59th National Awards: Winners

Highlights

• Winners of the prestigious 59th National Film Awards have been announced by chairpersons of the jury today in New Delhi. The award ceremony will be held on May 3.
• For feature films the names of the award winners were declared by Rohini Hattangady, who was the chairperson of the Feature Films Jury (Central Panel).
• Ramesh Sharma, the chairperson of the Non-Feature films jury and Vijaya Mulay, who chaired the jury on the Best Writing on Cinema announced the names of other award winners.
• List of Winners:
• Best Actress: Vidya Balan, The Dirty Picture
• Best Actor: Girish Kulkarni for Deool (Marathi)
• Best Hindi Film: I AM
• Best Choreography: Bosco-Caeser for Senorita from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
• Best Special Effects: RA.One
• Best Make Up: Vijram Gaekwad for The Dirty Picture and Bal Gandharva
• Best Costume Designer: Niharika Khan for The Dirty Picture and Neeta Lulla for Bal Gandharva
• Best Children's Film: Chillar Party
• Best Child Artistes: Partho Gupte for Stanley Ka Dabba, and for Chillar Party: Irfan Khan, Sanath Menon, Rohan Grover, Naman Jain, Aarav Khanna, Vishesh Tiwari, Chinmai Chandranshuh, Vedant Desai and Divji Handa
• Best Supporting Actor: Appu Kutty for Azhagar Samiyin Kuthirai (Tamil)
• Best Feature Film: Deool and Byari
• Best Director: Gurvinder Singh for Anhe Ghorey Da Daan
• Best Lyrics: Amitabh Bhattacharya for I AM
• Best Screenplay: Vikas Bahl, Nitesh Tiwari, Vijay Maurya, Rajesh Bajaj for Chillar Party
• Special Jury Mention: Anjan Dutta for Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na
• Best Editing: Praveen KL for Aranyaa Kandam
• Best Male Playback: Anand Bhate for Bal Gandharva
• Best Bengali Film: Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na
• Best Marathi Film: Shaala
• Best Dialogue: Deool
• Best Audiography: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara