The Prestigious 59th National Film Awards were announced in New Delhi
The top honour in the Feature Film category, the Best Film is shared by films Deool (Marathi) produced by Abhijeet Gholap & directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni and Byari ( Byari language) produced by T.H. Althaf Hussain & directed by Suveeram. The award carries Swarna Kamal and cash prize of Rs. 2,50,000/-. In Non-feature film category the top honour , Best Film goes to And We Play On (Hindi & English)directed and produced by Pramod Purswane . The awards carries Swarna Kamal and Cash prize of Rs. 1,50,000/-. In Best Writing on Cinema category the Swarna Kamal goes to the book titled R.D. Burman – The Man, The Music written by Anirudha Bhattacharjee & Balaji Vittal, published by Harper Collins India Assam
In Feature Film category, five films have won three awards each. These Films are The Dirty Picture (Hindi), Balgandharva (Marathi),Anhe Ghorey Da Daan (Punjabi), Deool (Marathi) & Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (Bengali). Six films have won two awards each. These are ChillarParty (Hindi), Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai (Tamil), Aaranyakandam (Tamil), Phijigee Mani (Manipuri) , Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Hindi) & Game (Hindi).
The Best Actor award goes to Girish Kulkarni for film Deool (Marathi) and Best Actress to Vidya Balan for the film The Dirty Picture (Hindi). Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai (Tamil) won the award for Wholesome Entertainment, Chillar Party (Hindi) won Best Children Film, Best Director to Gurvinder Singh for Punjabi film Anhe Ghorey Da Daan , Best Singer to Anand Bhate (Male) for Marathi film Balgandharva andRoopa Ganguly (Female) for the Bengali film Abosheyshey . Kumararaja Thiagarajan has won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut film of a Director.
In the Non-Feature film category, three films have won two awards each. The Film Tiger Dynasty has won the Best Environmental Film & Best Cinematography awards. Awards for Best Direction and Best Editing have been taken away by the film There is Something in the Air. FilmPanchakki has been awarded Best Short Fiction and Best Music Direction.
The awards in different categories are as under:
BEST WRITING ON CINEMA
S. No. | Name of Award | Name of Book | Awardee | Medal |
1. | BEST BOOK ON CINEMA | R.D. Burman The Man, The Music (English) | Publisher : Harper Collins Author: AnirudhaBhattacharjee andBalaji Vittal | SwarnaKamal Rs. 75,000 |
Best Film Critic
1. | BEST FILM CRITIC | Manoj Barpujari (Assamese and English) | SwarnaKamal Rs. 75,00 |
Non-Feature Films
S. NO | Name of Award | Name of FILM | AWARDEE | Medal & Cash Prize |
1. | BEST NON FEATURE FILM | And We Play On (Hindi & English) | Producer : Pramod PuRs.wane Director : Pramod PuRs.wane | SWARNA KAMAL Rs. 1,50,000/- EACH |
2. | BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR | The Silent Poet (Manipuri) | Producer : Borun Thokchom Director : Borun Thokchom | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 75,000/- EACH |
3. | BEST ANTHROPOLOGICAL/ ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM | Bom (Hindi & English) | Producer : Anirban Datta Director : Amlan Datta | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- EACH |
4. | BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/ HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION | Vishnupant Damle: Bolpatancha MookNayak (Marathi) | Producer : Anil Anant Damle Director :VirendraValsangkar | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- EACH |
5. | BEST ARTS /CULTURAL FILM (Jointly Being given to two Films) | Fried Fish, Chicken Soup and a Premiere Show (Manipuri & English) & Lasya Kavvya – the World of Alarmel Valli (English) | Producer :Madhusree Dutta Director : Mamta Murthy Producer : Sankalp Meshram Director : Sankalp Meshram | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 25,000/- EACH |
6. | BEST PROMOTIONAL FILM | The Dream Fulfilled - Memories of the Engineering Challenges (English) | Producer : Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Director : Satish Pande | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- EACH |
7. | BEST ENVIRONMENT FILM | Tiger Dynasty (English) | Producer: S. Nallamuthu Director : S. Nallamuthu | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- EACH |
8. | BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES (Jointly Being given to two Films) | Mindscapes… of Love and Longing (Hindi & English) Inshallah, Football (Kashmiri, Urdu & English) | Producer : Public Service Broadcasting Trust Director:ArunChadha Producer : Ashvin Kumar Director: Ashvin Kumar | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 25,000/- EACH |
9. | BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM | A Drop of Sunshine (English) | Producer : Public Service Broadcasting Trust Director : Aparna Sanyal | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- EACH |
10. | BEST EXPLORATION/ ADVENTURE FILM (Including sports) | The Finish Line (English) | Producer : Syed Sultan Ahmed & Tabassum Modi Director : Akshay Roy | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- EACH |
11. | BEST INVESTIGATIVE FILM | Cotton for My Shroud (English) | Producer: Kavita Bahl Director : Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- EACH |
12. | SPECIAL JURY AWARD | Jai Bhim Comrade (Marathi) | Anand Patwardhan | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 1,00,000/- |
13. | BEST SHORT FICTION | Panchakki (Hindi) | Producer: Sanjeev Rattan Director: Sanjeev Rattan | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- EACH |
14. | BEST FILM ON FAMILY VALUES | (English) | Producer : Syed Sultan Ahmed & Tabassum Modi Director : Revathy | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- EACH |
15. | BEST DIRECTION | There is Something in the Air (Hindi, Urdu & English) | Iram Ghufran | SWARNA KAMAL Rs. 1,50,000/- |
16. | BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY | Tiger Dynasty (English) | S. Nallamuthu | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- |
17. | BEST AUDIOGRAPHY | 1, 2 (Hindi) | Gautam Nair | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- |
18. | BEST EDITING | There is Something in the Air (Hindi, Urdu & English) | Iram Ghufran | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- |
19. | BEST MUSIC DIRECTION | Panchakki (Hindi) | DhrubaJyoti Phukan | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- |
20. | BEST NARRATION/ VOICE OVER | Just that Sort of a Day (English) | Ann Abraham | RAJAT KAMAL Rs. 50,000/- |
21. | SPECIAL MENTION (Two Films) | a. You Don’t Belong (Bengali & English) b. Airawat (Marathi & Hindi) | a. Director : Spandan Banerjee b. Director: Renu Savant | CERTIFICATE CERTIFICATE |
FEATURE FILMS
S. No. | Name of Award | Name of Film | Awardee | Medal & Cash Prize |
1 | BEST FEATURE FILM (shared) | a) Deool (Marathi) b) Byari (Byari) | a) Producer: Abhijeet Gholap Director : UmeshVinayak Kulkarni b) Producer: T.H. Althaf Hussain Director : Suveeran | Swarna Kamal Rs. 2,50,000/- |
2 | INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR | Aaranyakandam (Tamil) | Producer:S.P.Charan Director :Kumararaja Thiagarajan | Swarna Kamal Rs. 1,25,000/- |
3 | AWARD FOR BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT | AzhagarsamiyinKuthirai (Tamil) | Producer: P. Madan Director :Suseentharan | Swarna Kamal Rs. 2,00,000/- |
4 | BEST CHILDREN’S FILM | Chillar Party (Hindi) | Producer: UTV Software Communications Ltd Director : VikasBahl & Nitesh Tiwari | SwarnaKamal Rs. 1,50,000/- |
5 | BEST DIRECTION | Anhe Ghorey Da Daan (Punjabi) | Gurvinder Singh | Swarna Kamal Rs. 2,50,000/- |
6 | BEST ACTOR | Deool (Marathi) | Girish Kulkarni | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
7 | BEST ACTRESS | The Dirty Picture(Hindi) | Vidya Balan | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
8 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR | AzhagarsamiyinKuthirai (Tamil) | Appu Kutty | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
9 | BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS | Phijigee Mani(Manipuri) | Leishangthem TonthoingambiDevi | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
10 | BEST CHILD ARTIST (Shared) | a) b) ChillarParty (Hindi) | Partho Gupte Irrfan Khan Sanath Menon Rohan Grover Naman Jain Aarav Khanna Vishesh Tiwari ChinmaiChandranshuh Vedant Desai Divij Handa Shriya Sharma | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
11 | BEST MALE PLAYBACK SINGER | Balgandharva(Marathi) | Anand Bhate | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
12 | BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK SINGER | Abosheyshey(Bengali) | Roopa Ganguly | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
13 | BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY | Anhe Ghorey DaDaan (Punjabi) | Cameraman :Satya Rai Nagpaul Laboratory : Reliance Media Works | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
14 | BEST SCREENPLAY Screenplay Writer (Original) : Screenplay Writer (Adapted) : Dialogues : | Chillar Party (Hindi) Shala (Marathi) Deool (Marathi) | Vikas Behl & Manish Tiwari AvinashDeshpande Nigdi Girish Kulkarni | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
15 | BEST AUDIOGRAPHY Location SoundRecordist Sound Designer : Re-recordist of the final mixed track | Zindagi Na MilegiDobara (Hindi) Game (Hindi) Game (Hindi) | Baylon Fonseca Baylon Fonseca Hitendra Ghosh | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
16 | BEST EDITING | Aaranyakandam(Tamil) | Pravin K. L. | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
17 | BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN | Naukadubi (Bengali) | Indraneel Ghosh | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- |
18 | BEST COSTUME DESIGNER (Shared) | a) Balgandharva (Marathi) b)The Dirty Picture(Hindi) | a)Neeta Lulla b) Niharika Khan | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- | |
19 | BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST | Balgandharva (Marathi) & The Dirty Picture (Hindi) | Vikram Gayakwad | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- | |
20 | BEST MUSIC DIRECTION Songs Background Score | Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (Bengali) Laptop (Bengali) | Neel Dutt Mayookh Bhaumik | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- | |
21 | BEST LYRICS | I Am (Hindi) Agar Zindagi ………. | AmitabhBhattacharya | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- | |
22 | SPECIAL JURY AWARD | Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (Bengali) | Anjan Dutt | Rajat Kamal Rs. 2,00,000/- | |
23 | BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS | Ra. One (Hindi) | Harry Hingorani and Keitan Yadav | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- | |
24 | BEST CHOREOGRAPHY | Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (Hindi) (Senorita) | Bosco Caeser | Rajat Kamal Rs. 50,000/- | |
25 | BEST FEATURE FILM IN EACH OF THE LANGUAGE SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE VIII OF THE CONSTITUTION | ||||
a) | BEST BENGALI FILM | Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na | Producer: RanaSarkar Director : AnjanDutt | Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- | |
b) | BEST DOGRI FILM | Dille Ch Vasya Koi | Producer: SanjeevRattan Director : SanjeevRattan | Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- | |
c) | BEST HINDI FILM | I Am | Producer: AnirbanDhar (Onir) & Sanjay Suri Director : Onir | Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- | |
d) | BEST KANNADA | Kurmavatara | Producer: Basant Kumar Patil Director : Girish Kasaravalli | Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- | |
e) | BEST MALAYALAM FILM | Indian Rupee | Producer: Director : RanjithBalakrishnan | Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- | |
f) | BEST MANIPURI FILM | Phijigee Mani | Producer:Takhelchangbam Ongbi and Medha Sharmi Director : OinamGautam Singh | Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- | |
g) | BEST MARATHI FILM | Shala | Producer: Vivek D. Wagh & Nilesh Navalkha Director : Sujay Sunil Dahake | Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- | |
h) | BEST PUNJABI FILM | Anhe Ghorey DaDaan | Producer: National Film Development Corporation Director : Gurvinder Singh | Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- | |
i) | BEST TAMIL FILM | Vaagai Sooda Va | Producer: S. Muruganandham Director : A. Sargunam | Rajat Kamal Rs. 1,00,000/- |
26) a) | SPECIAL MENTION | Byari (Byari) | Mallika | Certificate only |
b) | SPECIAL MENTION | Adimadhyantham(Malayalam) | Director : Sherry | Certificate only |
