The prominent National Film Awards were inaugurated in 1954. The government conceived the award ceremony to encourage and honor the films directed across the borders of India featuring Indian art and culture. Every year the government appoints a national panel to select the winning entry and the awards are handed out by the President of India to the winners for the year. The ‘Best Biographical Film’ award was introduced in the year 1999. The inaugural award was bagged by M.R. Rajan for the Malayalam film ‘Premji’.
National Award Winners For Best Biographical Film Are:
|
Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
Language
|
|
2005
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
2004
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
2003
|
Meeting Manjit
|
Budhdhadeb Dasgupta
|
English
|
|
2002
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
2001
|
Devanarthakan
|
Sudish Gopalakrishnan
|
-
|
|
2000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
1999
|
Premji
|
M.R. Rajan
|
Malayalam
|