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National Film Award for Best Direction

The National Film Award for Best Direction is an honour presented annually at India's National Film Awards ceremony by the National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC), an organisation set up by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.[1] Since 1967, the award is given by a national panel appointed annually by the NFDC to a director for their work within Indian cinema.[1] It is presented by the president of India at a ceremony held in New Delhi.[1][2]

National Film Award for Best Direction
Awarded forExcellence in cinematic direction achievement
Sponsored byNational Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly calledAward for excellence in direction (1967–1976)
Reward(s)
  • Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
  • ₹3,00,000
First awarded1967
Last awarded2022
Most recent winnerSooraj Barjatya
Highlights
Total awarded55
First winnerSatyajit Ray
Websitehttp://dff.nic.in/NFA.aspx Edit this on Wikidata

The winner is given a "Swarna Kamal" (Golden Lotus) certificate and a cash prize of ₹3 lakh (US$3,600).[a] Including ties and repeat winners, the NFDC has presented a total of 53 Best Direction awards to 34 different directors. Although Indian cinema produces films in more than twenty languages,[1] the performances of films that have won awards are of nine languages: Bengali (16 awards), Malayalam (14 awards), Hindi (11 awards), Tamil (4 awards), English, Kannada and Marathi (3 awards each), Assamese and Punjabi (1 each).

The first recipient was Satyajit Ray, who was honoured at the 15th National Film Awards for directing the Bengali film Chiriyakhana (1967).[8] Ray is also the most frequent recipient, with six wins.[9] Adoor Gopalakrishnan has won 5 awards, which includes his debut Malayalam film Swayamvaram (1972).[10] Mrinal Sen has been awarded four times. He is also the only recipient to win the award for directing films in two different languages: Bengali and Hindi.[11] At the 19th National Film Awards, Girish Karnad and B.V. Karanth shared the award for co-directing the Kannada film Vamsha Vriksha (1972).[12]

Winners

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Satyajit Ray is the most frequent recipient with six wins.
 
Adoor Gopalakrishnan has received the honour five times.
 
Mrinal Sen has been awarded four times.
 
Aparna Sen is the only woman director honored by this award.
List of award recipients, showing the year, film and language
Year[b] Recipient Film Language Ref
1967
(15th) 		Satyajit Ray Chiriyakhana Bengali [13]
1968
(16th) 		Satyajit Ray Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne Bengali [14]
1969
(17th) 		Mrinal Sen Bhuvan Shome Hindi [15]
1970
(18th) 		Satyajit Ray Pratidwandi Bengali [16]
1971
(19th) 		B. V. Karanth Vamsha Vriksha Kannada [17]
Girish Karnad
1972
(20th) 		Adoor Gopalakrishnan Swayamvaram Malayalam [18]
1973
(21st) 		Mani Kaul Duvidha Hindi [19]
1974
(22nd) 		Satyajit Ray Sonar Kella Bengali [20]
1975
(23rd) 		Satyajit Ray Jana Aranya Bengali [21]
1976
(24th) 		P. Lankesh Pallavi Kannada [22]
1977
(25th) 		G. Aravindan Kanchana Sita Malayalam [23]
1978
(26th) 		G. Aravindan Thampu Malayalam [24]
1979
(27th) 		Mrinal Sen Ek Din Pratidin Bengali [25]
1980
(28th) 		Mrinal Sen Akaler Shandhaney Bengali [26]
1981
(29th) 		Aparna Sen 36 Chowringhee Lane English [27]
1982
(30th) 		Utpalendu Chakrabarty Chokh Bengali [28]
1983
(31st) 		Mrinal Sen Khandhar Hindi [29]
1984
(32nd) 		Adoor Gopalakrishnan Mukhamukham Malayalam [30]
1985
(33rd) 		Shyam Benegal Trikal Hindi [31]
1986
(34th) 		G. Aravindan Oridathu Malayalam [32]
1987
(35th) 		Adoor Gopalakrishnan Anantaram Malayalam [33]
1988
(36th) 		Shaji N. Karun Piravi Malayalam [34]
1989
(37th) 		Adoor Gopalakrishnan Mathilukal Malayalam [35]
1990
(38th) 		Tapan Sinha Ek Doctor Ki Maut Hindi [36]
1991
(39th) 		Satyajit Ray Agantuk Bengali [37]
1992
(40th) 		Goutom Ghosh Padma Nadir Majhi Bengali [38]
1993
(41st) 		T. V. Chandran Ponthan Mada Malayalam [39]
1994
(42nd) 		Jahnu Barua Xagoroloi Bohudoor Assamese [40]
1995
(43rd) 		Saeed Akhtar Mirza Naseem Hindi [41]
1996
(44th) 		Agathiyan Kadhal Kottai Tamil [42]
1997
(45th) 		Jayaraj Kaliyattam Malayalam [43]
1998
(46th) 		Rajeevnath Janani Malayalam [44]
1999
(47th) 		Buddhadeb Dasgupta Uttara Bengali [45]
2000
(48th) 		Rituparno Ghosh Utsab Bengali [46]
2001
(49th) 		B. Lenin Ooruku Nooruper Tamil [47]
2002
(50th) 		Aparna Sen Mr. and Mrs. Iyer English [48]
2003
(51st) 		Goutom Ghosh Abar Aranye Bengali [49]
2004
(52nd) 		Buddhadeb Dasgupta Swapner Din Bengali [50]
2005
(53rd) 		Rahul Dholakia Parzania English [51]
2006
(54th) 		Madhur Bhandarkar Traffic Signal Hindi [3]
2007
(55th) 		Adoor Gopalakrishnan Naalu Pennungal Malayalam [52]
2008
(56th) 		Bala Naan Kadavul Tamil [53]
2009
(57th) 		Rituparno Ghosh Abohomaan Bengali [54]
2010
(58th) 		Vetrimaaran Aadukalam Tamil [55]
2011
(59th) 		Gurvinder Singh Anhe Ghore Da Daan Punjabi [56]
2012
(60th) 		Shivaji Lotan Patil Dhag Marathi [57]
2013
(61st) 		Hansal Mehta Shahid Hindi [58]
2014
(62nd) 		Srijit Mukherji Chotushkone Bengali [59]
2015
(63rd) 		Sanjay Leela Bhansali Bajirao Mastani Hindi [60]
2016
(64th) 		Rajesh Mapuskar Ventilator Marathi [61]
2017
(65th) 		Jayaraj Bhayanakam Malayalam [62]
2018
(66th) 		Aditya Dhar Uri: The Surgical Strike Hindi [63]
2019
(67th) 		Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan Bahattar Hoorain Hindi [64]
2020
(68th) 		Sachy Ayyappanum Koshiyum Malayalam
2021
(69th) 		Nikhil Mahajan Godavari Marathi
2022
(70th) 		Sooraj Barjatya Uunchai Hindi [65]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ The cash prize was ₹2,50,000, from 54th National Film Awards (2006) until 69th National Film Awards (2021).[3] Before the 54th National Film Awards (2006), the cash prize was ₹50,000 (US$600),[4] ₹25,000 (US$300) during the 35th National Film Awards,[5] ₹20,000 (US$240) from 21st National Film Awards until 34th[6] and ₹20,000 (US$240) from 1967 to 1972.[7]
  2. ^ Denotes the year in which the film was censored by the Central Board of Film Certification.

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