National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director

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National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Awarded forBest debutant directorial work of a year
Sponsored by National Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly called
  • Award for Best First Film of a Director (1980–1983)
  • Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director (1984–2009)
  • Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director (2010–2021)
Reward(s)
  • Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
  • ₹3,00,000
First award1980
Final award2022
Most recent winnerPramod Kumar, Fouja
Highlights
Total awarded45
First winnerMaina Tadanta
Website http://dff.gov.in/   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director 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).

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The award was instituted in 1980, at 28th National Film Awards [1] and has been awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (11 Awards), Bengali and Malayalam (9 Awards each), Tamil (5 Awards), Marathi (4 Awards), Assamese, English and Telugu (2 each), Haryanvi, Jasari, Karbi and Ladakhi (1 Each).

The award includes 'Golden Lotus Award' (Swarna Kamal) and cash prize. Until 69th edition, the award was given to director and producer. The name was shortened to Best Debut Film of a Director since 70th National Film Awards, [2] [3] and the director alone is awarded. The prize money was increased to ₹3,00,000. [4]

Winners

Indicates a joint award for that year

1980–2021

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.
1980
(28th) 		Maina Tadanta Bengali  – Utpalendu Chakrabarty [1]
1981
(29th) 		Aadharshila Hindi Ashok AhujaAshok Ahuja [5]
1982
(30th) 		Kann Sivanthaal Mann Sivakkum Tamil R. Venkat Raman Sreedhar Rajan [6]
1983
(31st) 		Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro Hindi NFDC Kundan Shah [7]
1984
(32nd) 		Meendum Oru Kaathal Kathai Tamil Radhika Pothan Prathap K. Pothan [8]
1985
(33rd) 		New Delhi Times HindiP. K. Tiwari Romesh Sharma [9]
1986
(34th) 		Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin Hindi Sudhir Mishra Sudhir Mishra [10]
1987
(35th) 		Ekti JibanBengaliChalchitra Raja Mitra [11]
1988
(36th) 		Trishagni Hindi Nabendu Ghosh Nabendu Ghosh [12]
1989
(37th) 		Wosobipo Karbi Karbi Anglong District Council Gautam Bora [13]
1990
(38th) 		Perumthachan Malayalam G. Jayakumar Ajayan [14]
1991
(39th) 		Haladhar Assamese  •Geeti Barua
 •Dwijen Hazorika		Sanjeev Hazorika [15]
1992
(40th) 		Miss Beatty's Children English • NFDC
 • Doordarshan
 •Rooks AV		 Pamela Rooks [16]
1993
(41st) 		Sunya Theke SuruBengali •H. Das
 •Madhumanti Maitra
 •M. Das		 Ashoke Viswanathan [17]
1994
(42nd) 		Mogamul TamilJ. Dharmambal Gnana Rajasekaran [18]
1995
(43rd) 		Kahini Bengali •Chandramala Bhattacharya
 •Malaya Bhattacharya		Malaya Bhattacharya [19]
1996
(44th) 		Rag BiragAssamese •Bhabhen Baruah
 •Khanin Baruah		Bidyut Chakraborty [20]
1997
(45th) 		Bhoothakkannadi MalayalamNair Krishnakumar Unni A. K. Lohithadas [21]
1998
(46th) 		Daya MalayalamC. K. Gopinath Venu [22]
1999
(47th) 		Dollar Dreams English Sekhar Kammula Sekhar Kammula [23]
Laado Haryanvi Kumud ChaudharyAshwini Chaudhary
2000
(48th) 		Sayahnam MalayalamM. S. Nazeer R. Sarath [24]
2001
(49th) 		Thilaadanam Telugu NFDC K. N. T. Sastry [25]
2002
(50th) 		Patalghar BengaliNiti Sonee GourisariaAbhijit Chaudhuri [26]
Prohor BengaliDebjani GuptaSubhadro Chaudhary
2003
(51st) 		Margam Malayalam Rajiv Vijay Raghavan Rajiv Vijay Raghavan [27]
2004
(52nd) 		Grahanam TeluguN. Anji Reddy Mohan Krishna Indraganti [28]
2005
(53rd) 		Parineeta Hindi Vidhu Vinod Chopra Pradeep Sarkar [29]
2006
(54th) 		Eakantham MalayalamAnthony Joseph Madhu Kaithapram [30]
Kabul Express Hindi Aditya Chopra Kabir Khan
2007
(55th) 		Frozen  •Hindi
 • Ladakhi 		Shivajee ChandrabhushanShivajee Chandrabhushan [31]
2008
(56th) 		A Wednesday! Hindi UTV Motion Pictures Neeraj Pandey [32]
2009
(57th) 		Lahore Hindi Vivek Khatkar Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan [33]
2010
(58th) 		Baboo Band Baaja Marathi Nita JadhavRajesh Pinjani [34]
2011
(59th) 		Aaranya Kaandam Tamil S. P. Charan Thiagarajan Kumararaja [35]
2012
(60th) 		Chittagong Hindi Bedabrata Pain Bedabrata Pain [36]
101 Chodyangal MalayalamThomas Kottackkakom Sidhartha Siva
2013
(61st) 		Fandry Marathi •Navalkha Arts
 •Holy Basil Combine		 Nagraj Manjule [37]
2014
(62nd) 		Asha Jaoar Majhe Bengali •For Films
 •Salaam Cinema		 Aditya Vikram Sengupta [38]
2015
(63rd) 		Masaan Hindi Phantom Films Neeraj Ghaywan [39]
2016
(64th) 		Alifa BengaliAmaan AhmedDeep Choudhury [40]
2017
(65th) 		Sinjar Jasari Shibu G. Suseelan Pampally
2018
(66th) 		Naal Marathi Nagraj Manjule Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti [41] [42]
2019
(67th) 		Helen Malayalam Vineeth Sreenivasan Mathukutty Xavier
2020
(68th) 		Mandela Tamil S. Sashikanth Madonne Ashwin [43]
2021
(69th) 		Meppadiyan Malayalam Unni Mukundan Films Vishnu Mohan [44]

