National Film Award for Best Production Design
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The National Film Award for Best Production Design is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
National Film Award for Best Production Design | |
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National award for contributions to Indian Cinema | |
Sponsored by | Directorate of Film Festivals |
Formerly called | National Film Award for Best Art Direction (1979ā2010) |
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First awarded | 1979 |
Last awarded | 2020 |
Most recent winner | Anees Nadodi |
Highlights | |
Total awarded | 43 |
First winner | Jayoo Patwardhan |
The award was instituted in 1979, at 27th National Film Awards as National Film Award for Best Art Direction, and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (18 awards), Tamil (6 awards), Malayalam (6 awards), Bengali (3 awards), Kannada, Urdu, English, Marathi (two each), Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Konkani (one Each).
The award renamed as National Film Award for Best Production Design from the 57th National Film Awards in 2011.[1][2]