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{{Short description|Indian film award}}
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{{Infobox film award
{{Infobox award
| name = National Film Award for Best Screenplay
| name = National Film Award for Best Screenplay
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| subheader = National award for contributions to [[Cinema of India|Indian Cinema]]
| subheader = National award for contributions to [[Cinema of India|Indian Cinema]]
| awarded_for = Best screenplay for a feature film for a year
| awarded_for = Best screenplay for a feature film for a year
| sponsor = [[Directorate of Film Festivals]]
| sponsor = [[National Film Development Corporation of India]]
| firstawarded = 1967 {{small|(Screenplay Writer (Original))}}<br/>2009 {{small|(Screenplay Writer (Adapted))}}<br/>2009 {{small|(Dialogue)}}
| firstawarded = 1967 (Original screenplay)<br/>2009 (Adapted screenplay and Dialogue)
| lastawarded = 2019
| reward = {{ubl|Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)|{{INR|2,00,000}}}}
| reward = {{ubl|Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)|{{INRConvert|50|k}}}}
| former name =  
| former name =  
| holder_label = Most recent winner
| holder_label = Most recent winner
| holder = {{ubl
| holder = [[Sai Rajesh]], Ramkumar Balakrishnan and Deepak Kingrani
|[[Kaushik Ganguly]]<br/>{{small|Screenplay Writer (Original)}}
|[[Srijit Mukherji]]<br/>{{small|Screenplay Writer (Adapted)}}
|[[Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri]]<br/>{{small|(Dialogue)}}
}}
| award1_type = Total awarded
| award1_winner = 66 {{small|(Screenplay Writer (Original))}}<br/>18 {{small|(Screenplay Writer (Adapted))}}<br/>12 {{small|(Dialogue)}}
| award2_type = First winner
| award2_winner = [[S. L. Puram Sadanandan]]
}}
}}


The ''' National Film Award for Best Screenplay''' is one of the categories in the [[National Film Awards]] presented annually by the [[Directorate of Film Festivals]], the organisation set up by [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information and Broadcasting]] in India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with ''Rajat Kamal'' (Silver Lotus). The award is announced for films produced in a year across the country, in all Indian languages. {{As of|2016}}, the award comprises a ''Rajat Kamal'', a certificate, and a cash prize of {{INR}} 50,000.<ref name="64thaward"/>
The ''' National Film Award for Best Screenplay''' is one of the categories in 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 ''Rajat Kamal'' (Silver Lotus). The award is announced for films produced in a year across the country, in all Indian languages. {{As of|2024}}, the award comprises a ''Rajat Kamal'', a certificate, and a cash prize of {{INR}}2,00,000.<ref>{{cite web |author=Under Secretary to the Government of India |date=14 December 2023 |title=Report on Rationalization of Awards Conferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting {{!}} Ministry of Information and Broadcasting {{!}} Government of India |url=https://mib.gov.in/filmsdocuments/report-rationalization-awards-conferred-ministry-information-broadcasting |access-date=25 August 2024 |publisher=[[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information and Broadcasting]]}}</ref>


The National Film Awards were established in 1954 to "encourage production of the films of a high aesthetic and technical standard and educational and culture value" and also planned to include awards for regional films.<ref name="1staward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm1stNFAAward.aspx|title=1st National Film Awards|publisher=International Film Festival of India|access-date=10 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517062641/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm1stNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=17 May 2017|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="1stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/1st_nff_1954.pdf|title=1st National Film Awards (PDF)|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=10 May 2017}}</ref> The awards were instituted as the "State Awards for Films" but were renamed to "National Film Awards" at the [[15th National Film Awards]] in 1967 and a new category of award for Best Screenplay was introduced, presented with a plaque and a cash prize.<ref name="15thawardPDF"/> At the [[57th National Film Awards]] in 2009, the [[Screenplay]] award was reclassified into three different awards: Screenplay Writer (Original), Screenplay Writer (Adapted), and [[Dialogue]]s.<ref name="57thawardPDF"/> Although the Indian film industry produces films in around twenty [[Languages of India|languages and dialects]],<ref name=NFA>{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/nfa.asp|title=About National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals]|access-date=13 May 2017}}</ref> as of 2016, the seventy-three unique writers who have been awarded, have worked in nine major languages: [[Bollywood|Hindi]] (twenty awards), [[Malayalam cinema|Malayalam]] (twelve awards), [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali]] (eleven awards), [[Marathi cinema|Marathi]] (seven awards), [[Tamil cinema|Tamil]] (six awards), [[Kannada cinema|Kannada]] (five awards), [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] (three awards), English (two awards), [[Sanskrit]] and [[Assamese cinema|Assamese]] (one award each).
The National Film Awards were established in 1954 to "encourage production of the films of a high aesthetic and technical standard and educational and culture value" and also planned to include awards for regional films.<ref name="1staward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm1stNFAAward.aspx|title=1st National Film Awards|publisher=International Film Festival of India|access-date=10 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517062641/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm1stNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=17 May 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="1stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/1st_nff_1954.pdf|title=1st National Film Awards (PDF)|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=10 May 2017}}</ref> The awards were instituted as the "State Awards for Films" but were renamed to "National Film Awards" at the [[15th National Film Awards]] in 1967 and a new category of award for Best Screenplay was introduced, presented with a plaque and a cash prize.<ref name="15thawardPDF"/> At the [[57th National Film Awards]] in 2009, the [[Screenplay]] award was reclassified into three different awards: Screenplay Writer (Original), Screenplay Writer (Adapted), and [[Dialogue]]s.<ref name="57thawardPDF"/> Although the Indian film industry produces films in around twenty [[Languages of India|languages and dialects]],<ref name=NFA>{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/nfa.asp|title=About National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals]|access-date=13 May 2017}}</ref> as of 2022 edition, the seventy-three unique writers who have been awarded, have worked in nine major languages: [[Bollywood|Hindi]] (twenty awards), [[Malayalam cinema|Malayalam]] (twelve awards), [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali]] (eleven awards), [[Tamil cinema|Tamil]] (nine awards), [[Marathi cinema|Marathi]] (seven awards), [[Kannada cinema|Kannada]] (five awards), [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] (three awards), English (two awards), [[Sanskrit]] and [[Assamese cinema|Assamese]] (one award each).


The inaugural award, in 1967, of this category was presented to [[S. L. Puram Sadanandan]] for the Malayalam film ''[[Agniputhri]]''.<ref name="15thawardPDF"/> No award was presented at the [[23rd National Film Awards]] (1975).<ref name="23rdawardPDF"/> {{As of|2016}}, Malayalam author and screenplay writer [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]] holds the record of winning maximum awards in category with four wins for the films: ''[[Oru Vadakkan Veeragadha]]'' (1989), ''[[Kadavu (film)|Kadavu]]'' (1991),<ref name="39thawardPDF"/> ''[[Sadayam]]'' (1992),<ref name="40thawardPDF"/> and ''[[Parinayam (1994 film)|Parinayam]]'' (1994).<ref name="42ndawardPDF"/> Bengali filmmaker [[Satyajit Ray]] was presented the award in 1993 posthumously for the film ''[[Uttoran]]'';<ref name="41stawardPDF"/> he had earlier received awards for ''[[Pratidwandi]]'' (1970) and ''[[Sonar Kella]]'' (1974).<ref name="18thawardPDF"/><ref name="22ndawardPDF"/> At the [[59th National Film Awards]] in 2011, [[Girish Kulkarni]] was awarded both the [[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] and Best Dialogue Awards for the [[Marathi cinema|Marathi film]] ''[[Deool]]''. The film was itself was adjudged the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]].<ref name="59thaward"/> In 2015 at the [[63rd National Film Awards|63rd ceremony]], the awards for both Original Screenplay and Dialogue were jointly presented to [[Juhi Chaturvedi]] and [[Himanshu Sharma]] for their films ''[[Piku]]'' and ''[[Tanu Weds Manu: Returns]]'', respectively.<ref name="63rdaward">{{cite press release|title=63rd National Film Awards|url=http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/Winners_of_63rd_NFA_2015.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|date=28 March 2016|access-date=28 March 2016}}</ref>
The inaugural award, in 1967, of this category was presented to [[S. L. Puram Sadanandan]] for the Malayalam film ''[[Agniputhri]]''.<ref name="15thawardPDF"/> No award was presented at the [[23rd National Film Awards]] (1975).<ref name="23rdawardPDF"/> {{As of|2016}}, Malayalam author and screenplay writer [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]] holds the record of winning maximum awards in category with four wins for the films: ''[[Oru Vadakkan Veeragadha]]'' (1989), ''[[Kadavu (film)|Kadavu]]'' (1991),<ref name="39thawardPDF"/> ''[[Sadayam]]'' (1992),<ref name="40thawardPDF"/> and ''[[Parinayam (1994 film)|Parinayam]]'' (1994).<ref name="42ndawardPDF"/> Bengali filmmaker [[Satyajit Ray]] was presented the award in 1993 posthumously for the film ''[[Uttoran]]'';<ref name="41stawardPDF"/> he had earlier received awards for ''[[Pratidwandi]]'' (1970) and ''[[Sonar Kella]]'' (1974).<ref name="18thawardPDF"/><ref name="22ndawardPDF"/> At the [[59th National Film Awards]] in 2011, [[Girish Kulkarni]] was awarded both the [[National Film Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] and Best Dialogue Awards for the [[Marathi cinema|Marathi film]] ''[[Deool]]''. The film was itself was adjudged the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]].<ref name="59thaward"/> In 2015 at the [[63rd National Film Awards|63rd ceremony]], the awards for both Original Screenplay and Dialogue were jointly presented to [[Juhi Chaturvedi]] and [[Himanshu Sharma]] for their films ''[[Piku]]'' and ''[[Tanu Weds Manu: Returns]]'', respectively.<ref name="63rdaward">{{cite press release|title=63rd National Film Awards|url=http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/Winners_of_63rd_NFA_2015.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|date=28 March 2016|access-date=28 March 2016}}</ref>


{{As of|2021}}, sixty-six awards have been presented for Original Screenplay writing, eighteen for Adapted Screenplay writing, and twelve for dialogue. The most recent recipients of the awards are [[Kaushik Ganguly]] (Screenplay Writer (Original) for Bengali film ''[[Jyeshthoputro]]''), Srijit  Mukherji (Screenplay Writer (Adapted) for Bengali film ''[[Gumnaami]]'') , and [[Vivek Agnihotri]] (Dialogue for Hindi film ''[[The Tashkent Files]]''), who were honoured at the [[67th National Film Awards]].
{{As of|2022}}, sixty-nine awards have been presented for Original Screenplay writing, eighteen for Adapted Screenplay writing, and fourteen for dialogue.


== Award ==
== Award ==
The first recipient of the award, [[S. L. Puram Sadanandan]], was presented with a plaque and {{INR}} 5000 cash prize.<ref name="15thawardPDF"/> The award was revised in 1973 at the [[21st National Film Awards|21st ceremony]] to include {{INR}} 10,000 cash, a silver medal and a certificate. It was shared by [[Mrinal Sen]] and Ashish Burman for their Bengali film ''[[Padatik (film)|Padatik]]''.<ref name="21stawardPDF"/> At the [[54th National Film Awards|54th awarding ceremony]] in 2006, the next revision of the award was declared to include cash remuneration of {{INR}} 50,000 which was presented to [[Abhijat Joshi]], [[Rajkumar Hirani]] and [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]] for their Hindi film ''[[Lage Raho Munna Bhai]]'' in which [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s philosophy of non-violence was depicted.<ref name="54thawardPDF"/>
The first recipient of the award, [[S. L. Puram Sadanandan]], was presented with a plaque and {{INR}} 5000 cash prize.<ref name="15thawardPDF"/> The award was revised in 1973 at the [[21st National Film Awards|21st ceremony]] to include {{INR}} 10,000 cash, a silver medal and a certificate. It was shared by [[Mrinal Sen]] and Ashish Burman for their Bengali film ''[[Padatik (1973 film)|Padatik]]''.<ref name="21stawardPDF"/> At the [[54th National Film Awards|54th awarding ceremony]] in 2006, the next revision of the award was declared to include cash remuneration of {{INR}}50,000 which was presented to [[Abhijat Joshi]], [[Rajkumar Hirani]] and [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]] for their Hindi film ''[[Lage Raho Munna Bhai]]'' in which [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s philosophy of non-violence was depicted.<ref name="54thawardPDF"/> At the [[70th National Film Awards]] (2022), the cash prize was revised to {{INR}}2,00,000.<ref>{{cite web |author=Under Secretary to the Government of India |date=14 December 2023 |title=Report on Rationalization of Awards Conferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting {{!}} Ministry of Information and Broadcasting {{!}} Government of India |url=https://mib.gov.in/filmsdocuments/report-rationalization-awards-conferred-ministry-information-broadcasting |access-date=25 August 2024 |publisher=[[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information and Broadcasting]]}}</ref>


For thirteen times, multiple writers were awarded for their work in a single film; [[Mrinal Sen]] and Ashish Burman for ''[[Padatik (film)|Padatik]]'' (1973), [[Satyadev Dubey]], [[Shyam Benegal]], and [[Girish Karnad]] for ''[[Bhumika]]'' (1977), T. S. Ranga and [[T. S. Nagabharana]] for ''[[Grahana]]'' (1978), [[Ashok Mishra]] and [[Saeed Akhtar Mirza]] for ''[[Naseem (film)|Naseem]]'' (1995), [[Manoj Tyagi]] and Nina Arora for ''[[Page 3 (film)|Page 3]]'' (2004), [[Prakash Jha]], Shridhar Raghavan, and [[Manoj Tyagi]] for ''[[Apaharan]]'' (2005), [[Abhijat Joshi]], [[Rajkumar Hirani]], and [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]] for ''[[Lage Raho Munna Bhai]]'' (2006), [[Gopalakrishna Pai|Gopal Krishan Pai]] and [[Girish Kasaravalli]] for ''[[Kanasemba Kudureyaneri]]'' (2009), [[P. F. Mathews]] and Harikrishna for ''[[Kutty Srank]]'' (2009), [[Anant Mahadevan]] and Sanjay Pawar for ''[[Mee Sindhutai Sapkal]]'' (2010), [[Vikas Bahl]], [[Nitesh Tiwari]], and [[Vijay Maurya]] for ''[[Chillar Party]]'' (2011), Bhavesh Mandalia and [[Umesh Shukla]] for ''[[OMG – Oh My God!]]'' (2012), [[Sriram Raghavan]], Arijit Biswas, Yogesh Chandekar, [[Hemanth Rao]], Pooja Ladha Surti for ''[[Andhadhun]]'' (2018).
For fourteen times, multiple writers were awarded for their work in a single film; [[Mrinal Sen]] and Ashish Burman for ''[[Padatik (1973 film)|Padatik]]'' (1973), [[Satyadev Dubey]], [[Shyam Benegal]], and [[Girish Karnad]] for ''[[Bhumika]]'' (1977), T. S. Ranga and [[T. S. Nagabharana]] for ''[[Grahana (film)|Grahana]]'' (1978), [[Ashok Mishra]] and [[Saeed Akhtar Mirza]] for ''[[Naseem (film)|Naseem]]'' (1995), [[Manoj Tyagi]] and Nina Arora for ''[[Page 3 (film)|Page 3]]'' (2004), [[Prakash Jha]], Shridhar Raghavan, and [[Manoj Tyagi]] for ''[[Apaharan]]'' (2005), [[Abhijat Joshi]], [[Rajkumar Hirani]], and [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]] for ''[[Lage Raho Munna Bhai]]'' (2006), [[Gopalakrishna Pai|Gopal Krishan Pai]] and [[Girish Kasaravalli]] for ''[[Kanasemba Kudureyaneri]]'' (2009), [[P. F. Mathews]] and Harikrishna for ''[[Kutty Srank]]'' (2009), [[Anant Mahadevan]] and Sanjay Pawar for ''[[Mee Sindhutai Sapkal]]'' (2010), [[Vikas Bahl]], [[Nitesh Tiwari]], and [[Vijay Maurya]] for ''[[Chillar Party]]'' (2011), Bhavesh Mandalia and [[Umesh Shukla]] for ''[[OMG – Oh My God!]]'' (2012), [[Sriram Raghavan]], Arijit Biswas, Yogesh Chandekar, [[Hemanth Rao]], Pooja Ladha Surti for ''[[Andhadhun]]'' (2018), [[Sudha Kongara]] and Shalini Ushadevi for ''[[Soorarai Pottru]]'' (2020).{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}


