IIFA Award for Best Actor

Superlatives

Multiple Nominees

• 16 Nominations: Shah Rukh Khan
• 9 Nominations: Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan
• 8 Nominations: Amitabh Bachchan, Ranbir Kapoor
• 7 Nominations: Aamir Khan
• 6 Nominations: Ajay Devgn
• 4 Nominations: Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoor

  List of winners

2000s

• 2000 Sanjay Dutt – as Raghunath "Raghu" Namdev Shivalkar †
• *Aamir Khan – Sarfarosh as ACP Ajay Singh Rathod ‡
• *Ajay Devgan – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam as Vanraj ‡
• *Govinda – Haseena Maan Jaayegi as Monu
• *Salman Khan – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam as Sameer ‡
• 2001 Hrithik Roshan – Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai as Rohit / Raj †
• *Akshay Kumar – Dhadkan as Ram
• *Anil Kapoor – Pukar as Major Jaidev Rajvansh ‡
• *Sanjay Dutt – Mission Kashmir as SSP Inayat Khan ‡
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Mohabbatein as Raj Aryan Malhotra ‡
• 2002 Aamir Khan – Lagaan as Bhuvan †
• *Aamir Khan – Dil Chahta Hai as Akash Malhotra ‡
• *Amitabh Bachchan – Aks as Inspector Manu Verma ‡
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... as Rahul Raichand ‡
• *Sunny Deol – ' as Tara Singh ‡
• 2003 Shah Rukh Khan – Devdas as Devdas Mukherjee †
• *Ajay Devgan – Company as Malik ‡
• *Ajay Devgan – The Legend of Bhagat Singh as Bhagat Singh
• *Akshaye Khanna – Deewangee as Raj Goyal
• *Amitabh Bachchan – Kaante as Yashvardhan Rampal 'Major' ‡
• 2004 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 MBBS as Murli Prasad Sharma / Munna Bhai
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Aman Mathur ‡
• 2005 Shah Rukh Khan – Veer-Zaara as Veer Pratap Singh ‡
• *Nana Patekar – Ab Tak Chhappan as Inspector Sadhu Agashe
• *Saif Ali Khan – Hum Tum as Karan Kapoor
• *Salman Khan – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Sameer Malhotra
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Swades as Mohan Bhargava †
• 2006 Amitabh Bachchan – Black as Debraj Sahai †
• *Amitabh Bachchan – Sarkar as Subhash 'Sarkar' Nagre ‡
• *Saif Ali Khan – Parineeta as Shekhar Rai ‡
• *Saif Ali Khan – Salaam Namaste as Nikhil "Nick" Arora
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Paheli as Kishanlal / Prem
• 2007 Hrithik Roshan – Krrish as Krishna Mehra / Rohit Mehra ‡
• *Aamir Khan – Rang De Basanti as Daljeet 'DJ' / Chandrashekhar Azad ‡
• *Ajay Devgan – Omkara as Omkara 'Omi' Shukla
• *Sanjay Dutt – Lage Raho Munna Bhai as Murli Prasad Sharma / Munna Bhai ‡
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Don as Don / Vijay ‡
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Dev Saran ‡
• 2008 Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India as Kabir Khan †
• *Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant "Guru" Desai ‡
• *Akshay Kumar – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Dr. Aditya Shrivastav
• *Salman Khan – Partner as Prem "Love Guru"
• *Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap ‡
• 2009 Hrithik Roshan – Jodhaa Akbar as Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar' †
• *Aamir Khan – Ghajini as Sanjay Singhania ‡
• *Abhishek Bachchan – Dostana as Sameer ‡
• *Naseeruddin Shah – A Wednesday! as The Common Man ‡
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi'' as Surinder "Suri" Sahni / Raj ‡

