National Film Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Non-Feature Film)

National Film Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Non-Feature Film)
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Type	National
Category	Short films
Description
Medal	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) (Special Jury Award)
Statistics
Instituted	1978
First awarded	• 1984 (Special Jury Award)  • 1978 (Special Mention)
Last awarded	• 2014 (Special Jury Award)  • 2015 (Special Mention)
Total awarded	• 45 (Special Jury Award)  • 72 (Special Mention)
Cash award	₹100,000 (US$1,500) (Special Jury Award)
Previous name(s)	Special Commendation (1978)
First awardee(s)	• Special Mention  • Loksen Lavnani for Films Division
Recent awardee(s)	• Special Jury Award  –  • Special Mention  • The Chameleon  • Amma  • Amma

The National Film Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Non-Feature Film) 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. The recipients of Special Jury Award are awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus), cash prize of ₹100,000 (US$1,500) and certificate of merit; whereas recipients of Special Mention are awarded with certificate of merit.

The award was instituted in 1978, at 26th National Film Awards and awarded annually for the short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus), cash prize of ₹200,000 (US$3,000) and certificate of merit for the recipients of Special Jury Award; whereas recipients of Special Mention are awarded with certificate of merit. This award considers all the aspects of film making than individual area. Following are the award winners over the years:

Special Jury Award

List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), awarded as, film(s), language(s) and citation
Year	Recipient(s)	Awarded as	Film(s)	Language(s)	Citation	Refs.
1978 (26th)	No Award					[1]
1979 (27th)	No Award
1980 (28th)	No Award					[2]
1981 (29th)	No Award					[3]
1982 (30th)	No Award					[4]
1983 (31st)	No Award					[5]
1984 (32nd)	Hemkunt Saahib	–	–	–	–	[6]
1985 (33rd)	Rajan Khosa	Director	Bodhvriksha	Hindi	For his sensitive exploration of the anguish of a woman nursing her aged, paralysed grandmother. The film is characterised by economy and control and innovative cinematic form.	[7]
1986 (34th)	Yash Chaudhary	Director	Equal Partners	English	For the deft handling of a complex subject designed to promote better understanding between nations.	[8]
1987 (35th)	Rajiv Mehrotra	• Producer  • Director  • Cameraman	Barren Harvest	English	For his creative and sensitive handling of the serious iodine deficiency in flood prone areas of Eastern UP.	[9]
1988 (36th)	Mani Kaul	Director	Before My Eyes	–	For capturing the texture of Kashmir's landscape with a rare control over cinematic form that combines visual poetry with an effective use of sound on a track that uses no commentary.	[10]
1989 (37th)	K. R. Mohanan	Director	Kalamandalam Krishnankutty Poduval	Malayalam	For excellence in the use of cinema in projecting the intricate relationship between the drummer and the dancer in Kathakali.	[11]
1990 (38th)	Gulzar	Director	Ustad Amjad Ali Khan	Hindi	For bringing out the essence of a man and his music, emphassising the qualities of an artiste being distinct, but not distant from the people, as part of an unbroken tradition.	[12]
1991 (39th)	Aribam Syam Sharma	Director	Meitei Pung	English	For sensitively depicting the role that Pung, the traditional drum, plays in the Sankirtana and social life of Manipur.	[13]
1991 (39th)	B. Narsing Rao	Director	Akruti	–	For experimentation with forms of boulders of various shapes and textures, brilliantly visualised by Apurba Kishore Bir with the evocative music of Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia.
1992 (40th)	Salam Karassery	Producer	Noottantinte Sakshi	Malayalam	For a moving narrative about the courageous Maulvi patriot and centenarian Moidu Maulvi of Calicut, Kerala.	[14]
1992 (40th)	Sasibhushan	Director
1993 (41st)	Murali Nair	Director	Tragedy of an Indian Farmer	English	For transcreating a well-known and touching Malayalam poem into a celluloid poem, with great sensitivity and economy.	[15]
1993 (41st)	Mahesh Thottathil	Director	Death of a Prodigal Son	• Hindi  • English	For an interesting exploration of the stream-of-consciousness of a dying man in a restrained and stylised student film.
1994 (42nd)	Soumitra Sarkar	• Producer  • Director  • Screenwriter	Games We Played in My Youth	• English  • Bengali	For a refreshingly whimsical poem, which delights in the surprise of shifts and displacement.	[16]
1995 (43rd)	Sehjo Singh	Producer	Sona Maati	Marwari	For presenting an excellent, inspiring portrait of a woman peasant who is leading the struggle of women against land grabbing.	[17]
1996 (44th)	Nilotpal Majumdar	• Producer  • Director  • Cinematographer	Dhatu Jhar '96	Bengali	For his bold and experimental exploration of the dilemma between discovery and destruction.	[18]
1997 (45th)	No Award					[19]
1998 (46th)	Pavan Malhotra	Actor	Faqir	Hindi	For superb restraint in portraying of Innocence, in Gautom Ghose's film Faqir.	[20]
1999 (47th)	Deep Prakash	Director	Of Confucius, S-Spots and Toyguns	• English  • Hindi  • Marathi  • Tamil	For its stylised, graphic and playful narrative on modern life, violence and the contemporary media.	[21]
2000 (48th)	Roabin Mazumdar	Producer	A Memory of the Sea	English	For her skillful narration of the various cultures and religions from across the sea, that have historically influenced the coastal life of Malabar.	[22]
2000 (48th)	Lygia Mathews	Director
2001 (49th)	Kireet Khurana	Producer	Orchestra	Hindi	For effectively conveying the message of national integration through synchronous use of sound and animated images of musical instruments.	[23]
2001 (49th)	Bhimsain	Director
2002 (50th)	Wrik Basu and team	Director	00:00	English	For its intelligent and engaging use of cinematic form and structure as it weaves itself in and out of hotel rooms and peoples lives on New Years Eve at a sea-side hotel.	[24]
2003 (51st)	Kadhambari Chintamani	Producer	The Lijjat Sisterhood	English	For documenting the inspiring story of hundreds of women workers in the Lijjat papad making, selling and exporting. Through the first person interviews ranging from the oldest to the youngest, it is a vibrant narration of a unique experiment turned famously successful.	[25]
2003 (51st)	Ajit Oommen	Director
2003 (51st)	Sudhakar Reddy	Director	Ek Aakash	–	For starting off as a simple rivalry of two kids from different backgrounds; in kite flying, becomes a battle of one-upmanship. Both are led by their ego and aggressive instincts, but eventually reach a point when they need others help.
2004 (52nd)	Amit Dutta	Director	Kshy Tra Ghya	Hindi	For evolving an experimental form of narration within a story form, with excellent special visual effects in an innovative style.	[26]
2005 (53rd)	Rakesh Sharma	Director	Final Solution	• Hindi  • Gujarati  • English	For its powerful, hard-hitting documentation with a brutally honest approach lending incisive insights into the Godhra incident, its aftermath and the abetment of large-scale violence.	[27]
2006 (54th)	Anuradha Mookerjee	Producer	Lama Dances of Sikkim	English	For presenting the ritualistic significance and the colourful nature of the Lama mask dances in cinematic language.	[28]
2006 (54th)	Manash Bhowmick	Director
2007 (55th)	Amalan Datta	Producer	Bhultir Khero	Bengali	For its brilliant evocation of Kolkata. The film brings out sights and sounds, smells and stories, myths and memories in a manner that is realistic and yet magical.	[29]
2007 (55th)	Anirban Datta	Director
2007 (55th)	Public Service Broadcasting Trust	Producer	Poomaram	Malayalam	For its creative use of visual craft to reflect on the relationship between menstrual rituals, the colour red and nature of human existence. The film engages the audience very deeply in its experimental exploration of the inner life of young women protagonists and their unique relationship with blood.
2007 (55th)	Vipin Vijay	Director
2008 (56th)	Rajesh S. Jala	Director	Children of the Pyre	Hindi	Constrained by the stifling and searing world of children working in cremation grounds, the film helps them to recreate a world of their own. The director captures rare reflexive moments of the children and makes the viewers live their pain, joys and dreams.	[30]
2009 (57th)	Aasna Aslam	Child actor	Kelkkunnundo	Malayalam	For her natural, sensitive and touching performance.	[31]
2010 (58th)	No Award					[32]
2011 (59th)	Anand Patwardhan	Director	Jai Bhim Comrade	Marathi	For his uncompromising and passionate style of documentary filmmaking, which relentlessly brings into sharp focus the socio political issues of national importance.	[33]
2012 (60th)	Shumona Goel	Director	I Am Micro	English	For a journey in black and white against the backdrop of an abandoned factory, overlaid with the reflections of a filmmaker. A powerful experimental essay which leaves one with lots of questions.	[34]
2012 (60th)	Shai Heredia
2012 (60th)	Vasudha Joshi	Director	Cancer Katha	English	For a very personal rendition of a filmmaker's tryst with cancer – dealing with the harsh reality of the disease and unfolding the relationship of life, death, and film-making.
2013 (61st)	Girish Kasaravalli	Director	Ananthamurthy – Not A Biography...But A Hypothesis	English	For the clarity and the insight with which it looks at the work of Ananthamurthy, one of the finest Indian writers, whose work carries exceptional social significance.	[35]
2013 (61st)	Satyanshu Singh	Director	Tamaash	English	For presenting a heartwarming story of friendship in a lucid and engaging style and for using elements of the magical and the macabre to create a modern day fable of Kashmir.
2013 (61st)	Devanshu Singh
2014 (62nd)	Films Division	Producer	A Poet, A City & A Footballer	English	For demonstrating the power of cinema in weaving together life, poetry and reflections of its protagonist in the face of impending death.	[36]
2014 (62nd)	Joshy Joseph	Director
2015 (63rd)	No Award					[37]

Special Mention

List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), awarded as, film(s), language(s) and citation
Year	Recipient(s)	Awarded as	Film(s)	Language(s)	Citation	Refs.
1978 (26th)	Loksen Lavnani for Films Division	Director	The Burning Stone	English	For the sincerity and commitment of the filmmaker in this stark and uncompromising film in which the raw truth is portrayed with no attempt to make it palatable.	[1]
1979 (27th)	No Award
1980 (28th)	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	Producer	The Chola Heritage	English	For its outstanding photography of the Chola sculpture.	[2]
1980 (28th)	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	Director
1980 (28th)	Films Division	Producer	Pampa	English	For its sensitive handling of a purposeful theme, encouraging initiative as a child.
1980 (28th)	P. C. Sharma	Director
1981 (29th)	No Award					[3]
1982 (30th)	No Award					[4]
1983 (31st)	National Institute of Design	Producer	Jalshakti	Hindi	–	[5]
1983 (31st)	I. S. Mathur	Director
1983 (31st)	Kerala State Film Development Corporation	Producer	Thalam	Malayalam
1983 (31st)	Joy Mathew	Director
1983 (31st)	National Institute of Design	Producer	Energy-Merry-Go-Round	English
1983 (31st)	–	Best Biographical Film	Veer Savarkar	Marathi
1983 (31st)	–	Best Scientific Film	Handling Fuel Oils Fission Power 306 Rejuvenation	English
1983 (31st)	–	Best Exploration/Adventure Film	Against Current Exploration Antartica	English
1983 (31st)	–	Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film	Cobra: The Snake God	English
1983 (31st)			Perumkaliattam	Malayalam
1983 (31st)			Leather Puppetry of Karnataka	English
1983 (31st)			Nishan	Hindi
1983 (31st)	–	Best Exploration/Adventure Film	Against Current Exploration Antartica	English
1983 (31st)	–	Best Historical Reconstruction Film	Tambaccucha Samna	Marathi
1983 (31st)			Bidaai	Hindi
1984 (32nd)	No Award					[6]
1985 (33rd)	FTII	Producer	Prisoners of Circumstances	Telugu	For its objective presentation of the inhuman treatment of children in remand homes.	[7]
1985 (33rd)	Ramesh Handoo	Director
1985 (33rd)	R. K. Gupta	Producer	Anukaran	Telugu	For a poignant of discrimination against women in Indian society.
1985 (33rd)	Gul Bahar Singh	Director
1986 (34th)	No Award					[8]
1987 (35th)	Ashok Gunjal	Cameraman	The Kingdom of God	English	For his aesthetically pleasing and technically proficient camerawork.	[9]
1988 (36th)	N. H. Prasad	Director	Dispossession	English	For its fresh and innovative experimentation with cinematic form, dealing with an unusual theme.	[10]
1989 (37th)	No Award					[11]
1990 (38th)	Raj Gopal Rao	Director	Technique of Seed Production in Wheat and Paddy	English	For effective dissemination of agricultural information.	[12]
1990 (38th)	Siddharth Kak	Director	Cactus and Roses	English	For his sophisticated presentation of a pioneering industrial establishment.
1990 (38th)	Dilip Ghose	Director	Aadhi Haqueeqat Aadha Fasana	Hindi	For deglamourising the world of cinema in the minds of innocent toddler talent.
1990 (38th)	Naresh Saxena	Director	Sambandh	Hindi	For the excellent nucleus of an idea, building an emotional bridge between a family and a tree.
1991 (39th)	Debal Basu	Director	Living on the Junk	English	For his work in directing the film. The film is a sincere maiden effort in focussing attention on the significant contribution of ragpickers of a metropolis in minimising the treat to the environment from the junk of a consumerist society.	[13]
1992 (40th)	No Award					[14]
1993 (41st)	No Award					[15]
