| National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography | |
| Subheader: | National award for contributions to Short films |
| Sponsor: | Directorate of Film Festivals |
| Firstawarded: | 1990 |
| Holder Label: | Most recent winner |
| Award1 Type: | Total awarded |
| Award2 Type: | First winner |
The National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography 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 non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1990, at 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:
| Indicates a joint award for that year |
| List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Cameraman(s) | Laboratory Processing | Film(s) | Language(s) | Citation | ||
| 1990 | Santosh Sivan | Prasad Film Laboratories | Mohiniyattam | English | [1] | ||
| Victor Banerjee | Prasad Film Laboratories | Where No Journeys End | English | ||||
| 1991 | Shekar Dattari | Prasad Film Laboratories | Silent Valley: An Indian Rain forest | English | [2] | ||
| 1992 | Soumendu Roy | Adlabs | Sucitra Mitra | Bengali | [3] | ||
| 1993 | Piyush Shah | Moksha | Bengali | [4] | |||
| 1994 | Anoop Jotwani | Vijay Color Lab | Rasayatra | Hindi English | [5] | ||
| 1995 | Rafey Mehmood | Adlabs | Tarana | Hindi | [6] | ||
| 1996 | Hari Nair | Prasad Film Laboratories | Sham's Vision | English | [7] | ||
| 1997 | Ashok Dasgupta | The Trail | English | [8] | |||
| 1998 | Ranjan Palit | Prasad Film Laboratories | In The Forest Hangs a Bridge | English | [9] | ||
| 1999 | Mankada Ravi Varma | Prasad Film Laboratories | Kalamandalam Gopi | Malayalam | [10] | ||
| 2000 | Prasann Jain | Adlabs | Rasikpriya | Hindi English | [11] | ||
| 2001 | Nilotpal Sarkar | Prasad Film Laboratory | Jorasanko Thakurbari | English | [12] | ||
| Irom Maipak | Prasad Kalinga Lab | The Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh | English | ||||
| 2002 | No Award | [13] | |||||
| 2003 | Ranjan Palit | Prasad Film Laboratory | Kaya Poochhe Maya Se | Hindi | [14] | ||
| K. G. Jayan | Prasad Film Laboratory | The 18 Elephants: 3 Monologues | Malayalam | ||||
| 2004 | Manoj Raymond Lobo | Adlabs | Girni | Marathi | [15] | ||
| 2005 | Paramvir Singh | Adlabs | Parsiwada, Tarapore Present Day | English Gujarati | [16] | ||
| 2006 | Rajendra Janglay | Raga of River Narmada | [17] | ||||
| Sanjay V. | |||||||
| 2007 | Savita Singh | Kramasha | Hindi | [18] | |||
| 2008 | Shariqva Badar Khan | Filmlab | Three of Us | [19] | |||
| Jaya Krishna Gummadi | Adlabs | When This Man Dies | Hindi English | ||||
| 2009 | Deepu S. Unni | Adlabs | Gaarud | Hindi Marathi | [20] | ||
| 2010 | Murali G. | Filmlab | Shyam Raat Seher | Hindi English | [21] | ||
| 2011 | S. Nallamuthu | Tiger Dynasty | English | [22] | |||
| 2012 | Abhimanyu Dange | Reliance MediaWorks | Kaatal | Marathi | [23] | ||
| Raja Shabir Khan | Shepherds of Paradise | Gojri Urdu | |||||
| 2013 | Kavin Jagtiani | Reliance MediaWorks | Mandrake !Mandrake | Hindi | [24] | ||
| 2014 | Indraneel Lahiri | Aamaar Katha: Story of Binodini | Bengali | [25] | |||
| 2015 | Amartya Bhattacharyya | Benaras: The Unexplored Attachments | Bengali | [26] | |||
| 2016 | Alpesh Nagar | Kalpvriksha | Hindi | [27] | |||
| Vishal Sangwai | Adnyat | English | |||||
| 2017 | Appu Prabhakar | Eye Test | [28] | ||||
| Arnold Fernandes | Dawn | ||||||
| 2018 | Ajay Bedi | The Secret Life of Frogs | |||||