Mumbai : Rani Mukherjee leads the list of nominations in the best actress category for the IFFA awards to be held in Dubai on June 16. Along with Rani, Bollywood mega superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Saif Ali Khan lead the nominations in best actor category.

Bachchan has been nominated for Black and Sarkar , while Saif for Parineeta and Salaam Namaste in the best actor award category. Shah Rukh Khan has been nominated for Paheli, which was the country’s representation at the Oscars awards last year in the best foreign film category. Rani has been nominated for Bunty Aur Babli and Black in the best actress category. Konkana Sen(Page 3), Preity Zinta (Salaam Namaste) and Vidya Balan (Parineeta) are the other contenders.

Black, Parineeta, Bunty Aur Babli, Iqbal , No Entry , Page 3 will vie for the best film award. Madhur Bhandarkar (Page 3) and Nagesh Kuknoor (Iqbal), Pradeep Sarkar (Parineeta), Prakash Jha’s (Apaharan) , Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Black) are in the race for the best director award. Abhishek Bachchan (Sarkar), Amitabh Bachchan (Bunty Aur Babli), John Abraham (Garam Masala), Naseeruddin Shah (Iqbal) and Sanjay Dutt (Parineeta) are the nominees for the best actor in supporting role category.

Ayesha Kapoor (Black), Juhi Chawla (My Brother Nikhil), Lara Dutta (No Entry), Shernaz Patel (Black) and Shweta Prasad (Iqbal) are in the race for best actress in supporting role. Akshay Kumar (Garam Masala), Boman Irani ( Waqt – A Race Against Time ), Isha Koppikar (Kyaa Kool Hai Hum), Javed Jaffery (Salaam Namaste) and Ritesh Deshmukh (Bluffmaster) have been nominated for best actor in comic role.

Ajay Devgan (Kaal), Amrita Singh (Kalyug), Nana Patekar (Apaharan) and Pankaj Kapur (Dus) are the nominees for best actor in negative role.