National Film Awards 2019: Ayushmann Khurrana, Vicky Kaushal Win Best Actor
The Ceremony Will Take Place At Vigyan Bhawan And Vice President Venkaiah Naidu Will Be Presenting The National Film Awards To The Winners.
The 66th edition of National Film Awards was held in New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhavan. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu and Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar presented the National Film Awards to the winners. As per reports in PTI, Ram Nath Kovind will be hosting a high tea for the winners post the event.
The winners were announced in August this year with Gujarati film Hellaro bagging the Best Film honour. Vicky Kaushal and Ayushmann Khuranna jointly won the Best Actor trophy for their performances in Uri: The Surgical Strike and Andhadhun, respectively. Keerthy Suresh won the Best Actress award for her role in Telugu movie Mahanati. Aditya Dhar of Uri won the Best Director award.
Amitabh Bachchan has been honoured with this year's Dadasaheb Phalke Award. However, Bachchan tweeted today that he will not be able to attend the coveted award ceremony as he is down with fever.
For the uninitiated, check out the complete list of 66th National Film Awards winners below:
Actors who get special mention for their performance: Sruthi Hariharan, Chandrachud Rai, Josy Joseph, Savitri
Best Film Critic: Blase Johnny (Malayalam), Ananth Vijay (Hindi)
Best Direction: Aditya Dhar for Uri
Best Hindi Film: Andhadhun
Debutant director: Sudhakar Reddy Yakanthi wins Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director
Special Jury Award: Kedara ( Bengali) and Helaru (Gujarati)Best Music Direction: Padmaavat
Best Background Music: Uri The Surgical Strike
Best Feature Film on Environment Conservation: Priyanka Chopra's production Paani
Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment: Badhaai Ho
Best Actress: Keerthi Suresh for MahanatiBest Actor Award: Vicky Kaushal for Uri and Ayushmann Khurrana for Andhadhun
Best Supporting Actress: Surekha Sikri for the Hindi film Badhaai Ho
Best Supporting Actor: Swanand Kirkire for the Marathi film Chumbak.
Best Action: KGF
Best Choreography: Padmaavat
Best Special Effects: Awe, KGF
Best Lyrics: Manjutha for Nathicharami
Akshay Kumar's Padman won the award for social issues.
Best Music Direction: Padmaavat
Best Background Music: Uri
Best Makeup Artiste: Ranjith for Awe
Best Costume Designer: Mahanathi
Best Production Design: Kammara Sambhavam
Best Editing: Nathicharami
Best Location Sound: Tendlya
Best Sound Design: Uri
Best Mixed Track: Rangasthalam
Best Original Screenplay: Chi Arjun La Sow
Best Adapted Screenplay: Andhadhun
Best Dialogue: Tarikh
Best Cinematography: Ulu
Best Female Playback Singer: Bindu Mani for Mayavi Manave from Nathicharami
Best Male Playback Singer: Arijit Singh for Binte Dil from Padmaavat
Best Child Artistes: PV Rohith, Samit Singh, Tala Archalreshu, Srinivas Pokale
Most Film-Friendly State: Uttarakhand
Best Films in the Non-Feature Films categoryThe winners for the Non-Feature films category are as follows:
Special Mention Award: Mahaan Hutatma (director Sagar Puranik)Best Narration: Madhubani: The Station Of ColourBest Music: Jyoti (Kedar Divekar)Best Editing: Sunrise (Hemanti Sarkar)Best Audiography: Children Of Soil (Biswadeep Chatterjee)Best Location and Sound: The Secret Life of Frogs (Ajay Bedi)Best Cinematography: The Secret Life of Frogs (Ajay Bedi and Vijay Bedi)Best Director: Gautam Vaze (Aai Shapat)
Best Promotional Film: Rediscovering Jahannum
Best Film on Science and Technology: GD Naidu The Edison of India
Best Arts and Cultural Film: Munkar
Best Debut Film of a Director: Feluda
Best Non-Feature Film: Sunrise, The Secret Life of Frogs
Best Film on Family Values: Chalo Jeetey Hai
Best Short Film: Kasab
Social Justice: Why Me, Ekant
Best Investigation Film: Amoli
Best Sports Film: Swimming Through The Darkness
Best Educational Film: Sarlabh Virala
Best Film on Social Issue: Talate Kunji
Best Environmental Film: The World's Most Famous Tiger
Best films in the Feature Film categoryBest Rajasthani Film: Turtle
Best Panchanga Film: In The Land Of Poisonous Women
Best Garo Film: Anna
Best Marathi Film: Bhonga
Best Tamil Film: Baram
Best Hindi Film: Andhadhun
Best Urdu Film: Hamid
Best Bengali Film: Ek Je Chhilo Raja
Best Malayalam Film: Sudani From Nigeria
Best Telugu Film: Mahanati
Best Kannada Film: Nathicharami
Best Konkani Film: Amori
Best Assamese Film: Bulbul Can Sing
Best Punjabi Film: Harjeeta
Best Gujarati Film: Reva
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