The National Film Award for Best Animated 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 feature films and awarded with a Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal). At the 70th National Film Awards, the category was discontinued and combined with Best Special Effects. The new award is named as National Film Award for Best Film in AVGC ( Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming & Comic) with two categories, one for the producer and director, and the other one for visual effects supervisor.
The award was instituted in 2006, at 54th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (3 awards), Tamil and Telugu (1 each).
The award includes a cash prize of .
Winners
List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s), director(s) and animator(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) Animator(s) 2006 Kittu Telugu Bhargava Kodavanti B. Sathya 2007 Inimey Nangathan Tamil S. Sridevi S. Venky Baboo Mayabimbham Media P Ltd 2008 Roadside Romeo Hindi Aditya Chopra Jugal Hansraj Tata Elxsi/VCL 2009 No Award 2010 No Award 2011 No Award 2012 Delhi Safari Hindi Anupama Patil Kishor Patil Nikhil Advani Rafique Shaikh 2013 No Award 2014 No Award 2015 No Award 2016 Mahayoddha Rama Hindi Contiloe Pictures Pvt. Ltd. Rohit Vaid Deepak S.V
References
External links
Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives National Film Awards at IMDb