National Film Award – Special Mention (feature film) explained

National Film Award – Special Mention (Feature Film)
Subheader:	National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsor:	Directorate of Film Festivals
Firstawarded:	1978
Lastawarded:	2018
Former Name:	Special Commendation (1978)
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	Indrans Nallandi Jahanara Begum Aranya Gupta and Bithan Biswa
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	72
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	Mrinal Sen Muzaffar Ali

The National Film Award — Special Mention (Feature Film) is a certificate of merit presented by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several honours presented for feature films. The recipients of Special Mention are presented with a certificate of merit, without any trophies or cash prizes.

The certificate was instituted in 1978, at 26th National Film Awards and awarded for films produced in a given year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), awarded as, film(s), language(s) and citation
Year	Recipient(s)	Awarded as	Film(s)	Language(s)	Citation
1978	Mrinal Sen	Director	Parasuram	Bengali		^[1]
	Muzaffar Ali	Director	Gaman	Hindi
1979	No award					^[2]
1980	No award					^[3]
1981	No award					^[4]
1982	No award					^[5]
1983	Kumar Shahani	Director	Tarang	Hindi		^[6]
1984	No award					^[7]
1985	No award					^[8]
1986	Sandip Ray	Director	Himghar	Bengali		^[9]
1987	No award					^[10]
1988	Aamir Khan	Actor	Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak Raakh	Hindi		^[11]
1989	Mohanlal	Actor	Kireedam	Malayalam		^[12]
	Anupam Kher	Actor	Daddy	Hindi
1990	Anoubham Kiranmala	Actress	Ishanou	Meitei		^[13]
1991	Mamata Shankar	Actress	Agantuk	Bengali		^[14]
	Ravindran	Music director	Bharatham	Malayalam
1992	Sibaprasad Sen	Director	Pasanda Pandit	Bengali		^[15]
1993	Tahir Hussain Mahesh Bhatt	Producer Director	Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke	Hindi		^[16]
	Jugal Debata Susant Misra	Producer Director	Indradhanura Chhai	Oriya
1994	Mahesh Mahadevan	Music director	Nammavar	Tamil		^[17]
	Bishnu Kharghoria	Actor	Xagoroloi Bohudoor	Assamese
	S. Kumar	Cinematographer	Parinayam	Malayalam
1995	Uttara Baokar	Actress	Doghi	Marathi		^[18]
	Rohini	Actress	Stri	Telugu
	Benaf Dadachandji	Child actor	Halo	Hindi
1996	Dolon Roy	Actress	Sanghat	Bengali		^[19]
	Bhagirathee	Actress	Adajya	Assamese
1997	Nagarjuna	Actor	Annamayya	Telugu		^[20]
	Jomol	Actress	Ennu Swantham Janakikutty	Malayalam
1998	Dasari Narayana Rao	Producer Director	Kante Koothurne Kanu	Telugu		^[21]
	Prakash Raj	Actor	Antahpuram	Telugu
	Manju Warrier	Actress	Kannezhuthi Pottum Thottu	Malayalam
1999	Mohan Joshi	Actor	Gharabaher	Marathi		^[22]
	Manju Borah	Director	Baibhab	Assamese
	Kavita Lankesh	Director	Deveeri	Kannada
2000	No award					^[23]
2001	Dilip Doley Narayan Seal	Director	Panoi-Jongki	Miri Mishing		^[24]
2002	Jyothirmayi	Actress	Bhavam	Malayalam		^[25]
2003	H. G. Dattatreya	Actor	Mouni	Kannada		^[26]
	Nedumudi Venu	Actor		Malayalam
2004	Gurdas Maan	Actor	Des Hoyaa Pardes	Punjabi		^[27]
	Pradeep Nair	Director	Oridam	Malayalam
2005	No award					^[28]
2006	Thilakan	Actor	Eakantham	Malayalam		^[29]
	Prosenjit Chatterjee	Actor	Dosar	Bengali
2007	No award					^[30]
2008	No award					^[31]
2009	Padmapriya Janakiraman	Actress	Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja Kutty Srank	Malayalam		^[32]
2010		Writer	Bettada Jeeva	Kannada		^[33]
2011	Mallika	Actress	Byari	Beary		^[34]
	Sherrey	Director	Adimadhyantham	Malayalam
2012	Lal	Actor	Ozhimuri	Malayalam		^[35]
	H. G. Dattatreya	Actor	Bharath Stores	Kannada
	Bishnu Kharghoria	Actor	Baandhon	Assamese
	Parineeti Chopra	Actress	Ishaqzaade	Hindi
	Tannishtha Chatterjee	Actress	Dekh Indian Circus	Hindi
	Hansraj Jagtap	Child actor	Dhag	Marathi
		Actor	Ustad Hotel	Malayalam
2013	Gauri Gadgil	Child actor	Yellow	Marathi		^[36]
	Sanjana Rai	Child actor	Yellow	Marathi
	Anjali Patil	Actress	Na Bangaaru Talli	Telugu
2014	Musthafa	Actor	Ain	Malayalam		^[37]
	Palomi Ghosh	Actress	Nachom-ia Kumpasar	Konkani
	Parth Bhalerao	Child actor	Killa Bhoothnath Returns	Marathi Hindi
2015	Rinku Rajguru	Actress	Sairat	Marathi		^[38]
	Jayasurya	Actor	Su.. Su... Sudhi Vathmeekam Lukka Chuppi	Malayalam
	Ritika Singh	Actress	Irudhi Suttru	Tamil
2016	Eleeanora Images Private Ltd. Nila Madhab Panda	Producer Director	Kadvi Hawa	Hindi		^[39]
	Red Carpet Moving Pictures Shubhashish Bhutiani	Producer Director	Mukti Bhawan	Hindi
	Adil Hussain	Actor	Mukti Bhawan Maj Rati Keteki	Hindi Assamese
	Sonam Kapoor	Actress	Neerja	Hindi
2017	Pankaj Tripathi	Actor	Newton	Hindi		^[40]
	Parvathy	Actress	Take Off	Malayalam
	Prakruti Mishra	Actress	Hello Arsi	Odia
	Yasharaj Karhade	Child artist	Mhorkya	Marathi
2018	Sruthi Hariharan	Actress	Nathicharami	Kannada
	Chandrachoor Rai	Actor	Kadakh	Hindi
	Joju George	Actor	Joseph	Malayalam
	Savithri Sreedharan	Actress	Sudani from Nigeria	Malayalam
2019	Sajin Babu	Director	Biriyaani	Malayalam		^[41]
	Benjamin Daimary	Actor	Jonaki Porua	Assamese
	Lata Kare	Actress	Lata Bhagwan Kare	Marathi
	Abhijeet Mohan Warang	Director	Picasso	Marathi
2020	Aimee Baruah	Actress	Semkhor	Dimasa
	Kavya Prakash	Director	Vaanku	Malayalam
	Siddharth Menon	Actor	June	Marathi
	Kishor Kadam	Actor	Godakaath Avwanchhit	Marathi
	Varun Buddhadev	Child Actor	Toolsidas Junior	Hindi

See also

• National Film Award – Special Jury Award

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 26th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
2. Web site: 27th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2022.
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. 22 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. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181218/http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf. 16 April 2014.
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. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170606051143/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf. 6 June 2017.
40. Web site: Odia film Hello Arsi wins big at 65th National Film Awards . The Times of India. 2019-03-03.
41. Web site: 67th National Film Awards. PDF. 25 May 2022. Directorate of Film Festivals.