National Film Award for Best Children's Film


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The National Film Award for Best Children's Film is one of 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 Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).

National Film Award for Best Children's Film
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored byNational Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly calledPrime Minister's Gold Medal for the Best Children's Film
Reward(s)
  • Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus)
  • ₹3,00,000
First awarded1954
Last awarded2021
Most recent winnerGandhi & Co.
Highlights
Total awarded57
First winnerKhela Ghar

The award was instituted in 1954, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for children's films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (28 Awards), Bengali (7 Awards), Malayalam and Kannada (6 each), English (5 Awards), Marathi (3 Awards), Tamil, Telugu, Odia and Assamese (1 each).

Award includes 'Golden Lotus Award' (Swarna Kamal) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

Awards legends

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 Swarna Kamal (Gold Medal) for the Best Children's Film

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 Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Children's Film

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 Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Children's Film

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 Certificate of Merit for the Best Children's Film

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 Indicates a joint award for that year
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