National Film Award/Bester Film

Die Gewinner des National Film Award der Kategorie Bester Film (Best Feature Film) waren:

Jahr	Film	Sprache	Regisseur	Produzent
1953	Shyamchi Aai	Marathi	Pralhad Keshav Atre
1954	Mirza Ghalib	Hindi	Sohrab Modi
1955	Pather Panchali	Bengalisch	Satyajit Ray
1956	Kabuliwala	Bengalisch	Tapan Sinha
1957	Do Ankhen Barah Haath	Hindi	V. Shantaram
1958	Sagar Sangamey	Bengalisch	Debaki Bose
1959	Apur Sansar	Bengalisch	Satyajit Ray
1960	Devi Anuradha	Bengalisch Hindi	Satyajit Ray Hrishikesh Mukherjee
1961	Bhagini Nivedita	Bengalisch	Bijoy Bose
1962	Dada Thakur	Bengalisch	Sudhir Mukherjee
1963	Shehar Aur Sapna	Hindi	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
1964	Charulata	Bengalisch	Satyajit Ray
1965	Chemmeen	Malayalam	Ramu Kariat
1966	Teesri Kasam	Hindi	Basu Bhattacharya
1967	Hatey Bazarey	Bengalisch/Hindi	Tapan Sinha
1968	Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne	Bengalisch	Satyajit Ray
1969	Bhuvan Shome	Hindi	Mrinal Sen
1970	Samskara	Kannada	Pattabhi Rama Reddy
1971	Seemabaddha	Bengalisch	Satyajit Ray
1972	Swayamvaram	Malayalam	Adoor Gopalakrishnan
1973	Nirmalyam	Malayalam	M. T. Vasudevan Nair
1974	Chorus	Hindi/Bengalisch	Mrinal Sen
1975	Chomana Dudi	Kannada	B. V. Karanth
1976	Mrigayaa	Hindi	Mrinal Sen
1977	Ghattashraddha	Kannada	Girish Kasaravalli
1978	Ganadevata	Bengalisch	Tarun Majumdar
1979	Ek Din Pratidin	Bengalisch	Mrinal Sen
1980	Akaler Sandhane	Bengalisch	Mrinal Sen
1981	Dakhal	Bengalisch	Gautam Ghose
1982	Chokh	Bengalisch	Utpalendu Chakraborty
1983	Adi Shankaracharya	Sanskrit	G. V. Iyer
1984	Damul	Hindi	Prakash Jha
1985	Chidambaram	Malayalam	Govindan Aravindan
1986	Tabarana Kathe	Kannada	Girish Kasaravalli
1987	Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai	Assamesisch	Jahnu Barua
1988	Piravi	Malayalam	Shaji N. Karun
1989	Bagh Bahadur	Hindi/Bengalisch	Buddhadeb Dasgupta
1990	Marupakkam	Tamilisch	K. S. Sethumadhavan	National Film Development Corporation und Doordarshan
1991	Agantuk	Bengalisch	Satyajit Ray
1992	Bhagwat Geeta	Sanskrit	G. V. Iyer
1993	Charachar	Bengalisch	Buddhadeb Dasgupta
1994	Unishe April	Bengalisch	Rituparno Ghosh
1995	Kathapurushan	Malayalam	Adoor Gopalakrishnan
1996	Lal Darja	Bengalisch	Buddhadeb Dasgupta
1997	Thayi Saheba	Kannada	Girish Kasaravalli
1998	Samar	Hindi	Shyam Benegal
1999	Vaanaprastham	Malayalam	Shaji N. Karun
2000	Shantam	Malayalam	Jayaraaj
2001	Dweepa	Kannada	Girish Kasaravalli
2002	Mondo Meyer Upakhyan	Bengalisch	Buddhadeb Dasgupta
2003	Shwaas	Marathi	Sandeep Sawant
2004	Page 3	Hindi/Englisch	Madhur Bhandarkar
2005	Kaalpurush	Bengalisch	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Jugal Sugandh
2006	Pulijanmam	Malayalam	Priyanandanan	M. G. Vijay
2007	Kanchivaram	Tamilisch	Priyadarshan	Percept Picture Company
2008	Antaheen	Bengalisch	Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury	Screenplay Films

Derzeit erhalten Produzent und Regisseur des Gewinnerfilms je einen Swarna Kamal und ein Preisgeld von 250.000 Rupien.