The country’s oldest National Film Awards were incepted in the year 1954. Since 1973 the Indian government’s Directorate of Film Festivals administrates the award ceremonies. Each year the government appoints a national panel to select the winning entry. The national awards are handed out by the President of India to the winners in New Delhi every year. The ‘Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography’ award is one of the sub-categories of Non-Feature Film awards and was introduced in the year 1991. The winners for the inaugural award were Santosh Sivan and Victor Bannerjee.
National Award Winners For Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography Are:
|
Year
|
Cinematographer
|
Film
|
Language
|
|
2001
|
Prasann Jain
|
Rasikpriya
|
-
|
|
2000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
1999
|
Ranjan Palit
|
In the Forest Hangs a Bridge
|
English
|
|
1998
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
1997
|
Hari Nair
|
Sham's Vision
|
English
|
|
1996
|
Rafey Mehmood
|
Tarana
|
English / Hindi
|
|
1995
|
Anup Jothwani
|
Rasa Yatra
|
English / Hindi
|
|
1994
|
Piyush Shah
|
Moksha
|
Bengali
|
|
1993
|
Soumendu Roy
|
Suchitra Mitra
|
Bengali
|
|
1992
|
Shekhar Dattatri
|
Silent Valley
|
English
|
|
1991
|
Santosh Sivan
|
Mohiniyattam
|
Malayalam
|
|
1991
|
Victor Bannerjee
|
Where No Journey Ends
|
English
|