| National Film Award for Best Editing | |
| Subheader: | National award for contributions to non-feature films |
| Sponsor: | National Film Development Corporation of India |
| Firstawarded: | 1990 |
| Lastawarded: | 2022 |
| Holder Label: | Most recent winner |
| Holder: | Suresh Urs |
| Award1 Type: | Total awarded |
| Award1 Winner: | 31 |
| Award2 Type: | First winner |
| Award2 Winner: | Rajasekharan |
The National Film Award for Best Editing 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 non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1990 at the 38th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
| List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Recipient(s) | Film(s) | Language(s) | Citation | ||
| 1990 | Rajasekharan | Mohiniyattam | English | [1] | ||
| 1991 | Rajesh Parmar | Sanchari | English | [2] | ||
| 1992 | K. R. Bose | Kalarippayat | English | [3] | ||
| 1993 | Rajesh Parmar | Colors of Absence | English | [4] | ||
| 1994 | Paresh Kamdar | Rasayatra | Hindi English | [5] | ||
| 1995 | B. Lenin | Kutravali | Tamil | [6] | ||
| V. T. Vijayan | Oodaha | |||||
| 1996 | A. Sreekar Prasad | Nauka Charitramu | English | [7] | ||
| 1997 | Ujjal Nandy | Jataner Jami | Bengali | [8] | ||
| 1998 | Reena Mohan | In The Forest Hangs a Bridge | English | [9] | ||
| 1999 | Ajit Kumar | Of Confucius, S-Spots and Toy guns | English Hindi Marathi Tamil | [10] | ||
| 2000 | Sankalp Meshram | Lokpriya | Hindi | [11] | ||
| 2001 | Ajith | Athman | Universal | [12] | ||
| 2002 | Prathapan P. | 00:00 | English | [13] | ||
| 2003 | Beena Paul | Unni | Malayalam | [14] | ||
| 2004 | Prashant Naik | Harvest of Hunger | English Oriya | [15] | ||
| 2005 | Vibuti Nathjha | Naina Jogin | Hindi Maithili | [16] | ||
| 2006 | Amitabh Chakraborty | Bishar Blues | Bengali | [17] | ||
| 2006 | Amit Debnath | |||||
| 2007 | Saikat Ray | Hope Dies Last in War | English Hindi | [18] | ||
| 2008 | Manoj Kannoth | Stations | Hindi Marathi English | [19] | ||
| 2009 | Tarun Bhartiya | In Camera | English | [20] | ||
| 2010 | Tinni Mitra | Germ | Hindi | [21] | ||
| 2011 | Iram Ghufran | There is Something in the Air | Hindi Urdu English | [22] | ||
| 2012 | Irene Dhar Malik | Celluloid Man | English Hindi Kannada Bengali | [23] | ||
| 2013 | Arjun Gaurisaria | Gulabi Gang | Hindi Bundelkhandi | [24] | ||
| 2014 | Andi Campbell Waite | Tigress Blood | English | [25] | ||
| 2015 | Parvin Angre | Breaking Free | English | [26] | ||
| 2015 | Sridhar Rangayan | |||||
| 2016 | Jishnu Sen | Gudh | [27] | |||
| 2017 | Sanjiv Monga | Mrityubhoj: The Death Feast | ||||
| 2017 | Tenzin Kunchok | |||||
| 2018 | Hemanti Sarkar | Son Rise | ||||