The National Film Award for Best Film Critic 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 feature films and awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd 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:
Awards legends
List of award recipients, showing the year and language(s) Year Recipient(s) Language(s) 1984 Swapan Mallick English 1985 No Award 1986 Chidananda Dasgupta Bengali 1987 Brajeshwar Madan Hindi 1988 Manmohan Chadha Hindi 1989 K. N. T. Sastry Telugu 1990 Shoma A. Chatterjee Bengali 1991 Gautam Kaul English 1992 Sudhir Bose Bengali 1993 Pritiman Sarkar Bengali 1994 Rashmi Doraiswamy English 1995 M. C. Raja Narayanan English and Malayalam 1996 M. K. Raghavendra English 1997 Deepa Gahlot English 1998 Meenakshi Shedde English 1999 I. Shanmughadas Malayalam 2000 Vasiraju Prakasam Telugu Suresh Sharma Hindi 2001 Vinod Anupam Hindi 2002 Utpal Borpujari English 2003 Saibal Chatterjee English 2004 Namrata Joshi English 2005 Baradwaj Rangan English 2006 G. P. Ramachandran Malayalam Rafique A. R. Baghdadi English 2007 V. K. Joseph Malayalam 2008 Altaf Mazid English and Assamese R. K. Bidur Singh Meitei 2009 C. S. Venkiteswaran Malayalam 2010 Joshy Joseph English N. Manu Chakravarthy Kannada and English 2011 Manoj Barpujari Assamese and English 2012 P. S. RadhakrishnanMalayalam 2013 Alaka Sahani English 2014 Tanul Thakur English 2015 Meghachandra Kongbam Meitei 2016 G. Dhananjayan Tamil 2017 Giridhar Jha English 2018 Blais Johny Malayalam Anant Vijay Hindi 2019 Sohini Chattopadhyay English 2020 No Award 2021 Purushothama Charyulu Telugu 2022 Deepak Dua Hindi 2023 Utpal Datta Assamese
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives