September 15, 2010 (Calcutta Tube): Here is the list of 57th National Film Awards for the Year 2009.
BEST FEATURE FILM
Kutty Srank (Malayalam)
Producer: Reliance Big Pictures
Director:Shaji N. Karun
Swarna Kamal
INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR
Lahore (Hindi)
Producer: Vivek Khatkar
Director :Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan
Swarna Kamal
AWARD FOR BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT
3 Idiots (Hindi)
Producer:Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Director :Raj Kumar Hirani
Swarna Kamal
NARGIS DUTT AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION
Delhi 6 (Hindi)
Producer: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Director : Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Rajat Kamal
BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES
Well Done Abba (Hindi)
Producer: Reliance Big Pictures
Director : Shyam Benegal
Rajat Kamal
BEST CHILDREN’S FILM
Putaani Party (Kannada) & Keshu (Malayalam)
Producer: Children’s Film Society, India (for both films)
Director : Ramchandra P.N. (Putaani Party) & Sivan (Keshu)
Swarna Kamal
BEST DIRECTION
Abohoman (Bengali)
Rituparno Ghosh
Swarna Kamal
BEST ACTOR
Paa (Hindi)
Amitabh Bachchan
Rajat Kamal
BEST ACTRESS
Abohoman (Bengali)
Ananya Chatterjee
Rajat Kamal
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Lahore (Hindi)
Farooque Sheikh
Rajat Kamal
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Paa (Hindi)
Arundhati Naag
Rajat Kamal
BEST CHILD ARTIST
Pasanga (Tamil)
Film Characters Jeeva & Anba Karasu
Rajat Kamal
BEST MALE PLAYBACK SINGER
Mahanager @ Kolkata (Bengali)
Rupam Islam
Rajat Kamal
BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK SINGER
Houseful (Bengali)
Neelanjana Sarkar
Rajat Kamal
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Kutty Srank (Malayalam)
Cameraman : Anjuli Shukla
Laboratory Processing: Adlabs Films Ltd.
Rajat Kamal
BEST SCREENPLAY
Kutty Srank (Malayalam)
Kanasemba Kudureyaneri (Kannada)
Pasanga (Tamil)
Screenplay Writer (Original): P.F. Mathews & Harikrishna
Screenplay Writer (Adapted): Dialogues : Pandiraj
Rajat Kamal
BEST AUDIOGRAPHY
Kaminey (Hindi)
Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (Malayalam)
3 Idiots (Hindi)
Location Sound Recordist : Subash Sahoo
Sound Designer : Resool Pookutty
Re-recordist of the final mixed track : Anup Dev
Rajat Kamal
BEST EDITING
Abohomaan (Bengali)
Arghyakamal Mitra
Rajat Kamal
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Delhi 6 (Hindi)
Samir Chanda
Rajat Kamal
BEST COSTUME DESIGNER
Kutty Srank (Malayalam)
Jayakumar
Rajat Kamal
BEST MAKE-UP ARTIST
Paa (Hindi)
Christein Tinsley & Dominie Till
Rajat Kamal
BEST MUSIC DIRECTION
Dev D (Hindi)
Kerala Verma Pazasi Raja
Music Director (Songs) : Amit Trivedi
Music Director (Background Score) : Ilayaraja
Rajat Kamal
BEST LYRICS
3 Idiots (Hindi)
Swanand Kirkire
“Behti Hawa Sa Tha Woh……………”
Rajat Kamal
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Kaminey (Hindi) & Kutty Srank (Malayalam) & Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (Malayalam)
Sreekar Prasad
Rajat Kamal
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Magadheera (Telugu)
R. Kamal Kannan
Rajat Kamal
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Magadheera
(Telugu)
K.Siva Shankar
Rajat Kamal
BEST FEATURE FILM IN EACH OF THE LANGUAGE SPECIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE VIII OF THE CONSTITUTION
BEST ASSAMESE FILM
Basundhara
Producer: Hiren Bora
Director : Hiren Bora
Rajat Kamal
BEST BENGALI FILM
Abohomaan
Producer: Reliance Big Pictures
Director : Rituparno Ghosh
Rajat Kamal
BEST HINDI FILM
Paa
Producer: AB Corp Limited
Director : R. Balakrishnan
Rajat Kamal
BEST KANNADA
Kanasemba Kudureyaneri
Producer: Basanta Kumar Patil
Director : Girish Kasaravalli
Rajat Kamal
BEST KONKANI
Palatadcho Munis
Producer: National Film Development Corporation
Director : Laxmikant Shetgaonkar
Rajat Kamal
BEST MALAYALAM FILM
Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja
Producer: A.M. Gopalan
Director : T. Hariharan
Rajat Kamal
BEST MARATHI FILM
Natarang
Producer: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.
Director : Ravindra Harishchandra Jadhav
Rajat Kamal
BEST TAMIL FILM
Pasanga
Producer: M. Sasikumar
Director : Pandiraj
Rajat Kamal
SPECIAL MENTION
Padmapriya
Certificate only
BEST NON-FEATURE FILM
(Sharing)
The Postman
Producer: K. Hariharan
Director : B. Manohar
Swarna Kamal
&
Bilal
Producer: Sourav Sarangi
Director : Sourav Sarangi
BEST DEBUT NON-FEATURE FILM OF A DIRECTOR
(Sharing)
Vaishnav Jan Toh
Producer: FTII
Director : Kaushal Oza
Rajat Kamal
&
Ekti Kaktaliyo Golpo
Producer: FTII
Director: Tathagata Singha
BEST COMPILATION FILM
Pancham Unmixed
Producer: Brahmanand S Siingh
Director : Brahmanand S Siingh
RAJAT Kamal
BEST ENVIRONMENT FILM INCLUDING AGRICULTURE
In For Motion
Producer: Amlan Dutta
Director : Anirban Dutta
RAJAT Kamal
BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES
Mr. India
Producer: Haobam Paban Kumar
Director : Haobam Paban Kumar
RAJAT Kamal
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
Kelkkunnundo
Child artist :Aasna Aslam
RAJAT Kamal
SHORT FICTION FILM
Boond
Producer: Kumar Mangat
Director: Abhishek Pathak
RAJAT Kamal
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Gaarud
Cameraman: Deepu S. Unni
Laboratory : Adlabs
RAJAT Kamal
BEST AUDIOGRAPHY
Gaarud
Re-recordist (final mixed track) : Lipika Singh Darai
RAJAT Kamal
BEST EDITING
In Camera
Editor: Tarun Bhartiya
RAJAT Kamal
BEST NARRATION/VOICE OVER
In Camera
Best Voice over : Ranjan Palit
RAJAT Kamal
SPECIAL MENTION
VILAY
Cinematographer: Nitika Bhagat
BEST BOOK ON CINEMA
CINEMAA YAANA
(Kannada)
Publisher : Hasiru Prakashana
Author: Dr. K. Puttaswamy
Swarna Kamal
SPECIAL MENTION
Eka Studioche Atmavrutta
Prabhakar Pendharkar
Certificate
BEST FILM CRITIC
C.S. Venkiteswaran
(Malayalam)
Swarna Kamal
Really sad to know that Mammootty missed the award to BigB. I don’t know how amithabh can compete to the marvelous performance of mammootty in kuttysrank, palerimanikyam & pazhassiraja. basically makeup supported amitahbh for the character in paa. whareas the performance really matters in the 3 films mammootty acted! It’s the joke of year 2010 that Amithabh won the award. Same thing happened when Thilakan was nominated for perumthachan, and Big B won that time(1991) for a low class movie named Agnipath. At least they could have shared the awards for 2 actors like 1998 & 1999. I believe all film lovers must protest against this ugly & partial decision. Doesn’t matter whether south or north, when we compare these films Mammootty is much ahead of BigB and deserves the award. This is really a shame!! All those who watch these movies can blindly say that Mammootty missed this award only because of the North Indian lobby.