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

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. 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;

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(28 Awards), Bengali and

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(7 Awards),

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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, India

National Film Awards Archives

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