The National Film Award for Best Scientific 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 70th National Film Awards, the award is discontinued and clubbed with National Film Award for Best Investigative Film, National Film Award for Best Promotional Film, National Film Award for Best Educational/Motivational/Instructional Film, National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film, National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film, National Film Award for Best Agriculture Film and National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues and National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Environment/Conservation/Preservation Film, and two new categories were created; Best Documentary and Best Non Feature Film Promoting Social and Environmental Values.
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 Aranya Aamar Bengali West Bengal Ministry of Forest Tarun Majumdar 1985 Power to the People English B. N. Mehra K. Balakrishnan Nair 1986 Kaamdhenu Redeemed English Radha NarayananMohi-Ud-Din Mirza Mohi-Ud-Din Mirza 1987 A Cooperative for Snake Catchers English Eco Media Pvt Ltd Romulus WhitakerShekar Dattatri 1988 Reconstructive Surgery Leprosy (Hand) English Jal Mehta Anil Revankar 1989 Neuropathic Foot in Leprosy English Jal Mehta Vishram Revankar 1990 Biotechnology: Some Possibilities English Gul Bahar Singh for Films Division Nishith Banerjee 1991 Silent Valley: An Indian Rain forest English Eco Media Pvt Ltd Shekar DattatriRevati Mukherjee 1992 Chunauti Marathi D. G. Information and Public Relations, Government of Maharashtra Dinkar Chowdhary 1993 No Award 1994 Another Way of Learning English Comet Media Foundation Chandita Mukherjee 1995 A Celestial Tryst(N. M. No. 291) English Y. N. Engineer for Films Division Y. N. Engineer for Films Division 1996 No Award 1997 Ayurveda English D. Gautaman for Films Division Bhanumurthy Alur Cancer Hindi Bhanumurthy Alur for Films Division C. K. M. Rao 1998 No Award 1999 No Award 2000 Vedic Mathematics English Bhanumurthy Alur for Films Division K. Jagjivan Ram for Films Division 2001 No Award 2002 No Award 2003 The 18 Elephant: Three Monologues Malayalam Savithri Divakaran P. Balan 2004 Timeless Traveller-The Horseshoe Crab English Riverbank Studios Gautam Pandey 2005 Under This Sun Bengali Nilanjan Bhattacharya Nilanjan Bhattacharya 2006 Kalpavriksha: Legacy of Forests English Mike Pandey Nina Subramani 2007 No Award 2008 Trip English FTII Emmanuel Palo 2009 No Award 2010 Heart to Heart Manipuri and English Rotary Club of Imphal Bachaspatimayum Sunzu 2011 No Award 2012 No Award 2013 The Pad Piper English Akanksha Sood Singh Akanksha Sood Singh 2014 No Award 2015 No Award 2016 No Award 2017 No Award 2018 G. D. Naidu: The Edison of India English Films Division of India K. Ranjith Kumar 2019 No Award 2020 On the Brink Season 2 Bats English The Gaia People Akanksha Sood Singh 2021 Ethos of Darkness Sri Ganesh Productions Avijit Banerjee
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives