The National Film Award for Best Child Artist 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 feature films and awarded with Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal).
The award was instituted in 1968, at 16th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. The actors whose performances have won awards have worked in eleven major languages. Hindi (24 awards), Marathi (16 awards), Tamil (14 awards), Malayalam (14 awards), Kannada (7 awards), Bengali (6 awards), Telugu (5 awards), Meitei (1 award), Konkani (1 award), Assamese (1 award), Odia (1 award).
Winners Award includes 'Silver Lotus' (Rajat Kamal) 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)YearRecipient(s)Role(s)Film(s)Language 1968 Baby Rani Geetha Kuzhanthaikkaga Tamil 1969 No Award 1970 Rishi Kapoor Young Raju Mera Naam Joker Hindi 1971 Sachin Pilgaonkar Ajab Tujhe Sarkar Marathi 1972 Neera Malia Ranur Pratham Bhag Bengali 1973 G. S. Nataraj Kitty Kaadu Kannada 1974 Kushal Chakraborty Mukul Dhar Sonar Kella Bengali 1975 No Award 1976 Raju Shrestha Deepak Kumar Agnihotri Chitchor Hindi 1977 Ajith Kumar Naani Ghatashraddha Kannada 1978 Kanchan De Biswas Ganadevata Bengali 1979 Geeta Khanna Bhavana Aangan Ki Kali Hindi 1980 Aravind Appu Oppol Malayalam 1981 Leikhendra Singh Thoithoi Imagi Ningthem Meitei 1982 Vimal Rajesh Aaroodam Malayalam 1983 Suresh Kayama Malamukalile Daivam Malayalam 1984 Aravind Vinod My Dear Kuttichathan Malayalam Suresh Vijay Mukesh Sonia Lakshmi 1985 Puneeth Rajkumar Ramu Bettada Hoovu Kannada 1986 Aniket Sengupta Kanu Phera Bengali 1987 Manjunath Swamy Swamy Hindi 1988 Shafiq Syed Krishna Salaam Bombay! Hindi 1989 Mrinmayee Chandorkar Chhakuli Kalat Nakalat Marathi 1990 Shamili Anjali Anjali Tamil Tarun Arjun Shruthi Anu 1991 Santhosh Reddy Bhadram Koduko Telugu 1992 Amit Phalke Mujhse Dosti Karoge Hindi 1993 Tarasankar Misra Lavanya Preethi Odia 1994 Vijay Raghavendra Kotresha Kotreshi Kanasu Kannada 1995 Vishwas Murthy Kraurya Kannada 1996 Annapareddy Kavya Bunny Little Soldiers Telugu Kumar Parameswaran Desadanam Malayalam 1997 Dhanraj Dhanna Hindi 1998 P. Shwetha Malli Malli Tamil 1999 Aswin Thampy Jalamarmaram Malayalam 2000 Udayaraj Balasubramaniam Nila Kaalam Tamil 2001 P. Shwetha Kannamma Kutty Tamil 2002 Shweta Prasad Chunni / Munni Makdee Hindi P. S. Keerthana Amudha Kannathil Muthamittal Tamil 2003 Ashwin Chitale Parashuram Vichare Shwaas Marathi Kalidas Jayaram Vasudev Ente Veedu Appoontem Malayalam 2004 Om Bhutkar Joze Chhota Sipahi Hindi 2005 Sai Kumar Bommalata Telugu 2006 Divya Chaphadkar Antarnad Konkani 2007 Sharad Goekar Tingya Tingya Marathi 2008 Shams Patel Municipality Thanks Maa Hindi 2009 Kishore Anbukkarasu Pasanga Tamil Sree Raam Jeeva Nithyanandham 2010 Harsh Mayar Chotu I Am Kalam Hindi Shantanu Ranganekar Sanjya Champions Marathi Machindra Gadkar Raju Vivek Chabukswar Baboo Baboo Band Baaja Marathi 2011 Partho Gupte Stanley Fernandes Stanley Ka Dabba Hindi Irrfan Khan Fatka Chillar Party Hindi Sanath Menon Arjun / Encyclopedia Rohan Grover Rishabh / Ronny / Ramashanker Iyer / Akram Naman Jain Balwan / Jhangiya Aarav Khanna Aflatoon Vishesh Tiwari Lakshman / Second Hand Chinmai Chandranshuh Lucky / Panauti Vedant Desai Silencer Divij Handa Shaolin Shriya Sharma Toothpaste 2012 Virendra Pratap Ghumroo Dekh Indian Circus Hindi Minon Anilkumar Bokaro 101 Chodyangal Malayalam 2013 Somnath Awghade Jambuvant Kachru Mane Fandry MarathiSadhana Chellamma Thanga Meenkal Tamil 2014 J. Vignesh Periya Kaaka Muttai Kaaka Muttai Tamil Ramesh Chinna Kaaka Muttai 2015Gourav Menon Ben Ben Malayalam 2016 Adish Praveen Joseph / Ousepachan Kunju Daivam Malayalam Noor Islam Chhotu Sahaj Paather Gappo Bengali Samiul Alam Gopal Manohara K. Jollu Railway Children Kannada 2017 Bhanita Das Dhunu Village Rockstars Assamese 2018 P. V. Rohith Sameera Ondalla Eradalla Kannada Sameep Singh Young Harjeet Singh Harjeeta Punjabi Talha Ahmed Reshi Hamid Hamid Urdu Shrinivas Pokale Chaitanya Bhosale Naal Marathi 2019 Naga Vishal Kutty Karuppudurai Tamil2020 Akanksha PingleSumatiSumiMarathi Divyesh IndulkarChinmay Anish Mangesh GosaviVishal Tak-Tak2021 Bhavin Rabari Samay Last Film Show Gujarati2022 Sreepath Yan Piyush Unni Malikappuram Malayalam 2023 Sukriti Veni Bandreddi Gandhi Gandhi Tatha Chettu Telugu Kabir Khandare Jotya Gypsy Marathi Treesha Thosar Chimi / Revati Naal 2 Marathi Shrinivas Pokale Chaitanya "Chaitya" Bhosale Bhargav Jagtap Mani2024 Arundev Pothula Arun 35 Chinna Katha Kaadu Telugu Athish S. Shetty Mithya Mithya Kannada Riddhiman Banerjee Babin Onko Ki Kothin Bengali Tapomoy Deb Tyre Gitashree ChakrabortyDolly
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives National Film Awards at IMDb