  2010s

• 2010 Amitabh Bachchan – Paa as Auro †
• *Aamir Khan – 3 Idiots as Ranchhoddas 'Rancho' Shyamaldas Chhanchad / Phunsukh Wangdu ‡
• *Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid as Siddharth "Sid" Mehra ‡
• *Saif Ali Khan – Love Aaj Kal as Jai Vardhan Singh / Veer Singh ‡
• *Salman Khan – Wanted as Radhe
• *Shahid Kapoor – Kaminey as Charlie / Guddu ‡
• 2011 Shah Rukh Khan – My Name is Khan as Rizwan Khan †
• *Ajay Devgn – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai as Sultan Mirza ‡
• *Hrithik Roshan – Guzaarish as Ethan Mascarenhas ‡
• *Ranbir Kapoor – Raajneeti as Samar Pratap ‡
• *Salman Khan – Dabangg as Chulbul Pandey ‡
• 2012 Ranbir Kapoor – Rockstar as Janardhan Jordan Jakhar †
• *Ajay Devgn – Singham as Inspector Bajirao Singham ‡
• *Hrithik Roshan – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as Arjun ‡
• *Salman Khan – Bodyguard as Lovely Singh ‡
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Don 2 as Don ‡
• 2013 Ranbir Kapoor – Barfi! as Murphy "Barfi" Johnson †
• *Ayushmann Khurrana – Vicky Donor as Vicky Arora
• *Hrithik Roshan – Agneepath as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan ‡
• *Irrfan Khan – Paan Singh Tomar as Paan Singh Tomar ‡
• *Manoj Bajpai – Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 as Sardar Khan ‡
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Jab Tak Hai Jaan as Samar Anand ‡
• 2014 Farhan Akhtar – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag as Milkha Singh †
• *Hrithik Roshan – Krrish 3 as Krishna Mehra / Rohit Mehra ‡
• *Ranbir Kapoor – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as Kabir "Bunny" Thapar ‡
• *Ranveer Singh – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela as Ram Rajari ‡
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Chennai Express as Rahul Mithaiwala ‡
• *Sushant Singh Rajput – Kai Po Che! as Ishaan Bhatt
• 2015 Shahid Kapoor – Haider as Haider Meer †
• *Aamir Khan – PK as PK ‡
• *Arjun Kapoor – 2 States as Krish Malhotra
• *Hrithik Roshan – Bang Bang as Rajveer / Jai Nanda ‡
• *Randeep Hooda – Highway as Mahabir Bhati
• *Shah Rukh Khan – Happy New Year as Chandramohan Manohar Sharma a.k.a. Charlie
• 2016 Ranveer Singh – Bajirao Mastani as Peshwa Bajirao †
• *Amitabh Bachchan – Piku as Bhashkor Banerjee ‡
• *Ranbir Kapoor – Tamasha as Ved Vardhan Sahni ‡
• *Salman Khan – Bajrangi Bhaijaan as Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi "Bajrangi" ‡
• *Varun Dhawan – Badlapur as Raghav "Raghu" Pratap Singh ‡
• 2017 Shahid Kapoor – Udta Punjab as Tommy Singh ‡
• * Amitabh Bachchan – Pink as Deepak Sehgal ‡
• * Ranbir Kapoor – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil as Ayan Sanger ‡
• * Salman Khan – Sultan as Sultan Ali Khan ‡
• * Shah Rukh Khan – Fan as Gaurav / Aryan Khanna ‡
• * Sushant Singh Rajput – ' as M.S. Dhoni ‡
• 2018 Irrfan Khan – Hindi Medium as Raj Batra †
• *Adil Hussain - Mukti Bhawan as Rajiv
• *Akshay Kumar - ' as Keshav Sharma ‡
• *Rajkummar Rao - Newton as Nutan "Newton" Kumar
• *Ranbir Kapoor - Jagga Jasoos as Jagga
• 2019 Ranveer Singh - Padmaavat as Alauddin Khilji ‡
• *Ayushmann Khurrana - Andhadhun as Akash ‡
• *Rajkummar Rao - Stree as Vicky ‡
• *Ranbir Kapoor - Sanju as Sanjay Dutt †
• *Vicky Kaushal - Raazi as Iqbal Syed