70th National Film Awards Announced

The 70th National Film Awards are being announced today, August 16, by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) in New Delhi. This prestigious award ceremony honors the best films and cinematic achievements of 2022, recognizing excellence in Indian cinema. The awards consider films certified by the censor board between January 1 and December 31, 2022, and the winners will be felicitated by President Droupadi Murmu in a ceremony scheduled for October 2024.

While, the 69th National Awards was dominated by Tollywood with RRR winning six national awards and Allu Arjun as Best Actor for the first time in Telugu films, this time no notable award has been won by Tollywood except 'Karthikeya 2' that too in Best Telugu Film category. Kannada films Kantara and KGF 2 bagged a couple of National Awards each. While Kantara leads by winning Best Actor for Rishab Shetty and Best Popular Film categories. KGF 2 wins Best Action choreography by Anbariv and Best Kannada film. 

Coming to Tamil films, Mani Rathnam's magnum opus, Ponniyin Selvan 1 has bagged four awards. AR Rahman is announced for Best Background Score for PS2, Ravi Varman for Best Cinematography in PS1, Best Sond Design for Anand Krishnamoorthy for PS1 and PS1 also bagged Best Tamil film. Best Film at national level has won by Malayalam film Aattam, which also won Best Screenplay award.

Here's the list of 70th National Awards Winners

Best Film - Aatam by Aanand Ekarshi

Best Direction - Sooraj R Barjatya for Uunchai

Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment - Kantara by Rishab Shetty

Best Debut Film of a Director: Pramod Kumar for Fouja

Best Actor - Rishabh Shetty for Kantara

Best Actress - Nithya Menon for Thiruchitrambhalam and Manasi Parekh for Kutch Express

Best Supporting Actor - Pavan Raj Malhotra for Fouja

Best Supporting Actress - Neena Gupta for Uunchai

Best Child Artist - Sreepath for Malikappuram

Best Cinematography - Ravi Varmam for Ponniyin Selvan 1

Best Screenplay - Anand Ekarshi for Aatam

Best Dialogue Writer - Arpita Mukherjee and Rahul V Chittela for Gulmohar

Best Production Design - Ananda Addhya for Aparajito

Best Action Choreography - Anbariv for KGF Chapter 2

Best Make-Up Artist - Somnath Kundu for Aparajito

Best Costume Design - Niki Joshi for Kutch Express

Best Music Direction for Songs - Pritam for Brahmastra: Part 1 - Shiva

Best Music Direction for Background Scores - AR Rahman for Ponniyin Selvan 1

Best Lyrics - Naushad Sadar Khan for ‘Salaami’ in Fouja

Best Male Playback Singer - Arijit Singh for ‘Kesariya’ from Brahmastra: Part 1 - Shiva

Best Female Playback Singer - Bombay Jayashri for ‘Chaayum Veyil’ from Saudi Vellakka

Best Choreography - Jani Master and Sathish Krishnan for ‘Megham Karukatha’ in Thiruchitrambalam

Best Sound Design - Anand Krishnamoorthy for Ponniyin Selvan - Part 1

Best Editing - Mahesh Bhuvanend for Aattam

Special Jury Award - Manoj Bajpayee for Gulmohar and Sanjoy Chowdhury for Kadhikan

Best Feature Film In Assamese - Emuthi Puthi by Kulanandini Mahanta

Best Feature Film In Bengali - Kaberi Antardhan by Kaushik Gangula

Best Feature Film In Hindi - Gulmohar by Rahul V. Chittella

Best Feature Film In Kannada - KGF Chapter 2 by Prashanth Neel

Best Feature Film In Malayalam - Saudi Vellakka by Tharun Moorthy

Best Feature Film In Marathi - Vaalvi by Paresh Mokashi

Best Feature Film In Tiwa - Sikaisal by Dr. Bobby Sarma Baruah

Best Feature Film in Odia - Daman by Vishal Mourya and Debi Prasad Lenka

Best Feature Film In Punjabi - Baghi Di Dhee by Mukesh Gautam

Best Feature Film In Tamil - Ponniyin Selvan Part 1, by Mani Ratnam

Best Feature Film In Telugu - Karthikeya 2, Chandoo Mondeti

Best Film in Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comic - Brahmastra: Part 1 - Shiva, by Ayan Mukherji

Best Feature Film promoting National, Social, and Environmental Values - Kutch Express by Viral Shah