National Film Awards

National film awards, the most prestigious film awards in India, the ceremony was established in the year 1954.
Every year a jury appointed by the government selects the winning entry and the award use to be presented by the President of India, followed by National Film Festival, where the public screening of award winning films will be held.

National film awards use to be considered as Indian equivalent of American Academy awards.

Categorization of awards:

• Feature Films
• Non-Feature Films
• Best Writing on Cinema 

                                               National Award winning films

Sl.No	Year	Film	Language	Director
1st	1953	Shyamchi Aai	Marathi	Pralhad Keshav Atre
2nd	1954	Mirza Ghalib	Hindi	Sohrab Modi
3rd	1955	Pather Panchali	Bengali	Satyajit Ray
4th	1956	Kabuliwala	Bengali	Tapan Sinha
5th	1957	Do Aankhen Barah Haath	Hindi	V. Shantaram
6th	1958	Sagar Sangamey	Bengali	Debaki Bose
7th	1959	Apur Sansar	Bengali	Satyajit Ray
8th	1960	Anuradha	Hindi	Hrishikesh Mukherjee
9th	1961	Bhagini Nivedita	Bengali	Bijoy Bose
10th	1962	Dada Thakur	Bengali	Sudhir Mukherjee
11th	1963	Shehar Aur Sapna	Hindi	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
12th	1964	Charulata	Bengali	Satyajit Ray
13th	1965	Chemmeen	Malayalam	Ramu Kariat
14th	1966	Teesri Kasam	Hindi	Basu Bhattacharya
15th	1967	Hatey Bazarey	Bengali	Tapan Sinha
16th	1968	Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne	Bengali	Satyajit Ray
17th	1969	Bhuvan Shome	Hindi	Mrinal Sen
18th	1970	Samskara	Kannada	Pattabhi Rama Reddy
19th	1971	Seemabaddha	Bengali	Satyajit Ray
20th	1972	Swayamvaram	Malayalam	Adoor Gopalakrishnan
21st	1973	Nirmalyam	Malayalam	M. T. Vasudevan Nair
22nd	1974	Chorus	Bengali	Mrinal Sen
23rd	1975	Chomana Dudi	Kannada	B. V. Karanth
24th	1976	Mrigayaa	Hindi	Mrinal Sen
25th	1977	Ghatashraddha	Kannada	Girish Kasaravalli
26th	1979	Shodh	Hindi	Biplab Roy Choudhary
27th	1980	Akaler Shandhaney	Bengali	Mrinal Sen
28th	1981	Dakhal	Bengali	Gautam Ghose
29th	1982	Chokh	Bengali	Utpalendu Chakrabarty
30th	1983	Adi Shankaracharya	Sanskrit	G. V. Iyer
31st	1984	Damul	Hindi	Prakash Jha
32nd	1985	Chidambaram	Malayalam	G. Aravindan
33rd	1986	Tabarana Kathe	Kannada	Girish Kasaravalli
34th	1987	Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai	Assamese	Jahnu Barua
35th	1988	Piravi	Malayalam	Shaji N. Karun
36th	1989	Bagh Bahadur	Bengali	Buddhadeb Dasgupta
37th	1990	Marupakkam	Tamil	K. S. Sethumadhavan
38th	1991	Agantuk	Bengali	Satyajit Ray
39th	1992	Bhagwat Gita	Sanskrit	G. V. Iyer
40th	1993	Charachar	Bengali	Buddhadeb Dasgupta
41st	1994	Unishe April	Bengali	Rituparno Ghosh
42nd	1995	Kathapurushan	Malayalam	Adoor Gopalakrishnan
43rd	1996	Lal Darja	Bengali	Buddhadeb Dasgupta
44th	1997	Thaayi Saheba	Kannada	Girish Kasaravalli
45th	1998	Samar	Hindi	Shyam Benegal
46th	1999	Vanaprastham	Malayalam	Shaji N. Karun
47th	2000	Shantham	Malayalam	Jayaraj
48th	2001	Dweepa	Kannada	Girish Kasaravalli
49th	2002	Mondo Meyer Upakhyan	Bengali	Buddhadeb Dasgupta
50th	2003	Shwaas	Marathi	Sandeep Sawant
51st	2004	Page 3	Hindi and English	Madhur Bhandarkar
52nd	2005	Kaalpurush	Bengali	Buddhadeb Dasgupta
53rd	2006	Pulijanmam	Malayalam	Priyanandanan
54th	2007	Kanchivaram	Tamil	Priyadarshan
55th	2008	Antaheen	Bengali	Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
56th	2009	Kutty Srank	Malayalam	Shaji N. Karun
57th	2010	Adaminte Makan Abu	Malayalam	Salim Ahamed
58th	2011	Deool	Marathi	Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
59th	2011	Byari	Beary	Suveeran

National Award winner Best Actor -Male

Sl.No	Recipient(s)	Film(s)	Language
15th	Uttam Kumar	Antony Firingee,Chiriyakhana	Bengali
16th	Ashok Kumar	Aashirwad	Hindi
17th	Utpal Dutt	Bhuvan Shome	Hindi
18th	Sanjeev Kumar	Dastak	Hindi
19th	M. G. Ramachandran	Rickshawkaran	Tamil
20th	Sanjeev Kumar	Koshish	Hindi
21st	P. J. Antony	Nirmalyam	Malayalam
22nd	Sadhu Meher	Ankur	Hindi
23rd	M. V. Vasudeva Rao	Chomana Dudi	Kannada
24th	Mithun Chakraborty	Mrigayaa	Hindi
25th	Gopi	Kodiyettam	Malayalam
26th	Arun Mukherjee	Parashuram	Bengali
27th	Naseeruddin Shah	Sparsh	Hindi
28th	Balan K. Nair	Oppol	Malayalam
29th	Om Puri	Arohan	Hindi
30th	Kamal Haasan	Moondram Pirai	Tamil
31st	Om Puri	Ardh Satya	Hindi
32nd	Naseeruddin Shah	Paar	Hindi
33rd	Shashi Kapoor	New Delhi Times	Hindi
34th	Charuhasan	Tabarana Kathe	Kannada
35th	Kamal Haasan	Nayagan	Tamil
36th	Premji	Piravi	Malayalam
37th	Mammootty	Mathilukal,Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha	Malayalam
38th	Amitabh Bachchan	Agneepath	Hindi
39th	Mohanlal	Bharatham	Malayalam
40th	Mithun Chakraborty	Tahader Katha	Bengali
41st	Mammootty	Ponthan Mada, Vidheyan	Malayalam
42nd	Nana Patekar	Krantiveer	Hindi
43rd	Rajit Kapur	The Making of the Mahatma	English
44th	Kamal Haasan	Indian	Tamil
45th	Balachandra Menon	Samaantharangal	Malayalam
45th	Suresh Gopi	Kaliyattam	Malayalam
46th	Ajay Devgn	Zakhm	Hindi
46th	Mammootty	Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar	English
47th	Mohanlal	Vanaprastham	Malayalam
48th	Anil Kapoor	Pukar	Hindi
49th	Murali	Neythukaran	Malayalam
50th	Ajay Devgn	The Legend of Bhagat Singh	Hindi
51st	Vikram	Pithamagan	Tamil
52nd	Saif Ali Khan	Hum Tum	Hindi
53rd	Amitabh Bachchan	Black	Hindi
54th	Soumitra Chatterjee	Podokkhep	Bengali
55th	Prakash Raj	Kanchivaram	Tamil
56th	Upendra Limaye	Jogwa	Marathi
57th	Amitabh Bachchan	Paa	Hindi
58th	Dhanush	Aadukalam	Tamil
58th	Salim Kumar	Adaminte Makan Abu	Malayalam
59th	Girish Kulkarni	Deool	Marathi

National Award winner Best Actor -Female

Sl.No	Recipient(s)	Film(s)	Language
15th	Nargis Dutt	Raat Aur Din	Hindi
16th	Sharada	Thulabharam	Malayalam
17th	Madhabi Mukherjee	Dibratrir Kabya	Bengali
18th	Rehana Sultan	Dastak	Hindi
19th	Waheeda Rehman	Reshma Aur Shera	Hindi
20th	Sharada	Swayamvaram	Malayalam
21st	Nandini Bhaktavatsala	Kaadu	Kannada
22nd	Shabana Azmi	Ankur	Hindi
23rd	Sharmila Tagore	Mausam	Hindi
24th	Lakshmi	Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal	Tamil
25th	Smita Patil	Bhumika	Hindi
26th	Sharada	Nimajjanam	Telugu
27th	Shoba	Pasi	Tamil
28th	Smita Patil	Chakra	Hindi
29th	Rekha	Umrao Jaan	Urdu
30th	Shabana Azmi	Arth	Hindi
31st	Shabana Azmi	Khandhar	Hindi
32nd	Shabana Azmi	Paar	Hindi
33rd	Suhasini	Sindhu Bhairavi	Tamil
34th	Monisha Unni	Nakhakshathangal	Malayalam
35th	Archana	Veedu	Tamil
36th	Archana	Daasi	Telugu
37th	Sreelekha Mukherji	Parshuramer Kuthar	Bengali
38th	Vijayashanti	Karthavyam	Telugu
39th	Moloya Goswami	Firingoti	Assamese
40th	Dimple Kapadia	Rudaali	Hindi
41st	Shobana	Manichitrathazhu	Malayalam
42nd	Debashree Roy	Unishe April	Bengali
43rd	Seema Biswas	Bandit Queen	Hindi
44th	Tabu	Maachis	Hindi
45th	Indrani Haldar	Dahan	Bengali
45th	Rituparna Sengupta	Dahan	Bengali
46th	Shabana Azmi	Godmother	Hindi
47th	Kirron Kher	Bariwali	Bengali
48th	Raveena Tandon	Daman	Hindi
49th	Tabu	Chandni Bar	Hindi
49th	Shobana	Mitr, My Friend	English
50th	Konkona Sen Sharma	Mr. and Mrs. Iyer	English
51st	Meera Jasmine	Paadam Onnu: Oru Vilapam	Malayalam
52nd	Tara	Hasina	Kannada
53rd	Sarika	Parzania	English
54th	Priyamani	Paruthiveeran	Tamil
55th	Umashree	Gulabi Talkies	Kannada
56th	Priyanka Chopra	Fashion	Hindi
57th	Ananya Chatterjee	Abohoman	Bengali
58th	Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar	Baboo Band Baaja	Marathi
58th	Saranya Ponvannan	Thenmerku Paruvakaatru	Tamil
59th	Vidya Balan	The Dirty Picture	Hindi