^Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize 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.
In 1999 Rai received critical acclaim and several Best Actress awards for her performances in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Taal; both films earned her a
Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination, with the former fetching her the award.[7] The following year, she starred in
Aditya Chopra's musical romantic drama Mohabbatein, which earned her a
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination—her only nomination in the category until date—and was the highest-grossing film of the year. Rai received her second Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her role as "Parvati" in the period
romantic dramaDevdas (2002). Rai was appointed the member of the jury of the
2003 Cannes Film Festival; she was the first Indian actress to represent her country as a jury member in the festival.[8][9]
After a brief hiatus, Rai acted in the heist thriller Dhoom 2 (2006). The film featuring an ensemble cast was her first major commercial success post the release of Devdas. She won Most Glamorous Star of the Year along with
Hrithik Roshan for Dhoom 2 in 2007. In the same year, she collaborated with Mani Ratnam for the second time in his biographical film, Guru. She portrayed the role of her future husband
Abhishek Bachchan's wife gaining her a seventh Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination. Rai Bachchan's portrayal as
Jodhaa Bai in the 2008
epic filmJodhaa Akbar earned her another Filmfare nomination for Best Actress. She won the Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema at Awards of the International Indian Film Academy in 2009. In 2009, Rai Bachchan was awarded the
Padma Shri, the fourth-highest Indian civilian award, for her contributions to Indian cinema.[10][11] Later that year, she was declared the Female Star of The Decade at the
10th IIFA Awards, held in
Macau.[12]
In 2010, she made a comeback to Tamil film industry through Mani Ratnam's Raavanan and
Shankar's science fiction film Enthiran.[5][Note 1] Rai Bachchan was nominated for the Best Actress for the ninth time for her performance in Guzaarish (2010); her third collaboration with
Sanjay Leela Bhansali.[14] In December 2010, she was declared the Actress of the Decade at the
BIG Star Entertainment Awards.[15] In March 2011, Rai Bachchan was honoured by
Karnataka Chief Minister
B. S. Yeddyurappa at World Kannada Meet (Vishwa Kannada Sammelana) for her contributions to the arts.[16] Later that month, she was presented with the Decade of Global Achievement Honour by
FICCI.[17]
In 2012, she finally accepted the second-highest
Order of France,
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[10][18] Earlier, she refused it because her father was suffering from a serious illness, and she wanted her whole family to attend the award ceremony.[18][19] In a poll conducted by HollywoodBuzz to find "Top 30 World's Most Beautiful Women of 2014", Rai Bachchan made it to the fourth position winning over 4 million votes from around the globe.[20][21] During the Miss World 2014 award ceremony, Rai Bachchan was presented with a special Lifetime Beauty with a Purpose award for charitable work.[22]
2009 –
Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award from the
Government of India for her contribution to cinema. She created a history by being the youngest actress to receive the award.[31][32][33][34]
2009 – Declared as "
The Most Powerful Female Actor in India". The first ever extensive research by a popular research agency (Hansa Research) that was conducted of such magnitude to measure Celebrity Power in India; concentrating on different attributes like Popularity, media presence, power of persuasion and image attributes. This all India research also revealed that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is amongst the most persuasive and likeable celebrity in India. She has also garnered over 98.8% of recognition as well as recall value which is at par with cinematic legends like
Amitabh Bachchan and cricketing star
Sachin Tendulkar. Incidentally, she is the only female who is part of the top 10 recognized celebrities from all walks of life.[36][37][38]
The BIG Star Entertainment Awards are presented annually by
Reliance Broadcast Network Limited in association with Star India to honour personalities from the field of entertainment across movies, music, television, sports, theatre and dance. The award is touted to be a completely viewer driven award where in audience participation right from nominations to the final winners through SMS and online voting across the categories is used for deciding the winners.
The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by
The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest film events in India.[102][103][104] The awards were first introduced in 1954, the same year as the
National Film Awards. Rai has won 2 awards from 11 nominations.
The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) is an annual
Indian film festival based in
Melbourne, Australia. It is presented by
Film Victoria and the
State Government of Victoria, and produced by Mind Blowing Films, a Melbourne-based distributor of Indian cinema across Australia and New Zealand. Founded in 2010, the festival was previously called Bollywood & Beyond, and from 2012 was re-established as an initiative of the Victorian Coalition Government
Victorian Government that aims to strengthen ties between the Indian film industry and Victoria.
The International Indian Film Academy Awards (also known as the
IIFA Awards) are a set of awards presented annually by the International Indian Film Academy to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood, the Hindi language film industry. Instituted in 2000, the ceremony is held in different countries around the world every year. Rai has won 2 competitive awards out of 6 nominations; and has also won 4 non-competitive awards.[117]
The Producers Guild Film Awards (previously known as the Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Award) is an accolade given by the Apsara Producers Guild to recognize excellence in
Indianfilm and
television.[127] Aishwarya Rai won 2 awards and 3 nominations.
The Screen Awards, is an annual awards ceremony held in India honouring professional excellence in the Bollywood Film Industry. The nomination and award selection is done by a panel of distinguished professionals from the industry.It was originally called the Screen Awards.[133] Aishwarya Rai won 7 awards from 18 nominations.
The Stardust Awards is an award ceremony for Hindi movies, which is sponsored by Stardust magazine.[144][145] The first ceremony was held in 2004 for films released in 2003.[144][145] Aishwarya Rai won 4 awards and 9 nominations.
^
ab"Anandalok Purashkar". www.telegraphindia.com. Calcutta, India. 21 November 2006. Archived from
the original on 27 August 2007. Retrieved 14 November 2008.
^Mehta, Monika (2005), "Globalizing Bombay Cinema: Reproducing the Indian State and Family", Cultural Dynamics, 17 (2): 135–154 [145],
doi:
10.1177/0921374005058583,
S2CID143950404
^Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They recognize 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.
In 1999 Rai received critical acclaim and several Best Actress awards for her performances in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Taal; both films earned her a
Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination, with the former fetching her the award.[7] The following year, she starred in
Aditya Chopra's musical romantic drama Mohabbatein, which earned her a
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination—her only nomination in the category until date—and was the highest-grossing film of the year. Rai received her second Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her role as "Parvati" in the period
romantic dramaDevdas (2002). Rai was appointed the member of the jury of the
2003 Cannes Film Festival; she was the first Indian actress to represent her country as a jury member in the festival.[8][9]
After a brief hiatus, Rai acted in the heist thriller Dhoom 2 (2006). The film featuring an ensemble cast was her first major commercial success post the release of Devdas. She won Most Glamorous Star of the Year along with
Hrithik Roshan for Dhoom 2 in 2007. In the same year, she collaborated with Mani Ratnam for the second time in his biographical film, Guru. She portrayed the role of her future husband
Abhishek Bachchan's wife gaining her a seventh Filmfare Award for Best Actress nomination. Rai Bachchan's portrayal as
Jodhaa Bai in the 2008
epic filmJodhaa Akbar earned her another Filmfare nomination for Best Actress. She won the Outstanding Achievement in International Cinema at Awards of the International Indian Film Academy in 2009. In 2009, Rai Bachchan was awarded the
Padma Shri, the fourth-highest Indian civilian award, for her contributions to Indian cinema.[10][11] Later that year, she was declared the Female Star of The Decade at the
10th IIFA Awards, held in
Macau.[12]
In 2010, she made a comeback to Tamil film industry through Mani Ratnam's Raavanan and
Shankar's science fiction film Enthiran.[5][Note 1] Rai Bachchan was nominated for the Best Actress for the ninth time for her performance in Guzaarish (2010); her third collaboration with
Sanjay Leela Bhansali.[14] In December 2010, she was declared the Actress of the Decade at the
BIG Star Entertainment Awards.[15] In March 2011, Rai Bachchan was honoured by
Karnataka Chief Minister
B. S. Yeddyurappa at World Kannada Meet (Vishwa Kannada Sammelana) for her contributions to the arts.[16] Later that month, she was presented with the Decade of Global Achievement Honour by
FICCI.[17]
In 2012, she finally accepted the second-highest
Order of France,
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[10][18] Earlier, she refused it because her father was suffering from a serious illness, and she wanted her whole family to attend the award ceremony.[18][19] In a poll conducted by HollywoodBuzz to find "Top 30 World's Most Beautiful Women of 2014", Rai Bachchan made it to the fourth position winning over 4 million votes from around the globe.[20][21] During the Miss World 2014 award ceremony, Rai Bachchan was presented with a special Lifetime Beauty with a Purpose award for charitable work.[22]
2009 –
Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award from the
Government of India for her contribution to cinema. She created a history by being the youngest actress to receive the award.[31][32][33][34]
2009 – Declared as "
The Most Powerful Female Actor in India". The first ever extensive research by a popular research agency (Hansa Research) that was conducted of such magnitude to measure Celebrity Power in India; concentrating on different attributes like Popularity, media presence, power of persuasion and image attributes. This all India research also revealed that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is amongst the most persuasive and likeable celebrity in India. She has also garnered over 98.8% of recognition as well as recall value which is at par with cinematic legends like
Amitabh Bachchan and cricketing star
Sachin Tendulkar. Incidentally, she is the only female who is part of the top 10 recognized celebrities from all walks of life.[36][37][38]
The BIG Star Entertainment Awards are presented annually by
Reliance Broadcast Network Limited in association with Star India to honour personalities from the field of entertainment across movies, music, television, sports, theatre and dance. The award is touted to be a completely viewer driven award where in audience participation right from nominations to the final winners through SMS and online voting across the categories is used for deciding the winners.
The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by
The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest film events in India.[102][103][104] The awards were first introduced in 1954, the same year as the
National Film Awards. Rai has won 2 awards from 11 nominations.
The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) is an annual
Indian film festival based in
Melbourne, Australia. It is presented by
Film Victoria and the
State Government of Victoria, and produced by Mind Blowing Films, a Melbourne-based distributor of Indian cinema across Australia and New Zealand. Founded in 2010, the festival was previously called Bollywood & Beyond, and from 2012 was re-established as an initiative of the Victorian Coalition Government
Victorian Government that aims to strengthen ties between the Indian film industry and Victoria.
The International Indian Film Academy Awards (also known as the
IIFA Awards) are a set of awards presented annually by the International Indian Film Academy to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood, the Hindi language film industry. Instituted in 2000, the ceremony is held in different countries around the world every year. Rai has won 2 competitive awards out of 6 nominations; and has also won 4 non-competitive awards.[117]
The Producers Guild Film Awards (previously known as the Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Award) is an accolade given by the Apsara Producers Guild to recognize excellence in
Indianfilm and
television.[127] Aishwarya Rai won 2 awards and 3 nominations.
The Screen Awards, is an annual awards ceremony held in India honouring professional excellence in the Bollywood Film Industry. The nomination and award selection is done by a panel of distinguished professionals from the industry.It was originally called the Screen Awards.[133] Aishwarya Rai won 7 awards from 18 nominations.
The Stardust Awards is an award ceremony for Hindi movies, which is sponsored by Stardust magazine.[144][145] The first ceremony was held in 2004 for films released in 2003.[144][145] Aishwarya Rai won 4 awards and 9 nominations.
^
ab"Anandalok Purashkar". www.telegraphindia.com. Calcutta, India. 21 November 2006. Archived from
the original on 27 August 2007. Retrieved 14 November 2008.
^Mehta, Monika (2005), "Globalizing Bombay Cinema: Reproducing the Indian State and Family", Cultural Dynamics, 17 (2): 135–154 [145],
doi:
10.1177/0921374005058583,
S2CID143950404