THE 65th NATIONAL FILM AWARDS FOR 2017, (INDIA)

65th NATIONAL FILM AWARDS FOR 2017, (INDIA)

DADASAHEB PHALKE AWARD
	Late Shri Vinod Khanna

FEATURE FILMS
AWARD	FILM	AWARDEE
BEST FEATURE FILM
	Village Rockstars Language: Assamese	Producer: Rima Das Director: Rima Das
BEST DIRECTION
	Bhayanakam Language: Malayalam	Director: Jayaraj
BEST ACTOR
	Nagarkirtan Language: Bengali	Riddhi Sen
BEST ACTRESS
	MOM Language: Hindi	Sridevi
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
	Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum Language: Malayalam	Fahad Fazil
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
	IRADA Language: Hindi	Divya Dutta
INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR
	Sinjar Language: Jasari	Producer: Shibu G Suseelan Director: Pampally
BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT
	Baahubali – The Conclusion Language: Telugu	Producer: Prasad Devineni Director: SS Rajamouli
NARGIS DUTT AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION
	Dhappa Language: Marathi	Producer: Sumatilal Popatlal Shah Director: Nipun Dharmadhikari
BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES
	Aalorukkam Language: Malayalam	Producer: Jolly Lonappan Director: V C Abhilash
BEST FILM ON ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION/ PRESERVATION
	IRADA Language: Hindi	Producer: IRADA ENTERTAINMENT LLP Director: Aparnaa Singh
BEST CHILDREN’S FILM
	Mhorkya Language: Marathi	Producer: Kalyan Rajmogli Padal Director : Amar Bharat Deokar
BEST CHILD ARTIST
	Village Rockstars Language: Assamese	Bhanita Das
BEST MALE PLAYBACK SINGER
	Viswasapoorvam Mansoor Language: Malayalam	K.J Yesudas Song: Poy Maranja Kalam
BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK SINGER
	Kaatru Veliyidai Language: Tamil	Shashaa Tirupati Song: Vaan
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
	Bhayanakam Language: Malayalam	Cameraman: Nikhil S Praveen
BEST SCREENPLAY
Screenplay Writer (Original):
	Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum Language: Malayalam	Sajeev Pazhoor
Screenplay Writer (Adapted):
	Bhayanakam Language: Malayalam	Jayaraj
Dialogues:
	Hello Arsi Language: Odia	Sambit Mohanty
BEST AUDIOGRAPHY
Location Sound Recordist
	Village Rockstars Language: Assamese	Mallika Das
Sound Designer
	Walking With The Wind Language: Ladakhi	Sanal George
Re-recordist of the final mixed track
	Walking With The Wind Language: Ladakhi	Justin A Jose
BEST EDITING
	Village Rockstars	Rima Das
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
	Take Off Language: Malayalam	Santhosh Raman
BEST COSTUME DESIGNER
	Nagarkirtan	Gobinda Mandal
BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST
	Nagarkirtan	Ram Rajjak
BEST MUSIC DIRECTION
Songs
	Kaatru Veliyidai	A. R Rahman
Background Music
	MOM	A. R Rahman
BEST LYRICS
	March 22	J M Prahalad Song: Muthuratna
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
	Nagarkirtan	Producer: Sani Ghose Ray Director :Kaushik Ganguly
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
	Baahubali – 2	R C Kamalakannan
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
	Toilet Ek Prem Katha	Song: Gori Tu Latth Maar Ganesh Acharya
BEST ACTION DIRECTION AWARD
	Baahubali-2	Abbas Ali Moghul
SPECIAL MENTION
	Newton	Pankaj Tripathi
	Take Of	Parvathy
	Hello Arsi	Prakruti Mishra
	Mhorkya	Yasharaj Karhade Raman Devkar
BEST FEATURE FILM IN EACH OF THE LANGUAGE SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE VIII OF THE CONSTITUTION
BEST ASSAMESE FILM
	Ishu	Producer: CHILDREN'S FILM SOCIETY, INDIA Director : Utpal Borpujari
BEST BENGALI FILM
	Mayurakshi	Producer: Firdausul Hasan Director :Atanu Ghosh
BEST HINDI FILM
	Newton	Producer: Manish Mundra Director : Amit V Masurkar
BEST KANNADA FILM
	Hebbettu Ramakka	Producer: Putta Raju.S.A Director : N.R Nanjunde Gowda
BEST MALAYALAM FILM
	Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum	Producer: Sandip Senan Director: Dileesh Pothan
BEST MARATHI FILM
	Kachcha Limbu	Producer: Mandarr Bhaskar Devasthali Director: Prasad Oak
BEST ODIYA FILM
	Hello Arsi	Producer: Ajaya Routray Director: Sambit Mohanty
BEST TAMIL FILM
	To Let	Producer: Prema Chezhian Director: Chezhiyan
BEST TELUGU FILM
	Ghazi	Producer: Prasad V. Potluri Director: Sankalp
BEST GUJARATI FILM
	Dhh	Producer: Amruta Parande Director: Manish Saini
BEST FEATURE FILM IN EACH OF THE LANGUAGE SPECIFIED OTHER THAN SCHEDULE VIII OF THE CONSTITUTION
BEST TULU FILM
	Paddayi	Producer: Nithyananda Pai Director: Abhaya Simha
BEST JASARI FILM
	Sinjar	Producer: Shibu G Suseelan Director: Pampally
BEST LADAKHI FILM
	Walking With The Wind	Producer: Mahesh Mohan Director: Praveen Morchhale

