National Film Award for Best Children's Film

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National Film Award for Best Children's Film
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored by National Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly calledPrime Minister's Gold Medal for the Best Children's Film
Reward(s)
  • Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
  • ₹3,00,000
First award1954
Final award2022
Most recent winner Gandhi & Co.
Highlights
Total awarded58
First winnerKhela Ghar

The National Film Award for Best Children's 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 feature films and awarded with Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).

Contents

The award was instituted in 1954, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for children's films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (28 Awards), Bengali and Kannada (7 Awards), Malayalam (6 each), English (5 Awards), Marathi (3 Awards), Tamil, Telugu, Odia and Assamese (1 each).

Winners

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

Awards legends
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Swarna Kamal (Gold Medal) for the Best Children's Film
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Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Children's Film
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Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Children's Film
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Certificate of Merit for the Best Children's Film
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Indicates a joint award for that year
List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s)
YearFilm(s)Language(s)Producer(s)Director(s)Refs.
1953
(1st) 		Khela Ghar Bengali Aurora Films – [1]
1954
(2nd) 		No Award [2]
1955
(3rd) 		No Award [3]
1956
(4th) 		JaldeepBengali Children's Film Society Kidar Sharma [4]
1957
(5th) 		Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke Hindi AVM Productions P. L. Santoshi [5]
JanmatithiBengaliR. B. FilmsDilip Mukherjee
1958
(6th) 		Virsa and the Magic DollEnglishLittle Cinema Pvt Ltd.Santi P. Chowdhury [6]
1959
(7th) 		Banyan DeerEnglish Films Division  •Ahmed Lateef
 •Shanti Verma
 •G. G. Saraiya		 [7]
1960
(8th) 		Phool Aur KaliyanHindi Rajkamal Kalamandir Ram Gabale [8]
Idd MubarakHindi Children's Film Society Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Delhi Ki KahaniHindi Children's Film Society Rajendra Kumar
1961
(9th) 		Hattogol VijayHindiHari S. Dasgupta Productions •Buju Das Gupta
 •Raghunath Goswami		 [9]
SavitriHindi Children's Film Society Phani Majumdar
Nanhe Munne SitareHindiAjay Kumar ChakravartyAjay Kumar Chakravarty
1962
(10th) 		Raju Aur GangaramHindi Children's Film Society Ezra Mir [10]
1963
(11th) 		Panch PuthliyanHindi Children's Film Society Amit Bose [11]
1964
(12th)
1965
(13th) 		The Adventure of A Sugar DollEnglish Children's Film Society Kantilal Rathod [12]
As You Like ItEnglish Children's Film Society S. Shankar
1966
(14th)
1967
(15th) 		No Award [13]
1968
(16th) 		Heerer PrajapatiBengali Children's Film Society Shanti P. Chowdhury [14]
1969
(17th) 		No Award [15]
1970
(18th) 		No Award [16]
1971
(19th) 		Wings of FireEnglish – –
1972
(20th) 		No Award [17]
1973
(21st) 		No Award [18]
1974
(22nd) 		No Award [19]
1975
(23rd) 		No Award [20]
1976
(24th)
1977
(25th) 		Safed Haathi Hindi •R. A. Jalan
 •Pratap Agarwal		 Tapan Sinha [21]
1978
(26th) 		Joi Baba Felunath BengaliR. D. Bansal Satyajit Ray [22]
1979
(27th) 		Dangeyedda MakkaluKannada •T. N. Narasimhan
 •B. S. Somasundar		U. S. Vadiraj
1980
(28th) 		No Award [23]
1981
(29th) 		No Award [24]
1982
(30th) 		No Award [25]
1983
(31st) 		Bhombal SardarBengali Government of West Bengal Nripen Ganguly [26]
