National Awards: Aparna Best Actress; Ajay Devgn, Suriya Best Actors

Jul 22, 2022 KKR



Actress Aparna Balamurali bagged the Best Actress award at the 68th National Film Awards announced in New Delhi on Friday. The actress won the award for her fabulous performance in the Tamil film ‘Soorarai Pottru’, which also fetched the Best Actor award for Suriya along with Ajay Devgn for the film ‘Tanhaji: The Unsung Hero’.


Biju Menon won the Best Supporting Actor award for the film ‘Ayyappanum Koshiyum’. ‘Thingalazhcha Nischayam’ is the Best Malayalam film. Nachiyamma was adjudged the Best Singer for the film ‘Ayyappanum Koshiyum,’ which also won the Best Action Choreography award.


Vipul Shah was jury chairman this year. This year, there were 305 feature films in 30 different languages as entries. In the non-feature film category, 148 films in 28 languages were received as entries. Films in 15 languages other than those specified in the 8th schedule of the Constitution were received as entries.



Here’s the complete list:


(Feature Film Awards)


Best Film: Soorarai Pottru


Best Malayalam Film: Thinkalazcha Nishchayam


Special Mention (Director): Kavya Prakash (Vanku) (Malayalam)


Best Playback Singer (Female): Nachiyamma (Ayyappanum Koshiyum)


Best Playback Singer (Male): Rahul Deshpande (Mi Vasantrao) and Anish Mangesh Gosavi (Taktak).


Best Supporting Actress: Lakshmi Priya Chandramouli (Sivaranjaniyum Innam Sila Pengallum)


Sound Designer: Anmol Bhave (Malik) (Malayalam)


Best Scenarists: Shalini Usha Nair and Sudha Kongara (Soorarai Pottru)


Best Telugu Film: Colour Photo


Best Tamil Film: Sivaranjaniyum Innum Sila Pengallum


Best Marathi Film: Gostha Eka Paithanichi


Best Kannada Film: Dollu


Best Hindi Film: Toolsidas Junior


Best Bengali Film: Avijatrik


Best Assamese Film: Bridge


Best Action Direction Award: Ayyappanum Koshiyum


Best Choreography: Natyam (Telugu)


Best Lyrics: Saina (Hindi)


Best Music Direction: Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo (Telugu)


Music Director (Songs): Thaman S (Soorarai Pottru) (Tamil)


Music Director (Background Score): GV Prakash Kumar (Soorarai Pottru)


Best Make-up Artist: TV Rambabu (Natyam) (Telugu);


Best Costume Designer: Nachiket Barve & Mahesh Sherla (Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior) (Hindi);


Best Production Design: Anees Nadodi (Kappela) (Malayalam)


Best Editing: Sreekar Prasad (Sivaranjaniyum Innum Sila Pengallum) (Tamil)


Best Audiography: Dollu (Kannada)


Location Sound Recordist (for sync sound films only): Jobin Jayan Mi Vasantrao (I Am Vasantrao) (Marathi)


Best Tulu Film: Jeetige


Best Dimasa Film: Semkhor


Best Haryanvi Film: Dada Lakhmi


Most Film-Friendly State: Madhya Pradesh


Most Film-Friendly State (Special Mention): Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh


Non-Feature Films


Best Non-feature Film: Testimony of Anna


Best Environment Film: Manah Aru Manuh


Best Film on Family Values: Kukumarchan


Best Short Fiction Film: Kachichinithu


Best Investigative Film: The Saviour: Brig. Pritam Singh


Best Promotional Film: Surmounting Challenges


Best Science and Technology Film: On the Brink Season 2 – Bats


Best Exploration Film: Wheeling The Ball


Best Educational Film: Dreaming of Words


Best Film on Social Issues: Justice Delayed But Delivered and Three Sisters


Best Arts and Culture Film: Naadada Navaneeta DR PT Venkateshkumar


Best Biographical Film: Pabung Syam


Best Ethnographic Film: Mandal ke Bol


Best Debut Non-feature Film of a Director: Pariah


Best Direction: Oh That’s Bhanu, RV Ramani


Best Cinematography: Shabdikkunna Kalappa, Nikhil S Praveen


Best Audiography: Pearl of the Desert, Ajit Singh Rathore


Best Narration Voiceover: Rhapsody of Rains – Monsoons of Kerala, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan


Best Music Direction: 1232 kms: Marenge Toh Wahin Jaakar, Vishal Bhardwaj


Best Editing: Anadi Athaley (Borderlands)


Best On Location Sound: Jadui Jangal, Sandip Bhati and Pradeep Lekhwar


Special Jury Award: Ojaswee Sharma (Admitted)


Best Book on Cinema: The Longest Kiss by Kishwar Desai


Best Book on Cinema (Special Mention): MT Anunahvangalude Pusthakam, Anoop Ramakrishnan and Kali Paine Kalira Cinema by Surya Deo


Best Film Critic: No winner this year. Click the Movie button below for more info:
Soorarai Pottru


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