NON-FEATURE FILMS
AWARD	FILM	AWARDEE
BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR
	Water Baby	Producer: Varun Shah Director: Pia Shah
BEST ANTHROPOLOGICAL/ ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
	Name, Place, Animal, Thing	Producer: Nithin R Director: Nithin R
	And Slave Genesis	Producer: Aneez K M Director: Aneez K M
BEST BIOGRAPHICAL/ HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION
	Naachi se Baanchi	Producer: Films Division Director: BijuToppo, Meghnath
	Sword of Liberty	Producer: R C Suresh Director: Shiny Jacob Benjamin
BEST ARTS /CULTURAL FILM
	Girija	Producer: Madhu Chandra, Sudha Datta Director: Debapriya Adhikary, Samanwaya Sarkar, Sankalp Meshram
BEST PROMOTIONAL FILM (to cover tourism, exports, crafts, industry etc)
	Poetry on Fabric: Chendari Nama	Producer: Sanjay Gupta for Pro Art India Director: Rajendra Janglay
BEST ENVIRONMENT FILM INCLUDING AGRICULTURE
	The Pangti Story	Producer: Rajiv Mehrotra Director: Sesino Yhoshu
BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES
	I am Bonnie	Producer: Films Division Director: Satarupa Santra
	Veil Done	Director: Juhi Bhatt Producer: Rajiv Mehrotra
BEST EDUCATIONAL FILM
	The Little Girl We Were and the Women We Are	Producer: RAHI Foundation Director: Vaishali Sood
BEST EXPLORATION/ ADVENTURE FILM (TO INCLUDE SPORTS)
	Ladakh Chale Richawala	Producer: Films Division Director: Indrani Chakrabarti
BEST INVESTIGATIVE FILM
	1984, When the sun didn’t rise	Producer: Teenaa Kaur Director: Teenaa Kaur
BEST ANIMATION FILM
	The Fish Curry	Producer: Munish Tewari Director: Abhishek Verma Animator: Abhishek Verma
	The Basket	Producer: Nilima Eriyat  Director: Suresh Eriyat  Animator: Studio EEKSAURUS
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
	A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings	Producer: Films Division Director: Prateek Vats
	Monday	Producer: FTII Director: Arun K
BEST SHORT FICTION FILM
	Mayat	Producer: Dr Suyash Shinde  Director: Dr Suyash Shinde
BEST FILM ON FAMILY VALUES
	Happy Birthday	Producer: FTII Director: Medhpranav Babasaheb Powar
BEST DIRECTION
	Pavasacha Nibandha	Director: Nagraj Manjule
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
	Eye Test	Cameraperson: AppuPrabhakar
	Dawn	Cameraperson: Arnold Fernandes
BEST AUDIOGRAPHY
	Pavasacha Nibandha	Audiographer: Avinash Sonawane
BEST ON LOCATION SOUND RECORDIST
	The Unreserved	Samarth Mahajan
BEST EDITING
	Mrityubhoj The Death Feast	Sanjiv Monga & Tenzin Kunchok
BEST MUSIC
	Sword of Liberty	Music Director: Ramesh Narayanan
BEST NARRATION/ VOICE OVER
	The Lion of Laddak	Narrator: Francois Castellino
SPECIAL MENTION
	Rebirth	Director: Jayaraj
	Cake Story	Director: Rukshana Tabassum
	Afternoon	Director: Swapnil Vasant Kapure

REPORT OF JURY ON BEST WRITING ON CINEMA
BEST BOOK ON CINEMA
	Matmagi Manipur-The first Manipuri Feature Film	Author: Bobby Wahengbam Publisher: Angomningthou Preservation & Documentation
BEST CRITIC ON CINEMA
	Mr. Giridhar Jha
SPECIAL MENTION (CRITIC)
	Mr. Sunil Mishra

Related Notes:

• The Feature Film Central panel was headed by eminent film-maker Shri Shekhar Kapur.
• The Non- Feature Film panel was headed by Shri. Nakul Kamte.
• Shri.Anant Vijay was the head of The Best Cinema on Writing jury.
• The Hon’ble President of India presented The National Film Awards on May 3, 2018.
• The Jury Chairpersons of the 65th National Film Awards had submitted its report to the Minister of Information & Broadcasting on 12.04.2018.

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