National Film Award for Best Film Critic | |
Subheader: | National award for contributions to writing about Indian Cinema |
Sponsor: | Directorate of Film Festivals |
Firstawarded: | 1984 |
Lastawarded: | 2019 |
Holder Label: | Most recent winner |
Holder: | Sohini Chattopadhyay |
Award1 Type: | Total awarded |
Award1 Winner: | 40 |
Award2 Type: | First winner |
Award2 Winner: | Swapan Mallick |
The National Film Award for Best Film Critic is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
Award includes 'Swarna Kamal' (Golden Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
List of award recipients, showing the year, language(s) and citation | |||||
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Year | Recipient(s) | Language(s) | Citation | ||
1984 | Swapan Mallick | English | [1] | ||
1985 | No Award | [2] | |||
1986 | Chidananda Dasgupta | Bengali | [3] | ||
1987 | Brajeshwar Madan | Hindi | [4] | ||
1988 | Manmohan Chadha | Hindi | [5] | ||
1989 | K. N. T. Sastry | Telugu | [6] | ||
1990 | Shoma A. Chatterjee | Bengali | [7] | ||
1991 | Gautam Kaul | English | [8] | ||
1992 | Sudhir Bose | Bengali | [9] | ||
1993 | Pritiman Sarkar | Bengali | [10] | ||
1994 | Rashmi Doraiswamy | English | [11] | ||
1995 | M. C. Raja Narayanan | English Malayalam | [12] | ||
1996 | M. K. Raghavendra | English | [13] | ||
1997 | Deepa Gahlot | English | [14] | ||
1998 | Meenakshi Shedde | English | [15] | ||
1999 | I. Shanmughadas | Malayalam | [16] | ||
2000 | Vasiraju Prakasam | Telugu | [17] | ||
2000 | Suresh Sharma | Hindi | |||
2001 | Vinod Anupam | Hindi | [18] | ||
2002 | Utpal Borpujari | English | [19] | ||
2003 | Saibal Chatterjee | English | [20] | ||
2004 | Namrata Joshi | English | [21] | ||
2005 | Baradwaj Rangan | English | [22] | ||
2006 | G. P. Ramachandran | Malayalam | [23] | ||
2006 | Rafique A. R. Baghdadi | English | |||
2007 | V. K. Joseph | Malayalam | [24] | ||
2008 | Altaf Mazid | English Assamese | [25] | ||
2008 | R. K. Bidur Singh | Meitei | |||
2009 | C. S. Venkiteswaran | Malayalam | [26] | ||
2010 | Joshy Joseph | English | [27] | ||
2010 | N. Manu Chakravarthy | Kannada English | |||
2011 | Manoj Barpujari | Assamese English | [28] | ||
2012 | P. S. Radhakrishnan | Malayalam | [29] | ||
2013 | Alaka Sahani | English | [30] | ||
2014 | Tanul Thakur | English | [31] | ||
2015 | Meghachandra Kongbam | Meitei | [32] | ||
2016 | G. Dhananjayan | Tamil | [33] | ||
2017 | Giridhar Jha | English | |||
2018 | Blais Johny | Malayalam | |||
2018 | Anant Vijay | Hindi | |||
2019 | Sohini Chattopadhyay | English | [34] |