National Film Awards 2019: Ayushmann Khurrana, Vicky Kaushal Win Best Actor

The 66^th 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

#NationalFilmAwards: Director Sriram Raghavan presented the Best Hindi Film award for 'Andhadhun' pic.twitter.com/CtmWCfw8ag

— Doordarshan News (@DDNewsLive) December 23, 2019

Debutant director: Sudhakar Reddy Yakanthi wins Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director

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 Mahanati

Best Actor Award: Vicky Kaushal for Uri and Ayushmann Khurrana for Andhadhun

#NationalFilmAwards: Actress @KeerthyOfficial, actors @ayushmannk and @vickykaushal09 honoured in Delhi pic.twitter.com/hTH1Bi70In

— Doordarshan News (@DDNewsLive) December 23, 2019

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.

#Padman wins the award for the Best Film on Social Issues

Actor @akshaykumar receives the award for the film #Padman at 66th #NationalFilmAwards pic.twitter.com/QVLpmMu1BV

— PIB India (@PIB_India) December 23, 2019

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 Actor (Feature Films Section) goes to @vickykaushal09 for #URI: The Surgical Strike for effectively conveying a realistic character of an army officer. #NationalFilmAwards pic.twitter.com/J39YnXGugd

— PIB India (@PIB_India) December 23, 2019

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