National Film Award/Bester Film über Sozialthemen

Der National Film Award in der Kategorie Bester Film über Sozialthemen (Best Film on Social Issues such as Prohibition, Women and Child Welfare, Anti-Dowry, Drug Abuse, Welfare of the Handicapped etc.) wurde bis einschließlich Filmjahr 2021 vergeben.<ref>Sana Farzeen: Indira Gandhi, Nargis Dutt's names dropped from National Film Awards categories. 13. Februar 2024, abgerufen am 13. Oktober 2025 (). </ref> Seine Gewinner waren:

Jahr<ref>Jahr, für das die Verleihung erfolgte</ref>	Film	Sprache	Regisseur	Produzent
1985	Accident	Kannada	Shankar Nag
1986	Doore Doore Koodu Kottam	Malayalam	Sibi Malayil
1987	Vedham Pudhithu Ore Oru Gramathile	Tamilisch Tamilisch	Bharathiraja Jyothi Pandian
1988	Main Zinda Hoon	Hindi	Sudhir Mishra
1989	Unnikuttant Jolikitty	Malayalam	V. R. Gopinath
1990	Oru Veedu Iru Vaasal	Tamilisch	K. Balachander
1991	Yamanam	Malayalam	Gopi
1992	Neenga Nalla Irukkum	Tamilisch	Visu
1993	Janani	Hindi	Sanat Das Gupta
	Narayam	Malayalam	Sasi Shanker
1994	Parinayam	Malayalam	Hariharan
	Wheel Chair	Bengalisch	Tapan Sinha
1995	Doghi	Marathi	Sumitra Bhave und Sunil Sukthankar
1996	Tamanna	Hindi	Mahesh Bhatt	Pooja Bhatt
1997	Dhanna	Hindi	Deepak Roy
1998	Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala	Malayalam	Sreenivasan
1999	Kairee	Hindi	Amol Palekar
2000	Vetri Kodi Kattu	Tamilisch	Cheran
	Munnudi	Kannada	P. Sheshadri
2001	Chandni Bar	Hindi	Madhur Bhandarkar
2002	Swaraj	Hindi	Anwar Jamal
2003	Koi Mil Gaya	Hindi	Rakesh Roshan
2004	Perumazhakkalam	Malayalam	Kamal
2005	Iqbal	Hindi	Nagesh Kukunoor	Subhash Ghai
2006	Hope	Telugu	K. Satyanarayana	P. Venkata Subbaiah
2007	Antardwandwa	Hindi	Sushil Rajpal	Sushil Rajpal
2008	Jogva	Marathi	Rajeev Patil	IDream Production
2009	Well Done Abba	Hindi	Shyam Benegal	Reliance Big Pictures
2010	Champions	Marathi	Ramesh More	Aishwarya Narkar
2011	kein Award
2012	Spirit	Malayalam	Renjith	M. J. Anthony
2013	Tuhya Dharma Koncha	Marathi	Satih Manwar	Indian Magic Eye Motion Pictures
2014	Chotoder Chobi	Bengali	Kaushik Ganguly	Shree Venkatesh Films
2015	Nirnayakam	Malayalam	V. K. Prakash	Jairaj Films
2016	Pink	Hindi	Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury	Rashmi Sharma Telefilms Limited
2017	Aalorukkam	Malayalam	V. C. Abhilash	Jolly Lonappan
2018	Pad Man	Hindi	R. Balki	Twinkle Khanna Hope Productions Pvt. Ltd
2019	Anandi Gopal	Marathi	Sameer Vidhwans	Essel Vision Productions
2020	Funral	Marathi	Vivek Dubey	Before After Entertainment
2021	Anunaad – The Resonance	Assamesisch	Reema Borah	Assam State Film Corporation

Zuletzt erhielten Produzent und Regisseur des Gewinnerfilms je einen Rajat Kamal und ein Preisgeld von 150.000 Rupien.<ref>69th National Film Awards for the year 2021 announce; Rocketry: The Nambi Effect bags best Feature Film. Archiviert vom Vorlage:IconExternal am 9. April 2025; abgerufen am 13. Oktober 2025. </ref>

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