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

The National Film Award for Best Direction is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus).

National Film Award for Best Direction
National award for contributions to non-feature films
Awarded for	Excellence in cinematic direction achievement
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Reward(s)	Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) ₹3,00,000
First award	2000
Final award	2022
Most recent winner	Miriam Chandy Menacherry
Highlights
Total awarded	18
First winner	Arun Vasant Khopkar

The award was instituted in 2000, at 48th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

Award includes 'Swarna Kamal' (Golden Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s) and language(s)
Year	Director(s)	Film(s)	Language(s)	Refs.
2000 (48th)	Arun Vasant Khopkar	Rasikpriya	• Hindi  • English	[1]
2001 (49th)	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Jorasanko Thakurbari	English	[2]
2002 (50th)	Anjali Panjabi	A Few Things I Know About Her	English	[3]
2003 (51st)	Arvind Sinha	Kaya Poochhe Maya Se	Hindi	[4]
2004 (52nd)	Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni	Girni	Marathi	[5]
2005 (53rd)	Ganesh Shankar Gaikwad	Voices Across the Oceans	• English  • Hindi	[6]
2006 (54th)	Ramesh Asher	Ek Aadesh – Command For Choti	Hindi	[7]
2007 (55th)	Jayaraj	Vellapokkathil	Malayalam	[8]
2008 (56th)	Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni	Three of Us	Only Music	[9]
2009 (57th)	No Award			[10]
2010 (58th)	Arunima Sharma	Shyam Raat Seher	Hindi	[11]
2011 (59th)	Iram Ghufran	There is Something in the Air	• Hindi  • Urdu  • English	[12]
2012 (60th)	Vikrant Pawar	Kaatal	Marathi	[13]
2013 (61st)	Pranjal Dua	Chidiya Udh	–	[14]
2014 (62nd)	Renu Savant	Aaranyak	• Marathi  • English	[15]
2015 (63rd)	Christo Tomy	Kamuki	Malayalam	[16]
2016 (64th)	Aaditya Jambhale	Aaba... Aiktaay Na?	Marathi	[17]
2017 (65th)	Nagraj Manjule	Pavasacha Nibandha	Marathi
2018 (66th)	Gautam Vaze	Aai Shappath
2019 (67th)	Sudhanshu Saria	Knock Knock Knock	• English  • Bengali	[18]
2020 (68th)	R V Ramani	Oh That’s Bhanu	• English  • Tamil  • Malayalam  • Hindi	[19]
2021 (69th)	Bakul Matiyani	Smile Please	Hindi	[20]
2022 (70th)	Miriam Chandy Menacherry	From the Shadows	• English  • Bengali  • Hindi	[21]

References

1. "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
2. "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
3. "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
4. "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
5. "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
6. "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
7. "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
8. "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
9. "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
10. "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
11. "58th National Film Awards, 2010" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
12. "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced". Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
13. "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
14. "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.
15. "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
16. "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
17. "64th National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
18. "67th National Film Awards announced". Press Information Bureau. 22 March 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
19. "68th National Film Awards". The Hindu. 22 July 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
20. "69th National Film Awards for the year 2021 announce". Press Information Bureau. 24 August 2023. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
21. "70th National Film Awards for the year 2022 announced". Press Information Bureau. 16 August 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.

External links

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