National Film Award for Best Make-up explained

National Film Award for Best Make-up
Subheader:	National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsor:	National Film Development Corporation of India
Firstawarded:	2006
Lastawarded:	2022
Former Name:	National Film Award for Best Make-up Artist (2006–2021)
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	Somnath Kundu
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	18
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	Anil Motiram Palande

The National Film Award for Best Make-up 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 feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 2006, at 54th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name was changed to "National Film Award for Best Make-up".^[1]

Multiple Winners

• 3 wins : Vikram Gaikwad

Recipients

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	Film(s)	Language(s)	Citation
2006	Anil Motiram Palande	Traffic Signal	Hindi		^[2]
2007	Pattanam Rasheed	Paradesi	Malayalam		^[3]
2008	U. K. Sasi	Naan Kadavul	Tamil		^[4]
2009	Christien Tinsley	Paa	Hindi		^[5]
	Dominie Till
2010	Vikram Gaikwad	Moner Manush	Bengali		^[6]
2011	Vikram Gaikwad	Balgandharva The Dirty Picture	Marathi Hindi		^[7]
2012	Raja	Vazhakku Enn 18/9	Tamil		^[8]
2013	Vikram Gaikwad	Jaatishwar	Bengali		^[9]
2014	Raju	Naanu Avanalla...Avalu	Kannada		^[10]
	Nagaraj
2015	Preetisheel Singh	Nanak Shah Fakir	Punjabi		^[11]
	Clover Wootton
2016	N. K. Ramakrishna	Allama	Kannada		^[12]
2017	Ram Rajjak	Nagarkirtan	Bengali
2018	Ranjith	Awe	Telugu
2019	Ranjith Ambady	Helen	Malayalam		^[13]
2020	T. V. Ram Babu	Natyam	Telugu
2021	Preetisheel Singh	Gangubai Kathiawadi	Hindi		^[14] ^[15]
2022	Somnath Kundu	Aparajito	Bengali

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Under Secretary to the Government of India . 14 December 2023 . Report on Rationalization of Awards Conferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Government of India . 25 August 2024 . Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
2. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2012.
3. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 26 March 2012.
4. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 27 March 2012.
5. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2012.
6. Web site: 58th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2012.
7. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 7 March 2012.
8. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 18 March 2013.
9. 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.
10. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015.
11. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016.
12. 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.
13. Web site: 67th National Film Awards. 25 May 2022. Directorate of Film Festivals.
14. Web site: 69th National Film Awards: Here's the complete updated winners' list. 18 Oct 2023. Business Standard.
15. Web site: ‘RRR’ bags six national awards, ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ takes five. 25 August 2023. The Hindu.