National Film Award for Best Cinematography (non-feature film)

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National Film Award for Best Cinematography
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 award1990
Final award2022
Most recent winnerSiddharth Diwan
Highlights
Total awarded80
First winner

The National Film Award for Best Cinematography 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).

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The award was instituted in 1990, at 38th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. Since the 70th National Film Awards (2022), the primary/main cinematographer is eligible to the award, thus eliminating the existing Cameraman and Laboratory Processing sub-categories. [1]

Winners

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

Indicates a joint award for that year
List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s) and language(s)
YearCinematographer(s)Laboratory ProcessingFilm(s)Language(s)Refs.
1990
(38th) 		Santosh Sivan Prasad Film Laboratories MohiniyattamEnglish [2]
Victor Banerjee Prasad Film LaboratoriesWhere No Journeys EndEnglish
1991
(39th) 		Shekar DattariPrasad Film LaboratoriesSilent Valley: An Indian Rain forestEnglish [3]
1992
(40th) 		Soumendu Roy Adlabs Sucitra Mitra Bengali [4]
1993
(41st) 		Piyush Shah –MokshaBengali [5]
1994
(42nd) 		Anoop JotwaniVijay Color LabRasayatra •Hindi
 •English		 [6]
1995
(43rd) 		Rafey MehmoodAdlabsTaranaHindi [7]
1996
(44th) 		Hari Nair Prasad Film LaboratoriesSham's VisionEnglish [8]
1997
(45th) 		Ashok Dasgupta –The TrailEnglish [9]
1998
(46th) 		Ranjan PalitPrasad Film LaboratoriesIn The Forest Hangs a BridgeEnglish [10]
1999
(47th) 		Mankada Ravi Varma Prasad Film LaboratoriesKalamandalam Gopi Malayalam [11]
2000
(48th) 		Prasann JainAdlabsRasikpriya •Hindi
 •English		 [12]
2001
(49th) 		Nilotpal SarkarPrasad Film LaboratoryJorasanko ThakurbariEnglish [13]
Irom Maipak Prasad Kalinga LabThe Monpas of Arunachal PradeshEnglish
2002
(50th) 		No Award [14]
2003
(51st) 		Ranjan PalitPrasad Film LaboratoryKaya Poochhe Maya SeHindi [15]
K. G. JayanPrasad Film LaboratoryThe 18 Elephants: 3 MonologuesMalayalam
2004
(52nd) 		Manoj Raymond LoboAdlabsGirni Marathi [16]
2005
(53rd) 		Paramvir SinghAdlabsParsiwada, Tarapore Present Day •English
 • Gujarati 		[17]
2006
(54th) 		Rajendra Janglay –Raga of River Narmada – [18]
Sanjay V.
2007
(55th) 		Savita Singh –KramashaHindi [19]
2008
(56th) 		Shariqva Badar KhanFilmlabThree of Us – [20]
Jaya Krishna Gummadi AdlabsWhen This Man Dies •Hindi
 •English
2009
(57th) 		Deepu S. UnniAdlabsGaarud •Hindi
 •Marathi		 [21]
2010
(58th) 		Murali G.FilmlabShyam Raat Seher •Hindi
 •English		 [22]
2011
(59th) 		S. Nallamuthu –Tiger DynastyEnglish [23]
2012
(60th) 		Abhimanyu Dange Reliance MediaWorks KaatalMarathi [24]
Raja Shabir Khan –Shepherds of Paradise •Gojri
 •Urdu
2013
(61st) 		Kavin JagtianiReliance MediaWorksMandrake !Mandrake !Hindi [25]
2014
(62nd) 		Indraneel Lahiri –Aamaar Katha: Story of BinodiniBengali [26]
2015
(63rd) 		Amartya Bhattacharyya  –Benaras: The Unexplored AttachmentsBengali [27]
2016
(64th) 		Alpesh Nagar –KalpvrikshaHindi [28]
Vishal SangwaiAdnyatEnglish
2017
(65th) 		Appu Prabhakar  –Eye Test – [29]
Arnold FernandesDawn –
2018
(66th) 		Ajay Bedi –The Secret Life of Frogs –
2019
(67th) 		Savita Singh –SonsiHindi [30]
2020
(68th) 		Nikhil S Praveen –Shabdikkunna Kalappa (Talking Plow)Malayalam [31]
2021
(69th) 		Bittu Rawat –Pataal-Tee Bhotiya [32]
2022
(70th) 		Siddharth Diwan –Mono No Aware • Hindi
 • English		 [33]

References

  1. ↑ Under Secretary to the Government of India (14 December 2023). "Report on Rationalization of Awards Conferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting | Ministry of Information and Broadcasting | Government of India". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting . Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "38th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  3. ↑ "39th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  4. ↑ "40th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  5. ↑ "41st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  6. ↑ "42nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  7. ↑ "43rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "44th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  9. ↑ "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  10. ↑ "46th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  11. ↑ "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  12. ↑ "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  13. ↑ "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  14. ↑ "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  15. ↑ "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  16. ↑ "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  17. ↑ "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  18. ↑ "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  19. ↑ "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  20. ↑ "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  21. ↑ "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  22. ↑ "58th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  23. ↑ "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced". Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  24. ↑ "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  25. ↑ "61st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
  26. ↑ "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  27. ↑ "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  28. ↑ "64th National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  29. ↑ "National Awards: Sridevi Wins Best Actress Posthumously For MOM, Dadasaheb Phalke For Vinod Khanna". NDTV.
  30. ↑ "67th National Film Awards announced". Press Information Bureau . 22 March 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  31. ↑ "68th National Film Awards announced". Press Information Bureau . 22 July 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  32. ↑ "69th National Film Awards for the year 2021 announced". Press Information Bureau . 24 August 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  33. ↑ "70th National Film Awards for the year 2022 announced". Press Information Bureau . 16 August 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
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