News18 Reel Awards

The News18 Reel Awards, formerly known as iReel Awards, is an annual Indian award ceremony, presented by News 18 to honour excellence in Indian cinema and the OTT industry. Winners are decided through online voting.^[1]

News18 Reel Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in Films and Web Series
Country	India
Presented by	News 18
First award	2018
Website	Official website

History

In August 2018, News18.com announced iReel Awards 2018, a web series specific awards in India.^[2] The first event was held on 6 September 2018 at JW Marriott, Juhu in Mumbai.

Ceremonies

Date	Ceremony	Reference
6 Sep 2018	1st iReel Awards	[3]
23 Sep 2019	2nd iReel Awards	[4][5]

Categories

Best Actor (Drama)

Year	Actor	Role	Program	Network
2018	Nawazuddin Siddiqui	Ganesh Gaitonde	Sacred Games	Netflix
	Rajkummar Rao	Subhas Chandra Bose	Bose: Dead/Alive	ALTBalaji
	R. Madhavan	Danny Mascarenhas	Breathe	Amazon Prime
	Rithvik Sahore	Aakash	Laakhon Mein Ek	Amazon Prime
	Anshuman Malhotra	Siddharth	Class of 2017	ALTBalaji
2019	Pankaj Tripathi	Akhandanand Tripathi	Mirzapur	Amazon Prime
	Nawazuddin Siddiqui	Ganesh Gaitonde	Sacred Games 2	Netflix
	Ronit Roy	SP Prithvi Singh	Hostages	Hotstar
	Vikrant Massey	Aditya Sharma	Criminal Justice	Hotstar
	Arjun Mathur	Karan Mehra	Made in Heaven	Amazon Prime

Best Actress (Drama)

Year	Actor	Role	Program	Network
2018	Nimrat Kaur	Shikha Sharma	The Test Case	ALTBalaji
	Tridha Choudhury	Sana Sanyal	Spotlight	Viu
	Nia Sharma	Aliyah Mukherjee	Twisted	YouTube
	Karishma Sharma	Ragini	Ragini MMS: Returns	ALTBalaji
	Patralekha Paul	Nandi	Bose: Dead/Alive	ALTBalaji
2019	Shefali Shah	DCP Vartika Chaturvedi	Delhi Crime	Netflix
	Supriya Pilgaonkar	Vandana Sethi	Home	ALTBalaji
	Sobhita Dhulipala	Tara Khanna	Made in Heaven	Amazon Prime
	Dia Mirza	Kainaaz Akhtar	Kaafir	ZEE5
	Shweta Tripathi	Dr. Shreya Pathare	Laakhon Mein Ek 2	Amazon Prime

Best Actor (Comedy)

Year	Actor	Role	Program	Network
2018	Bhupesh Singh	Hariman Singh	Shaitaan Haveli	Amazon Prime
	Kanchan Porgare	Gangu	Shaitaan Haveli	Amazon Prime
	Biswapati Sarkar	Sanjay	Mr. and Mrs.	YouTube
	Sukant Goel	Rishi	The Better Half/Dolly Ki Shaadi	YouTube
	Zeishan Quadri	Akki	Akki Vikki Te Nikki	YouTube
2019	Amol Parashar	Chitvan Sharma	Tripling 2	YouTube
	Mukul Chadda	Jagdeep Chadda	The Office	Hotstar
	Kunaal Roy Kapur	Kunaal Roy Kapur	Side Hero	Eros Now
	Dhruv Sehgal	Dhruv Vats	Little Things 2	Netflix
	Ranvir Shorey	Kalpesh Patel	Metro Park	Eros Now

Best Actress (Comedy)

Year	Actor	Role	Program	Network
2018	Sumukhi Suresh	Pushpavalli	Pushpavalli	Amazon Prime
	Kriti Garg	Menka	Azad Parindey	YouTube
	Mansi Parekh	Meera	Bin Bulaye Mehmaan	YouTube
	Archita Agarwal	Kiara	Virgin Woman Diary	YouTube
	Mukti Mohan	Kay	InMates	YouTube
2019	Mithila Palkar	Kavya Kulkarni	Little Things 2	Netflix
	Srishti Shrivastava	Anandi "Jo" Joshi	Girls Hostel	Netflix
	Purbi Joshi	Payal Patel	Metro Park	Eros Now
	Maanvi Gagroo	Chanchal Sharma	Tripling 2	YouTube
	Geetanjali Kulkarni	Shanti Mishra	Gullak	SonyLIV

Best Supporting Actor

Year	Actor	Role	Program	Network
2018	Jitendra Joshi	Constable Katekar	Sacred Games	Netflix
	Naseeruddin Shah	Guru	Zero Kms	ZEE5
	Tanuj Virwani	Vayu Raghavan	Inside Edge	Amazon Prime
	Ashish Verma	Madhav	InMates	YouTube
	Karamvir Lamba	Sundeep	Karenjit Kaur	ZEE5
2019	Divyendu Sharma	Phoolchand Tripathi	Mirzapur	Amazon Prime
	Jackie Shroff	Mustafa	Criminal Justice	Hotstar
	Rajesh Tailang	Inspector Bhupendra Singh	Delhi Crime	Netflix
	Brijendra Kala	Satendra Sharma	The Aam Aadmi Family	YouTube
	Jim Sarbh	Adil Khanna	Made in Heaven	Amazon Prime

Best Supporting Actress

Year	Actor	Role	Program	Network
2018	Aahana Kumra	Shahana Vasishtha	Inside Edge	Amazon Prime
	Dipannita Sharma	Nishqa S. Bajaj	Bewafaa sii Wafaa	ALTBalaji
	Grusha Kapoor	Balwant Kaur Vohra	Karenjit Kaur	ZEE5
	Meenakshi Sethi		Dolly Ki Shaadi	YouTube
	Akanksha Thakur	Richa	InMates	YouTube
2019	Amruta Subhash	Kusum Devi	Sacred Games 2	Netflix
	Grusha Kapoor	Balwant Kaur Vohra	Karenjit Kaur 2	ZEE5
	Rasika Dugal	Beena Tripathi	Mirzapur	Amazon Prime
	Shivani Raghuvanshi	Jaspreet "Jazz" Kaur	Made in Heaven	Amazon Prime
	Lubna Salim	Mrs. Madhu Sharma	The Aam Aadmi Family	YouTube

Best Drama Series

Year	Series	Platform
2018	Sacred Games	Netflix
2019	Delhi Crime	Netflix
	Sacred Games 2	Netflix
	Made in Heaven	Amazon Prime
	Mirzapur	Amazon Prime
	Kota Factory	Netflix
	Typewriter	Netflix

Best Comedy Series

Year	Series	Platform
2018	Pushpavalli	Amazon Prime
2019	Little Things 2	Netflix
	Metro Park	Eros Now
	Girls Hostel	Netflix
	Gullak	SonyLIV
	The Office	Hotstar
	Tripling 2	YouTube

Best Writing (Drama)

Year	Series	Recipient	Platform
2018	Sacred Games	Varun Grover Smita Singh Vasant Nath	Netflix
2019	Delhi Crime	Richie Mehta	Netflix
	Typewriter	Sujoy Ghosh, Suresh Nair	Netflix
	Made in Heaven	Reema Kagti Zoya Akhtar Alankrita Shrivastava	Amazon Prime
	Kota Factory	Saurabh Khanna	Netflix
	Laakhon Mein Ek 2	Shweta More	Amazon Prime

Best Writing (Comedy)

Year	Series	Recipient	Platform
2018	Mr. and Mrs.	Preksha Khanna Pradyot Mokashi	YouTube
2019	Gullak	Nikhil Vijay	YouTube
	Booo Sabki Phategi	Farhad Samji Tasha Bhambra, Sparsh Khetrapal	ALT Balaji
	Girls Hostel	Shreyasi Sharma,	Netflix
	Side Hero	Nipun Dharmadhikari	Eros Now
	Tripling 2	Akarsh Khurana, Sumeet Vyas	YouTube

Best Music

Year	Show	Recipient	Platform
2019	Sacred Games 2	Alokananda Dasgupta	Netflix
	RejctX	Sneha Khanwalkar	ZEE5
	Made in Heaven	Tarana Marwah, Gaurav Raina	Amazon Prime
	Rangbaaz	Bhav Dhulia	ZEE5
	Four More Shots	Mikey McCleary	Amazon Prime

Best Non-fiction Show

Year	Show	Platform
2019	Comicstaan 2	Amazon Prime
	Roar of the Lions	Hotstar
	Cricket Fever	Netflix

Best Ensemble

Year	Show	Platform	Result
2018	Mirzapur	Amazon Prime	Won

See also

• List of Asian television awards