The 11thEdition of Asiavision Movie Awards has been announced. Indias one of the most popular stars SonamKapoorwill be honored with the prestigious ICON OF INDIA award considering her contributions as an artiste towards Indian cinema and Best Actress (Hindi) Award for sensitive portrayal ofNeerjaBannot ,with grace and conviction , in the movie Neerja. NivinPaulyhas been selected as Best Actor for his excellent performances in the moviesAction Hero Biju and JacobinteSwargarajyam. The selection of winners was done through public voting campaign.ManjuWarrier to be awarded with best actress award for her flawless acting in the sports drama Karimkunnam 6s.VineethSreenivasansJacobinteSwargarajyam is the BEST FILM OF THE YEAR.One of the most popular actors of Kerala KunchakoBobanhas been selected for another prestigious category Man of the Year award, for delivering outstanding performances in his movies ,Vettah and Kochavvapauloayyappacoelho.
South Indian sensation Tamannah Bhatia and Vijay Setupati won Best Actress and Actor Award (Tamil) for their natural acting abilities presented in the movie Dharma Durai, for which SreenuRamswamy won Best Director Award Tamil.RK Suresh who produced the movie won best actor in a negative role award.

The emerging star RadhikaAptewill be honoured with OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AWARD for her impeccable performances in the movies Parched ,Phobia and Rajnikanths blockbuster movie Kabali.Tollywoods young superstar actor Ram Charan to be honored with YOUTH ICON AWARD.Amy Jackson whose movies are having a great run at box office will be honored with Excellence in Indian cinema award.

Baby Nainika ,the little girl who stole the hearts in the blockbuster movie Their(Tamil) won the BEST CHILD ARTISTE AWARD.Shane Nigam(Kismat) and AparnaBalamurali(MAHESHINTE PRATHIKARAM) bagged the NEW SENSATION IN ACTING AWARDS .For his extra ordinary performance in the critically acclaimed movieGUPPY budding actor Tovino Thomas won OUTSTANDING PERFORMER OF THE YEAR AWARD .AjuVargheese selected for BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR award for his performance in ANN MARIYA KALIPPILANU.Manikandan who acted as Balan in the movie KAMMATTIPPADAM won SECOND BEST ACTOR AWARD. RajishaVijayan(AnuragaKarikkinVellam) and Gokul Suresh Gopi(MUTHUGAVU)won MOST PROMISING ACTOR For capturing magnificent world of PULIMURUGAN ,Shaji won best cinematographer award.

DirectorPriyadarshanbagged BEST DIRECTORthe movieOPPAM which also won the OUTSTANDING FILM OF THE YEAR award. PULIMURUGAN directed by Vaishakh won POPULAR MOVIE OF THE YEAR.Veteran musician Sri Arjunan master will be honored with LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD- considering his valuable contributions towards the Indian music industry .Dubai resident AshaSharath won Excellence Award for her performances in the movies PAAVADA and ANURAGA KARIKKIN VELLAM,whileRanjiPanikker won character actor award for JACOBINTE SWARGARAJYAM.International Actor KabirBedi will receive Best Actor in a negative role for his performance in the movies Anarkkali(Malayalam) and MohenjoDaro(Hindi).Rajeev Pillai(OruMuthassiGadha) and Sijoy(James and Alice ) won special jury award.
GopiSundar is thebest music director for his scores in the movie CHARLIE,KALIandPULIMURUGAN.BEST LYRICIST won by Harinarayanan for MinungumMinnaminunge from OPPAM.M.G.Sreekumar is the BEST SINGER MALE for the song Minungum from OPPAM and K.S.CHITHRA won BEST SINGER FEMALE for the song KAADANIYUM from the movie PULIMURUGAN and Poovithali from THOPPIL JOPPAN.BabySreya is the NEW SENSATION IN SINGING for her soulful rendition of popular song MinungumMinnaminunge from OPPAM.SidSriram will be honored with BEST SINGER TAMIL for the songs Ennodu Nee IRundhal from I/ Thallipogathey from ACHAM ENBATHU MADAMAIYADA.

The Award nitght will be staged at Sharjah cricket stadium on November 18th Friday,with a seating capacity for 40,000 people.Along with the celebrities who won the awards.There will be performances by the artistes Karthik(Singer),Sid Sriram, ShamnaKasim,AparnaBalamurali,Paris Lakshmi,D4Dance fame Ramzan,Ramesh Pisharody,Afsal,KavyaAjith,Aseer,BhanuPratapSingh,AnnAmie,Nithya,Aparnaetc. RanjiniHaridas will be hosting the show.

UAEs leading electronic brand Elekta is the presenting sponsor this year. Nestle Munch is the break time partner and Wallstreet exchange is the powered by sponsor.Alain dairy is the powered by sponsor of the event and Mens fairness partner is Fair and Handsome.Air Arabia is the flying partner and Sapil is style Partner.

Best Actor Award is named after Lulu (Lulu Best Actor Award). The Silver Screen Sponsors areGrandmart hyper market,777 par boiled rice,down town caf,Binan(BrajBinani Group).The event is supported by Fresh and Plus,CoralPerfume,Address mens apparel,Dibba Waters,India house fine dine restaurant ,Dimple Fashion LLC.,Alhooth center ,Legal maxims,IMS, Day of dubai,Alfalaj building materials , Al Ahili Travels.
Lensman Productions is the Creative Partners. Gold FM 101.3andRadio Asia 1269AM are the radio partners.KairaliTV will be telecasting the show both in India and Gulf. Event is organized by Asiavision Events.

Other partners are Dar AL Fajr Printing Press (Printing Partner,Wellcare limo (LIMO Transport),TharavaduRestaurant (Catering partner), Alwafa(IT partner),Trinity Media(BTL Partner) and Asiavision Family Magazine(Official Magazine). Mediacraft is the production partner .
The press conference was held at Pearl residence hotel apartments with the presence of representatives from the sponsors and supporters.

Ticket prices are AED 25,50,100,200,500 and 2000.Tickets available at all the outlets o LULU Hyper market across Dubai andNorthern Emirates.Online Purchase can be done on Platinumlist.net.