64th National Film Awards (2017): List of Winners

The 64th National Film Awards for Indian Cinema of 2016 has just been announced a short while ago.  The awards will be distributed in early May this year. Given below is the list of winners-

Best Feature Film: ‘Kaasav’ (Marathi)

Best Director: Rajesh Mapuskar for ‘Ventilator’ (Marathi)

Best Actor: Akshay Kumar for ‘Rustom’

Best Actress: Surabhi C.M for ‘Minnaminunge’ (Malayalam)

Best Supporting Actor : Manoj Joshi for ‘Dashkriya’ (Marathi)

Best Supporting Actress :  Zaira Wasim for ‘Dangal’

Best Cinematography: Tirru for ’24’ (Tamil) 

Best Assamese Film: ‘Maj Rati Keteki’

Best Bengali Film: ‘Bisorjan’

Best Hindi Film:‘Neerja’

Best Gujarati Film: ‘Wrong Side Raju’

Best Tamil Film : ‘Joker’

Best Malayalam Film : ‘Maheshinte Prathikaaram’

Best Marathi Film: ‘Dashakriya’

Best Moran Film: ‘Haanduk’

Best Kannada Film: ‘Reservation’

Best Konkani Film: ‘K Sera Sera Ghodpachen Ghoddtelem’

Best Telugu Film: ‘Pelli Choopulu’

Best Tulu Film: ‘Madipu’

Best Film Critic: G.Dhananjayan

Best Book Award: Yatindra Mishra for ‘Sur Gatha’, K.P.Jayashankar, Anjali Monteiro for ‘A Fly in the Curry’ (Special Mention)

Best Lyrics: Vairamuthu for ‘Vantha Entha Pakkam’ from ‘Dharma Durai’ (Tamil) and Anupam Roy for ‘Tumi Jaake Bhalo Basho’ from ‘Praktan) (Bengali)

Best Music Direction: Bapu Padmanabha for ‘Allama’ (Kannada), both for songs as well as background score categories

Best Costume: Sachin Lovalekar for ‘Cycle’

Best Choreography: Raju Sundaram for ‘Janatha Garage’

Special Jury Award: Mohanlal for ‘Munthirivallikal Thalirkkumbol’, ‘Pulimurugan’ and ‘Janatha Garage’

Best Audiography: Christopher Burchell for ‘Remembering Kurdi’-On Location Sound Recordist, Jayadevan Chakkadath for ‘Kaadu Pookunna Neram (Malayalam)- Sound Designer and  Alok De for Ventilator-Re-recordist of final mixed track

Best Film Friendly State Award: Uttar Pradesh (special mention to Jharkhand)

Best Editing: Rameshwar S.Bhagat for ‘Ventilator’ (Marathi)

Best Production Design : Subrata Chakraborthy, Shreyas Khedekar and Amit Ray for ’24’ (Tamil)

Best Make-Up Artist: N.K.Ramakrishna for ‘Allama’ (Kannada)

Best Special Effects: Naveen Paul for ‘Shivaay’

Best Screenplay (Original): Syam Pushkaran for ‘Maheshinte Prathikaaram’ (Malayalam)

Best Adapted screenplay writer: Sanjay Krishnaji Patel for ‘Dashakriya’ (Marathi)

Best Dialogue: Tharun Bhascker Dhassyam for ‘Pelli Choopulu’ (Telugu)

Best Female Playback Singer: Emaan Chakraborty for ‘Praktan’ (Bengali)

Best Male Playback Singer: Sundara Iyer for ‘Joker’ (Tamil) (Tamil)

Best Child Artist: Manohara for ‘Railway Children’ (Kannada), Nur Islam and Samiul Alam for ‘Sahaj Pather Gappo’ (Bengali), Adish Praveen for ‘Kunju Daivam’ (Malayalam)

Best Children’s Film: ‘Dhanak’

Best Animated Film: ‘Mahayodha Rama’

Indira Gandhi award for debut film director:  Deep Choudhury for ‘Alifa’ (Bengali)

Best Film Providing Wholesome Entertainement : ‘Sathamanam Bhavati’ (Telugu)

Best Film on Social Issues: ‘Pink’

Best Film on Environment Preservation/Conservation: ‘Loktak Lairembee’/Lady of the Lake (Manipuri)

Best Film on National Integration: ‘Dikchow Banat Palaax’ (Assamese)

Best Action Direction/Stunt Choreography: Peter Hein for ‘Pulimurugan’ (Malayalam)

Special Mention: Kadwi Hawa, Mukti Bhavan, Adil Hussain for ‘Mukti Bhavan’ and ‘Maj Rati Keteki’ (Assamese) and Sonam Kapoor for ‘Neerja’

Best Film (Non Feature): ‘Fireflies in the Abyss’

( For more details about the awards including complete list of Non Feature film category check here)