1984
(32nd) 		My Dear Kuttichathan Malayalam M. C. Punnoose Jijo Punnoose [27]
1985
(33rd) 		Aazadi Ki OreHindiSangeethalayaP. S. Prakash [28]
1986
(34th) 		No Award [29]
1987
(35th) 		Swamy HindiT. S. Narasimhan Shankar Nag [30]
1988
(36th) 		Manu Uncle Malayalam Joy Thomas Dennis Joseph [31]
1989
(37th) 		Ankur Maina Aur KabootarHindi Children's Film Society Madan Bawaria [32]
Jamboo Savari Kannada K. S. L. Swame (Lalitha Ravee) K. S. L. Swame (Lalitha Ravee)
1990
(38th) 		No Award [33]
1991
(39th) 		Abhayam Malayalam Children's Film Society Sivan [34]
1992
(40th) 		Mujhse Dosti KarogeHindiNational Center of Films for Children and Young PeopleGopi Desai [35]
1993
(41st) 		Lavanya Preeti Oriya National Center of Films for Children and Young People Apurba Kishore Bir [36]
1994
(42nd) 		Kochaniyan MalayalamBushura ShahudeenSatheesh Vengannoor [37]
Abhay HindiNational Center of Films for Children and Young People Annu Kapoor
1995
(43rd) 		Halo HindiNational Center of Films for Children and Young People Santosh Sivan [38]
1996
(44th) 		Damu BengaliArt Films Raja Sen [39]
1997
(45th) 		Ramayanam Telugu M. S. Reddy Gunasekhar [40]
1998
(46th) 		Kabhi Pass Kabhi Fail HindiNational Center of Films for Children and Young People Virendra Saini [41]
1999
(47th) 		GoalHindi Children's Film Society Gul Bahar Singh [42]
2000
(48th) 		Gharaksharangal MalayalamSalim PadiyathSalim Padiyath [43]
2001
(49th) 		No Award [44]
2002
(50th) 		Baaja Hindi Children's Film Society Apurba Kishore Bir [45]
2003
(51st) 		Tora Assamese Children's Film Society Jahnu Barua [46]
2004
(52nd) 		Chutkan Ki MahabharatHindi Children's Film Society Sankalp Meshram [47]
2005
(53rd) 		The Blue Umbrella Hindi UTV Motion Pictures Vishal Bhardwaj [48]
2006
(54th) 		Care of Footpath KannadaShylaja Shrikanth Kishan Shrikanth [49]
2007
(55th) 		PhotoHindi Children's Film Society Virendra Saini [50]
2008
(56th) 		GubbachigaluKannadaMedia House Studio Abhaya Simha [51]
2009
(57th) 		Putaani Party Kannada Children's Film Society Ramchandra P. N. [52]
Keshu Malayalam Children's Film Society Sivan
2010
(58th) 		HejjegaluKannadaBasanta Kumar PatilP. R. Ramadas Naidu [53]
2011
(59th) 		Chillar Party Hindi • UTV Software Communications
 • Salman Khan 		 • Vikas Bahl
 • Nitesh Tiwari 		[54]
2012
(60th) 		Dekh Indian Circus HindiMahaveer Jain Mangesh Hadawale [55]
2013
(61st) 		KaphalHindi Children's Film Society Batul Mukhtiar [56]
2014
(62nd) 		Kaaka Muttai Tamil Grass Root Film Company M. Manikandan [57]
Elizabeth Ekadashi Marathi Essel Vision Productions Ltd. Paresh Mokashi
2015
(63rd) 		Budhia Singh – Born to Run HindiCode Red FilmsSoumendra Padhi [58]
2016
(64th) 		Dhanak Hindi Drishyam Films Nagesh Kukunoor [59]
2017
(65th) 		Mhorkya MarathiKalyan Rajmogli PadalAmar Bharat Deokar
2018
(66th) 		Sarkari Hi. Pra. Shaale, Kasaragodu, Koduge: Ramanna Rai Kannada Rishab Shetty Films Rishab Shetty [60]
2019
(67th) 		Kastoori HindiInsight FilmsVinod Uttreshwar Kamble [61]
2020
(68th) 		Sumi MarathiHarshall Kamat Entertainment & Golden Mouse Productions Amol Vasant Gole [62]
2021
(69th) 		Gandhi & Co. Gujarati Manish Saini [63]
2022
(70th) 		No Award

References

  1. ↑ "1st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "2nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  3. ↑ "3rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  4. ↑ "4th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  5. ↑ "5th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
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  15. ↑ "17th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
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  20. ↑ "23rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
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