National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film

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National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film
National award for contributions to non-feature films
Sponsored by National Film Development Corporation of India
Reward(s)
  • Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
  • ₹2,00,000
First award1985
Final award2022
Most recent winnerRanga Vibhoga
Varsa
Highlights
Total awarded37
First winnerWarli Painting

The National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

Contents

The award was instituted in 1985, at 33rd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s)
YearFilm(s)Language(s)Producer(s)Director(s)Refs.
1985
(33rd)
Warli PaintingEnglishB. R. ShendgeV. K. Wankhede [1]
1986
(34th)
Our Islamic Heritage: Part IIEnglishK. K. Garg for Films Division K. K. Garg [2]
Classical Dance Forms of India: Koodiattam English Doordarshan Prakash Jha
1987
(35th)
The Kingdom of GodEnglishShilpabharati PublicityRanabir Ray [3]
1988
(36th)
Scroll Painters of Birbhum (Patua)English Dilip Ghosh
 Biswanath Bose
Raja Mitra [4]
1989
(37th)
Siddheshwari Hindi Mani Kaul Mani Kaul [5]
1990
(38th)
Figures of ThoughtEnglishArun KhopkarArun Khopkar [6]
Vaastu MarabuEnglishMin BimbangalBala Kailasam
1991
(39th)
SanchariEnglishArun KhopkarArun Khopkar [7]
1992
(40th)
The RecluseHindiArvind SinhaArvind Sinha [8]
Suchitra Mitra Bengali Sailen Seth Raja Sen
1993
(41st)
AnukampanHindiBalaka GhoshBalaka Ghosh [9]
1994
(42nd)
Painting in TimeEnglishTopshotsSarbajit Sen [10]
1995
(43rd)
Pakarnnattam Ammannur The Actor Malayalam P. G. Mohan M. R. Rajan
  C. S. Venkiteswaran
[11]
1996
(44th)
Nauka CharitramuEnglishSaroj SatyanarayanSaroj Satyanarayan [12]
1997
(45th)
The Official Art FormEnglish National Gallery of Modern Art   Suhasini Mulay
 R. M. Gharekhan
[13]
1998
(46th)
A Painter of Eloquent Silence: Ganesh PyneEnglish Buddhadeb Dasgupta Buddhadeb Dasgupta [14]
1999
(47th)
"Thang Ta"- The Martial Art of ManipurEnglish Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Aribam Syam Sharma [15]
2000
(48th)
Tribal Women ArtistsHindiKuldeep Sinha for Films DivisionBrij Bhushan for Films Division [16]
2001
(49th)
No Award [17]
2002
(50th)
The Eye of the Fish: The Kalaries of KeralaEnglishFilms Division Priya Krishnaswamy [18]
2003
(51st)
Picasso MetamorphosesEnglishY. N. Engineer for Films DivisionNandkumar Sadamate [19]
2004
(52nd)
No Award [20]
2005
(53rd)
Naina Jogin Hindi
  Maithili
Praveen KumarPraveen Kumar [21]
2006
(54th)
Jatra Jeevan Jeevan JatraEnglishKailash BhuyanKapilas Bhuyan [22]
2007
(55th)
No Award [23]
2008
(56th)
Karna Motcham Tamil MGR Film and TV Institute S. Murali Manohar [24]
2009
(57th)
No Award [25]
2010
(58th)
Leaving Home Hindi Jaideep Varma Jaideep Varma [26]
2011
(59th)
Fried Fish, Chicken Soup and a Premiere Show   Manipuri
 English
Madhusree Dutta Mamta Murthy [27]
Lasya Kavvya: The World of Alarmel ValliEnglishSankalp Meshram
2012
(60th)
Modikhanyachya Don GoshtiMarathiGouri PatwardhanGouri Patwardhan [28]
2013
(61st)
The Lost Behrupiya EnglishHolybull Entertainment LLP Sriram Dalton [29]
O Friend, This Waiting !  Telugu
 English
Justin MccarthySandhya Kumar
2014
(62nd)
KapilaFilms Division Sanju Surendran [30]
2015
(63rd)
A Far Afternoon: A Painted Saga Hindi
 English
Piramal Art Foundation Sruti Harihara Subramanian [31]
Yazhpanam Thedchanamoorthy: Music Beyond BoundariesTamilSiddhartha Productions Amshan Kumar
2016
(64th)
In the Shadow of TimeEnglishIndira Gandhi National Center for ArtsShankhajeet Dey [32]
The Lord of the UniverseEnglishShibu PrustyShibu Prusty
2017
(65th)
Girija Madhu Chandra
 Sudha Datta
 Debapriya Adhikary
 Samanwaya Sarkar
2018
(66th)
Bunkar: The Last of The Varanasi Weavers  Narrative Pictures
 Sapna Sharma
Satyaprakash Upadhyay
2019
(67th)
Shrikshetra Ru SahijataOdia Ashutosh Pattnaik Ashutosh Pattnaik [33]
2020
(68th)
Naadada Navaneeta Dr PT VenkateshkumarKannadaDept. of Information and Public Relations, Government of Karnataka Girish Kasaravalli [34]
2021
(69th)
T.N. Krishnan Bow Strings to Divine NFDC V. Packirisamy [35]
2022
(70th)
Ranga VibhogaKannadaSuneel Narasimhachar PuranikSuneel Narasimhachar Puranik [36]
VarsaMarathiSachin Balasaheb SuryawanshiSachin Balasaheb Suryawanshi

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  16. "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  17. "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
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