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Gollapudi Srinivas Award is a national-level private award given to a first-time director in Indian Cinema every year.[1][2] It is given out in the memory of Gollapudi Srinivas (3 March 1966 – 12 August 1992). He was the youngest son of veteran Telugu film personality Gollapudi Maruthi Rao. This award was first announced in 1997 at Chennai.[3]
While directing his début Telugu film Prema Pustakam, Gollapudi Srinivas succumbed to a water accident on August 12, 1992. The Telugu film industry lost a promising director.[4] The Maruthi Rao family established the Gollapudi Srinivas Memorial Foundation to perpetuate the memory and instituted an annual cash award for the Best Début Director chosen from among Indian-language films. As part of the event, an eminent Indian film personality gives the keynote lecture.[5]
| Year | Recipient | Film (language) | Keynote speaker (topic) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Leslie Carvalho |
The Outhouse (English) | Sunil Dutt ("My Experiments on Celluloid") |
| 1999 | Shyamaprasad | Agni Sakshi (Malayalam) | Mrinal Sen ("Cinema and Social Values") |
| 2000 | Manju Borah | Baibhab (Assamese) | M.T. Vasudevan Nair ("Literature and Cinema") |
| 2001 | Subrata Sen | Ek Je Ache Kanya (Bengali) | U. R. Ananthamurthy ("Moral Fatigue in Indian Cinema") |
| 2002 | Janaki Vishwanathan | Kutty (Tamil) | Shyam Benegal ("Secularism in Indian Cinema") |
| 2003 | Ram Madhvani | Let's Talk (English) | Javed Akhtar ("Poetry and Cinema") |
| 2004 | Anup Kurian | Manasarovar (English) | Naseeruddin Shah ("The Relationship Between Theatre and Cinema") |
| 2005 | Shonali Bose | Amu (English) | Buddhadeb Dasgupta ("The Dialectics Of Judging A Cinema") |
| 2006 | Indraganti Mohan Krishna | Grahanam (Telugu) | Gautam Ghose ("Collective Memories & Timelessness in Cinema") |
| 2007 | Rajnesh Domalpalli | Vanaja (Telugu) | Amol Palekar ("Regional Cinema: Beyond Bollywood") |
| 2008 | Aamir Khan | Taare Zameen Par (Hindi) | K. Balachander ("On Aamir Khan") and Anupam Kher ("Children of a Bigger God") |
| 2009 | Paresh Mokashi | Harishchandrachi Factory (Marathi) | Resul Pookutty ("Audiography in Indian Motion Picture") |
| 2010 | Amit Rai | Road to Sangam (Hindi) | Girish Karnad ("Religion & Mythology") |
| 2011 | Anusha Rizvi | Peepli Live (Hindi) | Girish Kasaravalli ("Time as a Construct in Contemporary Cinema") |
| 2012 | Madhav Ramadasan | Melvilasom (Malayalam) | Rishi Kapoor ("The Journey from Prithviraj Kapoor to Ranbir Kapoor") |
| 2013 | Kamal K. M. | I.D. (Hindi) | Balu Mahendra |
| 2014 | Gyan Correa | The Good Road (Gujarati) | Chetan Bhagat ("Entertainment for Change") |
| 2015 | Sanjeev Gupta | Q (Hindi)[6] | - - |
| 2016 | Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan | Lens (English) | - - |
| 2017 | Hemanth Rao | Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu (Kannada) | - - |
| 2018 | Konkona Sen Sharma | A Death in the Gunj (English) | - - |
| 2019 | C. Prem Kumar | 96 (Tamil) | - - |
| 2020 | Madhu C Narayanan | Kumbalangi Nights (Malayalam) | [7] |
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