List of accolades received by 3 Idiots

3 Idiots awards and nominations
Totals[a]
Wins60
Nominations81
Note
  1. ^ Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.
Rajkumar Hirani, director
Rajkumar Hirani's direction and Aamir Khan's (above) acting garnered several awards and nominations for this film.

3 Idiots is an Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film co-written (with Abhijat Joshi) and directed by Rajkumar Hirani. The film is based on novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat, it follows the friendship of three students at an Indian engineering college and is a satire about the social pressures under an Indian education system. The film stars Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Boman Irani and Omi Vaidya in lead roles. 3 Idiots has been remade in Tamil entitled Nanban (2012) and Spanish-language Mexican remake named 3 idiotas (2017).[1][2]

3 Idiots garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for its direction, screenplay, the cast's performances, cinematography, and musical score. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, surveyed 13 reviews and judged 100% to be positive, with an average rating of 7.44/10.[3] At the 55th Filmfare Awards, the film received eleven nominations including Best Film, Best Director for Hirani, and went on to win six awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Dialogue, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor.[4] At the 11th IIFA Awards, the film garnered twenty-three nominations and went on to win seventeen awards: Best Film, Best Director and Best Editing for Hirani, Best Performance in a Leading Role (Female) for Kareena Kapoor, Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Male) for Sharman Joshi, Best Performance in a Negative Role for Boman Irani, Best Male Debut for Omi Vaidya.[5]

3 Idiots won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment, the National Film Award for Best Lyrics, and the National Film Award for Best Audiography at the 57th National Film Awards.[6][7] At the 37th Japan Academy Film Prize, the film was nominated for the Outstanding Foreign Language Film.[8] At the 1st Global Indian Music Academy Awards, 3 Idiots won the GiMA Award for Best Engineer – Theatre Mix, GiMA Award for Best Music Debut, GiMA Award for Best Male Playback Singer, and the GiMA Award for Best Lyricist.[9]

Accolades

Award Year of
ceremony 		Category Recipients Result Ref(s)
Beijing International Film Festival 2011 Best Foreign Film 3 Idiots Nominated [10]
Filmfare Awards 2010 Best Film Vidhu Vinod Chopra Won [11]

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Best Director Rajkumar Hirani
Best Dialogue Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani
Best Story
Best Screenplay Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Best Supporting Actor Boman Irani
R. Madhavan Nominated
Sharman Joshi
Best Actor Aamir Khan
Best Actress Kareena Kapoor
Best Playback Singer – Female Shreya Ghoshal for "Zoobi Doobi"
Global Indian Music Academy Awards 2010 Best Film Album Shantanu Moitra Won [14][9]
Most Popular Song "All Izz Well'
Best Lyricist Swanand Kirkire for "Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh"
Best Male Playback Singer Shaan, Shantanu Moitra for "Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh"
Best Engineer Bishwadeep Chatterjee and Anup Dev
Ghanta Awards 2011 Worst Song "All Izz Well" [15]
International Indian Film Academy Awards 2010 Best Film Vidhu Vinod Chopra [16][17]
Best Director Rajkumar Hirani
Best Editing
Best Actress Kareena Kapoor
Best Supporting Actor Sharman Joshi
R. Madhavan Nominated
Best Performance in a Negative Role Boman Irani Won
Best Male Debut Omi Vaidya
Best Performance in a Comic Role Nominated
Best Lyricist Swanand Kirkire for "Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh" Won
Best Male Playback Singer Shaan for "Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh"
Sonu Nigam for "All Izz Well" Nominated
Best Background Score Sanjay Wanderkar, Atul Raninga, Shantanu Moitra Won
Best Story Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Best Screenplay
Best Dialogue Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani
Best Cinematography C. K. Muraleedharan
Best Sound Recording Bishwadeep Chatterjee and Nihal Ranjan Samel
Best Sound Re-Recording Anup Dev
Best Actor Aamir Khan Nominated
Best Music Director Shantanu Moitra
Best Female Playback Singer Shreya Ghoshal for "Zoobi Doobi"
Japan Academy Prize 2014 Best Outstanding Foreign Language Film 3 Idiots [18][8][19][20]
National Film Awards 2010 Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra Won [21]
Best Lyrics Swanand Kirkire for "Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh" [7]
Best Audiography Anup Dev
Producers Guild Film Awards 2011 Best Film Vidhu Vinod Chopra [22]
Best Director Rajkumar Hirani
Stardust Awards 2010 Film of the Year – Drama Vidhu Vinod Chopra [23]
Star of the Year – Female Kareena Kapoor (also for Kurbaan)
Videoyasan Awards 2014 Grand Prize 3 Idiots Won [24][25][26]

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