It's that time of the year again – the 2024 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) is here. Arguably the biggest celebration of Indian cinema in Australia, IFFM (running from August 15 to 25) will feature movie screenings, Q&A's and a spectacular awards night in the Victorian capital.
Audiences can watch at feature films, documentaries, and short films from various parts of India, and of course, the highly-anticipated awards night is set to embrace cinema in a spectacularly glamorous fashion.
In its 15th year, the IFFM's awards nominations see Jawan, 12th Fail, Kaathal and Laapataa Ladies leading film nominations, while Made in Heaven 2 and Kohrra lead OTT (over-the-top) nominations.
Check out the full list of nominees below:
BEST FILM
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