The National Film Award – Special Mention 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. The recipients of Special Mention are awarded with certificate of merit.
The award was instituted in 1978, at 26th National Film Awards and awarded annually for the short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
Winners
Award includes only certificate of merit for the recipients of Special Mention. This award considers all the aspects of film making than individual area. Following are the award winners over the years:
List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), awarded as, film(s) and language(s) Year Recipient(s) Awarded as Film(s) Language(s) 1978 Loksen Lavnani for Films Division Director The Burning Stone English 1979 No Award 1980 Adoor Gopalakrishnan Producer and Director The Chola Heritage English Films Division Producer Pampa English P. C. Sharma Director 1981 No Award 1982 No Award 1983 National Institute of Design Producer Jalshakti Hindi I. S. Mathur DirectorKerala State Film Development Corporation Producer Thalam Malayalam Joy Mathew Director National Institute of Design Producer Energy-Merry-Go-Round English Best Biographical Film Veer Savarkar Marathi Best Scientific Film Handling Fuel Oils Fission Power 306 Rejuvenation English Best Exploration/Adventure Film Against Current Exploration Antarctica English Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film Cobra: The Snake God English Perumkaliattam Malayalam Leather Puppetry of Karnataka English Nishan Hindi Best Exploration/Adventure Film Against Current Exploration Antarctica English Best Historical Reconstruction Film Tambaccucha Samna Marathi Bidaai Hindi 1984 No Award 1985 FTII Producer Prisoners of Circumstances Telugu Ramesh Handoo Director R. K. Gupta Producer Anukaram Telugu Gul Bahar Singh Director 1986 No Award 1987 Ashok Gunjal Cameraman The Kingdom of God English 1988 N. H. Prasad Director Dispossession English 1989 No Award 1990 Raj Gopal Rao Director Technique of Seed Production in Wheat and Paddy English Siddharth Kak Director Cactus and Roses English Dilip Ghose Director Aadhi Haqueeqat Aadha Fasana Hindi Naresh Saxena Director Sambandh Hindi 1991 Debal Basu Director Living on the Junk English 1992 No Award 1993 No Award 1994 Arun Kumar Roy Director and Screenwriter Of Tagore and Cinema English Gautam Haldar Director The Story of Integration English Kaviyoor Sivaprasad Director, Screenwriter and Editor Ormaynde Theerangalil Malayalam 1995 Arvind Singh Director Ajit Hindi Rashmi Film Society Producer Ithihasathile Khasak English and Malayalam Biswadeb Dasgupta Producer and Director Majhi Bengali 1996 No Award 1997 Gul Bahar Singh Director Gotipua English 1998 Unni Vijayan Director Jee Karta Tha Hindi 1999 Vinod Subramanian Director Fire English and Hindi 2000 Amal Neerod C. R. Cameraman Meena Jha Hindi Haimanti Banerjee Director Balgandharv Marathi 2001 A. R. Tripathi Producer Kalahandi Odia and English Sonali Kulkarni Actress Chaitra Marathi 2002 Raja Mitra Director Kalighat Paintings And Drawings English 2003 Shilpi Dasgupta Director Mangali: An Exorcision Aseem Bose Cameraman Water English 2004 No Award 2005 Vibhu Puri Director Chabiwali Pocket Watch Hindi Bidyut Kotoky Director Bhraimoman Theatre Assamese 2006 Kuldip Sinha ProducerSpecial ChildrenEnglish Suresh Menon Director 2007 No Award 2008 Aniket Rumade Child actor Vitthal Marathi 2009 Nikita Bhagat Cinematographer Vilay 2010 Shiny Jacob Benjamin Director Ottayal(One Woman Alone) Malayalam Ronel Haobam Director The Zeliangrongs Manipuri and English Suraj Pawar Child actor Pistulya Marathi and Telugu 2011 Spandan Banerjee Director You Don't Belong Bengali and English Renu Savant Director Airawat Marathi and Hindi 2012 Priya Goswami Director Pinch of Skin English and Hindi Andrea Iannetta Director Allah Is Great English, Hindi and Danish Sanjay Jangid Animator Raah 2013 Shweta Ghosh Director Accsex English and Hindi Kavita Bahl Director Candles in the Wind Punjabi and Hindi Nandan Saxena Madonne Ashwin Director Dharmam Tamil Rajdeep Paul Director At the Cross Roads : Nondon Bagchi Life and Living English and Bengali Sarmistha Maiti 2014 Mrinal Dev Director Gunjaa English Manoj Kumar Nitharwal Director Seek and Hide EnglishRuchir Arun Director 5 O'Clock Accident English 2015 Arun Shankar Director The Chameleon English Neelan Director Amma Malayalam Varun Tandon Director Syaahi Hindi 2016 Soumya Sadanandan Director Chembai: Descoperire A Mea Unei Legende Ramen Borah Director Sikar Aru Sitkar Sibanu Borah Amitabh Parashar Director The Eyes of Darkness 2017 Jayaraj Director Rebirth Rukshana Tabassum Director Cake Story Swapnil Vasant Kapure Director Afternoon 2018 Sagar Puranik Director Mahaan Hutatma Kannada Ramana Dumpala Director Glow Worm in a Jungle English Sameer and Kishore Sadhwani Director Laddoo Hindi 2019 No Award 2020 No Award 2021 Ganesh Babu Director Karuvarai Tamil Srikanth Deva Music director 2022 Aimee Baruah Producer and Director Birubala: Witch to Padmashri Assamese Partha Sarathi Mahanta DirectorHargila – The Greater Adjutant Stork Assamese PI Entertainment Producer 2023 M. K. Ramadas Producer and Director Nekal – Chronicle of The Paddy Man Malayalam Himansu Sekhar Khatua DirectorThe Sea & Seven Villages Odia Kadambini Media Pvt. Ltd. Producer
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives