The National Film Award for Best English Feature Film is one of the National Film Awards of India presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The National Film Awards, established in 1954, are the most prominent film awards in India that merit the best of the Indian cinema. The ceremony also presents awards for films in various regional languages.
Awards for films in seven regional language (Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu) started from 2nd National Film Awards which were presented on 21 December 1955. Three awards of "President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film", "Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film" and "Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film" were instituted. The later two certificate awards were discontinued from 15th National Film Awards (1967).
Produced and directed by Serbjeet Singh, the 1964 film The Avalanche was honoured with the first president's silver medal for Best Feature Film in English. After 1964, awards were discontinued for certain period and resumed for feature films produced in 1981 at 29th National Film Awards.
Winners
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1964 The Avalanche Serbjeet Singh Serbjeet Singh 1981 36 Chowringhee Lane Shashi Kapoor Aparna Sen 1982 No Award 1983 No Award 1984 No Award 1985 No Award 1986 Watchman T. S. Narasimhan Shankar Nag 1987 No Award 1988 In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones Pradip Krishen Pradip Krishen 1989 No Award 1990 No Award 1991 No Award 1992 Electric Moon Bobby Bedi Pradip Krishen 1993 No Award 1994 English, August Anuradha Parikh Dev Benegal 1995 The Making of the Mahatma NFDC Shyam Benegal 1996 No Award 1997 No Award 1998 Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Government of IndiaGovernment of MaharashtraNFDC Jabbar Patel 1999 No Award 2000 Pandavas: The Five Warriors Pentamedia Graphics Ltd Pentamedia Graphics Ltd 2001 Mitr, My Friend Suresh Menon Revathi 2002 Stumble 2 Streams Media Prakash Belawadi 2003 Dance Like a Man NFDC Pamela Rooks 2004 Amu Shonali Bose Shonali Bose 2005 15 Park Avenue Bipin Kumar Vohra Aparna Sen 2006 Quest Amol Palekar Amol Palekar 2007 The Last Lear Arindam Chaudhuri Rituparno Ghosh 2008 Land Gold Women Vivek Agrawal Avantika Hari 2009 No Award 2010 Memories in March Shrikant Mohta Sanjoy Nag 2011 No Award 2012Lessons in ForgettingPrince ThampiUnni Vijayan 2013The Coffin MakerShree Narayan StudioVeena Bakshi 2014 No Award 2015 No Award 2016 No Award 2017 No Award 2018 No Award 2019 No Award 2020 No Award 2021 No Award 2022 No Award
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives