The 2010 IIFA Awards, officially the 11th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honored the best films of 2009 and took place between 3 to 5 June, 2010. The official ceremony took place on 5th of June, 2010, at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 23 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. The ceremony was hosted by Boman Irani, Ritesh Deshmukh and Lara Dutta.

3 Idiots won sixteen awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, making it the most awarded film in IIFA award history. Other winners were Aladin, Love Aaj Kal and Paa with three awards and Wake up Sid, Kal Kissne Dekha, Kaminey, Dev.D, Delhi-6 and All the Best: Fun Begins with one.

The Details of the winners is:

• Best Film-Vidu Vinod Chopra-3 Idiots
• Best Direction-Rajkumar Hirani – 3 Idiots
• Performance in a Leading Role (Male)-Amitabh Bachchan – Paa
• Performance in a Leading Role  (Female)-Kareena Kapoor – 3 Idiots and Vidya Balan – Paa
• Performance in Supporting Role (Male)-Sharman Joshi – 3 Idiots
• Performance in Supporting Role (Female)-Divya Dutta – Delhi 6
• Performance in a Comic Role-Sanjay Dutt – All The Best
• Performance in a Negative Role-Boman Irani – 3 Idiots
• Debut of the Year (Male)-Omi Vaidya – 3 Idiots and Jackie Bhagnani – Kal Kissne Dekha
• Debut of the Year (Female)-Jacqueline Fernandez – Aladin and Mahie Gill – Dev D
• Music Direction-Pritam – Love Aaj Kal
• Best Story-Abhijat Joshi,Raj Kumar Hirani & Vidu Vinod Chopra – 3 Idiots
• Best Lyrics-Swanand Kirkire – 3 Idiots
• Playback Singer  (Male)-Shaan – Behti Hawa Sa Tha Who (3 Idiots)
• Playback Singer (Female)-Kavita Seth – Ek Tara (Wake Up Sid)
• Outstanding Achievement by an Indian Internationally-Anil Kapoor
• IIFA Green Global Award-Vivek Oberoi

Technical IIFA Awards

• Best Screenplay-Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra (3 Idiots)
• Best Cinematography-C.K. Muraleedharan (3 Idiots)
• Best Dialogue-Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi (3 Idiots)
• Best Background Score-Sanjay Wandrekar, Atul Raninga, Shantanu Moitra (3 Idiots)
• Best Editing-Rajkumar Hirani (3 Idiots)
• Best Sound Recording-Bishwadeep Chatterjee, Nihal Ranjan Samel (3 Idiots)
• Best Song Recording-Bishwadeep Chatterjee, Sachi K Sanghvi (3 Idiots)
• Best Sound Re-recording-Anup Dev (3 Idiots)
• Best Choreography-Bosco Martis, Caesar Gonsalves (Love Aaj Kal)
• Best Costume Designing-Anahita Shroff Adajania, Dolly Ahluwalia (Love Aaj Kal)
• Best Art Direction-Sabu Cyril (Aladin)
• Best Special Effects (Visual)-Charles Darby – Eyecube Labs (Aladin)
• Best Action-Shyam Kaushal (Kaminey)
• Best Makeup Artist-Christien Tinsley, Domini Till (Paa)