National Film Award for Best Children's Film

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The National Film Award for Best Children's 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 feature films and awarded with Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).

Sponsored byNational Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly calledPrime Minister's Gold Medal for the Best Children's Film
Rewards
  • Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
  • ₹3,00,000
First award1954
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National Film Award for Best Children's Film
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored byNational Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly calledPrime Minister's Gold Medal for the Best Children's Film
Rewards
  • Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
  • ₹3,00,000
First award1954
Most recent winnerNaal 2 (2023)
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The award was instituted in 1954, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for children's films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (28 awards), Bengali and Kannada (7 each), Malayalam (6 awards), English (5 awards), Marathi (4 awards), Tamil, Telugu, Odia and Assamese (1 each).

Winners

Award includes 'Golden Lotus Award' (Swarna Kamal) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

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Awards legends
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 Swarna Kamal (Gold Medal) for the Best Children's Film
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 Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Children's Film
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 Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Children's Film
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 Certificate of Merit for the Best Children's Film
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 Indicates a joint award for that year
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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.
1953
(1st)		 Khela Ghar Bengali Aurora Films  – [1]
1954
(2nd)		 No Award [2]
1955
(3rd)		 No Award [3]
1956
(4th)		 Jaldeep Bengali Children's Film Society Kidar Sharma [4]
1957
(5th)		 Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke Hindi AVM Productions P. L. Santoshi [5]
Janmatithi Bengali R. B. Films Dilip Mukherjee
1958
(6th)		 Virsa and the Magic Doll English Little Cinema Pvt Ltd. Santi P. Chowdhury [6]
1959
(7th)		 Banyan Deer English Films Division  • Ahmed Lateef
 • Shanti Verma
 • G. G. Saraiya		 [7]
1960
(8th)		 Phool Aur Kaliyan Hindi Rajkamal Kalamandir Ram Gabale [8]
Idd Mubarak Hindi Children's Film Society Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Delhi Ki Kahani Hindi Children's Film Society Rajendra Kumar
1961
(9th)		 Hattogol Vijay Hindi Hari S. Dasgupta Productions  • Buju Das Gupta
 • Raghunath Goswami		 [9]
Savitri Hindi Children's Film Society Phani Majumdar
Nanhe Munne Sitare Hindi Ajay Kumar Chakravarty Ajay Kumar Chakravarty
1962
(10th)		 Raju Aur Gangaram Hindi Children's Film Society Ezra Mir [10]
1963
(11th)		 Panch Puthliyan Hindi Children's Film Society Amit Bose [11]
1964
(12th)
1965
(13th)		 The Adventure of A Sugar Doll English Children's Film Society Kantilal Rathod [12]
As You Like It English Children's Film Society S. Shankar
1966
(14th)
1967
(15th)		 No Award [13]
1968
(16th)		 Heerer Prajapati Bengali Children's Film Society Shanti P. Chowdhury [14]
1969
(17th)		 No Award [15]
1970
(18th)		 No Award [16]
1971
(19th)		 Wings of Fire English  –  –
1972
(20th)		 No Award [17]
1973
(21st)		 No Award [18]
1974
(22nd)		 No Award [19]
1975
(23rd)		 No Award [20]
1976
(24th)
1977
(25th)		 Safed Haathi Hindi  • R. A. Jalan
 • Pratap Agarwal		 Tapan Sinha [21]
1978
(26th)		 Joi Baba Felunath Bengali R. D. Bansal Satyajit Ray [22]
1979
(27th)		 Dangeyedda Makkalu Kannada  • T. N. Narasimhan
 • B. S. Somasundar		 U. S. Vadiraj
1980
(28th)		 No Award [23]
1981
(29th)		 No Award [24]
1982
(30th)		 No Award [25]
1983
(31st)		 Bhombal Sardar Bengali Government of West Bengal Nripen Ganguly [26]
1984
(32nd)		 My Dear Kuttichathan Malayalam M. C. Punnoose Jijo Punnoose [27]
1985
(33rd)		 Aazadi Ki Ore Hindi Sangeethalaya P. S. Prakash [28]
1986
(34th)		 No Award [29]
1987
(35th)		 Swamy Hindi T. S. Narasimhan Shankar Nag [30]
1988
(36th)		 Manu Uncle Malayalam Joy Thomas Dennis Joseph [31]
1989
(37th)		 Ankur Maina Aur Kabootar Hindi Children's Film Society Madan Bawaria [32]
Jamboo Savari Kannada K. S. L. Swame (Lalitha Ravee) K. S. L. Swame (Lalitha Ravee)
1990
(38th)		 No Award [33]
1991
(39th)		 Abhayam Malayalam Children's Film Society Sivan [34]
1992
(40th)		 Mujhse Dosti Karoge Hindi National Center of Films for Children and Young People Gopi Desai [35]
1993
(41st)		 Lavanya Preeti Oriya National Center of Films for Children and Young People Apurba Kishore Bir [36]
1994
(42nd)		 Kochaniyan Malayalam Bushura Shahudeen Satheesh Vengannoor [37]
Abhay Hindi National Center of Films for Children and Young People Annu Kapoor
1995
(43rd)		 Halo Hindi National Center of Films for Children and Young People Santosh Sivan [38]
1996
(44th)		 Damu Bengali Art Films Raja Sen [39]
1997
(45th)		 Ramayanam Telugu M. S. Reddy Gunasekhar [40]
1998
(46th)		 Kabhi Pass Kabhi Fail Hindi National Center of Films for Children and Young People Virendra Saini [41]
1999
(47th)		 Goal Hindi Children's Film Society Gul Bahar Singh [42]
2000
(48th)		 Gharaksharangal Malayalam Salim Padiyath Salim Padiyath [43]
2001
(49th)		 No Award [44]
2002
(50th)		 Baaja Hindi Children's Film Society Apurba Kishore Bir [45]
2003
(51st)		 Tora Assamese Children's Film Society Jahnu Barua [46]
2004
(52nd)		 Chutkan Ki Mahabharat Hindi Children's Film Society Sankalp Meshram [47]
2005
(53rd)		 The Blue Umbrella Hindi UTV Motion Pictures Vishal Bhardwaj [48]
2006
(54th)		 Care of Footpath Kannada Shylaja Shrikanth Kishan Shrikanth [49]
2007
(55th)		 Photo Hindi Children's Film Society Virendra Saini [50]
2008
(56th)		 Gubbachigalu Kannada Media House Studio Abhaya Simha [51]
2009
(57th)		 Putaani Party Kannada Children's Film Society Ramchandra P. N. [52]
Keshu Malayalam Children's Film Society Sivan
2010
(58th)		 Hejjegalu Kannada Basanta Kumar Patil P. R. Ramadas Naidu [53]
2011
(59th)		 Chillar Party Hindi  • UTV Software Communications
 • Salman Khan		  • Vikas Bahl
 • Nitesh Tiwari		 [54]
2012
(60th)		 Dekh Indian Circus Hindi Mahaveer Jain Mangesh Hadawale [55]
2013
(61st)		 Kaphal Hindi Children's Film Society Batul Mukhtiar [56]
2014
(62nd)		 Kaaka Muttai Tamil Grass Root Film Company M. Manikandan [57]
Elizabeth Ekadashi Marathi Essel Vision Productions Ltd. Paresh Mokashi
2015
(63rd)		 Budhia Singh – Born to Run Hindi Code Red Films Soumendra Padhi [58]
2016
(64th)		 Dhanak Hindi Drishyam Films Nagesh Kukunoor [59]
2017
(65th)		 Mhorkya Marathi Kalyan Rajmogli Padal Amar Bharat Deokar
2018
(66th)		 Sarkari Hi. Pra. Shaale, Kasaragodu, Koduge: Ramanna Rai Kannada Rishab Shetty Films Rishab Shetty [60]
2019
(67th)		 Kastoori Hindi Insight Films Vinod Uttreshwar Kamble [61]
2020
(68th)		 Sumi Marathi Harshall Kamat Entertainment & Golden Mouse Productions Amol Vasant Gole [62]
2021
(69th)		 Gandhi & Co. Gujarati Manish Saini [63]
2022
(70th)		 No Award [64]
2023
(71st)		 Naal 2 Marathi Nagraj Manjule
& Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti		 Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti [65]
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