IIFA 2015 Technical Winners Announced

The International Indian Film Academy today announced the winners of the technical categories of India's most prestigious international awards, The International Indian Film Awards.

The IIFA Rocks and Technical Awards are set to take place on the 5th of June in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This year’s Videocon D2H IIFA Weekend celebrations are slated for the first weekend of June, from the 5th – 7th in Kuala Lumpur.

‘Haider’ takes over the list this year and walks away with 6 awards in the technical category including Costume Designing (Dolly Ahluwalia), Background Score (Vishal Bhardwaj), Sound Mixing (Debajit Changmai), Sound Design (Shajith Koyeri), Production Design (Subrata Chakraborty & Amit Ray) and Make-up (Preetisheel Singh & Clover Wootton).

Other winners in the Technical category are ‘Queen’ and ‘Kick’ with 2 nods each. ‘Queen’ took home the award for Screenplay (Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar, Parveez Shaikh) and Editing (Aburag Kashyap and Abhijit Kokate) while ‘Kick’ walked away with Choreography (Ahmed Khan) and Special Effects – Visual (Reupal Rawal). ‘Ek Villian’ won for Song Recording (Eric Pillai) and ‘PK’ walked away with an honor for Dialogue (Abhijit Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani). ‘2 States’ won an award for CinematographY (Binod Pradhan) and ‘Bang Bang’ took home an accolade for Action (Parvez Shaikh and Andy Armstrong)

The IIFA Voting process is a stringent and methodical procedure that is closely monitored by KPMG, the official auditors for the event. Entries are received from all film makers for work done in the calendar year. The entries are placed before the Academy, comprising film industry members, for voting. On the basis of the voting, the winners of the Technical awards are decided. The results are surrounded by secrecy and the credibility of the voting process is one of the key parameters of this prestigious award.

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