The 2004 IIFA Awards, officially known as the 5th International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the International Indian Film Academy honored the best films of 2003 and took place between 20 and 22 May 2004. This year, the city of Singapore played host to the Indian Film Industry. The tag line of this year's IIFA Awards was Uniquely IIFA, Uniquely Singapore ....

The official ceremony took place on 22 May 2004, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, in Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore. During the ceremony, IIFA Awards were awarded in 27 competitive categories. The ceremony was televised in India and internationally on Star Plus. Actors Rahul Khanna hosted the ceremony.

Kal Ho Naa Ho led the ceremony with 17 nominations, followed by Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. with 12 nominations and Koi... Mil Gaya with 11 nominations.

Kal Ho Naa Ho won 13 awards, including Best Film, Best Actress (for Preity Zinta), Best Supporting Actor (for Saif Ali Khan) and Best Supporting Actress (for Jaya Bachchan), thus becoming the most–awarded film at the ceremony.

Other multiple awards winners included Koi... Mil Gaya with 5 awards, Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. with 4 awards and Ishq Vishk with 2 awards.

In addition, movies receiving a single award included LOC Kargil (Best Sound Re–Recording), Jism (Best Female Playback Singer) and Janasheen (Best Villain).

Preity Zinta received dual nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Kal Ho Naa Ho and Koi... Mil Gaya, winning for the former, her first and only win in the category.

Background

The awards began in 2000 and the first ceremony was held in London at The Millennium Dome. From then on the awards were held at locations around the world signifying the international success of Bollywood. The next award ceremony was announced to be held at Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2005.^[1]

Singapore also hosted the 2012 IIFA Awards.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.^[2]

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Popular awards

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Shah Rukh Khan (Best Actor)

Best Film	Best Director
Kal Ho Naa Ho – Dharma Productions Baghban – BR Films Janasheen – FK Films Koi... Mil Gaya – Filmkraft Productions (I) Pvt. Ltd. Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. – Vinod Chopra Productions and Entertainment One Tere Naam – MD Productions	Rakesh Roshan – Koi... Mil Gaya Nikhil Advani – Kal Ho Naa Ho Rajkumar Hirani – Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Ravi Chopra – Baghban Satish Kaushik – Tere Naam
Best Performance In A Leading Role – Male	Best Performance In A Leading Role – Female
Hrithik Roshan – Koi... Mil Gaya as Rohit Mehra Amitabh Bachchan – Baghban as Raj Malhotra Salman Khan – Tere Naam as Radhe Mohan Sanjay Dutt – Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. as Murli Prasad Sharma (Munna Bhai) Shah Rukh Khan – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Aman Mathur	Preity Zinta – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Naina Catherine Kapur/ Patel Hema Malini – Baghban as Pooja Malhotra Rani Mukerji – Chalte Chalte as Priya Chopra Preity Zinta – Koi... Mil Gaya as Nisha Urmila Matondkar – Bhoot as Swati
Best Performance In A Supporting Role – Male	Best Performance In A Supporting Role – Female
Saif Ali Khan – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Rohit Patel Arshad Warsi – Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. as Sarkeshwar (Circuit) Ashutosh Rana – LOC Kargil as Yogender Singh, 18 Grenadiers Suneil Shetty – Qayamat: City Under Threat as Akram sheikh Yash Tonk – Janasheen as Max Periera	Jaya Bachchan – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Jennifer Kapur Juhi Chawla – Jhankaar Beats as Shanti Maya Alagh  – LOC Kargil as Manoj Pandey's mother Rekha – Koi... Mil Gaya as Sonia Mehra Shoma Anand – Hungama as Anjali Tiwari
Best Performance In A Comic Role	Best Performance In A Negative Role
Boman Irani – Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. as Dr. JC Asthana Paresh Rawal – Baghban as Hemant Patel Paresh Rawal – Hungama as Radheysham Tiwari Rajpal Yadav – Hungama as Raja Rajpal Yadav – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Guru	Feroz Khan – Janasheen as Saba Karim Shah Amrish Puri – The Hero: Love Story of a Spy as I.S.I Chief Ishak Khan Atul Kulkarni – Dum as Inspector "Encounter" Shankar Bipasha Basu – Jism as Sonia Khanna Yashpal Sharma  – Gangaajal as Sunder Yadav
Best Debut – Male	Best Debut – Female
Shahid Kapoor – Ishq Vishk as Rajiv Mathur	Amrita Rao – Ishq Vishk as Payal

Multiple nominations and awards

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