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National Film Award for Best Screenplay

National Film Award for Best Screenplay
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Awarded forBest screenplay for a feature film for a year
Sponsored byNational Film Development Corporation of India
Reward(s)
  • Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
  • ₹2,00,000
First awarded1967 (Screenplay Writer (Original))
2009 (Screenplay Writer (Adapted))
2009 (Dialogue)
Last awarded2022
Most recent winner
  • Anand Ekarshi Screenplay Writer (Original)
  • Arpita Mukherjee and Rahul V. Chittella (Dialogue)
Highlights
Total awarded69 (Screenplay Writer (Original))
18 (Screenplay Writer (Adapted))
14 (Dialogue)
First winnerS. L. Puram Sadanandan

The National Film Award for Best Screenplay is one of the categories in the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). The award is announced for films produced in a year across the country, in all Indian languages. As of 2024, the award comprises a Rajat Kamal, a certificate, and a cash prize of ₹2,00,000.[1]

The National Film Awards were established in 1954 to "encourage production of the films of a high aesthetic and technical standard and educational and culture value" and also planned to include awards for regional films.[2][3] The awards were instituted as the "State Awards for Films" but were renamed to "National Film Awards" at the 15th National Film Awards in 1967 and a new category of award for Best Screenplay was introduced, presented with a plaque and a cash prize.[4] At the 57th National Film Awards in 2009, the Screenplay award was reclassified into three different awards: Screenplay Writer (Original), Screenplay Writer (Adapted), and Dialogues.[5] Although the Indian film industry produces films in around twenty languages and dialects,[6] as of 2022 edition, the seventy-three unique writers who have been awarded, have worked in nine major languages: Hindi (twenty awards), Malayalam (twelve awards), Bengali (eleven awards), Tamil (eight awards), Marathi (seven awards), Kannada (five awards), Telugu (three awards), English (two awards), Sanskrit and Assamese (one award each).

The inaugural award, in 1967, of this category was presented to S. L. Puram Sadanandan for the Malayalam film Agniputhri.[4] No award was presented at the 23rd National Film Awards (1975).[7] As of 2016, Malayalam author and screenplay writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair holds the record of winning maximum awards in category with four wins for the films: Oru Vadakkan Veeragadha (1989), Kadavu (1991),[8] Sadayam (1992),[9] and Parinayam (1994).[10] Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray was presented the award in 1993 posthumously for the film Uttoran;[11] he had earlier received awards for Pratidwandi (1970) and Sonar Kella (1974).[12][13] At the 59th National Film Awards in 2011, Girish Kulkarni was awarded both the Best Actor and Best Dialogue Awards for the Marathi film Deool. The film was itself was adjudged the Best Feature Film.[14] In 2015 at the 63rd ceremony, the awards for both Original Screenplay and Dialogue were jointly presented to Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma for their films Piku and Tanu Weds Manu: Returns, respectively.[15]

As of 2022, sixty-nine awards have been presented for Original Screenplay writing, eighteen for Adapted Screenplay writing, and fourteen for dialogue.

  1. ^ Under Secretary to the Government of India (14 December 2023). "Report on Rationalization of Awards Conferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting | Ministry of Information and Broadcasting | Government of India". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
  2. ^ "1st National Film Awards". International Film Festival of India. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  3. ^ "1st National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
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  15. ^ "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.

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