National Film Award – Special Jury Award (feature film)

For Special Mention for feature films, see National Film Award – Special Mention (feature film).

The National Film Award – Special Jury Award was 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 was one of several awards presented for feature films. The recipients of Special Jury Award are awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus), cash prize of ₹2,00,000 and certificate of merit.

National Film Award – Special Jury Award
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Formerly called	Special Commendation (1978)
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹2,00,000
First award	1978
Final award	2021
Most recent winner	Shershaah
Highlights
Total awarded	50
First winner	Acharya Kripalani

The award was instituted in 1978, at 26th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. This award considers all the aspects of film making than individual area. At the 70th National Film Awards, the award was discontinued.^[1]

Winners

List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), awarded as, film(s) and language(s)
Year	Recipient(s)	Awarded as	Film(s)	Language(s)	Refs.
1978 (26th)	No award				[2]
1979 (27th)	–	Director	Acharya Kripalani	English	[3]
1980 (28th)	No award				[4]
1981 (29th)	Satyajit Ray	Director	Sadgati	Hindi	[5]
1982 (30th)	No award				[6]
1983 (31st)	Mankada Ravi Varma	Director	Nokkukuthi	Malayalam	[7]
1984 (32nd)	T. S. Ranga	Director	Giddh	Hindi	[8]
1985 (33rd)	Sudha Chandran	Actress	Mayuri	Telugu	[9]
1986 (34th)	John Abraham	Director	Amma Ariyan	Malayalam	[10]
1987 (35th)	M. B. Sreenivasan (posthumously)	Music director	–	–	[11]
1988 (36th)	Ashok Ahuja	Director	Vasundhara	Hindi	[12]
1989 (37th)	Amitabh Chakraborty	Director	Kaal Abhirati	Bengali	[13]
1990 (38th)	Pankaj Kapur	Actor	Ek Doctor Ki Maut	Hindi	[14]
	Sunny Deol	Actor	Ghayal	Hindi
	Jayabharathi	Actress	Marupakkam	Tamil
1991 (39th)	Soumitra Chatterjee	Actor	Antardhan	Bengali	[15]
1992 (40th)	Sivaji Ganesan	Actor	Thevar Magan	Tamil	[16]
	Ketan Mehta	Director	Maya Memsaab	Hindi
1993 (41st)	Shashi Kapoor	Actor	Muhafiz	Urdu	[17]
	Pallavi Joshi	Actress	Woh Chokri	Hindi
1994 (42nd)	Radhu Karmakar (posthumously)	Cinematographer	Param Vir Chakra	Hindi	[18]
	Shaji N. Karun	Director	Swaham	Malayalam
1995 (43rd)	Shyam Benegal	Director	The Making of the Mahatma	English	[19]
1996 (44th)	Amol Palekar	Director	Daayraa	Hindi	[20]
	Kiron Kher	Actress	Sardari Begum	Urdu
1997 (45th)	Jaimala	Actress	Thaayi Saheba	Kannada	[21]
1998 (46th)	• Drishyakavya  • Ashoke Viswanathan	• Producer  • Director	Kitchhu Sanlap Kitchhu Pralap	Bengali	[22]
1999 (47th)	Kalabhavan Mani	Actor	Vasanthiyum Lakshmiyum Pinne Njaanum	Malayalam	[23]
2000 (48th)	Soumitra Chatterjee	Actor	Dekha	Bengali	[24]
2001 (49th)	Janaki Vishwanathan	Director	Kutty	Tamil	[25]
2002 (50th)	Prakash Raj	Actor	Dhaya	Tamil	[26]
2003 (51st)	Manoj Bajpai	Actor	Pinjar	Hindi	[27]
	• Roopkatha  • Goutam Halder	• Producer  • Director	Bhalo Theko	Bengali
2004 (52nd)	J. Phillip	Actor	Dancer	Tamil	[28]
2005 (53rd)	Anupam Kher	Actor	Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara	Hindi	[29]
2006 (54th)	Vishal Bhardwaj	Director	Omkara	Hindi	[30]
2007 (55th)	• Anil Kapoor  • Feroz Abbas Khan	• Producer  • Director	Gandhi, My Father	• Hindi  • English	[31]
2008 (56th)	• NFDC  • K. M. Madhusudhanan	• Producer  • Director	Bioscope	Malayalam	[32]
2009 (57th)	A. Sreekar Prasad	Editor	• Kaminey  • Keralavarma Pazhassiraja  • Kutty Srank	• Hindi  • Malayalam  • Malayalam	[33]
2010 (58th)	• Bindiya Khanolkar  • Sachin Khanolkar  • Anant Mahadevan	• Producer  • Producer  • Director	Mee Sindhutai Sapkal	Marathi	[34]
2011 (59th)	Anjan Dutt	• Actor  • Director  • Singer  • Writer	Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona	Bengali	[35]
2012 (60th)	Rituparno Ghosh	• Actor  • Director  • Writer	Chitrangada	Bengali	[36]
	Nawazuddin Siddiqui	Actor	• Dekh Indian Circus  • Gangs of Wasseypur  • Kahaani  • Talaash	Hindi
2013 (61st)	• Viva in En  • Mahesh Limaye	• Producer  • Director	Yellow	Marathi	[37]
	• Future East Film Pvt Ltd  • Ashim Ahluwalia	• Producer  • Director	Miss Lovely	Hindi
2014 (62nd)	Bhaurao Karhade	Director	Khwada	Marathi	[38]
2015 (63rd)	Kalki Koechlin	Actress	Margarita with a Straw	Hindi	[39]
2016 (64th)	Mohanlal	Actor	• Janatha Garage  • Munthirivallikal Thalirkkumbol  • Pulimurugan	• Telugu  • Malayalam  • Malayalam	[40]
2017 (65th)	• Sani Ghose Ray  • Kaushik Ganguly	• Producer  • Director	Nagarkirtan	Bengali
2018 (66th)	• Shraddha Dangar  • Shachi Joshi  • Denisha Ghumra  • Niilam Paanchal  • Tarjani Bhadla  • Brinda Nayak  • Tejal Panchasara  • Kaushambi Bhatt  • Ekta Bachwani  • Kamini Panchal  • Jagruti Thakore  • Riddhi Yadav  • Prapti Mehta	Actresses	Hellaro	Gujarati
	Indradip Dasgupta	Director	Kedara	Bengali
2019 (67th)	R. Parthiban	• Actor  • Director  • Producer  • Writer	Oththa Seruppu Size 7	Tamil	[41]
2020 (68th)	Ojaswee Sharma	Director	Admitted	• Hindi  • English	[42]
2021 (69th)	• Vishnuvardhan  • Karan Johar  • Dharma Productions	• Director  • Producer	Shershaah	Hindi	[43]

See also

• National Film Award – Special Mention