9th IIFA Awards

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| caption = The official logo of the 2008 IIFA Awards

| date = {{Start date|2008|06|06|df=y}}–
{{End date|2008|06|08|df=y}}

| site = Siam Paragon
Bangkok, Thailand

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| best_picture = Chak De! India

| best_direction = Shimit Amin

| best_direction_film = (Chak De! India)

| best_actor = Shahrukh Khan

| best_actor_film = (Chak De! India)

| best_actress = Kareena Kapoor

| best_actress_film = (Jab We Met)

| most_wins = Chak De! India (9)

| most_nominations = Chak De! India (14)

| channel = Star Plus

| network = STAR TV

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| last = 8th

| next = 10th

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The 2008 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 9th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honoured the best films of 2007 and took place between 6 – 8 June 2008. The official ceremony took place on 8 June 2008, at the Siam Paragon in Bangkok, Thailand. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 27 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. Actors Boman Irani and Ritesh Deshmukh co-hosted the ceremony for the first time.

The IIFA Music and Fashion Extravaganza took place on 7 June 2008, as did the FICCI-IIFA Global Business Forum.{{Cite web |url=http://www.iifa.com/city_thailand.php |title=..:: Welcome to International Indian Film Academy:: |access-date=2012-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528141948/http://www.iifa.com/city_thailand.php |archive-date=2012-05-28 |url-status=dead }} On 6 June, The IIFA World Premiere was held at Major Cineplex, Bangkok which showcased Sarkar Raj, starring Indian Film icons Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, directed by Ram Gopal Varma.{{cite web|url=http://www.desiblitz.com/content/bangkok-for-2008-iifa-awards|title=Bangkok for 2008 IIFA Awards|work=DESIblitz|date=31 May 2008}}

Partner led the ceremony with 11 nominations, followed by Guru with 10 nominations, Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Chak De! India with 9 nominations each, Life in a... Metro with 8 nominations and Jab We Met with 6 nominations.

Chak De! India won 9 awards, including Best Film, Best Director (for Shimit Amin), Best Actor (for Shah Rukh Khan), thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony.

Om Shanti Om won 6 awards. Other multiple winners included Life in a... Metro with 3 awards and Guru, Jab We Met, Saawariya and Shootout at Lokhandwala with 2 awards each. In addition, Partner received 1 award at the ceremony.

Konkona Sen Sharma received dual nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in Laaga Chunari Mein Daag and Life in a... Metro, winning for the latter.

Winners and nominees

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=Popular awards=

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|caption1=Chak De! India (Best Film)

|image2=Shimit amin rocket singh photocall.jpg

|caption2=Shimit Amin (Best Director)

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|caption3=Shah Rukh Khan (Best Actor)

|image4=Kareena kapoor vaio launch.jpg

|caption4=Kareena Kapoor (Best Actress)

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|caption5=Irrfan Khan (Best Supporting Actor)

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|caption6=Konkona Sen Sharma (Best Supporting Actress)

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style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Picture

! style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Director

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Chak De! India – Yash Raj Films
Guru – Madras Talkies and Mani Ratnam
Jab We Met – Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd
Life in a... Metro – UTV Motion Pictures
Om Shanti Om – Red Chillies Entertainment
Partner – K Sera Sera

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style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Performance In A Leading Role Male

! style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Performance In A Leading Role Female

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Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India as Kabir Khan
Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant "Guru" Desai
Akshay Kumar – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Dr. Aditya Shrivastav
Salman Khan – Partner as Prem (Love Guru)
Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap

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Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met as Geet Dhillon
Aishwarya Rai – Guru as Sujata Desai
Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shanti Priya / Sandy
Katrina Kaif – Namastey London as Jasmeet 'Jazz' Malhotra
Lara Dutta – Partner as Naina Sahni
Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma
Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi / Manmother

style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Performance In A Supporting Role Male

! style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Performance In A Supporting Role Female

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Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty
Anil Kapoor – Welcome as Sagar Pandey (Majnu)
Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary
Mithun Chakraborty – Guru as Manik Dasgupta
Rajat Kapoor – Bheja Fry as Ranjeet Thadani

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Konkona Sen Sharma – Life in a... Metro as Shruti
Chitrashi Rawat – Chak De! India as Komal Chautala
Katrina Kaif – Partner as Priya Jaisingh
Konkona Sen Sharma – Laaga Chunari Mein Daag as Shubhavari Sahay / Chutki
Rani Mukerji – Saawariya as Gulabji
Vidya Balan – Guru as Meenakshi "Meenu" Saxena
Zohra Sehgal – Cheeni Kum as Buddhadev's mother

style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Performance In A Comic Role

! style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Performance In A Negative Role

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Govinda – Partner as Bhaskar Devakar Chaudhary
Fardeen Khan – Heyy Babyy as Ali 'Al' Haider
Irrfan Khan – Life in a... Metro as Monty
Paresh Rawal – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Batukshankar Upadhyay
Rajpal Yadav – Bhool Bhulaiyaa & Partner as Chhote Pandit / Lal Hanuman (Natwar) and Chota Don
Riteish Deshmukh – Heyy Babyy as Tanmay Joglekar
Vinay Pathak – Bheja Fry as Bharat Bhushan

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Vivek Oberoi – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Mahindra "Maya" Dolas
Arjun Rampal – Om Shanti Om as Mukesh Mehra "Mike"
Kay Kay Menon – Life in a... Metro as Ranjeet
Rajat Bedi – Partner as Neil Bakshi
Shilpa Shukla – Chak De! India as Bindiya Naik
Tusshar Kapoor – Shootout at Lokhandwala as Dilip "Buwa" Kohok
Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi / Manjulika

style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Male Debutant Star

! style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Female Debutant Star

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Ranbir Kapoor – Saawariya as Ranbir Raj

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Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shanti Priya / Sandy

=Musical awards=

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style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Music Director

! style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Lyrics

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"Main Agar Kahoon" from Om Shanti Om – Javed Akhtar
"Tere Bina" from Guru – Gulzar
"Chak De! India" from Chak De! India – Jaideep Sahni
"In Dino" from Life in a... Metro – Sayeed Quadri
"Jab Se Tere Naina" from Saawariya – Sameer

style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Male Playback Singer

! style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" | Best Female Playback Singer

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Shaan for "Jab Se Tere Naina" – Saawariya
Neeraj Shridhar for "Hare Ram Hare Ram" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
KK for "Aankhon Mein Teri" – Om Shanti Om
Sukhwinder Singh for "Chak De! India" – Chak De! India
Wajid and Labh Janjua for "Soni De Nakhre" – Partner

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Shreya Ghoshal for "Barso Re" – Guru
Shreya Ghoshal for "Mere Dholna" – Bhool Bhulaiyaa
Shreya Ghoshal for "Ye Ishq Hai" – Jab We Met
Shreya Ghoshal for "Thode Badmash" – Saawariya
Sunidhi Chauhan for "Aaja Nachle" – Aaja Nachle

=Backstage awards=

style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" \| Best Story ! style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" \| Best Screenplay
class=wikitable style="width=150%"
valign="top" \| Chak De! India – Jaideep Sahni Life in a... Metro – Anurag Basu Gandhi, My Father – Feroz Abbas Khan Jab We Met – Imtiaz Ali Guru – Mani Ratnam Cheeni Kum – R. Balki \| valign="top" \| *Chak De! India – Jaideep Sahni* (joint winner) Life in a... Metro – Anurag Basu (joint winner)**
style="background:#FFC1CC;" ! style="width=50%" \| Best Dialogue
valign="top" \| Imtiaz Ali for Jab We Met