The National Film Award for Best Children's Film 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 Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).
The award was instituted in 1954, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for children's films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (28 awards), Bengali and Kannada (7 each), Malayalam (6 awards), English (5 awards), Marathi (4 awards), Telugu (2 awards), Tamil, Odia and Assamese (1 award each).
Winners
Award includes 'Golden Lotus Award' (Swarna Kamal) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
Awards legends
List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1953 Khela Ghar Bengali Aurora Films 1954 No Award 1955 No Award 1956 Jaldeep Bengali Children's Film Society Kidar Sharma 1957 Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke Hindi AVM Productions P. L. Santoshi Janmatithi Bengali R. B. Films Dilip Mukherjee 1958 Virsa and the Magic Doll English Little Cinema Pvt Ltd. Santi P. Chowdhury 1959 Banyan Deer English Films Division Ahmed Lateef, Shanti Verma and G. G. Saraiya 1960 Phool Aur Kaliyan Hindi Rajkamal Kalamandir Ram Gabale Idd Mubarak Hindi Children's Film Society Khwaja Ahmad Abbas Delhi Ki Kahani Hindi Children's Film Society Rajendra Kumar 1961 Hattogol Vijay Hindi Hari S. Dasgupta Productions Buju Das Gupta and Raghunath Goswami Savitri Hindi Children's Film Society Phani Majumdar Nanhe Munne Sitare Hindi Ajay Kumar Chakravarty Ajay Kumar Chakravarty 1962 Raju Aur Gangaram Hindi Children's Film Society Ezra Mir 1963 Panch Puthliyan Hindi Children's Film Society Amit Bose 1964 No Award 1965 The Adventure of A Sugar Doll English Children's Film Society Kantilal Rathod As You Like It English Children's Film Society S. Shankar 1966 No Award 1967 No Award 1968 Heerer Prajapati Bengali Children's Film Society Shanti P. Chowdhury 1969 No Award 1970 No Award 1971 Wings of Fire English 1972 No Award 1973 No Award 1974 No Award 1975 No Award 1976 1977 Safed Haathi Hindi R. A. Jalan and Pratap Agarwal Tapan Sinha 1978 Joi Baba Felunath Bengali R. D. Bansal Satyajit Ray 1979 Dangeyedda Makkalu Kannada T. N. Narasimhan and B. S. Somasundar U. S. Vadiraj 1980 No Award 1981 No Award 1982 No Award 1983 Bhombal Sardar Bengali Government of West Bengal Nripen Ganguly 1984 My Dear Kuttichathan Malayalam M. C. Punnoose Jijo Punnoose 1985 Aazadi Ki Ore Hindi Sangeethalaya P. S. Prakash 1986 No Award 1987 Swamy Hindi T. S. Narasimhan Shankar Nag 1988 Manu Uncle Malayalam Joy Thomas Dennis Joseph 1989 Ankur Maina Aur Kabootar Hindi Children's Film Society Madan Bawaria Jamboo Savari Kannada K. S. L. Swame (Lalitha Ravee) 1990 No Award 1991 Abhayam Malayalam Children's Film Society Sivan 1992 Mujhse Dosti Karoge Hindi National Center of Films for Children and Young People Gopi Desai 1993 Lavanya Preeti Oriya National Center of Films for Children and Young People Apurba Kishore Bir 1994 Kochaniyan Malayalam Bushura Shahudeen Satheesh Vengannoor Abhay Hindi National Center of Films for Children and Young People Annu Kapoor 1995 Halo Hindi National Center of Films for Children and Young People Santosh Sivan 1996 Damu Bengali Art Films Raja Sen 1997 Ramayanam Telugu M. S. Reddy Gunasekhar 1998 Kabhi Pass Kabhi Fail Hindi National Center of Films for Children and Young People Virendra Saini 1999 Goal Hindi Children's Film Society Gul Bahar Singh 2000 Gharaksharangal Malayalam Salim Padiyath Salim Padiyath 2001 No Award 2002 Baaja Hindi Children's Film Society Apurba Kishore Bir 2003 Tora Assamese Children's Film Society Jahnu Barua 2004 Chutkan Ki Mahabharat Hindi Children's Film Society Sankalp Meshram 2005 The Blue Umbrella Hindi UTV Motion Pictures Vishal Bhardwaj 2006 Care of Footpath Kannada Shylaja Shrikanth Kishan Shrikanth 2007 Photo Hindi Children's Film Society Virendra Saini 2008 Gubbachigalu Kannada Media House Studio Abhaya Simha 2009 Putaani Party Kannada Children's Film Society Ramchandra P. N. Keshu Malayalam Children's Film Society Sivan 2010 Hejjegalu Kannada Basanta Kumar Patil P. R. Ramadas Naidu 2011 Chillar Party Hindi UTV Software Communications and Salman Khan Vikas Bahl and Nitesh Tiwari 2012 Dekh Indian Circus Hindi Mahaveer Jain Mangesh Hadawale 2013 Kaphal Hindi Children's Film Society Batul Mukhtiar 2014 Kaaka Muttai Tamil Grass Root Film Company M. Manikandan Elizabeth Ekadashi Marathi Essel Vision Productions Ltd. Paresh Mokashi 2015 Budhia Singh – Born to Run Hindi Code Red Films Soumendra Padhi 2016 Dhanak Hindi Drishyam Films Nagesh Kukunoor 2017 Mhorkya Marathi Kalyan Rajmogli Padal Amar Bharat Deokar2018Sarkari Hi. Pra. Shaale, Kasaragodu, Koduge: Ramanna RaiKannadaRishab Shetty FilmsRishab Shetty2019KastooriHindiInsight FilmsVinod Uttreshwar Kamble2020 SumiMarathi Harshall Kamat Entertainment and Golden Mouse ProductionsAmol Vasant Gole2021Gandhi & Co.GujaratiManish Saini 2022 No Award2023Naal 2 Marathi Nagraj Manjule and Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti202435 Chinna Katha Kaadu Telugu Srujan Yarabolu and Siddharth Rallapalli Nanda Kishore Emani
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives National Film Awards at IMDb