National Film Award for Best English Feature Film explained

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English
Subheader:	National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsor:	Directorate of Film Festivals
Firstawarded:	1964
Lastawarded:	2013
Former Name:	President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in English (1964)
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	20
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	The Avalanche
Award3 Type:	Last winner
Award3 Winner:	The Coffin Maker

The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English is one of the National Film Awards of India presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The National Film Awards, established in 1954, are the most prominent film awards in India that merit the best of the Indian cinema. The ceremony also presents awards for films in various regional languages.

Awards for films in seven regional language (Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu) started from 2nd National Film Awards which were presented on 21 December 1955. Three awards of "President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film", "Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film" and "Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film" were instituted. The later two certificate awards were discontinued from 15th National Film Awards (1967).

Produced and directed by Serbjeet Singh, the 1964 film The Avalanche was honoured with the first president's silver medal for Best Feature Film in English. After 1964, awards were discontinued for certain period and resumed for feature films produced in 1981 at 29th National Film Awards.

Winners

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

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation
1964	The Avalanche	Serbjeet Singh	Serbjeet Singh		^[1]
1981	36 Chowringhee Lane	Shashi Kapoor	Aparna Sen		^[2]
1982	No Award				^[3]
1983	No Award				^[4]
1984	No Award				^[5]
1985	No Award				^[6]
1986	Watchman	T. S. Narasimhan	Shankar Nag		^[7]
1987	No Award				^[8]
1988	In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones	Pradip Krishen	Pradip Krishen		^[9]
1989	No Award				^[10]
1990	No Award				^[11]
1991	No Award				^[12]
1992	Electric Moon	Bobby Bedi	Pradip Krishen		^[13]
1993	No Award				^[14]
1994	English, August	Anuradha Parikh	Dev Benegal		^[15]
1995	The Making of the Mahatma	NFDC	Shyam Benegal		^[16]
1996	No Award				^[17]
1997	No Award				^[18]
1998	Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar	Government of India Government of Maharashtra NFDC	Jabbar Patel		^[19]
1999	No Award				^[20]
2000		Pentamedia Graphics Ltd	Pentamedia Graphics Ltd		^[21]
2001	Mitr, My Friend	Suresh Menon	Revathi		^[22]
2002	Stumble	2 Streams Media	Prakash Belawadi		^[23]
2003	Dance Like a Man	NFDC	Pamela Rooks		^[24]
2004	Amu	Shonali Bose	Shonali Bose		^[25]
2005	15 Park Avenue	Bipin Kumar Vohra	Aparna Sen		^[26]
2006	Quest	Amol Palekar	Amol Palekar		^[27]
2007	The Last Lear	Arindam Chaudhuri	Rituparno Ghosh		^[28]
2008	Land Gold Women	Vivek Agrawal	Avantika Hari		^[29]
2009	No Award				^[30]
2010	Memories in March	Shrikant Mohta	Sanjoy Nag		^[31]
2011	No Award				^[32]
2012	Lessons in Forgetting	Prince Thampi	Unni Vijayan		^[33]
2013	The Coffin Maker	Shree Narayan Studio	Veena Bakshi		^[34]
2014	No Award				^[35]
2015	No Award				^[36]
2016	No Award				^[37]
2017	No Award

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 12th National Film Awards. International Film Festival of India. 14 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20120225220334/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm12thNFAAward.aspx. 25 February 2012. dead.
2. Web site: 29th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
3. Web site: 30th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 4 October 2011.
4. Web site: 31st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 December 2011.
5. Web site: 32nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 6 January 2012.
6. Web site: 33rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 January 2012.
7. Web site: 34th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 January 2012.
8. Web site: 35th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
9. Web site: 36th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
10. Web site: 37th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 January 2012.
11. Web site: 38th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
12. Web site: 39th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 February 2012.
13. Web site: 40th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 2 March 2012.
14. Web site: 41st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 3 March 2012.
15. Web site: 42nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 5 March 2012.
16. Web site: 43rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 6 March 2012.
17. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 9 January 2012.
18. Web site: 45th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 11 March 2012.
19. Web site: 46th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 12 March 2012.
20. Web site: 47th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 13 March 2012.
21. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 13 March 2012.
22. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 14 March 2012.
23. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 14 March 2012.
24. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 15 March 2012.
25. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 January 2012.
26. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 19 March 2012.
27. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2012.
28. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 26 March 2012.
29. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2012.
30. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2012.
31. Web site: 58th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2012.
32. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 7 March 2012.
33. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 18 March 2013.
34. 61st National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 17 April 2014.
35. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015.
36. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016.
37. 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.