The National Film Award for Best Arts/Cultural Film 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 Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1985, at 33rd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
Winners
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1985 Warli Painting English B. R. Shendge V. K. Wankhede 1986 Our Islamic Heritage: Part II English K. K. Garg for Films Division K. K. Garg Classical Dance Forms of India: Koodiattam English Doordarshan Prakash Jha 1987 The Kingdom of God English Shilpabharati Publicity Ranabir Ray 1988 Scroll Painters of Birbhum (Patua) English Dilip GhoshBiswanath Bose Raja Mitra 1989 Siddheshwari Hindi Mani Kaul Mani Kaul 1990 Figures of Thought English Arun Khopkar Arun Khopkar Vaastu Marabu English Min Bimbangal Bala Kailasam 1991 Sanchari English Arun Khopkar Arun Khopkar 1992 The Recluse Hindi Arvind Sinha Arvind Sinha Suchitra Mitra Bengali Sailen Seth Raja Sen 1993 Anukampan Hindi Balaka Ghosh Balaka Ghosh 1994 Painting in Time English Topshots Sarbajit Sen 1995 Pakarnnattam Ammannur The Actor Malayalam P. G. Mohan M. R. RajanC. S. Venkiteswaran 1996 Nauka Charitramu English Saroj Satyanarayan Saroj Satyanarayan 1997 The Official Art Form English National Gallery of Modern Art Suhasini MulayR. M. Gharekhan 1998 A Painter of Eloquent Silence: Ganesh Pyne English Buddhadeb Dasgupta Buddhadeb Dasgupta 1999 "Thang Ta"- The Martial Art of Manipur English Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Aribam Syam Sharma 2000 Tribal Women Artists Hindi Kuldeep Sinha for Films Division Brij Bhushan for Films Division 2001 No Award 2002 The Eye of the Fish: The Kalaries of Kerala English Films Division Priya Krishnaswamy 2003 Picasso Metamorphoses English Y. N. Engineer for Films Division Nandkumar Sadamate 2004 No Award 2005 Naina Jogin Hindi and Maithili Praveen Kumar Praveen Kumar 2006 Jatra Jeevan Jeevan Jatra English Kailash Bhuyan Kapilas Bhuyan 2007 No Award 2008 Karna Motcham Tamil MGR Film and TV Institute S. Murali Manohar 2009 No Award 2010 Leaving Home Hindi Jaideep Varma Jaideep Varma 2011 Fried Fish, Chicken Soup and a Premiere Show Manipuri and English Madhusree Dutta Mamta Murthy Lasya Kavvya: The World of Alarmel Valli English Sankalp Meshram 2012 Modikhanyachya Don Goshti Marathi Gouri Patwardhan Gouri Patwardhan 2013 The Lost BehrupiyaEnglishHolybull Entertainment LLPSriram Dalton O Friend, This Waiting !Telugu and EnglishJustin MccarthySandhya Kumar 2014 Kapila Films Division Sanju Surendran 2015 A Far Afternoon: A Painted Saga Hindi and English Piramal Art Foundation Sruti Harihara Subramanian Yazhpanam Thedchanamoorthy: Music Beyond Boundaries Tamil Siddhartha Productions Amshan Kumar 2016 In the Shadow of Time English Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts Shankhajeet Dey The Lord of the Universe English Shibu Prusty Shibu Prusty 2017 Girija Madhu Chandra and Sudha Datta Debapriya Adhikary and Samanwaya Sarkar 2018 Bunkar: The Last of The Varanasi Weavers Narrative Pictures and Sapna Sharma Satyaprakash Upadhyay 2019 Shrikshetra Ru Sahijata Odia Ashutosh Pattnaik Ashutosh Pattnaik 2020 Naadada Navaneeta Dr PT Venkateshkumar Kannada Dept. of Information and Public Relations, Government of Karnataka Girish Kasaravalli 2021 T. N. Krishnan Bow Strings to Divine NFDC V. Packirisamy 2022 Ranga Vibhoga Kannada Suneel Narasimhachar Puranik Suneel Narasimhachar Puranik Varsa Marathi Sachin Balasaheb Suryawanshi Sachin Balasaheb Suryawanshi 2023 Timeless Tamil Nadu English Celebrities Management Private Limited Kamakhya Narayan Singh 2024 Main NidaHindiSampreshan MediaAtul Pandey
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives