The National Film Award for Best Biographical Film was 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 was one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for the short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 69th National Film Awards, the award is clubbed with National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film, with the new category named as Best Biographical / Historical Reconstruction / Compilation Film.
Winners
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
Awards legends
List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1984 Padmashri Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair Malayalam James Paul Matthew Paul 1985 Satyajit Ray English Films Division Shyam Benegal The Seer Who Walks Alone English G. Aravindan G. Aravindan 1986 Sister Alphonsa of Bharananganam English Dejo KappenGeorge Sebastian Rajiv Vijay Raghavan Kamala Nehru English Uma Shankar Ashish Mukherjee 1987 Basheer: The Man English Kannakulam Abdulla M. R. Rahman 1988 No Award 1989 C. V. Raman: The Scientist and His Legacy English N. K. Saigal Nandan Kudhyadi 1990 Baba English Mediart Film Pvt. Ltd Rajiv Mehrotra 1991 Bhavantarana Oriya Bombay Cinematograph Kumar Shahani Kabitar Ananta Jatrapathe Bengali Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of West Bengal Sanat Kumar Dasgupta 1992 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Hindi Gulzar for Films Division Gulzar 1993 Colors of Absence English Shanta GokhaleArun Khopkar Arun Khopkar 1994 No Award 1995 A Living Legend English Aurora Film Corporation Satadru Chaki 1996 Hastir Kanya Assamese Digbijay Medhi Prabin Hazarika 1997 Mounam Sowmanasyam Malayalam T. Ravindranath Ravindran 1998 Premji: Ithihasathinte Sparsam Malayalam Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi M. R. Rajan Unarvinte Kalam: M.R.B. 1999 Nottam Malayalam Bina Narayan M. R. Rajan Mallika Sarabhai English Films Division Aruna Raje Patil 2000 Devanarthakan(The Divine Dancer) Malayalam A. V. Ali Koya for Kerala State Chalachitra Academy Sudish Gopalakrishnan 2001 Teejan Bai Hindi Kuldeep Sinha for Films Division V. Packirisamy 2002 Meeting Manjit English Ina Puri Buddhadeb Dasgupta 2003 No Award 2004 It's Prabhat Marathi A. V. Damle Madhavi Vaidya 2005 Hans Akela: Kumar Gandharva Hindi Films Division Jabbar Patel 2006 Minukku Malayalam Devadasan KeezhpattBina Narayanan M. R. Rajan Guru Laimayum Thambalngoubi Devi Manipuri Aribam Syam Sharma Aribam Syam Sharma 2007 Antardhwani Hindi Films Division Jabbar Patel 2008 The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: A Reconstruction English Films Division R. Krishna Mohan 2009 Pancham Unmixed BengaliHindiEnglish Brahmanand S Siingh Brahmanand S Siingh 2010 Nilamadhaba English Films Division Dilip Patnaik 2011 Vishnupant Damle: Bolpatancha Mook Nayak Marathi Anil Anant Damle Virendra Valsangkar 2012 Celluloid Man EnglishHindiKannadaBengali Shivendra Singh Dungarpur Shivendra Singh Dungarpur 2013 The Last Adieu English Films Division Shabnam Sukhdev 2014 Amar Katha: Story of Binodini Bengali Films Division Tuhinabha Majumder 2015 Life in Metaphors: A Portrait of Girish Kasaravalli EnglishKannada Reelism Film O. P. Shrivastava 2016 Zikr Us Parivaksha: Begum Akhtar English Sangeet Natak Akademi Nirmal Chander 2017 Naachi se Baanchi Films Division of India Biju Toppo Sword of Liberty R. C. Suresh Shiny Benjamin 2018 No Award 2019 Elephants Do Remember English Films Division of India Swati Pandey, Viplove Rai Bhatia & Manohar Singh Bisht 2020 Pabung Syam Manipuri Films Division of India Haobam Paban Kumar
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives