The National Film Award for Best Children's Film is one of the
National Film Awards
The National Film Awards are awards for artistic and technical merit given for "Excellence within the Cinema of India, Indian film industry". Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India ...
presented annually by the
National Film Development Corporation of India
The National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) based in Mumbai is the central agency established in 1975, to encourage high quality Indian cinema. It functions in areas of film financing, production and distribution and under the Min ...
. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).
The award was instituted in 1954, at
1st National Film Awards
The 1st National Film Awards, presented by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate the best of Indian Cinema released in the year 1953. Ceremony took place at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 10 October 1954 and awards were ...
and awarded annually for children's films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages;
Hindi
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(28 Awards),
Bengali and
Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...
(7 Awards),
Malayalam
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(6 each),
English (5 Awards),
Marathi (3 Awards),
Tamil,
Telugu,
Odia and
Assamese (1 each).
Winners
Award includes 'Golden Lotus Award' (Swarna Kamal) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
References
External links
Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, IndiaNational Film Awards ArchivesNational Film Awardsat
IMDb
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Children's Film
Indian children's films