National Film Award for Best Direction (non-feature film) explained

National Film Award for Best Direction
Subheader:	National award for contributions to non-feature films
Awarded For:	Excellence in cinematic direction achievement
Sponsor:	National Film Development Corporation of India
Firstawarded:	2000
Lastawarded:	2022
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	Miriam Chandy Menacherry
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	18
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	Arun Vasant Khopkar

The National Film Award for Best Direction 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 Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus).

The award was instituted in 2000, at 48th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

Award includes 'Swarna Kamal' (Golden 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	Director(s)	Film(s)	Language(s)	Citation
2000	Arun Vasant Khopkar	Rasikpriya	Hindi English		^[1]
2001	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Jorasanko Thakurbari	English		^[2]
2002	Anjali Panjabi	A Few Things I Know About Her	English		^[3]
2003	Arvind Sinha	Kaya Poochhe Maya Se	Hindi		^[4]
2004	Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni	Girni	Marathi		^[5]
2005	Ganesh Shankar Gaikwad	Voices Across the Oceans	English Hindi		^[6]
2006	Ramesh Asher	Ek Aadesh – Command For Choti	Hindi		^[7]
2007	Jayaraj	Vellapokkathil	Malayalam		^[8]
2008	Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni	Three of Us	Only Music		^[9]
2009	No Award				^[10]
2010	Arunima Sharma	Shyam Raat Seher	Hindi		^[11]
2011	Iram Ghufran	There is Something in the Air	Hindi Urdu English		^[12]
2012	Vikrant Pawar	Kaatal	Marathi		^[13]
2013	Pranjal Dua	Chidiya Udh			^[14]
2014	Renu Savant	Aaranyak	Marathi English		^[15]
2015	Christo Tomy	Kamuki	Malayalam		^[16]
2016	Aaditya Jambhale	Aaba... Aiktaay Na?	Marathi		^[17]
2017	Nagraj Manjule	Pavasacha Nibandha	Marathi
2018	Gautam Vaze	Aai Shappath

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 29 March 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230329084652/https://www.dff.gov.in/images/Documents/69_48thNfacatalogue.pdf. live.
2. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 26 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226174143/https://dff.gov.in/images/Documents/68_49thNfacatalogue.pdf. live.
3. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 26 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226174117/https://dff.gov.in/images/Documents/67_50thNfacatalogue.pdf. live.
4. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 26 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226174052/https://dff.gov.in/images/Documents/66_51stNfacatalogue.pdf. live.
5. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 26 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226174049/https://dff.gov.in/images/Documents/50_52thNfacatalogue%20-%20.pdf. live.
6. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 26 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226174242/https://dff.gov.in/images/Documents/49_53Nfacatalogue-%20.pdf. live.
7. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 27 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220327103537/https://www.dff.gov.in/images/Documents/48_54sthNfaArchives.pdf. live.
8. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 26 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226174156/https://dff.gov.in/images/Documents/47_55Nfacatalogue-%20.pdf. live.
9. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 26 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226174115/https://dff.gov.in/images/Documents/46_56thNfacatalogue%20-%20.pdf. live.
10. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 26 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226174123/https://dff.gov.in/images/Documents/45_57thNfacatalogue%20-%20.pdf. live.
11. Web site: 58th National Film Awards, 2010. Directorate of Film Festivals. 31 March 2022. 26 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226174103/https://dff.gov.in/images/Documents/44_58thNfacatalogue%20-%20.pdf. live.
12. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 7 March 2012. 31 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141031200819/http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page.asp?relid=80734. live.
13. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 18 March 2013. 17 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130417215938/http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2013/mar/d2013031801.pdf. live.
14. 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.
15. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015. 2 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402123148/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/62nd%20National%20Film%20Awards%202014%20-%20Press%20Release.pdf. live.
16. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016. 7 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161007194418/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/Winners_of_63rd_NFA_2015.pdf. live.
17. 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.