National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director explained

National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director
Subheader:	National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Awarded For:	Best debutant directorial work of a year
Sponsor:	Directorate of Film Festivals
Firstawarded:	1980
Lastawarded:	2022
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	Fouja
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	45
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	Maina Tadanta

The National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organization set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal). The name was shortened to Best Debut Film of a Director since 70th National Film Awards.^{[1] [2]}

The award was instituted in 1980, at 28th National Film Awards and has been awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (11 Awards), Bengali and Malayalam (9 Awards each), Tamil (5 Awards), Marathi (3 Awards), Assamese, English and Telugu (2 each), Haryanvi, Jasari, Karbi and Ladakhi (1 Each).

The award includes 'Golden Lotus Award' (Swarna Kamal) and cash prize. Award, sometimes, also be given as Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of A Director. Following are the award winners over the years:

Winners

Indicates a joint award for that year

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation
1980	Maina Tadanta	Bengali		Utpalendu Chakrabarty		^[3]
1981	Aadharshila	Hindi	Ashok Ahuja	Ashok Ahuja		^[4]
1982	Kann Sivanthaal Mann Sivakkum	Tamil	R. Venkat Raman	Sreedhar Rajan		^[5]
1983	Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro	Hindi	NFDC	Kundan Shah		^[6]
1984	Meendum Oru Kaathal Kathai	Tamil	Radhika Pothan	Prathap K. Pothan		^[7]
1985	New Delhi Times	Hindi	P. K. Tiwari	Romesh Sharma		^[8]
1986	Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin	Hindi	Sudhir Mishra	Sudhir Mishra		^[9]
1987	Ekti Jiban	Bengali	Chalchitra	Raja Mitra		^[10]
1988	Trishagni	Hindi	Nabendu Ghosh	Nabendu Ghosh		^[11]
1989	Wosobipo	Karbi	Karbi Anglong District Council	Gautam Bora		^[12]
1990	Perumthachan	Malayalam	G. Jayakumar	Ajayan		^[13]
1991	Haladhar	Assamese	Geeti Barua Dwijen Hazorika	Sanjeev Hazorika		^[14]
1992	Miss Beatty's Children	English	NFDC Doordarshan Rooks AV	Pamela Rooks		^[15]
1993	Sunya Theke Suru	Bengali	H. Das Madhumanti Maitra M. Das	Ashoke Viswanathan		^[16]
1994	Mogamul	Tamil	J. Dharmambal	Gnana Rajasekaran		^[17]
1995	Kahini	Bengali	Chandramala Bhattacharya Malaya Bhattacharya	Malaya Bhattacharya		^[18]
1996	Rag Birag	Assamese	Bhabhen Baruah Khanin Baruah	Bidyut Chakraborty		^[19]
1997	Bhoothakkannadi	Malayalam	Nair Krishnakumar Unni	A. K. Lohithadas		^[20]
1998	Daya	Malayalam	C. K. Gopinath	Venu		^[21]
1999	Dollar Dreams	English	Sekhar Kammula	Sekhar Kammula		^[22]
	Laado	Haryanvi	Kumud Chaudhary	Ashwini Chaudhary
2000	Sayahnam	Malayalam	M. S. Nazeer	R. Sarath		^[23]
2001	Thilaadanam	Telugu	NFDC	K. N. T. Sastry		^[24]
2002	Patalghar	Bengali	Niti Sonee Gourisaria	Abhijit Chaudhuri		^[25]
	Prohor	Bengali	Debjani Gupta	Subhadro Chaudhary
2003	Margam	Malayalam	Rajiv Vijay Raghavan	Rajiv Vijay Raghavan		^[26]
2004	Grahanam	Telugu	N. Anji Reddy	Mohan Krishna Indraganti		^[27]
2005	Parineeta	Hindi	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Pradeep Sarkar		^[28]
2006	Eakantham	Malayalam	Anthony Joseph	Madhu Kaithapram		^[29]
	Kabul Express	Hindi	Aditya Chopra	Kabir Khan
2007	Frozen	Hindi Ladakhi	Shivajee Chandrabhushan	Shivajee Chandrabhushan		^[30]
2008	A Wednesday!	Hindi	UTV Motion Pictures	Neeraj Pandey		^[31]
2009	Lahore	Hindi	Vivek Khatkar	Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan		^[32]
2010	Baboo Band Baaja	Marathi	Nita Jadhav	Rajesh Pinjani		^[33]
2011	Aaranya Kaandam	Tamil	S. P. Charan	Thiagarajan Kumararaja		^[34]
2012	Chittagong	Hindi	Bedabrata Pain	Bedabrata Pain		^[35]
	101 Chodyangal	Malayalam	Thomas Kottackkakom	Sidhartha Siva
2013	Fandry	Marathi	Navalkha Arts Holy Basil Combine	Nagraj Manjule		^[36]
2014	Asha Jaoar Majhe	Bengali	For Films Salaam Cinema	Aditya Vikram Sengupta		^[37]
2015	Masaan	Hindi	Phantom Films	Neeraj Ghaywan		^[38]
2016	Alifa	Bengali	Amaan Ahmed	Deep Choudhury		^[39]
2017	Sinjar	Jasari	Shibu G. Suseelan	Pampally
2018	Naal	Marathi	Nagraj Manjule	Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti		^[40] ^[41]
2019	Helen	Malayalam	Vineeth Sreenivasan	Mathukutty Xavier
2020	Mandela	Tamil	S. Sashikanth	Madonne Ashwin		^[42]
2021	Meppadiyan	Malayalam	Unni Mukundan	Vishnu Mohan		^[43]
2022	Fouja	Haryanvi	Omung Kumar Raaj Shaandilyaa Kunal Shivdasani	Pramod Kumar		^[44]

External links

• Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
• National Film Awards Archives
• National Film Awards at IMDb

Notes and References

1. News: 2024-02-13 . Indira and Nargis dropped from names of top film awards . 2024-08-20 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.
2. Web site: 2024-02-13 . Indira Gandhi, Nargis Dutt's names dropped from National Film Awards categories . 2024-08-20 . India Today . en.
3. Web site: 28th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
4. Web site: 29th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
5. Web site: 30th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
6. Web site: 31st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
7. Web site: 32nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
8. Web site: 33rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
9. Web site: 34th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
10. Web site: 35th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
11. Web site: 36th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
12. Web site: 37th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
13. Web site: 38th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
14. Web site: 39th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
15. Web site: 40th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
16. Web site: 41st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
17. Web site: 42nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
18. Web site: 43rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
19. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
20. Web site: 45th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
21. Web site: 46th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
22. Web site: 47th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
23. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
24. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
25. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
26. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
27. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
28. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
29. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
30. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
31. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
32. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
33. Web site: 58th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
34. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 7 March 2012.
35. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 18 March 2013.
36. Web site: 61st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. 16 April 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181218/http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf. 16 April 2014. dead.
37. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015.
38. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016.
39. 64th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170606051143/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf. 6 June 2017. dead.
40. Web site: 66th National Film Awards winners' list: 'Andhadhun', 'KGF', 'Padmaavat' win the prestigious award. The Times of India.
41. News: 66th National Film Awards: Full winners list. Ist. India Today.
42. News: 2022-07-22 . 68th National Film Awards Soorarai Pottru wins Best Film award . en-IN . The Hindu . 2022-07-23 . 0971-751X.
43. Web site: 69th National Film Awards 2023 complete winners list: Rocketry, Alia Bhatt, Kriti Sanon, Allu Arjun, RRR, Gangubai Kathiawadi win big. 24 August 2023.
44. Web site: 70th National Film Awards announcement live updates: Rishabh Shetty wins Best Actor, Attam is Best Feature Film. Hindustan Times.