkar ‡
** Aishwarya Rai – '' Guzaarish'' as Sofia D'Souza ‡
** Kareena Kapoor – ''Golmaal 3'' as Daboo ‡
** Katrina Kaif – ''Raajneeti'' as Indu Patp Singh
** Vidya Balan – ''Ishqiya'' as Krishna Verma ‡
* 2012 Vidya Balan – ''The Dirty Picture'' as Reshma / Silk †
** Kangana Ranaut – ''Tanu Weds Manu'' as Tanuja 'Tanu' Trivedi
** Kareena Kapoor – ''Bodyguard'' as Divya
**Mahie Gill – ''Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster'' as Madhavi Devi ‡
**Priyanka Chopra – ''7 Khoon Maaf'' as Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes ‡
* 2013 Vidya Balan – ''Kahaani'' as Vidya Venkatesan Bagchi †
** Deepika Padukone – ''Cocktail'' as Veronica Malaney ‡
** Huma Qureshi – ''Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2'' as Mohsina
** Kareena Kapoor – ''Heroine'' as Mahi Arora ‡
** Priyanka Chopra – ''Barfi!'' as Jhilmil Chatterjee ‡
** Sridevi – ''English Vinglish'' as Shashi Godbole ‡
* 2014 Deepika Padukone – ''Chennai Express'' as Meenalochni 'Meena' Azhagusundaram ‡
** Deepika Padukone – ''Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela'' as Leela Sanera †
** Deepika Padukone – ''Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani'' as Dr. Naina Talwar ‡
** Nimrat Kaur – ''The Lunchbox'' as Ila
** Shraddha Kapoor'' as Aarohi Keshav Shirke ‡
** Sonakshi Sinha – ''Lootera'' as Pakhi Roy Chaudhary ‡
* 2015 Kangana Ranaut – ''Queen'' as Rani Mehra †
** Alia Bhatt – '' 2 States'' as Ananya Swaminathan
** Anushka Sharma – '' PK'' as Jagat "Jaggu" Janani Sahni
** Deepika Padukone – '' Happy New Year'' as Mohini Joshi
** Priyanka Chopra – ''Mary Kom'' as Mary Kom ‡
** Rani Mukerji – ''Mardaani'' as Shivani Shivaji Roy ‡
* 2016 Deepika Padukone – ''Piku'' as Piku Banerjee †
** Deepika Padukone – ''Bajirao Mastani'' as Mastani ‡
** Kangana Ranaut – ''Tanu Weds Manu Returns'' as Tanuja "Tanu" Trivedi / Kumari "Kusum" Sangwan (Datto) ‡
** Priyanka Chopra – ''Dil Dhadakne Do'' as Ayesha Mehra / Sangha
** Shraddha Kapoor'' as Vinnie
* 2017 Alia Bhatt – ''Udta Punjab'' as Kumari Pinky †
** Alia Bhatt – ''Dear Zindagi'' as Kaira (Koko) ‡
** Anushka Sharma – ''Ae Dil Hai Mushkil'' as Alizeh ‡
** Sonam Kapoor – ''Neerja'' as Neerja Bhanot ‡
** Taapsee Pannu – ''Pink'' as Minal Arora
* 2018 Sridevi – '' Mom'' as Devki Sabarwal ‡
**Alia Bhatt – ''Badrinath Ki Dulhania'' as Vaidehi Trivedi ‡
**Bhumi Pednekar – ''Shubh Mangal Saavdhan'' as Sugandha Joshi ‡
**Vidya Balan – ''Tumhari Sulu'' as Sulochana "Sulu" Dubey †
**Zaira Wasim – ''Secret Superstar'' as Insia Malik ‡
* 2019 Alia Bhatt – ''Raazi'' as Sehmat Khan †
**Deepika Padukone – ''Padmaavat'' as Rani Padmavati ‡
**Neena Gupta – ''Badhaai Ho'' as Priyamvada 'Babli' Kaushik ‡
**Rani Mukerji – ''Hichki'' as Naina Mathur ‡
**Tabu – ''Andhadhun'' as Simi ‡

2020s

* 2020 Alia Bhatt – ''Gully Boy'' as Safeena Firdausi †
** Kareena Kapoor – ''Good Newwz'' as Deepti Batra ‡
** Priyanka Chopra – ''The Sky Is Pink'' as Aditi Chaudhary ‡
** Taapsee Pannu – ''Badla'' as Naina Sethi
** Vidya Balan – ''Mission Mangal'' as Tara Shinde ‡

* 2021-22 Kriti Sanon – '' Mimi'' as Mimi Rathore †
**Kiara Advani – '' Shershaah'' as Dimple Cheema ‡
** Taapsee Pannu – ''Thappad'' as Amrita Sabharwal †
** Sanya Malhotra – ''Pagglait'' as Sandhya Giri
** Vidya Balan – '' Sherni'' as Vidya Vincent ‡

* 2023
* Alia Bhatt – ''Gangubai Kathiawadi'' as Gangubai
* Alia Bhatt – '' Darlings'' as Badrunissa
* Yami Gautam – ''A Thursday'' aa Naina Jaiswal
* Tabu – ''Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2'' as Anjulika Chatterjee and Manjulika Chatterjee
* Shefali Shah – '' Darlings'' as Shamshunissa

See also

* IIFA Awards
* Bollywood
* Cinema of India

References

External links

Official site

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International Indian Film Academy Awards
Film awards for lead actress