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The National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director 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 feature films and awarded with Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).

Awarded forBest debutant directorial work of a year
Sponsored byNational Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly called
  • Award for Best First Film of a Director (1980–1983)
  • Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director (1984–2009)
  • Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director (2010–2021)
Rewards
  • Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
  • ₹3,00,000
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National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Awarded forBest debutant directorial work of a year
Sponsored byNational Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly called
  • Award for Best First Film of a Director (1980–1983)
  • Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director (1984–2009)
  • Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director (2010–2021)
Rewards
  • Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
  • ₹3,00,000
First award1980
Most recent winnerRandeep Hooda, Swatantrya Veer Savarkar (2024)
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The award was instituted in 1980, at 28th National Film Awards[1] and has been awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (12 awards), Bengali and Malayalam (9 awards each), Tamil (5 awards), Marathi (4 awards), Assamese, English and Telugu (2 awards each), Haryanvi, Jasari, Karbi and Ladakhi (1 award each).

The award includes 'Golden Lotus Award' (Swarna Kamal) and cash prize. Until 69th edition, the award was given to director and producer. The name was shortened to Best Debut Film of a Director since 70th National Film Awards,[2][3] and the director alone is awarded. The prize money was increased to ₹3,00,000.[4]

Winners

Indicates a joint award for that year

1980–2021

More information List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s), Year ...
List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s)
Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) Refs.
1980
(28th)		 Maina Tadanta Bengali  – Utpalendu Chakrabarty [1]
1981
(29th)		 Aadharshila Hindi Ashok Ahuja Ashok Ahuja [5]
1982
(30th)		 Kann Sivanthaal Mann Sivakkum Tamil R. Venkat Raman Sreedhar Rajan [6]
1983
(31st)		 Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro Hindi NFDC Kundan Shah [7]
1984
(32nd)		 Meendum Oru Kaathal Kathai Tamil Radhika Pothan Prathap K. Pothan [8]
1985
(33rd)		 New Delhi Times Hindi P. K. Tiwari Romesh Sharma [9]
1986
(34th)		 Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin Hindi Sudhir Mishra Sudhir Mishra [10]
1987
(35th)		 Ekti Jiban Bengali Chalchitra Raja Mitra [11]
1988
(36th)		 Trishagni Hindi Nabendu Ghosh Nabendu Ghosh [12]
1989
(37th)		 Wosobipo Karbi Karbi Anglong District Council Gautam Bora [13]
1990
(38th)		 Perumthachan Malayalam G. Jayakumar Ajayan [14]
1991
(39th)		 Haladhar Assamese Geeti Barua and Dwijen Hazorika Sanjeev Hazorika [15]
1992
(40th)		 Miss Beatty's Children English NFDC, Doordarshan and Rooks AV Pamela Rooks [16]
1993
(41st)		 Sunya Theke Suru Bengali H. Das, Madhumanti Maitra and M. Das Ashoke Viswanathan [17]
1994
(42nd)		 Mogamul Tamil J. Dharmambal Gnana Rajasekaran [18]
1995
(43rd)		 Kahini Bengali Chandramala Bhattacharya and Malaya Bhattacharya Malaya Bhattacharya [19]
1996
(44th)		 Rag Birag Assamese Bhabhen Baruah and Khanin Baruah Bidyut Chakraborty [20]
1997
(45th)		 Bhoothakkannadi Malayalam Nair Krishnakumar Unni A. K. Lohithadas [21]
1998
(46th)		 Daya Malayalam C. K. Gopinath Venu [22]
1999
(47th)		 Dollar Dreams English Sekhar Kammula Sekhar Kammula [23]
Laado Haryanvi Kumud Chaudhary Ashwini Chaudhary
2000
(48th)		 Sayahnam Malayalam M. S. Nazeer R. Sarath [24]
2001
(49th)		 Thilaadanam Telugu NFDC K. N. T. Sastry [25]
2002
(50th)		 Patalghar Bengali Niti Sonee Gourisaria Abhijit Chaudhuri [26]
Prohor Bengali Debjani Gupta Subhadro Chaudhary
2003
(51st)		 Margam Malayalam Rajiv Vijay Raghavan Rajiv Vijay Raghavan [27]
2004
(52nd)		 Grahanam Telugu N. Anji Reddy Mohan Krishna Indraganti [28]
2005
(53rd)		 Parineeta Hindi Vidhu Vinod Chopra Pradeep Sarkar [29]
2006
(54th)		 Eakantham Malayalam Anthony Joseph Madhu Kaithapram [30]
Kabul Express Hindi Aditya Chopra Kabir Khan
2007
(55th)		 Frozen Hindi / Ladakhi Shivajee Chandrabhushan Shivajee Chandrabhushan [31]
2008
(56th)		 A Wednesday! Hindi UTV Motion Pictures Neeraj Pandey [32]
2009
(57th)		 Lahore Hindi Vivek Khatkar Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan [33]
2010
(58th)		 Baboo Band Baaja Marathi Nita Jadhav Rajesh Pinjani [34]
2011
(59th)		 Aaranya Kaandam Tamil S. P. Charan Thiagarajan Kumararaja [35]
2012
(60th)		 Chittagong Hindi Bedabrata Pain Bedabrata Pain [36]
101 Chodyangal Malayalam Thomas Kottackkakom Sidhartha Siva
2013
(61st)		 Fandry Marathi Navalkha Arts and Holy Basil Combine Nagraj Manjule [37]
2014
(62nd)		 Asha Jaoar Majhe Bengali For Films and Salaam Cinema Aditya Vikram Sengupta [38]
2015
(63rd)		 Masaan Hindi Phantom Films Neeraj Ghaywan [39]
2016
(64th)		 Alifa Bengali Amaan Ahmed Deep Choudhury [40]
2017
(65th)		 Sinjar Jasari Shibu G. Suseelan Pampally
2018
(66th)		 Naal Marathi Nagraj Manjule Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti [41][42]
2019
(67th)		 Helen Malayalam Vineeth Sreenivasan Mathukutty Xavier
2020
(68th)		 Mandela Tamil S. Sashikanth Madonne Ashwin [43]
2021
(69th)		 Meppadiyan Malayalam Unni Mukundan Films Vishnu Mohan [44]
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2022–present

Since the 70th National Film Awards, director alone is awarded.

More information List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), and director(s), Year ...
List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), and director(s)
Year Film(s) Language(s) Director(s) Refs.
2022
(70th)		 Fouja Haryanvi Pramod Kumar [45]
2023
(71st)		 Aatmapamphlet Marathi Ashish Avinash Bende [46]
2024
(72nd)		 Swatantrya Veer Savarkar Hindi Randeep Hooda [47]
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