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

National Film Award for Best Editing
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 awarded	1990
Last awarded	2022
Most recent winner	Suresh Urs
Highlights
Total awarded	31
First winner	Rajasekharan

The National Film Award for Best Editing 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 1990 at the 38th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short 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 award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation
Year	Recipient(s)	Film(s)	Language(s)	Citation	Refs.
1990 (38th)	Rajasekharan	Mohiniyattam	English	For making use of the full potential of the dimensions of space and time with creative excellence.	[1]
1991 (39th)	Rajesh Parmar	Sanchari	English	For his work, which beautifully creates a structure that responds to the rhythms of the dance.	[2]
1992 (40th)	K. R. Bose	Kalarippayat	English	For deft cutting of difficult sequence which makes it possible to maintain the rhythm and tempo of the film.	[3]
1993 (41st)	Rajesh Parmar	Colors of Absence	English	For smooth, precise and excellently edited work, which gives the film its unique rhythm, in keeping with its form and content.	[4]
1994 (42nd)	Paresh Kamdar	Rasayatra	• Hindi  •English	For the elegant pace with which he discovers spatial correlatives for the inherent musicality.	[5]
1995 (43rd)	B. Lenin	Kutravali	Tamil	For rhythmic pace in relation to the appropriate mood of both the films.	[6]
	V. T. Vijayan	Oodaha
1996 (44th)	A. Sreekar Prasad	Nauka Charitramu	English	For knitting together harmoniously into an unbroken visual flow in the film.	[7]
1997 (45th)	Ujjal Nandy	Jataner Jami	Bengali	For the seamless and rhythmic flow of visual images, juxtaposing hope and despair in a harmonious aesthetic.	[8]
1998 (46th)	Reena Mohan	In The Forest Hangs a Bridge	English	For weaving a narrative imbued with lyricism of life.	[9]
1999 (47th)	Ajit Kumar	Of Confucius, S-Spots and Toy guns	•English  •Hindi  •Marathi  •Tamil	For the creative and crisp juxtaposition of imagery which complements the theme of the film.	[10]
2000 (48th)	Sankalp Meshram	Lokpriya	Hindi	For skilfully juxtaposing three streams of visuals into one rhythmic meaningful narrative.	[11]
2001 (49th)	Ajith	Athman	Universal	For maintaining the pace and drama of the film without any spoken words.	[12]
2002 (50th)	Prathapan P.	00:00	English	For its intelligent and engaging use of cinematic form and structure as it weaves itself in and out of hotel rooms and people's lives on New Year's Eve at a sea-side hotel.	[13]
2003 (51st)	Beena Paul	Unni	Malayalam	For the way she supports the eerie pace of a story that swings from here to beyond.	[14]
2004 (52nd)	Prashant Naik	Harvest of Hunger	•English  • Oriya	For documenting with apathy of the drought stricken villagers, by fluent and flowing editing style, keeping the interest on the subject, very engaging.	[15]
2005 (53rd)	Vibuti Nathjha	Naina Jogin	•Hindi  • Maithili	For its skilful editing. It is difficult to make out where one sequence ends and the other begins!	[16]
2006 (54th)	Amitabh Chakraborty	Bishar Blues	Bengali	For creating a rhythm which is unhurried and profound and that is in tune with the life and world view of Fakirs in rural Bengal.	[17]
2006 (54th)	Amit Debnath
2007 (55th)	Saikat Ray	Hope Dies Last in War	•English  •Hindi	For its creative blending of various elements of the past and present, as also for its seamless flow of images that evoke genuine emotions.	[18]
2008 (56th)	Manoj Kannoth	Stations	•Hindi  •Marathi  •English	For a delicately interwoven edit of three sparsely connected contemporary urban tales of alienation. Developing a rhythm with parallel and simultaneous stories, the cutting sculpts an extremely powerful contemporary form.	[19]
2009 (57th)	Tarun Bhartiya	In Camera	English	For being able to seamlessly juxtapose past and present experiences in the form of images.	[20]
2010 (58th)	Tinni Mitra	Germ	Hindi	For the abstract visualisation and endearing black &white tones are very effectively punctuated with fine editing, and in the process it maintains a very subtle and flowing rhythm and pace to carry forward the cinematic work.	[21]
2011 (59th)	Iram Ghufran	There is Something in the Air	•Hindi  • Urdu  •English	For infusing the film with a magical rhythm that underscores its inherent poetry.	[22]
2012 (60th)	Irene Dhar Malik	Celluloid Man	•English  •Hindi  •Kannada  •Bengali	For the skilful interweaving of images from the past and present, juxtaposed seamlessly into a compelling, multi layered narrative.	[23]
2013 (61st)	Arjun Gaurisaria	Gulabi Gang	•Hindi  •Bundelkhandi	For imparting the film with its structure and rhythm, tempo and drama, movement and exposition.	[24]
2014 (62nd)	Andi Campbell Waite	Tigress Blood	English	For seamlessly structuring the inner worlds of four tigress sisters through an incisive cinematic arrangement of their outer spaces.	[25]
2015 (63rd)	Parvin Angre	Breaking Free	English	For an orchestrated cuts and curves to depict the hardship of the oppressed.	[26]
2015 (63rd)	Sridhar Rangayan
2016 (64th)	Jishnu Sen	Gudh		Seamlessly weaves the inner worlds of a young boy’s innocence with the harsh realities of the journey he is embarking on.	[27]
2017 (65th)	Sanjiv Monga	Mrityubhoj: The Death Feast		Well-paced editing of a sombre subject that keeps the audience engaged till the end.
2017 (65th)	Tenzin Kunchok
2018 (66th)	Hemanti Sarkar	Son Rise		For its faultless pace and seamless structure in drawing the viewer into the depth and gravity of the film’s focus, through varied space, location and time.

References

1. "38th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
2. "39th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
3. "40th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
4. "41st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
5. "42nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
6. "43rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
7. "44th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
8. "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
9. "46th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
10. "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
11. "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
12. "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
13. "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
14. "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
15. "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
16. "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
17. "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
18. "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
19. "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
20. "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
21. "58th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
22. "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced". Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
23. "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
24. "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.
25. "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
26. "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
27. "64th National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.

External links

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