Shyamoli Banerjee Deb, one of the jury members at the [[53rd National Film Awards]], filed a petition objecting to the selections in five awards categories; the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi|Best Feature Film in Hindi]], the [[Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director|Best First Film of a Director]], the [[National Film Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]], the Best Screenplay, and the [[National Film Award for Best Special Effects|Best Special Effects]]. Deb challenged the decision to confer the award to [[Prakash Jha]], Shridhar Raghavan, and [[Manoj Tyagi]] for the Hindi film ''[[Apaharan]]'' and claimed that the film was not in the primary selection list. The [[Delhi High Court]] put a [[Stay of execution|stay]] on the announcement and requested a reply from the [[Directorate of Film Festivals]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=86222|title=Delhi HC stays National Films Awards|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=9 May 2007|access-date=13 May 2017}}</ref> Fourteen months later, Justice B. D. Ahmed removed the stay and the award was announced for ''Apaharan''.<ref name="53rdawardPDF"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/National-awards-Big-B-Sarika-win-top-honours/articleshow/2263775.cms|title=National awards: Big B, Sarika win top honours|newspaper=The Times of India|location=New Delhi|date=8 August 2007|access-date=13 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/hc-nod-for-presentation-of-national-film-awa/207928/|title=HC nod for presentation of National Film Awards|newspaper=The Indian Express|location=New Delhi|date=1 August 2007|access-date=13 May 2017}}</ref>
Shyamoli Banerjee Deb, one of the jury members at the [[53rd National Film Awards]], filed a petition objecting to the selections in five awards categories; the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi|Best Feature Film in Hindi]], the [[Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director|Best First Film of a Director]], the [[National Film Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]], the Best Screenplay, and the [[National Film Award for Best Special Effects|Best Special Effects]]. Deb challenged the decision to confer the award to [[Prakash Jha]], Shridhar Raghavan, and [[Manoj Tyagi]] for the Hindi film ''[[Apaharan]]'' and claimed that the film was not in the primary selection list. The [[Delhi High Court]] put a [[Stay of execution|stay]] on the announcement and requested a reply from the [[Directorate of Film Festivals]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=86222|title=Delhi HC stays National Films Awards|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=9 May 2007|access-date=13 May 2017}}</ref> Fourteen months later, Justice B. D. Ahmed removed the stay and the award was announced for ''Apaharan''.<ref name="53rdawardPDF"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/National-awards-Big-B-Sarika-win-top-honours/articleshow/2263775.cms|title=National awards: Big B, Sarika win top honours|newspaper=The Times of India|location=New Delhi|date=8 August 2007|access-date=13 May 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/hc-nod-for-presentation-of-national-film-awa/207928/|title=HC nod for presentation of National Film Awards|newspaper=The Indian Express|location=New Delhi|date=1 August 2007|access-date=13 May 2017}}</ref>
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! scope="col" style="background-color:#EFE4B0;width:10%;"| Language(s)
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| ''[[Agniputhri]]''
| ''[[Agniputhri]]''
| [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]
| [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]
| {{dash}}
| align="center" |<ref name="15thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/15th_nff_1967.pdf|title=15th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=21 September 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="15thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/15th_nff_1967.pdf|title=15th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=21 September 2011}}</ref>
|-
|-
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| ''[[Anokhi Raat]]''
| ''[[Anokhi Raat]]''
| [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| [[Hindi language|Hindi]]
| {{dash}}
| align="center" |<ref name="16thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/16th_nff_1970.pdf|title=16th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=22 September 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="16thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/16th_nff_1970.pdf|title=16th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=22 September 2011}}</ref>
|-
|-
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| ''[[Gejje Pooje]]''
| ''[[Gejje Pooje]]''
| [[Kannada language|Kannada]]
| [[Kannada language|Kannada]]
| {{dash}}
| align="center" |<ref name="17thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/17th_NFF_1971.pdf|title=17th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=26 September 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="17thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/17th_NFF_1971.pdf|title=17th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=26 September 2011}}</ref>
|-
|-
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! scope="row" | [[Satyajit Ray]]
! scope="row" | [[Satyajit Ray]]
| ''[[Pratidwandi]]''
| ''[[Pratidwandi]]''
| [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| {{dash}}
| align="center" |<ref name="18thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/17th_NFF_1971.pdf|title=18th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=26 September 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="18thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/17th_NFF_1971.pdf|title=18th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=26 September 2011}}</ref>
|-
|-
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! scope="row" | [[Tapan Sinha]]
! scope="row" | [[Tapan Sinha]]
| ''[[Ekhoni|Ekhonee]]''
| ''[[Ekhoni|Ekhonee]]''
| Bengali
| {{dash}}
| align="center" |<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindilyrics.net/awards/national-film-awards-1972.html|title=19th National Film Awards 1972|access-date=12 July 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindilyrics.net/awards/national-film-awards-1972.html|title=19th National Film Awards 1972|access-date=12 July 2012}}</ref>
|-
|-
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| ''[[Koshish]]''
| ''[[Koshish]]''
| Hindi
| Hindi
| {{dash}}
| align="center" |<ref name="20thaward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm20thNFAAward.aspx|title=20th National Film Awards|publisher=International Film Festival of India|access-date=26 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105220349/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm20thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=5 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="20thaward">{{cite web|url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm20thNFAAward.aspx|title=20th National Film Awards|publisher=International Film Festival of India|access-date=26 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105220349/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm20thNFAAward.aspx|archive-date=5 November 2013|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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|-
| align="center" rowspan="2" | [[21st National Film Awards|1973<br>{{small|(21st)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="2" | [[21st National Film Awards|1973<br>{{small|(21st)}}]]
! scope="row" | [[Mrinal Sen]]
! scope="row" | [[Mrinal Sen]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Padatik (film)|Padatik]]''
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Padatik (1973 film)|Padatik]]''
| rowspan="2" | Bengali
| rowspan="3" | Bengali
| rowspan="2" | {{dash}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"|<ref name="21stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/21st_nff_1973.pdf|title=21st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=29 September 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="2"|<ref name="21stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/21st_nff_1973.pdf|title=21st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=29 September 2011}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[Satyajit Ray]]
! scope="row" | [[Satyajit Ray]]
| ''[[Sonar Kella]]''
| ''[[Sonar Kella]]''
| Bengali
| {{dash}}
| align="center" |<ref name="22ndawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/22nd_nff_1974.pdf|title=22nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=1 October 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="22ndawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/22nd_nff_1974.pdf|title=22nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=1 October 2011}}</ref>
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| align="center"| [[23rd National Film Awards|1975<br/>{{small|(23rd)}}]]
| align="center"| [[23rd National Film Awards|1975<br/>{{small|(23rd)}}]]
| bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" colspan="4" | No Award
| colspan="3" bgcolor="#F5A9A9" align="center" | No Award
| align="center" |<ref name="23rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/23rd_nff_1975.pdf|title=23rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="23rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/23rd_nff_1975.pdf|title=23rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[Vijay Tendulkar]]
! scope="row" | [[Vijay Tendulkar]]
| ''[[Manthan]]''
| ''[[Manthan]]''
| Hindi
| rowspan="4" | Hindi
| {{dash}}
| align="center" |<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-05-19/pune/27764342_1_marathi-playwright-vijay-tendulkar-noted-marathi-priya-tendulkar|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103144050/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-05-19/pune/27764342_1_marathi-playwright-vijay-tendulkar-noted-marathi-priya-tendulkar|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2013|title=Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar passes away|date=19 May 2008|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=12 July 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-05-19/pune/27764342_1_marathi-playwright-vijay-tendulkar-noted-marathi-priya-tendulkar|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103144050/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-05-19/pune/27764342_1_marathi-playwright-vijay-tendulkar-noted-marathi-priya-tendulkar|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2013|title=Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar passes away|date=19 May 2008|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=12 July 2012}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[Satyadev Dubey]]
! scope="row" | [[Satyadev Dubey]]
| rowspan="3" | ''[[Bhumika: The Role|Bhumika]]''
| rowspan="3" | ''[[Bhumika: The Role|Bhumika]]''
| rowspan="3" | Hindi
| rowspan="3" | {{hidden||''For powerfully recreating the biography of an actress, for its rare, psychological insights and understanding of human relationships, for the complex integration of theme, style and dramatic situation into an engrossing whole, which provokes the spectator into a new awareness of the predicament of the working woman in Indian society.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="25thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/25th_nff_1977.pdf|title=25th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="25thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/25th_nff_1977.pdf|title=25th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
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| align="center" rowspan="2" | [[26th National Film Awards|1978<br>{{small|(26th)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="2" | [[26th National Film Awards|1978<br>{{small|(26th)}}]]
! scope="row" | T. S. Ranga
! scope="row" | T. S. Ranga
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Grahana]]''
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Grahana (film)|Grahana]]''
| rowspan="2" | Kannada
| rowspan="2" | Kannada
| rowspan="2" | {{hidden||''For Maintaining taunt narrative line without resorting to melodrama and retaining a film grip on the central idea in an action packed film.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"|<ref name="26hawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/26th_NFa.pdf|title=26th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="2"|<ref name="26hawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/26th_NFa.pdf|title=26th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
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| ''[[Sparsh (film)|Sparsh]]''
| ''[[Sparsh (film)|Sparsh]]''
| Hindi
| Hindi
| {{dash}}
| align="center" |<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindilyrics.net/awards/national-film-awards-1980.html|title=27th National Film Awards|access-date=10 July 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindilyrics.net/awards/national-film-awards-1980.html|title=27th National Film Awards|access-date=10 July 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Akaler Sandhane]]''
| ''[[Akaler Sandhane]]''
| Bengali
| Bengali
| {{hidden||''For effectively combining the terse and pithy dialogue with creation of well-defined, lively characters to convey a poignant story which leaves a lasting impression.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="28thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/28th_nff_1981.pdf|title=28th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="28thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/28th_nff_1981.pdf|title=28th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
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| ''[[Thanneer Thanneer]]''
| ''[[Thanneer Thanneer]]''
| Tamil
| Tamil
| {{hidden||''For translating the suffering of the people in drought-affected areas into a gripping visual narrative.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="29thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/29th_nff_1982.pdf|title=29th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="29thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/29th_nff_1982.pdf|title=29th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
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| ''[[Kharij]]''
| ''[[Kharij]]''
| Bengali
| Bengali
| {{hidden||''For its economy of expression in the treatment of a sensitive theme.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="30thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/30th_nff_1983.pdf|title=30th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="30thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/30th_nff_1983.pdf|title=30th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=4 October 2011}}</ref>
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| ''[[Adi Shankaracharya (film)|Adi Shankaracharya]]''
| ''[[Adi Shankaracharya (film)|Adi Shankaracharya]]''
| [[Sanskrit]]
| [[Sanskrit]]
| {{hidden||''For its rich texture, lyricism and cinematic elegance in its presentation of Shankaracharya as an embodiment of greatness.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="31stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/31st_nff_1984.pdf|title=31st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 December 2011}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="31stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/31st_nff_1984.pdf|title=31st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 December 2011}}</ref>
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| ''[[Mukhamukham]]''
| ''[[Mukhamukham]]''
| Malayalam
| Malayalam
| {{dash}}
| align="center" |<ref name="32ndawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/32nd_nff_1985.pdf|title=32nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=6 January 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="32ndawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/32nd_nff_1985.pdf|title=32nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=6 January 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Agnisnaan]]''
| ''[[Agnisnaan]]''
| [[Assamese language|Assamese]]
| [[Assamese language|Assamese]]
| {{hidden||''For the powerful rendering of the saga of a woman who goes through the revolution against the prevailing social mores and comes to terms with herself.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="33rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/33nfa.pdf|title=33rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=7 January 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="33rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/33nfa.pdf|title=33rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=7 January 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Phera]]''
| ''[[Phera]]''
| Bengali
| Bengali
| {{hidden||''For its penetrative and sensitive screenplay depicting the trauma faced by an artist in search of his identity in relation to his professional and personal life.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="34thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/34th_NFF.pdf|title=34th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=7 January 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="34thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/34th_NFF.pdf|title=34th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=7 January 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Anantaram]]''
| ''[[Anantaram]]''
| Malayalam
| Malayalam
| {{hidden||''For the precision in structuring a very complex narrative content requiring both exceptional dramatic and literary skills.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="35thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/35th_nff_1988.pdf|title=35th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="35thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/35th_nff_1988.pdf|title=35th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones]]''
