National Film Awards (India): 2015
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The 62nd National Film Awards: the highlights
Best Feature Film: Court (Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati & English)
Best Popular Film for Providing Wholesome Entertainment: Mary Kom
Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director: Asha for Jaoar Majhe
Special Jury Award:Khwada (Marathi)
Best Direction: Srijit Mukherji for Chotushkone (Bengali)
Best Actress: Kangana Ranaut for Queen
Best Actor: Vijay for Nanu Avanalla Avalu (Kannada)
Best Supporting Actor: Bobby Simhaa for Jigarthanda (Tamil)
Best Supporting Actress: Baljinder Kaur for Pagdi The Honour (Haryanavi)
Best Child Actor: Kaakkaa Muttai(Tamil)
Best Female Playback Singer: Uttara Unnikrishanan for Azhagu, Saivam (Tamil)
Best Costume Designer:Haider (Hindi) Dolly Ahluwalia
Best Make-up Artist: Nangaraju & Raju for Nanu Avanalla Avalu (Kannada)
Best Cinematography: Chotushkone (Bengali)
Best Editing: Vivek Harshan for Jigarthanda (Tamil)
Best Production Design: Aparna Raina for Nachom - IA Kumpasar (Konkani)
Best Screenplay Writer (Original): Srijit Mukherji for Chotushkone (Bengali)
Best Screenplay Writer (Adapted) : Joshy Mangalath for Ottal (Malayalam)
Best Dialogues: Vishal Bhardwaj for Haider
Best Lyrics: NA. Muthukumar for Azhagu, Saivam (Tamil)
Best Music Direction Songs:Haider
Best Music Direction Background Score:Nineteen Eighty Three (Malayalam)
Best Audiography - Location Sound Recordist: Mahaveer Sabbanwal for Khwada (Marathi)
Best Audiography - Sound Designer: Anish John for Asha Jaoar Majhe (Bengali)
Best Audiography - Re-recordist of the final mixed track: Anirban Sengupta & Dipankar Chaki for Nirbashito (Bengali)
Best Choreography: Sudesh Bismil, Haider
Special Mention: Killa (Marathi), Bhootnath Returns (Hindi), Ain (Malayalam), Nachom - IA Kumpasar (Konkani)
Best Film on Environment Consevation/Preservation: Ottaal (Malayalam)
Best Educational Film: Komal & Behind the Glass Wall
Best Exploration/ Adventure Film: Life Force - India's Western Ghats
Best Investigative Film:Phum Shang
Best Animation Film:Sound of Joy
Best Short Fiction Film:Mitraa
Best Film on Social Issues:Chotoder Chobi
Best Children's Film:Kaakkaa Muttai (Tamil) & Elizabeth Ekadashi (Marathi)
Best Film Critic: Tanul Thakur
Best Book on Cinema: Silent Cinema: (1895-1930)
Best films in Indian languages
Best Assamese Film: Othello
Best Bengali Film: Nirbashito
Best Hindi Film: Queen
Best Rabha Film: Orong
Best Haryanvi Film: Pagdi The Honour
Best Punjabi Film: Punjab 1984
Best Tamil Film: Kuttram Kadithal
Best Telugu Film: Chandamama Kathalu
Best Malayalam Film: Ain
Best Marathi Film: Killa
Best Odiya Film: Aadim Vichar
Best Kannada Film: Harivu
Best Konkani Film:Nachom - IA Kumpasar
Details
Feature Films
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Name Of Award |
Name of Film |
Awardees |
Citation |
Medal & Cash Prize |
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Best Feature Film
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Court (Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati & English) |
Producer: Zoo Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Director : Chaitanya Tamhane |
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Swarna Kamal and
2,50,000/- each to
the Producer and Director |
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Indira Gandhi Award For Best Debut Film Of A Director |
Asha Jaoar Majhe (Bengali) |
Producer: F.O.R Films Pvt. Ltd.
