The 21st International Indian Film Academy Awards were supposed to take place in Indore from 27 to 29 March 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were postponed. However, on 24 November 2021, the IIFA organising team declared the name of winners of all categories through their Instagram handle.

The following is a list of nominees, technical award winners and popular award winners.

Gully Boy led the ceremony with 17 nominations, followed by Article 15 and Kabir Singh with 8 nominations each, and Uri: The Surgical Strike and War with 6 nominations each.

Gully Boy won 6 awards, including Best Actress (for Alia Bhatt) and Best Supporting Actor (for Siddhant Chaturvedi), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Winners and nominees

Awards Kabir Singh – Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar Murad Khetani and Ashwin Varde Article 15 – Anubhav Sinha Gully Boy – Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani Kesari – Karan Johar, Akshay Kumar, Apoorva Mehta and Sunir Khetarpal Uri: The Surgical Strike —Ronnie Screwvala | valign="top" | Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike Anubhav Sinha – Article 15 Sandeep Reddy Vanga – Kabir Singh Sujoy Ghosh – Badla Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy Shahid Kapoor – Kabir Singh Ayushmann Khurrana – Article 15 Hrithik Roshan – Super 30 Ranveer Singh – Gully Boy Vicky Kaushal – Uri: The Surgical Strike Alia Bhatt – Gully Boy Kareena Kapoor – Good Newwz Priyanka Chopra – The Sky Is Pink Taapsee Pannu – Badla Vidya Balan – Mission Mangal Siddhant Chaturvedi – Gully Boy Diljit Dosanjh – Good Newwz Kumud Mishra – Article 15 Vijay Varma – Gully Boy Vishal Jethwa – Mardaani 2 Kiara Advani – Good Newwz Amrita Singh – Badla Amruta Subhash – Gully Boy Sayani Gupta – Article 15 Yami Gautam – Bala Abhimanyu Dassani – Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota Ananya Panday – Student of the Year 2

Music Awards Kabir Singh – Mithoon, Amaal Mallik, Vishal Mishra, Sachet–Parampara and Akhil Sachdeva Gully Boy – Divine, Naezy, Dub Sharma, Ankur Tewari, Spitfire, Sez on the Beat, Rishi Rich, Raghu Dixit, Midival Punditz, Karsh Kale, Chandrashekhar Kunder, Jasleen Royal, Mickey McCleary, Ace, Ishq Bector, Prem-Hardeep, Viveick Rajagopalan and Kaam Bhaari Kesari – Tanishk Bagchi, Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Chirantan Bhatt, Jasbir Jassi, Gurmoh and Jasleen Royal Marjaavaan – Tanishk Bagchi, Meet Bros, Payal Dev, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Aditya Dev and Sanjoy Chowdhury War – Vishal–Shekhar | valign="top" | Manoj Muntashir – "Teri Mitti" – Kesari Divine & Ankur Tewari – "Apna Time Aayega" – Gully Boy Divine & Naezy – "Mere Gully Mein" – Gully Boy Irshad Kamil – "Bekhayali" – Kabir Singh Kumaar – "Tera Ban Jaunga" – Kabir Singh Arijit Singh – "Ghungroo" – War Arijit Singh – "Dil Hi Toh Hai" – The Sky Is Pink B Praak – "Teri Mitti" – Kesari Ranveer Singh, Divine & Naezy – "Mere Gully Mein" – Gully Boy Sachet Tandon – "Bekhayali" – Kabir Singh Shreya Ghoshal – "Yeh Aaina" – Kabir Singh Aakanksha Sharma – "Naina Yeh" – Article 15 Jasleen Royal – "Jahan Tu Chala" – Gully Boy Shilpa Rao – "Ghungroo" – War Vibha Saraf – "Kab Se Kab Tak" – Gully Boy

Technical Awards Reema Kagti & Zoya Akhtar – Gully Boy Aditya Dhar – Uri: The Surgical Strike Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15 Nitesh Tiwari, Nikhil Mehrotra & Piyush Gupta – Chhichhore Sanjiv Dutta – Super 30 Vijay Maurya – Gully Boy Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki – Article 15 Nitin Baid – Gully Boy Jay Oza – Gully Boy Bosco–Caesar & Tushar Kalia – "Ghunghroo" – War Shashwat Sachdev – Uri: The Surgical Strike YFX (YRF Studios) – War Bishwadeep Dipak Chatterjee & Ravi Soni – Uri: The Surgical Strike Ravi Soni – Uri: The Surgical Strike

Superlatives

+ Films that received multiple nominations Nominations Film 17 Gully Boy 8 Article 15 Kabir Singh 6 Uri: The Surgical Strike War 4 Kesari 3 Badla Good Newwz 2 Super 30 The Sky Is Pink

+ Films that received multiple awards Nominations Film 6 Gully Boy 4 Kabir Singh War 3 Uri: The Surgical Strike

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