IFFM Awards 2026 Nominations: Full List Of Nominees Across Categories

The 17th Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) has finally announced its long-awaited nominations for the year 2026, that showcases the best of Indian films and streaming content. Headlining this year's IFFM are some strong contenders such as Saiyaara, Sitaare Zameen Par, and Haq domination in the Best Film category and Best Actor competition, which includes big names such as Aamir Khan, Ranveer Singh, Mammootty, and Dulquer Salmaan. Here are all the nominations in various categories competing for the coveted international awards at Melbourne.

IFFM Awards 2026 Nominations Full List

Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2026 nominations have been declared by the organising committee. Here are all the contestants who have been nominated in the most prestigious award ceremony of the year.

Best Film 

Haq (Hindi)

Jarann (Marathi)

Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1 (Kannada)

Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (Malayalam)

Saiyaara (Hindi)

Sitaare Zameen Par (Hindi)

Sharthopor (Bengali)

The Great Shamsuddin Family (Hindi)

Best OTT Series

Baai Tujhyapayi (Marathi)

Kohrra: Season 2 (Punjabi)

Matka King (Hindi)

Real Kashmir Football Club (Hindi)

Sapne Vs Everyone (Hindi)

The Ba**ds of Bollywood* (Hindi)

Perfect Family (Hindi)

Freedom at Midnight: Season 2 (Hindi)

Best Director

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari — System (Hindi)

Chandrasish Ray — Porshi (Bengali)

Mohit Suri — Saiyaara (Hindi)

Ramalingam Gowtham — Members of the Problematic Family (Tamil)

Rima Das — Not a Hero (Assamese, English, Hindi)

Rishab Shetty — Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1 (Kannada)

R.S. Prasanna — Sitaare Zameen Par (Hindi)

Shazia Iqbal — Dhadak 2 (Hindi)

Best Indie Film

Ammang Haelbeda (Don’t Tell Mother) (Kannada)

Full Plate (Hindi)

Kikkran De Phull (Flowers of Acacia) (Punjabi)

Lala and Poppy (Hindi)

Mayilaa - Semmalar Annam (Tamil)

Members of the Problematic Family (Tamil)

Not a Hero (Assamese, Hindi, English)

Pankhudiyaan (Petals in the Wind) (Hindi)

Best Performance (Male)

Aamir Khan — Sitaare Zameen Par (Hindi)

Ahaan Pandey — Saiyaara (Hindi)

Bhuman Bhargav Das — Kein Held (Not a Hero) (Assamese)

Dulquer Salmaan — Kaantha (Tamil)

Mammootty — KalamKaval: The Venom Beneath (Malayalam)

Ranveer Singh — Dhurandhar (Hindi)

Rishab Shetty — Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1 (Kannada)

Sanjay Mishra — Vadh 2 (Hindi)

Best Performance (Female)

Aneet Padda — Saiyaara (Hindi)

Kalyani Priyadarshan — Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (Malayalam)

Kirti Kulhari — Full Plate (Hindi)

Neena Gupta — Vadh 2 (Hindi)

Rajshri Deshpande — Baapya (Marathi)

Rani Mukerji — Mardaani 3 (Hindi)

Rituparna Sengupta — Bela (Bengali)

Yami Gautam Dhar — Haq (Hindi)

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Best Performance (Male) – Series

Ambrish Verma — Sapne Vs Everyone: Season 2 (Hindi)

Arif Zakaria — Freedom at Midnight: Season 2 (Hindi)

Barun Sobti — Kohrra: Season 2 (Punjabi)

Kunal Khemu — Single Papa (Hindi)

Paramvir Singh Cheema — Sapne Vs Everyone: Season 2 (Hindi)

Manav Kaul — Real Kashmir Football Club (Hindi)

Manoj Pahwa — Perfect Family (Hindi)

Vijay Varma — Matka King (Hindi)

Best Performance (Female) – Series

Anandhi — Arabia Kadali (Telugu)

Huma Qureshi — Maharani: Season 4 (Hindi)

Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli — Kuttram Purinshavan: The Guilty One (Tamil)

Mona Singh — Kohrra: Season 2 (Punjabi)

Rasika Dugal — Delhi Crime: Season 3 (Hindi)

Seema Pahwa — Perfect Family (Hindi)

Shefali Shah — Delhi Crime: Season 3 (Hindi)

Swastika Mukherjee — Kaalipotka (Bengali)

Best Documentary Film

Flying Tigers — Madhusree Dutta (Bengali, English, Mandarin, German, Polish)\

Working Girls — Paromita Vohra (Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Bengali)

Loving Karma — Johnny Burke, Andrew Hinton (English, Monpa, Hindi)

Njaan Revathi (I Am Revathi) — P. Abhijith (Tamil)

Breaking the Code — Ben Rekhi, Swetlana (English)

The Gas Station Attendant — Karla Murthy (English)

Music in a Village Named 1PB — Surabhi Sharma (Hindi)

Bride of Aravan — Lesley Branagan (Tamil)

Best Film from the Subcontinent

Sand City — Mahde Hasan (Bangladesh)

Roid — Mejbaur Rahman Sumon (Bangladesh)

Spying Stars — Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka)

Ek Mutthi Badal (My Share of Sky) — Sahara Sharma (Nepal)

No Good Men — Shahrbanoo Sadat (Afghanistan)

Goodbye Sisters — Alexander Murphy (Nepal)

Delupi — Mohammad Touqir Islam (Bangladesh)

In the Room — Brishkay Ahmed (Afghanistan)

IFFM Awards 2026 Nominations Table

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The winners will be selected by a jury comprising members of the Australian film and cultural industries. Film premiere screenings and other industry-related events will accompany the awards presentation.

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