2022–present

Since the 70th National Film Awards, director alone is awarded.

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s)
YearFilm(s)Language(s)Director(s)Refs.
2022
(70th) 		Fouja HaryanviPramod Kumar [45]
2023
(71st) 		Aatmapamphlet MarathiAshish Avinash Bende [46]

References

  1. 1 2 "28th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Indira and Nargis dropped from names of top film awards". The Hindu. 13 February 2024. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  3. ↑ "Indira Gandhi, Nargis Dutt's names dropped from National Film Awards categories". India Today. 13 February 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "Report on Rationalization of Awards Conferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting | Ministry of Information and Broadcasting | Government of India". mib.gov.in. Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. 14 December 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  5. ↑ "29th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  6. ↑ "30th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  7. ↑ "31st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "32nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  9. ↑ "33rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  10. ↑ "34th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  11. ↑ "35th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  12. ↑ "36th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  13. ↑ "37th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  14. ↑ "38th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  15. ↑ "39th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  16. ↑ "40th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  17. ↑ "41st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  18. ↑ "42nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  19. ↑ "43rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  20. ↑ "44th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  21. ↑ "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
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  24. ↑ "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  25. ↑ "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
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  27. ↑ "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  28. ↑ "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  29. ↑ "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  30. ↑ "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  31. ↑ "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  32. ↑ "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  33. ↑ "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  34. ↑ "58th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  35. ↑ "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced". Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  36. ↑ "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  37. ↑ "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.
  38. ↑ "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  39. ↑ "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  40. ↑ "64th National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
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  46. ↑ "71st National Film Awards for the year 2023 announced". Press Information Bureau . 1 August 2025. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
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