The National Film Award for Best Cinematography is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
| National Film Award for Best Cinematography | |
|---|---|
| National award for contributions to non-feature films | |
| Sponsored by | National Film Development Corporation of India |
| Reward(s) |
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| First awarded | 1990 |
| Last awarded | 2022 |
| Most recent winner | Siddharth Diwan |
| Highlights | |
| Total awarded | 80 |
| First winner |
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The award was instituted in 1990, at 38th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. Since the 70th National Film Awards (2022), the primary/main cinematographer is eligible to the award, thus eliminating the existing Cameraman and Laboratory Processing sub-categories.[1]
Winners
editAward includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
| Indicates a joint award for that year |
| List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Cameraman(s) | Laboratory Processing | Film(s) | Language(s) | Citation | Refs. |
| 1990 (38th) |
Santosh Sivan | Prasad Film Laboratories | Mohiniyattam | English |
For evocative, lyrical beauty with which the camera has painted the dancer and her milieu. |
[2] |
| Victor Banerjee | Prasad Film Laboratories | Where No Journeys End | English |
For the dramatic manner in which the Indian landscape unfolds, seducing the viewer with timeless beauty of India. | ||
| 1991 (39th) |
Shekar Dattari | Prasad Film Laboratories | Silent Valley: An Indian Rain forest | English |
For the arduous and patient coverage of the flora and fauna of the Silent Valley in Kerala over a period of one-and-a-half years and for giving an intimate portrait of the environment, recorded under difficult conditions. |
[3] |
| 1992 (40th) |
Soumendu Roy | Adlabs | Sucitra Mitra | Bengali |
For capturing on celluloid the many moods of the Bengal landscape and picturisation of the famous singer Suchitra Mitra. |
[4] |
| 1993 (41st) |
Piyush Shah | – | Moksha | Bengali |
For documenting a tragic reality with all its moods and emotions. |
[5] |
| 1994 (42nd) |
Anoop Jotwani | Vijay Color Lab | Rasayatra | • Hindi • English |
For his fastidious interpretation through lighting, and the fluidity of his camera operation. |
[6] |
| 1995 (43rd) |
Rafey Mehmood | Adlabs | Tarana | Hindi |
For the beautiful images achieved through fascinating camera movements, excellent lighting, composition in tandem with music. |
[7] |
| 1996 (44th) |
Hari Nair | Prasad Film Laboratories | Sham's Vision | English |
For his brilliant use of light and shade, to bring to life even inanimate objects in the film. |
[8] |
| 1997 (45th) |
Ashok Dasgupta | – | The Trail | English |
This experimental film deals with the decolonisation of the mind through its strong and artistic visual images. |
[9] |
| 1998 (46th) |
Ranjan Palit | Prasad Film Laboratories | In The Forest Hangs a Bridge | English |
For his perception of images to define a style that illustrates the harmony in the film. |
[10] |
| 1999 (47th) |
Mankada Ravi Varma | Prasad Film Laboratories | Kalamandalam Gopi | Malayalam |
For the imaginative and excellent visual quality rendered with consistency. |
[11] |
| 2000 (48th) |
Prasann Jain | Adlabs | Rasikpriya | • Hindi • English |
For capturing images that speak in tones of light and shade, thereby giving life to the lyrical form of the film. |
[12] |
| 2001 (49th) |
Nilotpal Sarkar | Prasad Film Laboratory | Jorasanko Thakurbari | English |
For imaginatively capturing images in light and shade, through smooth movements to bring life to the historical house of the Tagores'. |
[13] |
| Irom Maipak | Prasad Kalinga Lab | The Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh | English |
For his fascinating style of framing under uncontrolled situations. | ||
| 2002 (50th) |
No Award | [14] | ||||
| 2003 (51st) |
Ranjan Palit | Prasad Film Laboratory | Kaya Poochhe Maya Se | Hindi |
For a cinematic observation of myriad shades of humanity and breathtaking chiaroscuro of light and shade. |
[15] |
| K. G. Jayan | Prasad Film Laboratory | The 18 Elephants: 3 Monologues | Malayalam |
For sound design which evokes a vision of a world far, far away from the madding crowd, which oscillates between the silences and nature's pristine sounds. | ||
| 2004 (52nd) |
Manoj Raymond Lobo | Adlabs | Girni | Marathi |
For a short film which is highly enriched through excellent visual choreography. |
[16] |
| 2005 (53rd) |