| ''[[In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones]]''
| English
| English
| {{hidden||''For capturing the anguish prevailing among students of professional institutions.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="36thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/36nfa.pdf|title=36th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="36thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/36nfa.pdf|title=36th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha]]''
| ''[[Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha]]''
| Malayalam
| Malayalam
| {{hidden||''For the gripping plot, clearly etched characterisations and the brilliant portrayal of life in Kerala a few hundred years ago.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="37thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/37nfa.pdf|title=37th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=29 January 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="37thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/37nfa.pdf|title=37th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=29 January 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Marupakkam]]''
| ''[[Marupakkam]]''
| Tamil
| Tamil
| {{hidden||''For depicting a simplistic story, capturing the various levels of philosophy, psychology, tradition and relationships perfectly.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="38thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/38th_nff_1991.pdf|title=38th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="38thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/38th_nff_1991.pdf|title=38th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]]
! scope="row" | [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]]
| ''[[Kadavu (film)|Kadavu]]''
| ''[[Kadavu (film)|Kadavu]]''
| Malayalam
| rowspan="2" | Malayalam
| {{hidden||''For its sensitive and poetic treatment of disillusionment of an underprivileged adolescent.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="39thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/39nd_nff_1985.pdf|title=39th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=27 February 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="39thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/39nd_nff_1985.pdf|title=39th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=27 February 2012}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]]
! scope="row" | [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]]
| ''[[Sadayam]]''
| ''[[Sadayam]]''
| Malayalam
| {{hidden||''For an extremely well structured script.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="40thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/40th_nff_1993.pdf|title=40th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=2 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="40thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/40th_nff_1993.pdf|title=40th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=2 March 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Uttoran]]''
| ''[[Uttoran]]''
| Bengali
| Bengali
| {{hidden||''For designing and structuring a screenplay from an imaginative and aesthetic angle, with a superb control over the unity of impressions.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="41stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/41st_nff_1994.pdf|title=41st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=3 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="41stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/41st_nff_1994.pdf|title=41st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=3 March 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Parinayam (1994 film)|Parinayam]]''
| ''[[Parinayam (1994 film)|Parinayam]]''
| Malayalam
| Malayalam
| {{hidden||''For his masterly use of fiction in cinema, reconstructing pre-1940s Kerala through sharply defined characters and remarkable control over dialogue.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="42ndawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/42nd_nff_1995.pdf|title=42nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=5 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="42ndawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/42nd_nff_1995.pdf|title=42nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=5 March 2012}}</ref>
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[Naseem (film)|Naseem]]''
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Naseem (film)|Naseem]]''
| rowspan="2" | Hindi
| rowspan="2" | Hindi
| rowspan="2" | {{hidden||''For their masterly and sensitive visual narration of a volatile and confused situation of the year 1992 in India with great depth and simplicity of words.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"|<ref name="43rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/43rd_nff_1996.pdf|title=43rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=6 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="2"|<ref name="43rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/43rd_nff_1996.pdf|title=43rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=6 March 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Kadhal Kottai]]''
| ''[[Kadhal Kottai]]''
| Tamil
| Tamil
| {{hidden||''For tightly knit and smooth flowing plot with excellent dialogues and razor-sharp tuning.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="44thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/44th_nff_1997.pdf|title=44th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="44thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/44th_nff_1997.pdf|title=44th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Dahan (1997 film)|Dahan]]''
| ''[[Dahan (1997 film)|Dahan]]''
| Bengali
| Bengali
| {{hidden||''For tactfully crafting a sensitive theme that dwells upon an incident which raises issues of social responsibility and personal awareness.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="45thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/45th_NFA.pdf|title=45th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=11 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="45thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/45th_NFA.pdf|title=45th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=11 March 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Samar (1999 film)|Samar]]''
| ''[[Samar (1999 film)|Samar]]''
| Hindi
| Hindi
| {{hidden||''For Hindi film Samar where he has used a unique structure to ekplore the complek contradictions of urban/rural, rich/poor, pcwerful/dcwntrodden in a simple story line laced with poignant Moments of humour and irony for a perceptive insight into contemporary indian life.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="46thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/46_nff_1999.pdf|title=46th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="46thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/46_nff_1999.pdf|title=46th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Karunam]]''
| ''[[Karunam]]''
| Malayalam
| Malayalam
| {{hidden||''For expressing with extreme economy and skilful cinematic treatment a story based on a sensitive screenplay woven around an old couple.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="47thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/47th_nff_2000.pdf|title=47th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=13 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="47thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/47th_nff_2000.pdf|title=47th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=13 March 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Kadal Pookkal]]''
| ''[[Kadal Pookkal]]''
| Tamil
| Tamil
| {{hidden||''For focusing, in present times of degeneration, on love, sacrifice and family values.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="48thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/48th_nff_2001.pdf|title=48th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=13 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="48thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/48th_nff_2001.pdf|title=48th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=13 March 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Show (film)|Show]]''
| ''[[Show (film)|Show]]''
| Telugu
| Telugu
| {{hidden||''For the film, which seems to probes a real&nbsp;– unreal dramatic situation involving two characters full of emotion and conflicts, with a rare touch of artistic sensitivity.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="49thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/49th_nff_2002.pdf|title=49th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=14 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="49thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/49th_nff_2002.pdf|title=49th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=14 March 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Iyer]]''
| ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Iyer]]''
| English
| English
| {{hidden||''For its fluid narration of the nuances of an ambiguous relationship in troubled times.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="50thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/50nfa.pdf|title=50th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=14 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="50thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/50nfa.pdf|title=50th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=14 March 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Abar Aranye]]''
| ''[[Abar Aranye]]''
| Bengali
| Bengali
| {{hidden||''For weaving together the strands of time creating a resonant dialogue between the past and the present.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="51stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/51st_nff_2004.pdf|title=51st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="51stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/51st_nff_2004.pdf|title=51st National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=15 March 2012}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[Manoj Tyagi]]
! scope="row" | [[Manoj Tyagi]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Page 3 (film)|Page 3]]''
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Page 3 (film)|Page 3]]''
| rowspan="2" | Hindi
| rowspan="9" | Hindi
| rowspan="2" | {{hidden||''For telling a complex story in a stunningly simple manner. It takes you into the empty shallow world of [[Page 3]], in a manner which is funny yet deeply empathetic.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"|<ref name="52ndawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/52nd_nff_2005.pdf|title=52nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=28 January 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="2"|<ref name="52ndawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/52nd_nff_2005.pdf|title=52nd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=28 January 2012}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[Prakash Jha]]
! scope="row" | [[Prakash Jha]]
| rowspan="3" | ''[[Apaharan]]''
| rowspan="3" | ''[[Apaharan]]''
| rowspan="3" | Hindi
| rowspan="3" | {{hidden||''For creating a crisp screenplay that is riveting and renders pace to the entire film.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="3" | <ref name="53rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/53rd_nff_2006.pdf|title=53rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=19 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="3" | <ref name="53rdawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/53rd_nff_2006.pdf|title=53rd National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=19 March 2012}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[Abhijat Joshi]]
! scope="row" | [[Abhijat Joshi]]
| rowspan="3" | ''[[Lage Raho Munnabhai]]''
| rowspan="3" | ''[[Lage Raho Munnabhai]]''
| rowspan="3" | Hindi
| rowspan="3" | {{hidden||''For the original vision with which Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence is given life in popular parlance.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="54thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/54th_nff_2006.pdf|title=54th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=24 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="54thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/54th_nff_2006.pdf|title=54th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=24 March 2012}}</ref>
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! scope="row" | [[Feroz Abbas Khan]]
! scope="row" | [[Feroz Abbas Khan]]
| ''[[Gandhi, My Father]]''
| ''[[Gandhi, My Father]]''
| Hindi
| {{hidden||''For the imaginative and emotional handling of uncompromisingly steadfast side of the Father of the Nation with special reference to his relationship with his troublesome son.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="55thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/55th_nff_2007.pdf|title=55th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=26 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="55thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/55th_nff_2007.pdf|title=55th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=26 March 2012}}</ref>
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| ''[[Gandha (film)|Gandha]]''
| ''[[Gandha (film)|Gandha]]''
| [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
| [[Marathi language|Marathi]]
| {{hidden||''For its remarkable integration of three different plots using the sense of smell at as a liet motif to focus sensitively on human relationships.''}}
| align="center" |<ref name="56thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/56th_nff_2008.pdf|title=56th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=27 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" |<ref name="56thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/56th_nff_2008.pdf|title=56th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=27 March 2012}}</ref>
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| rowspan="2" | ''[[Kutty Srank]]''
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Kutty Srank]]''
| rowspan="2" | Malayalam
| rowspan="2" | Malayalam
| rowspan="2" | {{hidden||''For the mysterious narrative that weaves together multiple perspectives to create a coherent whole, and yet leaves a haunting ambiguity.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="5"|<ref name="57thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/57thNFA.pdf|title=57th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=28 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="5"|<ref name="57thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/57thNFA.pdf|title=57th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=28 March 2012}}</ref>
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA"| Harikrishna
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA"| Harikrishna
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0"| [[Gopalakrishna Pai|Gopal Krishan Pai]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0"| [[Gopalakrishna Pai]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Kanasemba Kudureyaneri]]''
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Kanasemba Kudureyaneri]]''
| rowspan="2" | Kannada
| rowspan="2" | Kannada
| rowspan="2" | {{hidden||''For linking the theme of death and its inevitability through a narrative style that presents two versions of the same event, not necessarily in chronological order.''}}
|-
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0"| [[Girish Kasaravalli]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0"| [[Girish Kasaravalli]]
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Pandiraj]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Pandiraj]]
| ''[[Pasanga]]''
| ''[[Pasanga]]''
| Tamil
| rowspan="2" | Tamil
| {{hidden||''For the conversational quality with its cutting edge wit and life like freshness.''}}
|-
|-
| align="center" rowspan="4" | [[58th National Film Awards|2010<br/>{{small|(58th)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="4" | [[58th National Film Awards|2010<br/>{{small|(58th)}}]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Vetrimaaran]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Vetrimaaran]]
| ''[[Aadukalam]]''
| ''[[Aadukalam]]''
| Tamil
| {{hidden||''For its kaleidoscopic variety that uses realism, tradition and contemporaneity, soaked in local flavour on an infinite canvas.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="4" |<ref name="58thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/58_NFA.pdf|title=58th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=29 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="4" |<ref name="58thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/58_NFA.pdf|title=58th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=29 March 2012}}</ref>
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Anant Mahadevan]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Anant Mahadevan]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Mee Sindhutai Sapkal]]''
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Mee Sindhutai Sapkal]]''
| rowspan="2" | Marathi
| rowspan="3" | Marathi
| rowspan="2" | {{hidden||''For retaining the concerns and values of a biographical account while translating it into the cinematic medium and honouring the essence of the original.''}}
|-
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | Sanjay Pawar
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | Sanjay Pawar
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | Sanjay Pawar
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | Sanjay Pawar
| ''[[Mee Sindhutai Sapkal]]''
| ''[[Mee Sindhutai Sapkal]]''
| Marathi
| {{hidden||''For bringing to life the textures of various characters through articulating their emotion and thought process.''}}
|-
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5" | [[59th National Film Awards|2011<br/>{{small|(59th)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="5" | [[59th National Film Awards|2011<br/>{{small|(59th)}}]]
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| rowspan="3" | ''[[Chillar Party]]''
| rowspan="3" | ''[[Chillar Party]]''
| rowspan="3" | Hindi
| rowspan="3" | Hindi
| rowspan="3" | {{hidden||''For a charming and utterly professional construct of an engaging middle class urban narrative that neatly delivers the values of compassion, friendship, loyalty, commitment and imagination in the world of children. They use familiar spaces, characters and situations to create an entertaining and surprising fabric of a caring society that still believes in what is good and right.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="5" |<ref name="59thaward">{{cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page.asp?relid=80734|title=59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|access-date=7 March 2012}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="5" |<ref name="59thaward">{{cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page.asp?relid=80734|title=59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|access-date=7 March 2012}}</ref>
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | Avinash Deshpande Nigdi
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | Avinash Deshpande Nigdi
| ''[[Shala (film)|Shala]]''
| ''[[Shala (film)|Shala]]''
| Marathi
| rowspan="2" | Marathi
| {{hidden||''For the cinematic adaptation of a literary work that encompasses several issues and characters is always a challenging task. He skilfully transforms the descriptive power of the literary text into a cinematic narrative of layered and tender moments. Despite a range of characters and subplots, the screenplay engagingly links the lives of its teenage protagonists to the repressive context of the National Emergency.''}}
|-
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Girish Kulkarni]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Girish Kulkarni]]
| ''[[Deool]]''
| ''[[Deool]]''
| Marathi
| {{hidden||''For its immensely varied and textured use of language that is both an authentic and an energetic reflection of the different sections of life shown in the film: the language of the village, of politicians, of the scholar and much else. His dialogues&nbsp;– robustly rustic yet influenced by urban vocabulary&nbsp;– is characteristic of the Indian scene today.''}}
|-
|-
| align="center" rowspan="4" | [[60th National Film Awards|2012<br/>{{small|(60th)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="4" | [[60th National Film Awards|2012<br/>{{small|(60th)}}]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Sujoy Ghosh]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Sujoy Ghosh]]
| ''[[Kahaani]]''
| ''[[Kahaani]]''
| Hindi
| rowspan="3" | Hindi
| {{hidden||''A well structured screenplay that formed the heart of an edge of the seat suspense film.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="4" |<ref name="60thaward">{{cite press release|title=60th National Film Awards Announced|url=http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2013/mar/d2013031801.pdf|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|access-date=18 March 2013}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="4" |<ref name="60thaward">{{cite press release|title=60th National Film Awards Announced|url=http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2013/mar/d2013031801.pdf|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|access-date=18 March 2013}}</ref>
|-
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0"| Bhavesh Mandalia
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0"| Bhavesh Mandalia
| rowspan="2" | ''[[OMG - Oh My God!]]''
| rowspan="2" | ''[[OMG - Oh My God!]]''
| rowspan="2" | Hindi
| rowspan="2" | {{hidden||''A carefully crafted screenplay dealing with a social satire with shades of oriental philosophy.''}}
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Umesh Shukla]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Umesh Shukla]]
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| ''[[Ustad Hotel]]''
| ''[[Ustad Hotel]]''
| Malayalam
| Malayalam
| {{hidden||''Easy flowing, yet down to earth dialogues complement the well mounted entertainer with a social message.''}}
|-
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3" | [[61st National Film Awards|2013<br>{{small|(61st)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="3" | [[61st National Film Awards|2013<br>{{small|(61st)}}]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[P. Sheshadri]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[P. Sheshadri]]
| ''[[December-1]]''
| ''[[December-1]]''
| Kannada
| rowspan="2" | Kannada
| {{hidden||''For its kaleidoscopic variety that uses realism and colloquialism that is soaked in a contemporary flavour.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="61staward">{{cite web|title=61st National Film Awards|url=http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|date=16 April 2014|access-date=16 April 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181218/http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf|archive-date=16 April 2014}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="61staward">{{cite web|title=61st National Film Awards|url=http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|date=16 April 2014|access-date=16 April 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181218/http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf|archive-date=16 April 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | Panchakshari
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | Panchakshari
| ''Prakruti''
| ''Prakruti''
| Kannada
| {{hidden||''For retaining the concerns and values of an original work by a celebrated author while adapting it into the cinematic idiom.''}}
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar|Sumitra Bhave]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar|Sumitra Bhave]]
| ''[[Astu]]''
| ''[[Astu]]''
| Marathi
| Marathi
| {{hidden||''For an extraordinary blend in language and conversations that cover philosophy day-to-day anxieties and emotions in a most compelling manner.''}}
|-
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3" | [[62nd National Film Awards|2014<br>{{small|(62nd)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="3" | [[62nd National Film Awards|2014<br>{{small|(62nd)}}]]
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| ''[[Chotushkone]]''
| ''[[Chotushkone]]''
| Bengali
| Bengali
| {{hidden||''Chotushkone for the masterful telling of a taut suspense thriller which weaves a sinister web around the journey and lives of four egotistical characters.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="62ndaward">{{cite press release|title=62nd National Film Awards|url=http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/62nd%20National%20Film%20Awards%202014%20-%20Press%20Release.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|date=24 March 2015|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="62ndaward">{{cite press release|title=62nd National Film Awards|url=http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/62nd%20National%20Film%20Awards%202014%20-%20Press%20Release.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|date=24 March 2015|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>
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| ''[[Ottaal]]''
| ''[[Ottaal]]''
| Malayalam
| Malayalam
| {{hidden||''Ottal for beautifully transposing Anton Chekov’s short  story onto a canvas of nature that enhances the shades of the original.''}}
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Vishal Bhardwaj]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Vishal Bhardwaj]]
| ''[[Haider (film)|Haider]]''
| ''[[Haider (film)|Haider]]''
| Hindi
| rowspan="4" | Hindi
| {{hidden||''Haider for the multi layered and resonant dialogues that evoke angst and passion with crispness and brevity.''}}
|-
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5" | [[63rd National Film Awards|2015<br>{{small|(63rd)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="3" | [[63rd National Film Awards|2015<br>{{small|(63rd)}}]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Juhi Chaturvedi]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Juhi Chaturvedi]]
| ''[[Piku]]''
| ''[[Piku]]''
| Hindi
| {{hidden||''For effortless movement of the plot structure, and natural repartees which happens in a delightful love/ hate relationship of a father and daughter.''}}
|
|
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Himanshu Sharma]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Himanshu Sharma]]
| ''[[Tanu Weds Manu: Returns]]''
| ''[[Tanu Weds Manu Returns]]''
| Hindi
| {{hidden||''For The writer's interpretation of love story set in a small town, becomes populated with interesting characters and their dialogues and dialects.''}}
|
|
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Vishal Bhardwaj]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Vishal Bhardwaj]]
| ''[[Talvar (film)|Talvar]]''
| ''[[Talvar (film)|Talvar]]''
| Hindi
| {{hidden||''For the dramatic structure devised by this writer effectively mirrors the tragedy of a family when their daughter is found murdered.''}}
|
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Juhi Chaturvedi]]
| ''[[Piku]]''
| Hindi
| {{hidden||''For effortless movement of the plot structure, and natural repartees which happens in a delightful love/ hate relationship of a father and daughter.''}}
|
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Himanshu Sharma]]
| ''[[Tanu Weds Manu: Returns]]''
| Hindi
| {{hidden||''For The writer's interpretation of love story set in a small town, becomes populated with interesting characters and their dialogues and dialects.''}}
|
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| ''[[Maheshinte Prathikaaram]]''
| ''[[Maheshinte Prathikaaram]]''
| Malayalam
| Malayalam
| {{hidden||''The screenplay interweaves the various idiosyncrasy of a small town near Idukki river.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="64thaward">{{cite press release|title=64th National Film Awards|url=http://www.dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=7 April 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606051143/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf|archive-date=6 June 2017}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="64thaward">{{cite press release|title=64th National Film Awards|url=http://www.dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=7 April 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606051143/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf|archive-date=6 June 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | Sanjay Krishnaji Patil
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | Sanjay Krishnaji Patil
| ''Dashkriya''
| ''[[Dashakriya]]''
| Marathi
| Marathi
| {{hidden||''The film brings out a semblance of 'time' and 'place' specified in the novel by Baba Bhand.''}}
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam]]
| ''[[Pelli Choopulu]]''
| ''[[Pelli Choopulu]]''
| Telugu
| Telugu
| {{hidden||''The film has incorporated a Modern, Witty and 'on-your-face' dialogue that too with the local flavor.''}}
|-
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3" | [[65th National Film Awards|2017<br>{{small|(65th)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="3" | [[65th National Film Awards|2017<br>{{small|(65th)}}]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Sajeev Pazhoor]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Sajeev Pazhoor]]
| ''[[Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum]]''
| ''[[Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum]]''
| Malayalam
| rowspan="2" | Malayalam
|
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="Hello arsi">{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/odia-film-hello-arsi-wins-big-at-65th-national-film-awards/articleshow/63785182.cms|title=Odia film Hello Arsi wins big at 65th National Film Awards - Times of India|website=The Times of India|access-date=2019-03-03}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref name="Hello arsi">{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/odia-film-hello-arsi-wins-big-at-65th-national-film-awards/articleshow/63785182.cms|title=Odia film Hello Arsi wins big at 65th National Film Awards - Times of India|website=The Times of India|access-date=2019-03-03}}</ref>
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Jayaraj]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Jayaraj]]
| ''[[Bhayanakam]]''
| ''[[Bhayanakam]]''
| Malayalam
|
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | Sambit Mohanty<br>{{small|(posthumously)}}
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | Sambit Mohanty<br>{{small|(posthumously)}}
| ''[[Hello Arsi]]''
| ''[[Hello Arsi]]''
| Oriya
| Oriya
|
|-
|-
| align="center" rowspan="7" | [[66th National Film Awards|2018<br/>{{small|(66th)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="7" | [[66th National Film Awards|2018<br/>{{small|(66th)}}]]
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| ''[[Chi La Sow]]''
| ''[[Chi La Sow]]''
| Telugu
| Telugu
| {{hidden||''The screenplay is modern take on the traditional custom of arranged marriage.''}}
|
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| rowspan="5" | ''[[Andhadhun]]''
| rowspan="5" | ''[[Andhadhun]]''
| rowspan="5" | Hindi
| rowspan="5" | Hindi
| rowspan="5" | {{hidden||''Crisp and intriguing story that keeps the audiences on tenterhooks.''}}
| align="center" rowspan="6" |<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dff.gov.in/images/News/66th_NFA_Results.pdf|access-date=9 August 2019|title=66th National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]}}</ref>
| align="center" rowspan="6" |<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dff.gov.in/images/News/66th_NFA_Results.pdf|access-date=9 August 2019|title=66th National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]}}</ref>
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! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Churni Ganguly]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Churni Ganguly]]
| ''[[Tarikh (film)|Tarikh]]''
| ''[[Tarikh (film)|Tarikh]]''
| Bengali
| rowspan="3" | Bengali
| {{hidden||''Deep meaningful conversations that explore interpersonal relationships.''}}
|-
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3" | [[67th National Film Awards|2019<br>{{small|(67th)}}]]
| align="center" rowspan="3" | [[67th National Film Awards|2019<br>{{small|(67th)}}]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Kaushik Ganguly]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Kaushik Ganguly]]
| ''[[Jyeshthoputro]]''
| ''[[Jyeshthoputro]]''
| Bengali
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dff.nic.in/images/News/1098_winners_for_67th.pdf|title=67th National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]}}</ref>
| ''For capturing the complexities of human relationships in a broken family slowly unraveling the jealousies  and insecurities within the family in an unhurried pace keeping the audience intrigued.''
| align="center" rowspan="3" |<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dff.nic.in/images/News/1098_winners_for_67th.pdf|access-date=|title=67th National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]}}</ref>
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Srijit Mukherji]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Srijit Mukherji]]
| ''[[Gumnaami]]''
| ''[[Gumnaami]]''
| Bengali
| ''The screenplay went through a series and layers of interviews & incidents unfolding the mystery surrounding the controversial disappearance & death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.''
|-
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | [[Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri]]
| ''[[The Tashkent Files]]''
| ''[[The Tashkent Files]]''
| Hindi
| Hindi
| ''For writing apt dialogues for convincing arguments of members of the committee that was formed to find out the facts about the mysterious death of Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri.''
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3" | [[68th National Film Awards|2020<br>{{small|(68th)}}]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA"| [[Sudha Kongara]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Soorarai Pottru]]''
| rowspan="3" | Tamil
| rowspan="3"|
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA"| Shalini Ushadevi
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA" | Madonne Ashwin
| ''[[Mandela (2021 film)|Mandela]]''
|-
| rowspan="4" align="center" | [[69th National Film Awards|2021<br>{{small|(69th)}}]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Shahi Kabir]]
| ''[[Nayattu (2021 film)|Nayattu]]''
| Malayalam
| rowspan="4" align="center" |
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0" | [[Sanjay Leela Bhansali]]
| rowspan="3" |  ''[[Gangubai Kathiawadi]]''
| rowspan="3" |  Hindi
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#EBEBE0"| [[Utkarshini Vashishtha]]
|-
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E0EAEA"| Prakash Kapadia
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3" |[[70th National Film Awards|2022<br>{{small|(70th)}}]]
! scope="row" style="background-color:#E6E6FA" | [[Anand Ekarshi]]
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National Film Award for Best Screenplay
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored byNational Film Development Corporation of India
Reward(s)
  • Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
  • ₹2,00,000
First awarded1967 (Original screenplay)
2009 (Adapted screenplay and Dialogue)
Most recent winnerSai Rajesh, Ramkumar Balakrishnan and Deepak Kingrani