Director : Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
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Swarna Kamal and
1,25, 000/- each to the Producer and Director |
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Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment |
Mary Kom
(Hindi) |
Producer: Viacom 18 Motion Pictures Director : Omung Kumar |
For an inspiring tale of a woman who becomes a national icon through her determined pursuit of sporting excellence. |
Swarna Kamal and 2,00,000/- each to the Producer and Director |
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Best Film On Social Issues |
Chotoder Chobi (Bengali) |
Producer: Shree Venkatesh Films Pvt. Ltd. Director : Kaushik Ganguly |
For its empathetic portrayal of marginalized people and their struggle for a life of dignity. |
Rajat Kamal and Rs1,50,000/- each to the Producer and Director |
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Best Film On Environment Conservation/ Preservation |
Ottaal
(Malayalam) |
Producer: Director Cutz Film Company (P) Ltd. Director : Jayaraj |
Ottal, a visual poem, expresses the beauty and serenity of the protagonist’s rural environment and a way of life whose value is measured by the poignancy of its loss. |
Rajat Kamal and Rs1,50,000/- each to the Producer and Director |
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Best Children’s Film: (joint) |
Kaakkaa Muttai (Tamil)
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Producer: Grass Root Film Company
Director : Manikandan M |
Kaakkaa Muttai for narrating a charming
story of two brothers who are unaware of their deprived status and have a
confrontation with the tastelessness of globalization. |
Swarna Kamal and 1,50,000/- each to the Producer and Director (Cash component to be shared between films) |
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Best Children’s Film (joint) |
Elizabeth Ekadashi (Marathi) |
Producer: Essel Vision Productions Ltd. Director : Paresh Mokashi |
Elizabeth Ekadashi is a delightful tale that reaffirms children's ability to negotiate the complexities of life with relative ease. |
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Best Direction |
Chotushkone (Bengali) |
Srijit Mukherji |
For its brilliantly reflexive use of the cinematic idiom through a playful and innovative mise-en-scene that tautens to an unexpected and gripping climax. |
Swarna Kamal and Rs 2,50,000/- |
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Best Actor
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Nanu Avanalla Avalu (Kannada) |
Vijay
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For his subtle and non-stereotypical playing of a woman trapped in a man’s body, portraying a gamut of emotions as s/he struggles through confusion, rejection and humiliation to finally chart her own course with confidence and dignity. |
Rajat Kamal and Rs50,000/-
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Best Actress |
Queen (Hindi)
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Kangana Ranaut |
For an endearingly etched out performance that is grounded in contextual specificity and at the same time is disarmingly spontaneous as to appear almost improvisatory. |
Rajat Kamal and Rs50,000/- |
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Best Supporting Actor |
Jigarthanda (Tamil) |
Bobby Simhaa |
For an engaging portrayal of a dreaded Mafia don who plays both the villain and the comic with a rare flamboyance and abandon. |
Rajat Kamal and Rs 50,000/-
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Best Supporting Actress |
Pagdi The Honour (Haryanavi) |
Baljinder Kaur |
For a very expressive performance as a gritty rustic woman who struggles as wife and mother to keep her family intact in a society obsessed with patriarchal honour. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Best Child Artist
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Kaakkaa Muttai (Tamil)
|
J. Vignesh & Ramesh |
For their portrayal of inseparable siblings living in a slum who innocently struggle with rare dignity to acquire what attracts them in this vast market of products unleashed by a liberal economy only to realise the harsh reality of invincible class boundaries. |
Rajat Kamal and Rs50,000/- (cash component to be shared) |
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Best Male Playback Singer |
Haider (Hindi) |
Sukhwinder Singh (Song: Bismil) |
For a powerful rendition which effectively reflects the agony and anger of the protagonist.
