The National Film Award – Special Jury Award 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. The recipients of Special Jury Award were awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus), cash prize of and 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. The award was discontinued at the 70th National Film Awards.
Winners
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 No Award 1979 No Award 1980 No Award 1981 No Award 1982 No Award 1983 No Award 1984 Shri Hemkunt Saahib 1985 Rajan Khosa Director Bodhvriksha Hindi 1986 Yash Chaudhary Director Equal Partners English 1987 Rajiv Mehrotra ProducerDirectorCameraman Barren Harvest English 1988 Mani Kaul Director Before My Eyes 1989 K. R. Mohanan Director Kalamandalam Krishnankutty Poduval Malayalam 1990 Gulzar Director Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Hindi 1991 Aribam Syam Sharma Director Meitei Pung English 1991 B. Narsing Rao Director Akruti 1992 Salam Karassery Producer Noottantinte Sakshi Malayalam Sasibhushan Director 1993 Murali Nair Director Tragedy of an Indian Farmer English Mahesh Thottathil Director Death of a Prodigal Son HindiEnglish 1994 Soumitra Sarkar ProducerDirectorScreenwriter Games We Played in My Youth EnglishBengali 1995 Sehjo Singh Producer Sona Maati Marwari 1996 Nilotpal Majumdar ProducerDirectorCinematographer Dhatu Jhar '96 Bengali 1997 No Award 1998 Pavan Malhotra Actor Faqir Hindi 1999 Deep Prakash Director Of Confucius, S-Spots and Toyguns EnglishHindiMarathiTamil 2000 Roabin Mazumdar Producer A Memory of the Sea English Lygia Mathews Director 2001 Kireet Khurana ProducerOrchestraHindi Bhimsain Director 2002 Wrik Basu and team Director 00:00 English 2003 Kadhambari Chintamani Producer The Lijjat Sisterhood English Ajit Oommen Director 2003 Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti Director Ek Aakash 2004 Amit Dutta Director Kshy Tra Ghya Hindi 2005 Rakesh Sharma Director Final Solution HindiGujaratiEnglish 2006 Anuradha Mookerjee Producer Lama Dances of Sikkim English Manash Bhowmick Director 2007 Amalan Datta ProducerBhultir KheroBengali Anirban Datta Director Public Service Broadcasting Trust ProducerPoomaramMalayalam Vipin Vijay Director 2008 Rajesh S. Jala Director Children of the Pyre Hindi 2009 Aasna Aslam Child actor Kelkkunnundo Malayalam 2010 No Award 2011 Anand Patwardhan Director Jai Bhim Comrade Marathi 2012 Shumona GoelDirectorI Am MicroEnglish Shai Heredia Vasudha Joshi Director Cancer Katha English 2013 Girish Kasaravalli Director Ananthamurthy – Not A Biography...But A Hypothesis English Satyanshu Singh Director Tamaash English Devanshu Singh 2014 Films Division Producer A Poet, A City & A Footballer English Joshy Joseph Director 2015 No Award 2016 Shirley Abraham Producer and director The Cinema Travellers 2017 Films Division of India Producer A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Prateek Vats Director FTII Producer Monday Arun K. Director 2018 Harish Shah Director Why Me ? Neeraj Singh Art Director Ekaant 2019 Vipin VijayDirector Small Scale Societies English 2020 Ojaswee Sharma Director Admitted 2021 Shekhar Bapu Rankhambe Rekha Marathi
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives