Malayalam film “Aattam: The Play” won the award for best feature film and Sooraj R Barjatya was judged best director for the Hindi movie “Uunchai” in the National Film Awards announced on Friday.
The best actress award was shared by Nithya Menen, who got it for the Tamil film ‘Thiruchitrambalam’, and Manasi Parekh for the Gujarati movie “Kutch Express”. The award for best actor went to Rishabh Shetty for the Kannada hit “Kantara”.
Neena Gupta was the best supporting actress for ‘ Uunchai’ and Pawan Malhotra best-supporting actor for the Haryanvi film “Fouja”.
Sharmila Tagore and Manoj Bajpayee starrer “Gulmohar” won the award for Hindi film. Bajpayee also got a special mention.
A R Rahman won the National Film Award for Best Music Director (background music) for his work in Mani Ratnam’s “Ponnyin Selvan-Part 1”, which was also named the best Tamil film. Pritam got the award for best music director (songs) for “Brahmastra-Part 1”.
Here’s the complete list of winners
Best Film - Aatam
Best Direction - Sooraj R Barjatya for Uunchai
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment - Kantara
Best Actor - Rishabh Shetty for Kantara
Best Actress - Nithya Menen for Thiruchitrambhalam and Manasi Parekh for Kutch Express
Best Supporting Actor - Pavan Raj Malhotra for Fouja
Best Supporting Actress - Neena Gupta for Uunchai
Best Child Artist - Sreepath for Malikappuram
Best Cinematography - Ravi Varmam for Ponniyin Selvan 1
Best Screenplay - Anand Ekarshi for Aatam
Best Dialogue Writer - Arpita Mukherjee and Rahul V Chittela for Gulmohar
Best Production Design - Ananda Addhya for Aparajito
Best Action Choreography - Anbariv for KGF Chapter 2
Best Make-Up Artist - Somnath Kundu for Aparajito
Best Costume Design - Niki Joshi for Kutch Express
Best Music Direction for Songs - Pritam for Brahmastra: Part 1 - Shiva
Best Music Direction for Background Scores - AR Rahman for Ponniyin Selvan 2
Best Lyrics - Naushad Sadar Khan for ‘Salaami’ in Fouja
Best Male Playback Singer - Arijit Singh for ‘Kesariya’ from Brahmastra: Part 1 - Shiva
Best Female Playback Singer - Bombay Jayashri for ‘Chaayum Veyil’ from Saudi Vellakka
Best Choreography - Jani Master and Sathish Krishnan for ‘Megham Karukatha’ in Thiruchitrambalam
Best Sound Design - Anand Krishnamoorthy for Ponniyin Selvan - Part 1
Best Editing - Mahesh Bhuvanend for Aattam
Best Special Effects
Special Jury Award - Manoj Bajpayee for Gulmohar and Sanjoy Chowdhury for Kadhikan
Special Mention (Feature Film)
Best Feature Film In Assamese - Emuthi Puthi by Kulanandini Mahanta
Best Feature Film In Bengali - Kaberi Antardhan by Kaushik Gangula
Best Feature Film In Hindi - Gulmohar by Rahul V. Chittella
Best Feature Film In Kannada - KGF Chapter 2 by Prashanth Neel
Best Feature Film In Konkani
Best Feature Film In Malayalam - Saudi Vellakka by Tharun Moorthy
Best Feature Film In Manipuri
Best Feature Film In Marathi - Vaalvi by Paresh Mokashi
Best Feature Film In Oriya
Best Feature Film In Punjabi - Baghi Di Dhee by Mukesh Gautam
Best Feature Film In Tamil - Ponniyin Selvan Part 1, by Mani Ratnam
Best Feature Film In Telugu - Karthikeya 2, Chandoo Mondeti
Best Film in Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comic - Brahmastra: Part 1 - Shiva, by Ayan Mukherji
Best Feature Film promoting National, Social, and Environmental Values - Kutch Express by Viral Shah
Non-feature films categories
Best Non-Feature Film - Ayena by Siddhant Sarin
Best Documentary - Murmurs of the Jungle
Best First Non-Feature Film
Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film
Best Arts/Cultural Film
Best Scientific Film
Best Promotional Film
Best Film On Social Issues
Best Animated Film - A Coconut Tree by Joshy Benedict
Best Short Film
Best Non-Feature Film Direction - From The Shadow by Miriam Chandy Menacherry
Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction - Vishal Bharadwaj for Fursat (Leisure)
Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Non-Feature Film)
Best Book On Cinema - Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography by Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Parthiv Dhar
Best Film Critic - Deepak Dua (Hindi)
Nargis Dutt Award
Indira Gandhi Award For Best First Film
The awards were announced by feature film jury head Rahul Rawail.