IIFA Award for Best Actor

{{Infobox award

| name = IIFA Award for Best Actor

| image = Kartik Aaryan in 2025 at 23rd Zee Cine Awards 2025.jpg

| caption = The 2025 Recipient
Kartik Aaryan

| awarded_for = Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

| presenter = International Indian Film Academy

| country = India

| year = Sanjay Dutt,
Vaastav: The Reality (2000)

| holder = Kartik Aaryan,
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 (2025)

| website = [http://www.iifa.com IIFA Awards]

| holder_label = Currently
held by

}}

The IIFA Award for Best Actor recognizes leading male 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. With 5 awards, Hrithik Roshan and Shahrukh Khan hold the record for most wins in this category.

Superlatives

=Multiple winners=

5 Wins: Hrithik Roshan & Shah Rukh Khan
3 Wins: Shahid Kapoor
2 Wins: Amitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh

=Multiple nominees=

18 Nominations: Shah Rukh Khan
11 Nominations: Hrithik Roshan
10 Nominations: Ranbir Kapoor
9 Nominations: Salman Khan
8 Nominations: Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn
7 Nominations: Aamir Khan
6 Nominations: Ranveer Singh
5 Nominations: Shahid Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan
4 Nominations: Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Vicky Kaushal, Rajkummar Rao
3 Nominations: Akshay Kumar, Ayushmann Khurrana, Irrfan Khan
2 Nominations: Sushant Singh Rajput, Manoj Bajpayee, Sunny Deol, Kartik Aaryan

class="wikitable" ! Superlative !! Actor !! Record
Actor with most awards \| Hrithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan \| 5
Actor with most nominations \| rowspan=2 \| Shah Rukh Khan \| 18
Actor with most consecutive nominations \| 11 {{small\|(2001–2009)}}
Actor with most consecutive wins	Ranbir Kapoor	2 {{small\|(2012–2013)}}
Actor with most nominations without ever winning	Salman Khan	9
Actor with most nominations in a single year	Aamir Khan {{Small\|(2002)}} Ajay Devgan {{Small\|(2003)}} Shah Rukh Khan {{Small\|(2005, 2007)}} Amitabh Bachchan {{Small\|(2006)}} Saif Ali Khan {{Small\|(2006)}}	2
Eldest Winner	rowspan=2 \|Amitabh Bachchan	68
Eldest Nominee	75
Youngest Winner	Hrithik Roshan	rowspan="2" \| 27
Youngest Nominee	Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapoor

Amitabh Bachchan, Irrfan, Farhan Akhtar and Vicky Kaushal are the recipients who also won the IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Hrithik Roshan, Shahid Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Ranveer Singh and Vicky Kaushal are the recipients who also won the IIFA Award for Best Male Debut.
Farhan Akhtar and Vicky Kaushal are the only actors who won in all three big categories: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Male Debut.
Hrithik Roshan achieved supremacy in the 2000s with 4 wins. Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh took over in the 2010s with 2 wins each.
Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan and Kartik Aaryan are the only actors to be nominated twice for the same role. Sanjay Dutt was nominated in 2004 and 2007 for his portrayal of Munna Bhai in Munnabhai MBBS and Lage Raho Munnabhai. Hrithik Roshan achieved this feat twice in the Krrish franchise; he was nominated for his role as Krishna Mehra for Krrish in 2007 and 2014 for Krrish 3 (he won in 2007), and for his role as Rohit Mehra in 2004 for Koi... Mil Gaya and 2014 for Krrish 3 (he won in 2004). Shah Rukh Khan was nominated in 2007 and 2012 for his portrayal of the titular character in Don and Don 2 respectively. Kartik Aaryan was nominated in 2023 and 2025 for his portrayal of Rooh Baba in Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 (he won in 2025).
In 2000, both Ajay Devgan and Salman Khan were nominated for the same film – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. However, none of them won.
Shah Rukh Khan is the only actor to secure wins in the category in all three decades (2000s, 2010s, 2020s), winning in 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011 and 2024.
Hrithik Roshan holds the record for the longest gap between Best Actor wins, spanning 14 years between 2009 (Jodhaa Akbar) and 2023 (Vikram Vedha).

List of winners

† – indicates the performance won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor
‡ – indicates the performance was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor