National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film

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 award	1985
Final award	2022
Most recent winner	Ranga Vibhoga Varsa
Highlights
Total awarded	37
First winner	Warli 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).

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)
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Refs.
1985 (33rd)	Warli Painting	English	B. R. Shendge	V. K. Wankhede	[1]
1986 (34th)	Our Islamic Heritage: Part II	English	K. K. Garg for Films Division	K. K. Garg	[2]
	Classical Dance Forms of India: Koodiattam	English	Doordarshan	Prakash Jha
1987 (35th)	The Kingdom of God	English	Shilpabharati Publicity	Ranabir 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 Thought	English	Arun Khopkar	Arun Khopkar	[6]
	Vaastu Marabu	English	Min Bimbangal	Bala Kailasam
1991 (39th)	Sanchari	English	Arun Khopkar	Arun Khopkar	[7]
1992 (40th)	The Recluse	Hindi	Arvind Sinha	Arvind Sinha	[8]
	Suchitra Mitra	Bengali	Sailen Seth	Raja Sen
1993 (41st)	Anukampan	Hindi	Balaka Ghosh	Balaka Ghosh	[9]
1994 (42nd)	Painting in Time	English	Topshots	Sarbajit Sen	[10]
1995 (43rd)	Pakarnnattam Ammannur The Actor	Malayalam	P. G. Mohan	•M. R. Rajan  • C. S. Venkiteswaran	[11]
1996 (44th)	Nauka Charitramu	English	Saroj Satyanarayan	Saroj Satyanarayan	[12]
1997 (45th)	The Official Art Form	English	National Gallery of Modern Art	• Suhasini Mulay  •R. M. Gharekhan	[13]
1998 (46th)	A Painter of Eloquent Silence: Ganesh Pyne	English	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	[14]
1999 (47th)	"Thang Ta"- The Martial Art of Manipur	English	Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts	Aribam Syam Sharma	[15]
2000 (48th)	Tribal Women Artists	Hindi	Kuldeep Sinha for Films Division	Brij Bhushan for Films Division	[16]
2001 (49th)	No Award				[17]
2002 (50th)	The Eye of the Fish: The Kalaries of Kerala	English	Films Division	Priya Krishnaswamy	[18]
2003 (51st)	Picasso Metamorphoses	English	Y. N. Engineer for Films Division	Nandkumar Sadamate	[19]
2004 (52nd)	No Award				[20]
2005 (53rd)	Naina Jogin	•Hindi  • Maithili	Praveen Kumar	Praveen Kumar	[21]
2006 (54th)	Jatra Jeevan Jeevan Jatra	English	Kailash Bhuyan	Kapilas 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 Valli	English	Sankalp Meshram
2012 (60th)	Modikhanyachya Don Goshti	Marathi	Gouri Patwardhan	Gouri Patwardhan	[28]
2013 (61st)	The Lost Behrupiya	English	Holybull Entertainment LLP	Sriram Dalton	[29]
	O Friend, This Waiting !	•Telugu  •English	Justin Mccarthy	Sandhya Kumar
2014 (62nd)	Kapila		Films 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 Boundaries	Tamil	Siddhartha Productions	Amshan Kumar
2016 (64th)	In the Shadow of Time	English	Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts	Shankhajeet Dey	[32]
	The Lord of the Universe	English	Shibu Prusty	Shibu 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 Sahijata	Odia	Ashutosh Pattnaik	Ashutosh Pattnaik	[33]
2020 (68th)	Naadada Navaneeta Dr PT Venkateshkumar	Kannada	Dept. 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 Vibhoga	Kannada	Suneel Narasimhachar Puranik	Suneel Narasimhachar Puranik	[36]
	Varsa	Marathi	Sachin Balasaheb Suryawanshi	Sachin Balasaheb Suryawanshi

References

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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.
18. "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
19. "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
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21. "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
22. "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
23. "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
24. "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
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28. "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
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External links

• Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
• National Film Awards Archives