1994 (42nd)	Arun Kumar Roy	• Director  • Screenwriter	Of Tagore and Cinema	English	In acknowledgement of its archival value.	[16]
1994 (42nd)	Gautam Haldar	Director	The Story of Integration	English	In acknowledgement of his painstaking attempt to bring its subject to life.
1994 (42nd)	Kaviyoor Sivaprasad	• Director  • Screenwriter  • Editor	Ormaynde Theerangalil	Malayalam	In acknowledgement of his lyrical evocation of the passage of time.
1995 (43rd)	Arvind Singh	Director	Ajit	Hindi	For his sensitive portrayal of migrant child labour.	[17]
1995 (43rd)	Rashmi Film Society	Producer	Ithihasathile Khasak	• English  • Malayalam	For its brave attempt to interpret a literary work, cinematically.
1995 (43rd)	Biswadeb Dasgupta	• Producer  • Director	Majhi	Bengali	For presenting with sincerity that human values ultimately triumph.
1996 (44th)	No Award					[18]
1997 (45th)	Gulbahar Singh	Director	Gotipua	English	For a well researched portrayal of the still-vital dance form which is the predecessor and creative source of the Odissi tradition.	[19]
1998 (46th)	Unni Vijayan	Director	Jee Karta Tha	Hindi	For his realisation of an innovative and a personalised style of constructing the film.	[20]
1999 (47th)	Vinod Subramanian	Director	Fire	• English  • Hindi	For its imaginative and multifaceted presentation of the theme.	[21]
2000 (48th)	Amal Neerod C. R.	Cameraman	Meena Jha	Hindi	For his pictorial vision and capturing of images imaginatively showing great promise.	[22]
2000 (48th)	Haimanti Banerjee	Director	Balgandharv	Marathi	For effectively capturing the spirit of the legendary Marathi theatre personality Balgandharv, the singer, well known for his portrayal of women characters.
2001 (49th)	A. R. Tripathi	Producer	Kalahandi	• Oriya  • English	For his carefully crafted words giving an additional dimension to the film.	[23]
2001 (49th)	Sonali Kulkarni	Actress	Chaitra	Marathi	For the subtle display of her wide range of emotions.
2002 (50th)	Raja Mitra	Director	Kalighat Paintings And Drawings	English	For its significant achievement in documenting the rich artistic tradition and its implicit social commentary.	[24]
2003 (51st)	Shilpi Dasgupta	Director	Mangali: An Exorcision	–	For the thoughtful and laudable craft that shaped the film.	[25]
2003 (51st)	Aseem Bose	Cameraman	Water	English	For enhancing the impact of the film with his eloquent lens, that captures the spirit of the subject of the film.
2004 (52nd)	No Award					[26]
2005 (53rd)	Vibhu Puri	Director	Chabiwali Pocket Watch	Hindi	For a director’s film with competent execution of a good concept with great art direction, cinematography and performances.	[27]
2005 (53rd)	Bidyut Kotoky	Director	Bhraimoman Theatre	Assamese	For its fascinating picture of a cultural sub-world of Assam, capturing true moments of emotion and joy.
2006 (54th)	Kuldip Sinha	Producer	Special Children	English	For highlighting the problems faced by special children or differently abled children and their families-an aspect of our society that is still not receiving adequate attention.	[28]
2006 (54th)	Suresh Menon	Director
2007 (55th)	No Award					[29]
2008 (56th)	Aniket Rumade	Child actor	Vitthal	Marathi	For his excellent portrayal of a young boy, Vitthal, dealing with ritualistic norms forced on him and his struggle to contain the anger brewing within.	[30]
2009 (57th)	Nikita Bhagat	Cinematographer	Vilay	–	For her evocative and path breaking camerawork. The innovative use of shift focus brought, images, textures and emotions to life.	[31]
2010 (58th)	Shiny Jacob Benjamin	Director	Ottayal (One Woman Alone)	Malayalam	For a heart warming portrayal of the woman Daya Bai, who trades along a challenging path in quest of truth. The director, delves into the spirit of the woman to understand the theology of liberation, with sincerity and intelligence.	[32]
2010 (58th)	Ronel Haobam	Director	The Zeliangrongs	• Manipuri  • English	For a well researched endeavour to reflect a composite group of ethnic communities of common origin and socio-cultural back-ground, which highlights the rich cultural heritage and the tribes’ traditional way of life, which is on the brink of extinction.
2010 (58th)	Suraj Pawar	Child actor	Pistulya	• Marathi  • Telugu	For displaying, under distressing situation and harsh reality, Pistulya, the child protagonist, the authenticity with vibrant and emotive expression.
2011 (59th)	Spandan Banerjee	Director	You Don’t Belong	• Bengali  • English	For creating an enjoyable musical journey that reveals the growth of a song from the pen of a poet to mainstream culture.	[33]
2011 (59th)	Renu Savant	Director	Airawat	• Marathi  • Hindi	For imaginatively painting a layered world of memories and modernity in a small town neighbourhood.
2012 (60th)	Priya Goswami	Director	Pinch of Skin	• English  • Hindi	A film that explores a shocking reality amongst women of a particular community. It gives us a rare view into a world of hidebound sexual tradition.	[34]
2012 (60th)	Andrea Iannetta	Director	Allah Is Great	• English  • Hindi  • Danish	A subtly humorous look at life and the vagaries of fate.
2012 (60th)	Sanjay Jangid	Animator	Raah	–	For exploring an innovative style of animation and the creation of arresting images.
2013 (61st)	Shweta Ghosh	Director	Accsex	• English  • Hindi	For vigorously taking up the challenge of exploring sexuality in women perceived to be differently abled.	[35]
2013 (61st)	Kavita Bahl	Director	Candles In The Wind	• Punjabi  • Hindi	For its chilling depiction of the ground realities in the bread basket of India. The tone and texture of the film contradict the prevalent narrative of it being the best place to live and work.
2013 (61st)	Nandan Saxena
2013 (61st)	Madonne M. Ashwin	Director	Dharmam	Tamil	For its searing critique of middle class hypocrisy and a corrupt society as seen through the eyes of an impressionable child.
2013 (61st)	Rajdeep Paul	Director	At the Cross Roads : Nondon Bagchi Life and Living	• English  • Bengali	For an entertaining biography of a wonderfully engaging personality, with shades of a near chaotic life style, set in a period known for its path-breaking music.
2013 (61st)	Sarmistha Maiti
2014 (62nd)	Mrinal Dev	Director	Gunjaa	English	For poignantly telling the story of Gunjaa, a young girl in Bihar, and her innocent but ironic understanding of death.	[36]
2014 (62nd)	Manoj Kumar Nitharwal	Director	Seek and Hide	English	For its fine juxtaposition of a child’s expression of fear with the unawareness of the parents to elucidate a complex story of pedophilia.
2014 (62nd)	Ruchir Arun	Director	5 O'Clock Accident	English	For its gritty story and compelling treatment of a voyeuristic teenager and the darkness that comes with his obsession.
2015 (63rd)	Arun Shankar	Director	The Chameleon	English	For the twists and turns of a distorted mind.	[37]
2015 (63rd)	Neelan	Director	Amma	Malayalam	For the rich tapestry of an era of struggle seen through the eyes of the protagonist.
2015 (63rd)	Varun Tandon	Director	Syaahi	Hindi	For conglomeration of sense and sensibilities depicted through the innocence of a young mind.

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External links

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