The National Film Award for Best Screenplay is one of the categories in 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 Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). The award is announced for films produced in a year across the country, in all Indian languages. As of 2024, the award comprises a Rajat Kamal, a certificate, and a cash prize of ₹2,00,000.[1]

The National Film Awards were established in 1954 to "encourage production of the films of a high aesthetic and technical standard and educational and culture value" and also planned to include awards for regional films.[2][3] The awards were instituted as the "State Awards for Films" but were renamed to "National Film Awards" at the 15th National Film Awards in 1967 and a new category of award for Best Screenplay was introduced, presented with a plaque and a cash prize.[4] At the 57th National Film Awards in 2009, the Screenplay award was reclassified into three different awards: Screenplay Writer (Original), Screenplay Writer (Adapted), and Dialogues.[5] Although the Indian film industry produces films in around twenty languages and dialects,[6] as of 2022 edition, the seventy-three unique writers who have been awarded, have worked in nine major languages: Hindi (twenty awards), Malayalam (twelve awards), Bengali (eleven awards), Tamil (nine awards), Marathi (seven awards), Kannada (five awards), Telugu (three awards), English (two awards), Sanskrit and Assamese (one award each).

The inaugural award, in 1967, of this category was presented to S. L. Puram Sadanandan for the Malayalam film Agniputhri.[4] No award was presented at the 23rd National Film Awards (1975).[7] As of 2016, Malayalam author and screenplay writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair holds the record of winning maximum awards in category with four wins for the films: Oru Vadakkan Veeragadha (1989), Kadavu (1991),[8] Sadayam (1992),[9] and Parinayam (1994).[10] Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray was presented the award in 1993 posthumously for the film Uttoran;[11] he had earlier received awards for Pratidwandi (1970) and Sonar Kella (1974).[12][13] At the 59th National Film Awards in 2011, Girish Kulkarni was awarded both the Best Actor and Best Dialogue Awards for the Marathi film Deool. The film was itself was adjudged the Best Feature Film.[14] In 2015 at the 63rd ceremony, the awards for both Original Screenplay and Dialogue were jointly presented to Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma for their films Piku and Tanu Weds Manu: Returns, respectively.[15]

