National_Film_Award_for_Best

National Film Award for Best Screenplay

The National Film Award (Silver Lotus Award) for Best Screenplay winners:

Year	Screenplay Writer	Film	Language
2007	Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Lage Raho Munna Bhai	Hindi
2006	Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi & Shridhar Raghavan	Apaharan	Hindi
2005	Manoj Tyagi & Nina Arora	Page 3	Hindi
2004	Gautam Ghose	Abar Aranye	Bengali
2003	Aparna Sen	Mr. and Mrs. Iyer	English
2002	Neelakanta	Show	Telugu
2001	Bharathiraja	Kadal Pookkal	Tamil
2000	Madampu Kunjukuttan	Karunam	Malayalam
1999	Ashok Mishra	Samar	Hindi
1998	Rituparno Ghosh	Dahan	Bengali
1997	Agathyan	Kadhal Kottai	Tamil
1996	Saeed Akhtar Mirza & Ashok Mishra	Naseem	Hindi
1995	M.T. Vasudevan Nair	Parinayam	Malayalam
1994	Satyajit Ray	Uttoran	Bengali
1993	M.T. Vasudevan Nair	Sadayam	Malayalam
1992	M.T. Vasudevan Nair	Kadavu	Malayalam
1991	K.S. Sethu Madhavan	Marupakkam	Tamil
1990	M.T. Vasudevan Nair	Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha	Malayalam
1989	Arundhati Roy	In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones	English
1988	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	Anantharam	Malayalam
1987	Budhdhadeb Dasgupta	Phera	Bengali
1986	Bhabendranath Nath Saikia	Agni Snaan	Assamese
1985	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	Mukhamukham	Malayalam
1984	G V Iyer	Adi Shankaracharya	Sanskrit
1983	Mrinal Sen	Kharij	Bengali
1982	K. Balachander	Thanneer Thanneer	Tamil
1981	Mrinal Sen	Akaler Sandhane	Bengali
1980	Sai Paranjpye	Sparsh	Hindi
1979	T.S. Ranga & T.S. Nagabharana	Grahana	Kannada
1978	Satyadev Dubey, Shyam Benegal & Girish Karnad	Bhumika	Hindi
1977	Vijay Tendulkar	Manthan	Hindi
1976	no award	-	-
1975	Satyajit Ray	Sonar Kella	Bengali
1974	Mrinal Sen & Ashish Burman	Padatik	Bengali
1973	Gulzar	Koshish	Hindi
1972	Tapan Sinha	Ekhonee	Bengali
1971	Satyajit Ray	Pratidwandi	Bengali
1970	S.R. Puttanna Kanagal	Gejje Pooje	Kannada
1969	Pandit Anand Kumar	Anokhi Raat	Hindi
1968	S.L. Puram Sadanandan	Agni Puthri	Malayalam
1967	Satyajit Ray	Nayak	Bengali

v • d • e National Film Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award: Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Feature Films: Best Film \| Best Director \| Best Actor \| Best Actress \| Best Supporting Actor \| Best Supporting Actress
Best Art Direction \| Best Child Artist \| Best Cinematography \| Best Costume Design \| Best Screenplay
Best Music Direction \| Best Male Playback Singer \| Best Female Playback Singer \| Best Lyrics \| Best Choreography
Best Audiography \| Best Film Editing \| Best Special Effects \| Best Children's Film \| Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment
Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration \| Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director
Special Jury Award / Special Mention
Non-Feature Films: Best Film \| Best Director \| Best First Film
Best Films in Regional Languages
Assamese \| Bengali \| English \| Hindi \| Kannada \| Malayalam \| Marathi \| Tamil \| Telugu \| Oriya \| Punjabi \| Konkani \| Manipuri
Others
Best Book on Cinema \| Best Film Critic \| Second Best Feature Film (discontinued after 1993)

See also