The National Film Award – Special Mention (Book on Cinema) is one of the National Film Awards given by the National Film Development Corporation of India. Instituted in 1995 and awarded at 43rd National Film Awards.
The awards aim at encouraging study and appreciation of cinema as an art form and dissemination of information and critical appreciation of this art-form through publication of books, articles, reviews etc. All the award winners are awarded with Certificate of Merit.
Winners
All the award winners are awarded with Certificate of Merit. Following are the winners over the years:
List of books, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), author(s) and publisher(s) Year Book(s) Language(s) Authors(s) Publisher(s) 1995 Alanti Chalanchitram Telugu K. N. T. Sastry Cinemachi Chittarkatha Marathi Ashok Rane 1996 No Award 1997 No Award 1998 Communication Cinema Development English Gaston Roberge 1999 Economic Aspects of Film Industry in Kerala English Uma J. Nair 2000 Such Is Life English Niranjan Pal Sangeet Ka Soundarya Bodh Hindi Uma Garg 2001 No Award 2002 No Award 2003 Kathapurush Bengali Niranjan Pal Chalanchitra Nirdeshaka Kannada P. N. Srinivas 2004 No Award 2005 No Award 2006 No Award 2007 No Award 2008 The Director's Mind English Ujjal Chakraborty 2009 Eka Studioche Atmavrutta Marathi Prabhakar Pendharkar 2010 Cinema Bhojpuri English Avijit GhoshPenguin Books Thiraicheelai Tamil Oviyar JeevaTrisakti Sundar Raman 2011 No Award 2012 No Award 2013 No Award 2014 Pride of Tamil Cinema (1931–2013) English G. Dhananjayan 2015 Forgotten Masters of Hindi Cinema English Satish Chopra 2016 A Fly in the Curry English K. P. Jayashankar Anjali Monteiro 2017 No Award 2018In A Cult Of Their Own: Bollywood Beyond Box Office Amborish Roychoudhury English Rupa Publications India 2019 Cinema Pahanara Manus Ashok Rane Marathi Kannada Cinema:Jagathika Cinema Vikasa Prerane Prabhava P. R. Ramadasa Naidu Kannada2020M T Anunahvangalude Pusthakam Anoop Ramakrishnan Malayalam Malayala ManoramaKali Paine Kalira Cinema Surya Deo Odia Pakshighar Prakashani2021 No Award2022 No Award
References
External links National Film Awards Archives Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India