Paramvir Singh | Adlabs | Parsiwada, Tarapore Present Day | • English • Gujarati |
For its visually poetic depiction of the decadent Parsi community, with imaginative use of great lighting and compositions. |
[17] |
| 2006 (54th) |
Rajendra Janglay | – | Raga of River Narmada | – |
For stretching the technical possibilities of videography and capturing the varying moods of river Narmada. |
[18] |
| Sanjay V. | ||||||
| 2007 (55th) |
Savita Singh | – | Kramasha | Hindi |
For her arresting use of lenses and lighting in the creation of a strange and magical world, full of a certain atmospheric dampness and mistiness, further enhanced by a consistent exhibition of striking cinematic compositions. |
[19] |
| 2008 (56th) |
Shariqva Badar Khan | Filmlab | Three of Us | – |
For providing with amazing discipline and sensitivity, an intimate insight into the lives of a small family, living in a confined space, with exquisite use of composition, rhythm, lensing and lighting. |
[20] |
| Jaya Krishna Gummadi | Adlabs | When This Man Dies | • Hindi • English |
For using highly sophisticated texture and tonal work, with deep anticipation into the flow and narrative of the film, the cinematography strives to redefine ways of image making and experience. | ||
| 2009 (57th) |
Deepu S. Unni | Adlabs | Gaarud | • Hindi • Marathi |
For brilliant craftsmanship, intelligent lensing in aesthetically recreating the ambience and the diverse pulsating life in a semi-urban lodge. |
[21] |
| 2010 (58th) |
Murali G. | Filmlab | Shyam Raat Seher | • Hindi • English |
For imaginative yet minimal, a balanced and evocative cinematography creates a character out of a city night atmosphere, setting the space and mood for the living characters in their journey beyond the real, nearing mythical. |
[22] |
| 2011 (59th) |
S. Nallamuthu | – | Tiger Dynasty | English |
For photographing with stunning images tigers and other wildlife animals in their natural habitat and giving us visuals which are both unique and poetic. |
[23] |
| 2012 (60th) |
Abhimanyu Dange | Reliance MediaWorks | Kaatal | Marathi |
For meticulous and confident image making that immensely augment the story telling. |
[24] |
| Raja Shabir Khan | – | Shepherds of Paradise | • Gojri • Urdu |
For simple, stark and sometimes breathtaking cinematography under the most difficult weather conditions, where some images linger on long after the film is over. | ||
| 2013 (61st) |
Kavin Jagtiani | Reliance MediaWorks | Mandrake !Mandrake ! | Hindi |
For exhibiting a wide spectrum of hues, both colour and black and white, while picturising the action in a dark warehouse full of unlikely light sources as also for the simulation of a silent era film with amusing trick photography. |
[25] |
| 2014 (62nd) |
Indraneel Lahiri | – | Aamaar Katha: Story of Binodini | Bengali |
For its stunning and sensual visual imagery that brings the story of Binodini alive. |
[26] |
| 2015 (63rd) |
Amartya Bhattacharyya | – | Benaras: The Unexplored Attachments | Bengali |
Poetry of visuals leaving a lasting imprint. |
[27] |
| 2016 (64th) |
Alpesh Nagar | – | Kalpvriksha | Hindi |
The mysterious beauty of the narrative comes alive through artful camerawork. |
[28] |
| Vishal Sangwai | Adnyat | English |
The camera paints a rich and colourful canvas for a narrative that is both grim and tragic. | |||
| 2017 (65th) |
Appu Prabhakar | – | Eye Test |
An exploration in tonalities and contrast, woven with memories and vision. |
[29] | |
| Arnold Fernandes | Dawn |
Potent imagery bordering on darkness and hope. | ||||
| 2018 (66th) |
Ajay Bedi | – | The Secret Life of Frogs | – |
For its consistent, relentless and splendid work in formidable circumstances, of visually capturing the life cycle and habitat of an endangered amphibian. |
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References
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- ^ "41st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "42nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "43rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "44th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "46th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ "58th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
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- ^ "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ^ "61st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- ^ "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
- ^ "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
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