National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Audiography

The National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Audiography is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 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 38th National Film Awards and awarded annually for the 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:

Awards legends
*	Location Sound Recordist

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)	Sujit Sarkar	Mohor	Bengali	For preserving the aura of Gurudev's presence by transporting the audience through the years in the flowering of Rabindra Sangeet, embellishing the performance of the great singer Kanika Bandopadhyay.
1991 (39th)	Anil Tendulkar	Sons of Abotani: The Misings	Mishing	For the selective and imaginative use of commentary and dialogues and the sculpted sound which enriches the film.
	Gautam Bora
1992 (40th)	Sanjoy Chatterjee	Wangala: A Garo Festival	English	For a sustained standard of sound recording on difficult locations which enriches the quality of the film.
1993 (41st)	Indrajit Neogi	Maihar Raag	Bengali	For extremely imaginative and conceptual use of location sounds to depict the crumbling heritage of the Maihar orchestra.
1994 (42nd)	Indrajit Neogi	Another Way of Learning	English	For together bringing about a quality of sound, which so enhances the acoustic, that the viewer becomes a participant.
	A. M. Padmanabhan
1995 (43rd)	Shyam Sunder	Tatva	Hindi	For the creative use of sound to interpret the theme of the film.
1996 (44th)	Nihar R. Samal	Tat Tvam Asi	• Hindi  • English	For his restrained, balanced and multi-layered soundtrack.
1997 (45th)	Pankaj Shil	Matir Bhanr	Bengali	For its strong sound structure which is woven and enmeshed into the fabric of the film.
1998 (46th)	Satheesh P. M.	Kumar Talkies	Hindi	For a sound design which evokes a vision of an era fading away.
1999 (47th)	Chinmoy Nath	The Vehicle with a Soul of a Man	–	For imaginatively capturing the hard labour and tediousness of the Pitthu through the sound design achieved through an appropriate synthesis of sound and silence.
2000 (48th)	Hari Kumar	A Memory of the Sea	English	For designing sound that imaginatively and creatively enhances the mood and narration of the film.
2001 (49th)	Anup Mukherjee	Enough of Silence	English	For adding a new dimension to the film through innovative sound track.
2002 (50th)	No Award
2003 (51st)	Ramesh Birajdar	Bhaba Paagla	Bengali	For sound design which evokes a vision of a world far, far away from the madding crowd, which oscillates between the silences and nature's pristine sounds.
2004 (52nd)	Vivek	Kshy Tra Ghya	Hindi	For evolving an experimental form of narration within a story form, with excellent sound design.
2005 (53rd)	Anmol Bhave	Closer	–	For its outstandingly imaginative use of sound design complementing an equally breath-taking visual wizardry. Closer leaves its audience with a sense of beauty and awe.
2006 (54th)	Partha Barman	Bishar Blues	Bengali	For creating a sound track by combining location sound, ambience sound and music that enhance the "meaning" of the film.
2007 (55th)	Ajit Singh Rathore	Kramasha	Hindi	For the innovative sound design enhances the mood of the film and draws one into the magical ambience replete with fairy tales.
2008 (56th)	Mateen Ahmad	Children of the Pyre	Hindi	With multiple layers of sound, and the incessant crackle of funeral pyres that cease to sleep, the film grips its audience with a sense of entrapment around the life of children working inside a cremation ground. It is a telling example of digetic sound design keeping its truth to the reality of the location.
2009 (57th)	Lipika Singh Darai	Gaarud	• Hindi  • Marathi	For imaginative use of ambient sounds in effectively creating diverse soundscapes.
2010 (58th)	Harikumar Madhavan Nair	A Pestering Journey	• Malayalam  • Punjabi  • Hindi  • English  • Tulu	Does one hear the cry of the pest? In between the sound of the real and evoking music, the ensuing silence tells us the stories beyond.
2011 (59th)	Gautam Nair	1, 2	Hindi	For creating an aural world that enhances the layered narrative structure of the film.
2012 (60th)	Harikumar M.	Do Din Ka Mela	Kutchi	For patiently and passionately capturing the world of sounds that beautifully create the rustic flavour that is so critical to this film.
2013 (61st)	Gautam Nair	Chidiya Udh	–	For a layered and resonant sound track with elements of ambiguity and discord contributing to an overwhelming sense of urban disconnect.
2014 (62nd)	Anindit Roy	Tender is the Sight	–	The film travels through the imaginary line of manifest and unmanifest worlds of visual and sound that balance effortlessly, imprinting the audience with a haunting aural experience.
	Ateesh Chattopadhyay
	Ayan Bhattacharya
2015 (63rd)	Moumita Roy	Edpa Kana	Kurukh	Soulful sound amidst silence – differences made audible.
2016 (64th)	Ajith Abraham George	In Return Just a Book	English	Live recording has been done in a detailed and in-depth manner bringing alive the entire ambience.
2017 (65th)	Avinash Sonawane	Pavasacha Nibandha	Marathi	A near perfect marriage of sound with visuals and narrative in a manner that enhances the impact of the film.
	Samarth Mahajan	The Unreserved		Skilful recording of audio in difficult and complicated locations that has made the film come alive.
2018 (66th)	Bishwadeep Chatterjee	Children Of The Soil		For potently bringing to life, through sound design, every element in this poignant tale of farmer suicides.
	Ajay Bedi	The Secret Life Of Frogs		For uniformly capturing the delicate sounds of its tiny protagonists and of the wild and unpredictable environs they inhabit.

External links

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