The National Film Award for Best Production Design is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of the several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1979, at the 27th National Film Awards as National Film Award for Best Art Direction, and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (18 awards), Tamil (6 awards), Malayalam (6 awards), Bengali (4 awards), Kannada, Urdu, English, Marathi (two each), Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Konkani (one Each).
The award renamed as "National Film Award for Best Production Design" from the 57th National Film Awards in 2011.
Multiple winners 4 Wins: Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Samir Chanda & Sabu Cyril 3 Wins: Nitish Roy & P. Krishnamoorthy 2 Wins: Jayoo Patwardhan, Thota Tharani & Indranil Ghosh
Recipients
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver 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 Recipient(s) Film(s) Language(s) 1979 Jayoo Patwardhan 22 June 1897 Marathi 1980 Meera Lakhia Bhavni Bhavai Gujarati 1981 Manzur Umrao Jaan Urdu 1982 Nitish Roy Kharij Bengali 1983 Nitish Roy Mandi Hindi 1984 Nachiket Patwardhan Utsav Hindi Jayoo Patwardhan 1985 Sham Bhutker Rao Saheb Hindi 1986 P. Krishnamoorthy Madhvacharya Kannada 1987 Thota Tharani Nayakan Tamil 1988 Thota Vaikuntam Daasi Telugu 1989 P. Krishnamoorthy Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha Malayalam 1990 Nitish Roy Lekin... Hindi 1991 Samir Chanda Rukmavati Ki Haveli Hindi 1992 Samir Chanda Rudaali Hindi 1993 Suresh Sawant Muhafiz HindiUrdu 1994 Sabu Cyril Thenmavin Kombath Malayalam 1995 Sabu Cyril Kalapani Malayalam 1996 Thota Tharani Indian Tamil 1997 Ramesh Desai Thaayi Saheba Kannada 1998 Nitin Chandrakant Desai Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar English 1999 Nitin Chandrakant Desai Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam Hindi 2000 P. Krishnamoorthy Bharati Tamil 2001 Nitin Chandrakant Desai Lagaan Hindi 2002 Nitin Chandrakant Desai Devdas Hindi 2003 Indranil Ghosh Chokher Bali Bengali Sharmishta Roy Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities Hindi 2004 Samir Chanda Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero EnglishHindi 2005 C. B. More Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story Hindi 2006 Rashid Rangrez Waris Shah: Ishq Daa Waaris Punjabi 2007 Sabu Cyril Om Shanti Om Hindi 2008 Gautam Sen Firaaq Hindi 2009 Samir Chanda Delhi-6 Hindi 2010 Sabu Cyril Enthiran Tamil 2011 Indranil Ghosh Noukadubi Bengali 2012 Boontawee 'Thor' Taweepasas Vishwaroopam Tamil Lalgudi N. Ilayaraja 2013 Ashim Ahluwalia Miss Lovely Hindi Tabasheer Zutshi Parichit Paralkar 2014 Aparna RainaNachom-ia KumpasarKonkani 2015 Shriram Iyengar Bajirao Mastani Hindi Saloni Dhatrak Sujeet Sawant 2016 Subrata Chakraborthy 24 Tamil Shreyas Khedekar Amit Ray 2017 Santhosh Raman Take Off Malayalam 2018 Vinesh Banglan Kammara Sambhavam Malayalam 2019 Nilesh Wagh Anandi Gopal Marathi Sunil Nigwekar 2020 Anees Nadodi Kappela Malayalam 2021 Dmitri Malich-KonkovSardar UdhamHindi Mansi Dhruv Mehta 2022Ananda Addhya Aparajito Bengali 2023 Mohandas 2018 Malayalam 2024 Nitin Zihani Choudhary Kalki 2898 AD Telugu
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives National Film Awards at IMDb