70th National Film Awards 2024 Winners List
70th National Film Winners 2024 Awards List are being declared. Malayalam superstar Mammootty, who was widely acclaimed for his 2022 releases Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam, Bheeshma Parvam and Rorschach, is tipped as a top contender for Best Actor, alongside Kannada star Rishab Shetty (for Kantara) and Hindi film actor Vikrant Massey (for 12th Fail).
70th National Film Awards Winners List
| Award Category | Winner |
|---|---|
| Best Film | Aatam |
| Best Direction | |
| Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment | Kantara |
| Best Children’s Film | |
| Best Actor | Rishabh Shetty for Kantara |
| Best Actress | Nithya Menon for Thiruchitrambalam and Manasi Parekh |
| Best Supporting Actor | Pavan Raj Malhotra |
| Best Supporting Actress | |
| Best Child Artist | Sreepath |
| Best Cinematography | Ravi Varman for Ponniyin Selvan 1 |
| Best Screenplay | Anand Ekarshi for Aatam |
| Best Art Direction | |
| 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 2 |
| Best Lyrics | Naushad Sadar Khan for ‘Salaami’ in Fouja |
| Best Male Playback Singer | Arijit Singh |
| Best Female Playback Singer | Bombay Jayashree |
| Best Choreography | Jani Master and Sathish Krishnan for ‘Megham Karukatha’ in Thiruchitrambalam |
| Best Audiography | |
| Best Editing | Mahesh Bhuvanend for Aattam |
| Best Special Effects | |
| Second Best Feature Film | |
| Special Jury Award | Manoj Bajpayee for Gulmohar and Sanjoy Chowdhury for Kadhikan |
| Special Mention (Feature Film) | |
| 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 Konkani | |
| Best Feature Film In Malayalam | Saudi Vellakka by Tharun Moorthy |
| Best Feature Film In Manipuri | |
| Best Feature Film In Marathi | Vaalvi by Paresh Mokashi |
| Best Feature Film In Oriya | |
| 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 by Chandoo Mondeti |
| Best Feature Film In English | |
| Best Film On Family Welfare | |
| Best Film On Other Social Issues | |
| Best Film On Environment Conservation/Preservation | |
| Best Non-Feature Film | Ayena by Siddhant Sarin |
| Best Documentary | Murmurs of the Jungle |
| Best First Non-Feature Film | |
| Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film | |
| Best Arts/Cultural Film | |
| Best Scientific Film | |
| Best Promotional Film | |
| Best Film On Social Issues | |
| Best Animated Film | A Coconut Tree by Joshy Benedict |
| Best Short Film | |
| Best Non-Feature Film Direction | From The Shadow by Miriam Chandy Menacherry |
| Best Non-Feature Film Music Direction | Vishal Bharadwaj for Fursat (Leisure) |
| Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Non-Feature Film) | |
| Best Book On Cinema | Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography by Anirudha Bhattacharjee and Parthiv Dhar |
| Best Film Critic | Deepak Dua (Hindi) |
| Nargis Dutt Award | |
| Indira Gandhi Award For Best First Film |