|
Rajat Kamal and Rs50,000/- |
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Best Female Playback Singer |
Saivam (Tamil)
|
Uttara Unnikrishanan (Song: Azhagu) |
For evoking an emotional resonance through the purity and innocence of her voice. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Best Cinematography |
Chotushkone (Bengali) |
Sudeep Chatterjee |
For exhibiting a wide spectrum of space and time while effortlessly knitting the emotional fabric of the film. |
Rajat Kamal and Rs 50,000/- each
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Best Screenplay Writer (Original): |
i. Chotushkone (Bengali) |
Srijit Mukherji |
Chotushkone for the masterful telling of a taut suspense thriller which weaves a sinister web around the journey and lives of four egotistical characters. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Best Screenplay Writer (Adapted) : |
Ottal (Malayalam) |
Joshy Mangalath |
Ottal for beautifully transposing Anton Chekov’s short story onto a canvas of nature that enhances the shades of the original. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Best Dialogues |
Haidar (Hindi) |
Vishal Bhardwaj |
Haider for the multi layered and resonant dialogues that evoke angst and passion with crispness and brevity. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Best Audiography
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I) Location Sound Recordist |
i. Khwada (Marathi) |
Mahaveer Sabbanwal |
Khwada for its excellent live sound quality which skillfully captures all the ambient sounds with the right tonal balance. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Sound Designer |
Asha Jaoar Majhe (Bengali) |
Anish John |
Asha Jaoar Majhe for creating a brilliant soundscape which enhances the narrative even in the absence of the spoken word. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Re-Recordist Of The Final Mixed Track |
Nirbashito (Bengali) |
Anirban Sengupta & Dipankar Chaki |
Nirbashito for the seamless movement from chaos into the quietness of solitude while integrating various elements of sound. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Best Editing |
Jigarthanda (Tamil) |
Vivek Harshan |
For structuring the different narratives of raw cruelty and urban cunning that eventually intermingle with positive and humourous overtones through skillful editing. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/-
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Best Production Design |
Nachom – IA Kumpasar (Konkani) |
Aparna Raina |
For convincingly recreating spaces from a different era and with minute attention to detail. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Best Costume Designer
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Haider (Hindi)
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Dolly Ahluwalia |
For capturing the essence of the characters and moods with creative flourish. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Best Make-Up Artist |
Nanu Avanalla Avalu (Kannada) |
Nangaraju |
For the realistic creation of gender duality in a character through different phases of life. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Best Music Direction |
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Songs
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Haider (Hindi) |
Vishal Bhardwaj
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For developing the conflict of the inner and outer landscape through haunting music. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Background Score |
Nineteen Eighty Three (Malayalam) |
Gopi Sunder |
For maintaining the tempo of the film with an in-sync background score. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Best Lyrics |
Saivam (Tamil) |
NA. Muthukumar |
For embodying the world as seen through the eyes of a child using common place images to make an appeal to an adult world. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
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Special Jury Award |
Khwada (Marathi) |
Director: Bhaurao Karhade |
For a hard-hitting but restrained narration of the harsh realities of a nomadic shepherd community who are in search of stability. |
Rajat Kamal and 2,00,000/- |
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Best Choreography |
Haider (Hindi) (Bismil) |
Sudesh Adhana
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For the evocative fusion of performative grammars, interweaving a staccato whirling of masculinised bodies with larger than life puppets, to create a dance that is firmly embedded within the narrative. |
Rajat Kamal and 50,000/- |
Language-wise:
BEST FEATURE FILM IN EACH OF THE LANGUAGE SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE VIII OF THE CONSTITUTION
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Best Assamese Film |
Othello |
Producer: Artha Films Director : Hemanta Kumar Das |
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Best Bengali Film |
Nirbashito |
Producer: Kaushik Ganguly Productions
Director : Churni Ganguly |
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Best Hindi Film |
Queen |
Producer: Phantom Films Pvt. Ltd. & Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Director : Vikas Bahl |
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Best Kannada Film |
Harivu |
Producer: Om Studio
Director : Manjunath S. (Mansore) |
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Best Konkani Film |
Nachom – IA Kumpasar
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Producer: Goa Folklore Productions
Director: Bardroy Barretto |
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Best Malayalam Film |
Ain |
Producer: 1: 1: Enternatments
Director: Sidhartha Siva |
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Best Marathi Film |
Killa |
Producer: JAR Pictures & M R Film Works
Director: Avinash Arun |
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Best Odiya Film |
Aadim Vichar |
Producer: Mohapatra Movie Magic Pvt. Ltd.
Director: Sabyasachi Mohapatra |
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Best Punjabi Film |
Punjab 1984 |
Producer: White Hill Production India Pvt. Ltd.
Director: Anurag Singh |
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Best Tamil Film |
Kuttram Kadithal |
Producer: JSK Film Corporation
Director: Bramma.G |
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Best Telugu Film |
Chandamama Kathalu |
Director: Praven Sattaru |
