The National Film Award for Best Direction 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 non-feature films and awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus).
The award was instituted in 2000, at 48th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
Winners
Award includes 'Swarna Kamal' (Golden 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)YearDirector(s)Film(s)Language(s) 2000 Arun Vasant Khopkar Rasikpriya Hindi and English 2001 Buddhadeb Dasgupta Jorasanko Thakurbari English 2002 Anjali Panjabi A Few Things I Know About Her English 2003 Arvind Sinha Kaya Poochhe Maya Se Hindi 2004 Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Girni Marathi 2005 Ganesh Shankar Gaikwad Voices Across the Oceans English and Hindi 2006 Ramesh Asher Ek Aadesh – Command For Choti Hindi 2007 Jayaraj Vellapokkathil Malayalam 2008 Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Three of Us Only Music 2009 No Award 2010 Arunima Sharma Shyam Raat Seher Hindi 2011 Iram Ghufran There is Something in the Air Hindi, Urdu and English 2012 Vikrant Pawar Kaatal Marathi 2013 Pranjal Dua Chidiya Udh 2014Renu Savant Aaranyak Marathi and English2015Christo Tomy Kamuki Malayalam 2016 Aaditya Jambhale Aaba... Aiktaay Na? Marathi 2017 Nagraj Manjule Pavasacha Nibandha Marathi 2018 Gautam Vaze Aai Shappath Marathi 2019 Sudhanshu Saria Knock Knock Knock English and Bengali 2020 R V Ramani Oh That’s Bhanu English, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi 2021 Bakul Matiyani Smile Please Hindi 2022 Miriam Chandy Menacherry From the Shadows English, Bengali and Hindi 2023 Piyush Thakur The First Film Hindi 2024 Aanand L. RaiStatue Of Unity: Ekta Ka PrateekHindi
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives