Indian Television Academy Awards Explained

The Indian Television Academy Awards
Current Awards:	Indian Television Academy Awards 2023
Awarded For:	Excellence in the Hindi television industry
Network:	Star Plus Hotstar Sony TV Zee TV Colors TV
Presenter:	Indian Television Academy
Country:	India
Year2:	present
Website:	Official website

Election Name:	Most recent ITA Award Winners
Election Date:	Best on television in 2023
Type:	primary
Previous Election:	2022 ITA Awards
Previous Year:	2022
Next Election:	2024 ITA Awards
Next Year:	2024
1Blank:	Award
2Blank:	Winner
1Data1:	Best Show Popular
2Data1:	Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
1Data2:	Best Show Drama: Jury
2Data2:	Katha Ankahee
1Data3:	Best Show Comedy: Jury
2Data3:	Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey
Image4 Caption:	dgafs

The Indian Television Academy Awards, also known as the ITA Awards, is an annual award ceremony organised by the Indian Television Academy to honour excellence in Hindi-language television and OTT platforms.^[1]

The Indian Television Academy was launched in July 2001 by Anu Ranjan and the first ITA Awards were held in November 2001.^[2]

Ceremonies

Year	Ceremony	Channel	Host	Ref
2001	1st ITA Awards	Star Plus	Kabir Bedi	^[3]
2002	2nd ITA Awards			^[4]
2003	3rd ITA Awards			^[5]
2004	4th ITA Awards			^[6]
2005	5th ITA Awards		Smriti Irani Ronit Roy	^[7]
2006	6th ITA Awards		Roshan Abbas Manini De	^[8]
2007	7th ITA Awards	Star Plus		^[9]
2008	8th ITA Awards
2009	9th ITA Awards
2010	10th ITA Awards
2011	11th ITA Awards		Gautam Rode Karishma Tanna
2012	12th ITA Awards	Star Plus	Karan Grover	^[10]
2013	13th ITA Awards		Kapil Sharma Ragini Khanna Karan Grover	^[11]
2014	14th ITA Awards	Colors TV	Rithvik Dhanjani Nakuul Mehta Shantanu Maheshwari Vrushika Mehta
2015	15th ITA Awards		Manish Paul Bharti Singh
2016	16th ITA Awards	Colors TV	Manish Paul Sugandha Mishra Karishma Tanna	^[12]
2017	17th ITA Awards		Manish Paul Ali Asgar	^[13]
2018	18th ITA Awards	Star Plus	Manish Paul	^[14]
2019	19th ITA Awards		Aditya Narayan
2020	20th ITA Awards	Held in 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021		Sony TV	Manish Paul
2022	21st ITA Awards	Star Plus	Rithvik Dhanjani	^[15]
2022	22nd ITA Awards		Manish Paul	^[16]
2023	23rd ITA Awards		Nakuul Mehta Paritosh Tripathi	^[17]
2024	24th ITA Awards

Popular awards

• • ITA Award for Best Actor in a Drama - Popular ITA Award for Best Actress in a Drama - Popular
• ITA Award for Best Drama - Popular

Jury awards

General

Drama

• ITA Award for Best Actor in a Drama - Jury
• ITA Award for Best Actress in a Drama - Jury
• ITA Award for Best Drama - Jury
• ITA Award for Best Director Drama
• ITA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
• ITA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• ITA Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role
• ITA Award for Best Actress in a Negative Role
• ITA Award for Best Child Artist

Comedy

• ITA Award for Best Actor - Comedy
• ITA Award for Best Actress - Comedy
• ITA Award for Best Director Comedy
• ITA Award for Best Show - Comedy

Best Reality Show

Year	Show	Channel
1999	Naachange Saari Raat	Colors TV
2006	Shabaash India	Zee TV
2007	Bigg Boss	Sony TV
2008		Colors TV
2009	Aap Ki Kachehri	Star Plus
2010	Stunt Mania
2011	Just dance	Star Plus
2012	Survivor India – The Ultimate Battle	Star Plus
2013	DID Supermoms	Zee TV
2014		Colors TV
2015	Bigg Boss 8	Colors TV
2016	Dance Plus (season 2)	Star Plus
2017		Colors TV
2020		Colors TV

Best Anchor - Music/Film Based Show

Year	Actor	Show	Channel
1999	Sidharth Shukla	Naachange Saari Raat	Colors TV
2003	Nikhil Chinappa Annu Kapoor & Pallavi Joshi	MTV Fresh! Antakshari – The Great Challenge	MTV India Zee TV
2004	Sajid Khan	Ikke Pe Ikka	Zee TV
2005	Sajid Khan	Sab Kuch Ho Sakta Hai	SAB TV
2006	Sangeeta Ghosh & Shabbir Ahluwalia	Nach Baliye	Star One
2007	Javed Jaffrey & Naved Jaffrey	Boogie Woogie	Sony TV
2008	Ali Asgar (actor)	Say Shava Shava	NDTV Imagine
2009	Meiyang Chang	Indian Idol 4	Sony TV
2010	Shahid Kapoor	Screen Awards	Star Plus
2011	Ayushmann Khurana	Just Dance	Star Plus
2012	Manish Paul	Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa	Colors TV
2013	Beverly Kim White	Thank God It's Friday
2014	Manish Paul	Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
2015	Manish Paul	Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
2020	Shahid Kapoor	Star Screen Awards

Best Music/Film Based Show

Year	Show
2001	Biographies - Ek Kalakar Ki Kahani
2002	Kuch Yaadein Kuch Baatein
2003	Antakshari
2004	Ikke Pe Ikka
2005	Indian Idol
2006	Nach Baliye
2007	Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge
2008	Boogie-woogie
2009	Indian Idol 4
2010	Indian Idol 5
2011	Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs
2012	Dance India Dance Li'l Masters 2
2013	An Affair To Remember — Shyam Talkies
2014	Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa
2015
2016	The Voice India Kids
2017	Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs
2020	Indian Idol 12

Best Talk Show Anchor

Year	Actor	Show
2003	Simi Garewal	Rendezvous with Simi Garewal
2004	Barkha Dutt	We the People
2005	Prabhu Chawla	Seedhi Baat
2006	Lola Kutty Barkha Dutt	Lola TV We the People
2007	Karan Johar	Koffee with Karan
2008	Vikram Chandra	The Big Fight
2009	Rajdeep Sardesai Kiran Bedi	Battle For India Aap Ki Kachehri
2010	Amitabh Bachchan	Bigg Boss 3
2011	Koel Purie	On the Couch with Koel
2012	Sumeet Raghavan	Jay Hind!
2020	Amitabh Bachchan	Kaun Banega Crorepati

Best Game Show Host

Year	Anchor	Show	Channel
2001			Star Plus
2002		Super Selector
2003
2004		Sansui Antakshri
2005			Star Plus
2006			Star Plus
2007
2008
2009			Sony TV
2010
2011			Sony TV
2012	Rajiv Makhni	Tech Grand Masters 2
2020			Colors TV

Best Game Show

Year	Show	Channel
1999	Cadbury Sabse International Khiladi Kaun?	Sony SET
2002	Super Selector	ESPN (India)
2003	Bournvita Quiz Contest	Zee TV
2020	Bigg Boss 14	Colors TV

Best News Anchor

Year	Anchor	Show	Channel
2001	Rajat Sharma	Aap Ki Adalat	Zee TV
2002	Barkha Dutt	Reality Bites	NDTV
2003	Rajdeep Sardesai	The Big Fight	NDTV
2004	Rajdeep Sardesai	X-Factor/Election Watch	NDTV
2005	Barkha Dutt	We the People	NDTV 24x7
2006	Sreenivasan Jain	Witness	NDTV
2007	Cyrus Broacha	The Week That Wasn't	CNN-News18
2008	Rajdeep Sardesai	Weekend Edition with Rajdeep Sardesai	CNN-News18
2009	Prabhu Chawla	Seedhi Baat	Aaj Tak
2010	Rajdeep Sardesai	Ground Zero Bhopal	CNN-News18
2011	Rajdeep Sardesai	Indian at 9 & Election Counting Day Coverage	CNN-News18
2012	Rajdeep Sardesai	Ground Zero	CNN-News18
2013	Rahul Kanwal	Centrestage - Inside Lanka's museum of horrors
2014	Anjana Om Kashyap	Rail Budget	Aaj Tak
2015
2016
2017	Rajdeep Sardesai	5 state Polls Day verdict	CNN-News18
2018	Anjana Om Kashyap		Aaj Tak
2020	Rahul Kanwal		India Today

Best News Show

Year	Show	Channel
2020	Viral Punch	ABP News

Best Television Event

Year	Show	Channel
1999	Zee Cine Awards	Zee Cinema
2003	Jai Jawan	NDTV
2004	Jai Jawan	NDTV
2005	Jai Jawan	NDTV
2006	MTV Immies	MTV
2007	IIFA Awards
2008		Star Plus
2009	IIFA Awards
2010	Not Awarded
2011	Star Parivaar Awards
2020		Zee Cinema

Best Interstitial/Filler

Year	Show	Channel
2013	Gustakhi Maaf Angry Appa	NDTV Bindass

Best Mini Series

Year	Show	Channel
2013	Bemisaal 100 saal	News Nation Network Pvt Ltd

Best TV Documentary

Year	Show	Channel
2013	Ballot Trail Karanataka…… Mangalore
2017	JANNAT- NEWS18 INDIA- ASHISH PANDEY

Others

• ITA Award for Best Thriller/Horror Serial
• ITA Award for Popular Serial -Special Recognition
• Milestone Achievement Award - Crime Patrol (2021)

Technical

Best Art Direction

Year	Name	Show
2001	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	The Great Warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji
2002	Jayant Deshmukh	Amrapali (DD National)
2003	Chokas Bharadwaj	Kashmeer
2004	Arup Adhikari	The Brian Silas Show
2005	Mukesh Kalola	Hatim
2006	Omung Kumar	Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan
2007	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	Bigg Boss
2008	Chokas Bharadwaj	Jai Shri Krishna
2009	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	Chittod Ki Rani Padmini Ka Johur
2010	Samir Chanda	Bigg Boss 3
2011	Akshay Vayeda	Mukti Bandhan
2012	Omung Kumar	MasterChef India
2013	Sandesh & Vishwanath
2014	Omung Kumar	Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7
2015	??
2016	Omung Kumar	Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 8
2017	Chandravadan More	Peshwa Bajirao

Best Costumes

Year	Name	Show
2001	Pradeep Muley	The Great Warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji
2002	Mala Dey	Amrapali (DD National)
2003	Pradeep Muley	The Great Warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji
2004	Nikhat Mariyam Neerushaa	Hatim
2005	Nikhat Mariyam Neerushaa	Hatim
2006	Tara Desai, Nisha Sagar, Nikhat Mariyam Neerushaa	Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan
2007	Sheela Sagar and Nikhat Mariyam Neerushaa	Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan
2008	Sheela Sagar	Jai Shri Krishna
2009	Neeta Lulla	Chittod Ki Rani Padmini Ka Johur
2010	Winnie Malhotra & Neelu Shroff	Balika Vadhu
2011	Nidhi Yasha	Shobha Somnath Ki
2012	Winnie Malhotra & Neelu Shroff	Balika Vadhu
2013	Nikhat Mariyam Neerushaa	Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap
2014	Jerry D'souza
2015
2016	Nikhat Mariyam Neerushaa	Siya Ke Ram
2017	Nikhat Mariyam Neerushaa	Prem Ya Paheli – Chandrakanta
2018	Ketki Dalal	Porus
2021	Sheetal Sharma	The Empire (TV series)
2023	Tara Desai	Pandya Store

Best Dialogues

Year	Name	Show
2001	Ashwni Dhir	Office Office
2002	Ashwni Dhir	Office Office
2003	Ashwni Dhir	Office Office
2004	Ashwni Dhir	Office Office
2005	Aatish Kapadia	Sarabhai vs Sarabhai
2006	Ashwni Dhir	Naya Office Office
2007	Kamlesh Pandey	Virrudh
2008	Raghuvir Shekhawat	Balika Vadhu
2009	Usha Dixit	Balika Vadhu
2010	Usha Dixit	Balika Vadhu
2011	Mihir Bhuta	Mukti Bandhan
2012	Usha Dixit	Balika Vadhu
2013	Raghuvir Shekhawat	Diya Aur Baati Hum
2014	B. M. Vyas	Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap
	Amit Aaryan	F.I.R.
2016	Manoj Santoshi	Bhabhi Ji Ghar Par Hai!
2017	Manoj Santoshi	Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hai!
2018	Manoj Santoshi	Jijaji Chhat Per Hain

Best Editing

Year	Name	Show
2001		IT India Tomorrow
2002	Aparna Roy and Anand Kumar	The Year that Shook the World (International Year ender)
2003	Naved Jaffrey	Boogie Woogie
2004	Papu Trivedi	Hatim
2005	Pratik Chitalia & Raj Singh	Time Bomb
2006	Koteswara Rao	The Last Goodbye-Missing in Action
2007		SPL REPORT - TRAIN TO TIBET
2008	Koteswara Rao	Scaling New Heights
2009	Vikas Singh, Tarique Ahmed & Devang Kakkad	Ladies Special
2010	Sanjeev Naag	Inside: Mumbai Terror Attacks
2011	Paresh Shah	Shobha Somnath Ki
2012	Amit Kalra	Making of Foodistan
2013	K. Rajgopal
2014	Bhakti Mayaloo
2015
2016	Bhakti Mayaloo	24
2017	Gaurav Khera	Defender Of India
2023	Janak Chauhan	Pandya Store

Edutainment/Science/Knowledge Based Show

Year	Name	Show	Channel
2002	Pulse Media		DD National

Best TV Picture Editor

Year	Name	Show	Channel
2002	Awadh Singh		DD National

Best Public Service Shorts

Year	Name	Show	Channel
2004	BBC World Services Trust, Naco & Prasar Bharti	HIV/Aids Spots	DD National

Best Lyricist

Year	Name	Show	Channel
2003	Naksh Lyalpuri	Shikwah	DD National
2013	Vibha Tewari		Colors TV
2014	Abhishek Kumar Shashank Kunwar		Colors TV

Best Singer

Year	Name	Show	Channel
2004			Sony TV
2006		Haath Se Haath Mila	DD National
2013			Colors TV
2014			Colors TV
2019	Shivangi Bhayana	Kahaan Hum Kahaan Tum	Star Plus

Best Story

Year	Name	Show	Channel
2013		Lapataganj	SAB TV
2014	Purnendu Shekhar Gajra Kottary	Balika Vadhu	Colors TV
2018		Ishq Subhan Allah	Zee TV

Best Teleplay

Year	Name	Show	Channel
2004			Sony TV
2013	Seema Mantri		Star Plus
2014	Rensil D'Silva Bhavani Iyer Priya Pinto		Star Plus
2023	Bhavna Vyas		Star Plus

Best Title Music/Song Track

Year	Name	Show	Channel
2002	Lalit Sen		Star Plus
2013	Karthik Shah	Bharat Ka Veer Putra –Maharana Pratap	Sony TV
-	2014	Saurabh Kalsi		Colors TV

Best Videography

Year	Name	Show	Channel
2004	B. P. Singh^[18]		Sony TV
2013	Sanjay Agrawal	Everest: Indian Army Women's Expedition	Discovery Channel (India)
2014	Jay Oza Tanay Satam		Colors TV

Best Visual Effects

Year	Name	Show	Channel
2013	Hardik Gajjar		Life OK
2014		The Adventures of Hatim Mahabharat	Life OK Star Plus

Special awards

GR8! Performer of the Year (Male)

Year	Name	Character	Show	Channel
2004	Chetan Hansraj	Shashank Garg	Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii
2006	Hussain Kuwajerwala	Sumit Wadhwa	Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan	Star Plus
2008	Vikrant Massey	Dharam	Dharam Veer	Imagine TV
2010		Anurag Ganguly	Tere Liye	Star Plus
2011	Shaheer Sheikh	Anant Bajpai	Navya..Naye Dhadkan Naye Sawaal
2012		Rishabh Kundra	Madhubala - Ek Ishq Ek Junoon	Colors TV
2013		Shivraj Shekhar	Balika Vadhu
2014		Rudra Pratap Ranawat	Rangrasiya
2015	Ravi Dubey	Siddharth Khurana	Jamai Raja

GR8! Performer of the Year (Female)

Year	Name	Character	Show	Channel
2004	Shama Sikander	Pooja	Ye Meri Life Hai	Sony TV
2006	Mandira Bedi	Dr. Mandira Kapadia	Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi	Star Plus
2008	Sanaya Irani	Gunjan Bhushan Shergill	Miley Jab Hum Tum	Star One
2010	Ankita Lokhande	Archana Deshmukh	Pavitra Rishta	Zee TV
2011	Juhi Aslam	Bharti Chauhan	Baba Aiso Varr Dhoondo	Imagine TV
2012		Indira Sharma/Zara Khan	Hitler Didi	Zee TV
2013		Zoya Farooqui	Qubool Hai
2014		Durga Goenka	Ek Hasina Thi	Star Plus
2020	Shweta Tiwari	Guneet Sikka	Mere Dad Ki Dulhan	Sony TV

The ITA Scroll Of Honour

Year	Show	Production House	Channel
2010	Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai	Director Kut's Productions	Star Plus
	Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
2011	Ke Bani Crorepati		Mahuaa TV
2012	Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai		Star Plus
2013	Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah		SAB TV
	Nach Baliye	Wizcraft International	Star Plus
2014	Comedy Nights with Kapil	K9 Productions SOL Production	Colors TV
2015	Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai		Star Plus
2017
2019
2020
2020	Kasautii Zindagii Kay	Balaji Telefilms

Channel Awards

Best Entertainment Channel

• 2001 - DD Metro
• 2002 - Star Plus
• 2003 - Star Plus
• 2004 - Star Plus
• 2005 - Star Plus
• 2006 - Star Plus
• 2007 - Star Plus
• 2008 - Star Plus
• 2009 - Colors TV
• 2010 - Star Plus
• 2011 - Star Plus
• 2012 - Star Plus
• 2013 - Star Plus
• 2014 - Star Plus
• 2015 - Star Plus
• 2016 - Star Plus
• 2017 - Star Plus
• 2020 - Star Plus

Best Hindi News Channel

• 2001 - Aaj Tak
• 2002 - Aaj Tak
• 2003 - Aaj Tak
• 2004 - Aaj Tak
• 2005 - Aaj Tak
• 2006 - Aaj Tak
• 2007 - Aaj Tak
• 2008 - Aaj Tak
• 2009 - Aaj Tak
• 2010 - Aaj Tak
• 2011 - Aaj Tak
• 2012 - Aaj Tak
• 2013 - Aaj Tak
• 2014 - Aaj Tak
• 2015 - Aaj Tak
• 2016 - India TV
• 2017 - Aaj Tak
• 2020 - Aaj Tak

Best English News Channel

• 2006 - CNN-News18
• 2007 - CNN-News18
• 2008 - CNN-News18
• 2009 - NDTV 24x7
• 2010 - CNN-News18
• 2011 - CNN-News18
• 2012 - CNN-News18
• 2013 - CNN-News18
• 2014 - Times Now
• 2015 - CNN-News18
• 2016 - CNN-News18
• 2017 - India Today
• 2018 - India Today

See also

• List of Asian television awards

Notes and References

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2. Web site: From setting up the Indian Television Academy to launching her NGO—Anu Ranjan is a creative force to be reckoned with . 2023-12-10 . Harper Bazar . en.
3. Web site: The Indian Television Academy Awards, 2001. gr8mag.com. 2019-09-25.
4. Web site: The Indian Television Academy Awards, 2002. gr8mag.com. 2019-09-25.
5. Web site: The Indian Television Academy Awards, 2003. gr8mag.com. 2019-09-25.
6. Web site: The Indian Television Academy Awards, 2004. gr8mag.com. 2019-09-25.
7. Web site: The Indian Television Academy Awards, 2005. gr8mag.com. 2019-09-25.
8. Web site: The Indian Television Academy Awards, 2006. gr8mag.com. 2019-09-25.
9. Web site: The Indian Television Academy Awards, 2007. gr8mag.com. 2019-09-25.
10. News: The 12th Indian Television Academy Awards 2012 - Times of India. The Times of India. 6 November 2012 . en. 2019-09-25.
11. Web site: The Indian Television Academy Awards, 2013. gr8mag.com. 2019-09-25.
12. Web site: ITA Awards 2016: Mouni Roy, Shabbir Ahluwalia emerge big winners, see pics, video. 2016-11-14. The Indian Express. en-IN. 2019-09-12.
13. Web site: ITA Awards 2017 winners list: Jennifer Winget, Vivian Dsena and Nakuul Mehta take home the trophies. 2017-11-07. The Indian Express. en-IN. 2019-09-12.
14. Web site: Indian Television Academy Awards 2018 Winners. The Indian Express. 12 December 2018 . en-IN.
15. Web site: ITA Awards 2022: Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh, Nia Sharma, Rashami Desai & Others Attend . news.abplive.com . 2 May 2022 . en . 7 March 2022 .
16. Web site: ITA Awards 2022 complete winners list: Varun Dhawan, Nakuul Mehta, Pranali Rathod, The Kashmir Files win big . 12 December 2022 . Indian Express . 12 December 2022 .
17. Web site: 11 December 2023. ITA Awards 2023: Tejasswi Prakash, Harshad Chopda win big; Hrithik Roshan dances to 'Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai' . The Indian Express . en.
18. Web site: The Indian Television Academy Awards 2004 . IndianTelevisionAcademy.com . 10 July 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120526071531/http://www.indiantelevisionacademy.com/site/awards_hhita_details_new.php?year=2004 . 26 May 2012 .