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 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