As of 2022, sixty-nine awards have been presented for Original Screenplay writing, eighteen for Adapted Screenplay writing, and fourteen for dialogue.

Award[edit | edit source]

The first recipient of the award, S. L. Puram Sadanandan, was presented with a plaque and ₹ 5000 cash prize.[4] The award was revised in 1973 at the 21st ceremony to include ₹ 10,000 cash, a silver medal and a certificate. It was shared by Mrinal Sen and Ashish Burman for their Bengali film Padatik.[16] At the 54th awarding ceremony in 2006, the next revision of the award was declared to include cash remuneration of ₹50,000 which was presented to Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra for their Hindi film Lage Raho Munna Bhai in which Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence was depicted.[17] At the 70th National Film Awards (2022), the cash prize was revised to ₹2,00,000.[18]

For fourteen times, multiple writers were awarded for their work in a single film; Mrinal Sen and Ashish Burman for Padatik (1973), Satyadev Dubey, Shyam Benegal, and Girish Karnad for Bhumika (1977), T. S. Ranga and T. S. Nagabharana for Grahana (1978), Ashok Mishra and Saeed Akhtar Mirza for Naseem (1995), Manoj Tyagi and Nina Arora for Page 3 (2004), Prakash Jha, Shridhar Raghavan, and Manoj Tyagi for Apaharan (2005), Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani, and Vidhu Vinod Chopra for Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli for Kanasemba Kudureyaneri (2009), P. F. Mathews and Harikrishna for Kutty Srank (2009), Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (2010), Vikas Bahl, Nitesh Tiwari, and Vijay Maurya for Chillar Party (2011), Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla for OMG – Oh My God! (2012), Sriram Raghavan, Arijit Biswas, Yogesh Chandekar, Hemanth Rao, Pooja Ladha Surti for Andhadhun (2018), Sudha Kongara and Shalini Ushadevi for Soorarai Pottru (2020).[citation needed]

