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Mumbai, May 5, 2009: The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) today announced the winners
of the technical awards categories for the IDEA IIFA Awards 2009. Jodhaa Akbar walked away with
5 awards followed by Gajini which won 3 out of a total of 14 awards announced today. The winners
will be presented their trophies on the night of the IDEA IIFA Awards that will be held on June 13,
2009 at held at the CotaiArena at The Venetian® Macao.
Dominating the Technical Awards this year was Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodhaa Akbar, with A. R.
Rahman adding to his winning streak this year taking the award for the Best Background Score. The
film also won awards for technical excellence in Best Costume Design for Neeta Lulla, Best Editing
for Ballu Saluja, Best Art Direction for Nitin Chandrakant Desai and Best Make Up for Madhav
Kadam.
Following closely in the award wins is the Aamir Khan starrer – Ghajini, which won 3 awards for the
Best Action – Peter Heins and Stun Siva, Best Sound Recording – Resul Pookutty and Amrit and Best
Visual Special Effects – Prime Focus.
Bagging the awards for Best Cinematography – Jason West and for Best Song Recording – Purple
Haze, Rock On !! clearly established itself as a cult movie of 2008.
This year, the Indian film industry favoured Farah Khan as she won the award for Best
Choreography for the song ‘Desi Girl’ in Dostana while Leslie Fernandes gets the award for Best
Sound Re-recording for the movie Race. Manu Rishi gets the Best Dialogue award for Oye Lucky
Lucky Oye and the Best Screenplay award is being given to Neeraj Pandey for A Wednesday.
The winners were chosen based on an industry voting for the IDEA IIFA Awards 2009 in March.
Results of the industry voting were audited by PriceWaterhouse Coopers, the auditing firm for the
IIFAs and the Oscars.
The nominations for the popular categories of IDEA IIFA Awards 2009 have gone online on
www.mastilinks.com and will be open till the end of May 2009. Indian Cinema fans worldwide are
expected to vote for who they deem to be the best of 2008. The votes from the online voting will
be tallied by PWC and will only be announced on the night of the IDEA IIFA Awards 2009 at the
CotaiArena, The Venetian® Macao-Resort-Hotel.
In its tenth year, IIFA steers forth to strengthen its vision of building bridges across businesses,
communities, nations and cinemas creating ‘One People. One World.’ Having taken the Weekend
and Awards to various locales world over, from London to Amsterdam, Dubai to Johannesburg and
this year to Macau, IIFA has created lasting experiences in these countries, opening new markets
for Indian Cinema and its varied cultures.
The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) will celebrate the VIDEOCON IIFA Weekend and
IDEA IIFA Awards in the exotic locale of The Venetian® Macao-Resort-Hotel. The 10th edition of IIFA
will be held at the picturesque resort during June 11 – 13, 2009. The Venetian® Macao-Resort-
Hotel, like its sister-property in Las Vegas, is a renaissance Venice-themed property featuring
stunning replicas of Venice landmarks. The hotel offers 3,000 all-suite guest rooms, one-million
square feet of retail space, the largest casino in the world, 1.2 million square feet of meeting,
convention and exhibition space, and an arena that can host up to 15,000 seats.
About IIFA
The International Indian Film Academy, conceptualized and produced by Wizcraft International
Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. is supported by the key members of the Indian film fraternity. IIFA is the
most respected South Asian film academy and its main highlight, the IIFA Awards is India’s biggest
media event. With a viewership of almost 600 million worldwide, the IIFAs are among the world’s
most-watched annual entertainment events.
From a one night celebration in 2000 at the Millenn
ium Dome, London, the last nine years have
seen the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) movement grow into a cine-packed weekend of
film-festivals, workshops, exhibitions, film-showcases, global business forums and sporting events,
all of which climaxes into the IIFA Awards. The IIFAs have been celebrated in London, Sun City,
Johannesburg, Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai, Amsterdam, Yorkshire and the last edition was hosted by
Thailand in the amazing city of Bangkok. This year, IIFA celebrates its 10th anniversary scheduled
for June 2009 at The Venetian® Macao-Resort-Hotel in China. IIFA 2009 vows to be a virtuoso,
enthralling Weekend; while the IIFA Awards will seek celebrate A Golden Decade in Indian Cinema.
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