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

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National Film Award for Best Direction
National award for contributions to non-feature films
Awarded forExcellence in cinematic direction achievement
Sponsored by National Film Development Corporation of India
Reward(s)
  • Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
  • ₹3,00,000
First award2000
Final award2022
Most recent winner Miriam Chandy Menacherry
Highlights
Total awarded18
First winnerArun Vasant Khopkar

The National Film Award for Best Direction 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 Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus).

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The award was instituted in 2000, at 48th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

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

List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s) and language(s)
YearDirector(s)Film(s)Language(s)Refs.
2000
(48th)
Arun Vasant KhopkarRasikpriya  Hindi
 English
[1]
2001
(49th)
Buddhadeb Dasgupta Jorasanko ThakurbariEnglish [2]
2002
(50th)
Anjali PanjabiA Few Things I Know About HerEnglish [3]
2003
(51st)
Arvind SinhaKaya Poochhe Maya SeHindi [4]
2004
(52nd)
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Girni Marathi [5]
2005
(53rd)
Ganesh Shankar GaikwadVoices Across the Oceans English
 Hindi
[6]
2006
(54th)
Ramesh AsherEk Aadesh – Command For ChotiHindi [7]
2007
(55th)
Jayaraj Vellapokkathil Malayalam [8]
2008
(56th)
Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Three of UsOnly Music [9]
2009
(57th)
No Award [10]
2010
(58th)
Arunima SharmaShyam Raat SeherHindi [11]
2011
(59th)
Iram GhufranThere is Something in the Air Hindi
  Urdu
 English
[12]
2012
(60th)
Vikrant PawarKaatalMarathi [13]
2013
(61st)
Pranjal DuaChidiya Udh  [14]
2014
(62nd)
Renu SavantAaranyak Marathi
 English
[15]
2015
(63rd)
Christo Tomy KamukiMalayalam [16]
2016
(64th)
Aaditya JambhaleAaba... Aiktaay Na?Marathi [17]
2017
(65th)
Nagraj Manjule Pavasacha Nibandha Marathi
2018
(66th)
Gautam VazeAai Shappath
2019
(67th)
Sudhanshu Saria Knock Knock Knock  English
  Bengali
[18]
2020
(68th)
R V RamaniOh That’s Bhanu English
  Tamil
  Malayalam
  Hindi
[19]
2021
(69th)
Bakul MatiyaniSmile PleaseHindi [20]
2022
(70th)
Miriam Chandy Menacherry From the Shadows  English
  Bengali
  Hindi
[21]

References

  1. "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  2. "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  3. "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  4. "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  5. "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  6. "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  7. "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  8. "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  9. "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  10. "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  11. "58th National Film Awards, 2010" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  12. "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced". Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  13. "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  14. "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.
  15. "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  16. "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  17. "64th National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  18. "67th National Film Awards announced". Press Information Bureau . 22 March 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  19. "68th National Film Awards". The Hindu . 22 July 2022. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  20. "69th National Film Awards for the year 2021 announce". Press Information Bureau . 24 August 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  21. "70th National Film Awards for the year 2022 announced". Press Information Bureau . 16 August 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.