Shyamoli Banerjee Deb, one of the jury members at the 53rd National Film Awards, filed a petition objecting to the selections in five awards categories; the Best Feature Film in Hindi, the Best First Film of a Director, the Best Actress, the Best Screenplay, and the Best Special Effects. Deb challenged the decision to confer the award to Prakash Jha, Shridhar Raghavan, and Manoj Tyagi for the Hindi film Apaharan and claimed that the film was not in the primary selection list. The Delhi High Court put a stay on the announcement and requested a reply from the Directorate of Film Festivals.[19] Fourteen months later, Justice B. D. Ahmed removed the stay and the award was announced for Apaharan.[20][21][22]

Winners[edit | edit source]

Following are the award winners over the years:

Awards legends
Screenplay Writer (Original)
Screenplay Writer (Adapted)
Dialogue
List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s) and language(s)
Year Recipient(s) Film(s) Language(s) Refs.
1967
(15th) 		S. L. Puram Sadanandan Agniputhri Malayalam [4]
1968
(16th) 		Pandit Anand Kumar Anokhi Raat Hindi [23]
1969
(17th) 		Puttanna Kanagal Gejje Pooje Kannada [24]
1970
(18th) 		Satyajit Ray Pratidwandi Bengali [12]
1971
(19th) 		Tapan Sinha Ekhonee [25]
1972
(20th)
 Gulzar Koshish Hindi [26]
1973
(21st) 		Mrinal Sen Padatik Bengali [16]
Ashish Burman
1974
(22nd) 		Satyajit Ray Sonar Kella [13]
1975
(23rd) 		No Award [7]
1976
(24th) 		Vijay Tendulkar Manthan Hindi [27]
1977
(25th) 		Satyadev Dubey Bhumika [28]
Shyam Benegal
Girish Karnad
1978
(26th) 		T. S. Ranga Grahana Kannada [29]
T. S. Nagabharana
1979
(27th) 		Sai Paranjpye Sparsh Hindi [30]
1980
(28th) 		Mrinal Sen Akaler Sandhane Bengali [31]
1981
(29th) 		K. Balachander Thanneer Thanneer Tamil [32]
1982
(30th) 		Mrinal Sen Kharij Bengali [33]
1983
(31st) 		G. V. Iyer Adi Shankaracharya Sanskrit [34]
1984
(32nd) 		Adoor Gopalakrishnan Mukhamukham Malayalam [35]
1985
(33rd) 		Bhabendra Nath Saikia Agnisnaan Assamese [36]
1986
(34th) 		Buddhadeb Dasgupta Phera Bengali [37]
1987
(35th) 		Adoor Gopalakrishnan Anantaram Malayalam [38]
1988
(36th) 		Arundhati Roy In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones English [39]
1989
(37th) 		M. T. Vasudevan Nair Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha Malayalam [40]
1990
(38th) 		K. S. Sethumadhavan Marupakkam Tamil [41]
1991
(39th) 		M. T. Vasudevan Nair Kadavu Malayalam [8]
1992
(40th) 		M. T. Vasudevan Nair Sadayam [9]
1993
(41st) 		Satyajit Ray
(Posthumously) 		Uttoran Bengali [11]
1994
(42nd) 		M. T. Vasudevan Nair Parinayam Malayalam [10]
1995
(43rd) 		Ashok Mishra Naseem Hindi [42]
Saeed Akhtar Mirza
1996
(44th) 		Agathiyan Kadhal Kottai Tamil [43]
1997
(45th) 		Rituparno Ghosh Dahan Bengali [44]
1998
(46th) 		Ashok Mishra Samar Hindi [45]
1999
(47th) 		Madampu Kunjukuttan Karunam Malayalam [46]
2000
(48th) 		Bharathiraja Kadal Pookkal Tamil [47]
2001
(49th) 		G. Neelakanta Reddy Show Telugu [48]
2002
(50th) 		Aparna Sen Mr. and Mrs. Iyer English [49]
2003
(51st) 		Gautam Ghose Abar Aranye Bengali [50]
2004
(52nd) 		Manoj Tyagi Page 3 Hindi [51]
Nina Arora
2005
(53rd) 		Prakash Jha Apaharan [20]
Shridhar Raghavan
Manoj Tyagi
2006
(54th) 		Abhijat Joshi Lage Raho Munnabhai [17]
Rajkumar Hirani
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
2007
(55th) 		Feroz Abbas Khan Gandhi, My Father [52]
2008
(56th) 		Sachin Kundalkar Gandha Marathi [53]
2009
(57th) 		P. F. Mathews Kutty Srank Malayalam [5]
Harikrishna
Gopalakrishna Pai Kanasemba Kudureyaneri Kannada
Girish Kasaravalli
Pandiraj Pasanga Tamil
2010
(58th) 		Vetrimaaran Aadukalam [54]
Anant Mahadevan Mee Sindhutai Sapkal Marathi
Sanjay Pawar
Sanjay Pawar Mee Sindhutai Sapkal
2011
(59th) 		Vikas Bahl Chillar Party Hindi [14]
Nitesh Tiwari
Vijay Maurya
Avinash Deshpande Nigdi Shala Marathi
Girish Kulkarni Deool
2012
(60th) 		Sujoy Ghosh Kahaani Hindi [55]
Bhavesh Mandalia OMG - Oh My God!
Umesh Shukla
Anjali Menon Ustad Hotel Malayalam
2013
(61st) 		P. Sheshadri December-1 Kannada [56]
Panchakshari Prakruti
Sumitra Bhave Astu Marathi
2014
(62nd) 		Srijit Mukherji Chotushkone Bengali [57]
Joshy Mangalath Ottaal Malayalam
Vishal Bhardwaj Haider Hindi
2015
(63rd) 		Juhi Chaturvedi Piku
Himanshu Sharma Tanu Weds Manu Returns
Vishal Bhardwaj Talvar
2016
(64th) 		Syam Pushkaran Maheshinte Prathikaaram Malayalam [58]
Sanjay Krishnaji Patil Dashakriya Marathi
Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam Pelli Choopulu Telugu
2017
(65th) 		Sajeev Pazhoor Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum Malayalam [59]
Jayaraj Bhayanakam
Sambit Mohanty
(posthumously) 		Hello Arsi Oriya
2018
(66th) 		Rahul Ravindran Chi La Sow Telugu
Sriram Raghavan Andhadhun Hindi [60]
Arijit Biswas
Yogesh Chedekar
Hemanth Rao
Pooja Ladha Surti
Churni Ganguly Tarikh Bengali
2019
(67th) 		Kaushik Ganguly Jyeshthoputro [61]
Srijit Mukherji Gumnaami
Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri The Tashkent Files Hindi
2020
(68th) 		Sudha Kongara Soorarai Pottru Tamil
Shalini Ushadevi
Madonne Ashwin Mandela
2021
(69th) 		Shahi Kabir Nayattu Malayalam
Sanjay Leela Bhansali Gangubai Kathiawadi Hindi
Utkarshini Vashishtha
Prakash Kapadia
2022
(70th) 		Anand Ekarshi Aattam Malayalam
Arpita Mukherjee Gulmohar Hindi
Rahul V. Chittella
2023
(71st) 		Sai Rajesh Baby Telugu
Ramkumar Balakrishnan Parking Tamil
Deepak Kingrani Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai Hindi

References[edit | edit source]

  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. ↑ "1st National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "1st National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "15th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
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  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "23rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "39th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "40th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "42nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "41st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "18th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "22nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced". Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  15. ↑ "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "21st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
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  19. ↑ "Delhi HC stays National Films Awards". The Indian Express. 9 May 2007. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
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  29. ↑ "26th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  30. ↑ "27th National Film Awards". Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  31. ↑ "28th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  32. ↑ "29th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  33. ↑ "30th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  34. ↑ "31st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 December 2011.
  35. ↑ "32nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  36. ↑ "33rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  37. ↑ "34th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
  38. ↑ "35th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  39. ↑ "36th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  40. ↑ "37th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
  41. ↑ "38th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  42. ↑ "43rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  43. ↑ "44th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  44. ↑ "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  45. ↑ "46th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
  46. ↑ "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  47. ↑ "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  48. ↑ "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  49. ↑ "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  50. ↑ "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  51. ↑ "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
  52. ↑ "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  53. ↑ "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  54. ↑ "58th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
  55. ↑ "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  56. ↑ "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.
  57. ↑ "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  58. ↑ "64th National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  59. ↑ "Odia film Hello Arsi wins big at 65th National Film Awards - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  60. ↑ "66th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  61. ↑ "67th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals.

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