The Filmfare Awards were incepted to acknowledge the outstanding performance of artists in Bollywood. The first Filmfare Award ceremony was held in the year 1954. Since then, Filmfare expanded its horizon and assumed the shape of a grand ceremony. The concept of documentary films was first introduced in sixties and it turned out to be an exciting decade for the Indian film industry. The Best Documentary award was introduced in the year 1967. The inaugural award was bagged to Clement T. Baptista for his documentary film ‘Handicrafts of Rajasthan’. For unknown reasons the award was delisted from the filmfare awards list in 1998. Listed below are the winners of this category since 1967.
Filmfare Award Winners For Best Documentary Were:
|
Year
|
Documentary
|
Winner
|
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1967
|
Handicrafts of Rajasthan
|
Clement T. Baptista
|
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1968
|
India '67
|
S. Sukhdev
|
|
1969
|
Explorer
|
Promod Pati
|
|
1970
|
Then, The Rain
|
Ramesh Gupta
|
|
1971
|
Koodal
|
Mushir Ahmed
|
|
1972
|
Creations in Metal
|
Homi D. Sethna
|
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1973
|
Nine Months to Freedom
|
S. Sukhdev
|
|
1974
|
A Day with the Builders
|
C.J. Paulose
|
|
1975
|
The Nomad Puppeteer
|
Mani Kaul
|
|
1976
|
Sarojini Naidu
|
B.D. Garga
|
|
1977
|
Marvel of Memory
|
N.K. Issar
|
|
1978
|
Transformations
|
Zafar Hai
|
|
1980
|
Malfunction
|
Pankaj Parashar
|
|
1981
|
They Call Me Chamar
|
Lokesh Lalvani
|
|
1982
|
Faces After the Storm
|
Prakash Jha
|
|
1983
|
Experience India
|
Zafar Hai
|
|
1984
|
Veer Savarkar
|
Prem Vaidya
|
|
1985
|
Charakku
|
Om Prakash Sharma
|
|
1986
|
Bombay Our City
|
Anand Patwardhan
|
|
1990
|
Siddeshwari
|
Mani Kaul
|
|
1991
|
Amjad Ali Khan
|
Gulzar
|
|
1992
|
Raam Ke Naam
|
Anand Patwardhan
|
|
1993
|
All in the Family
|
Ketan Mehta
|
|
1994
|
I Live in Behrampada
|
Madhushree Datta
|
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1995
|
Manzar
|
Gopi Desai
|
|
1996
|
A Narmada Diary
|
Anand Patwardhan and Simantini Dhuru
|
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1997
|
Beyond the Himalayas
|
Goutam Ghose
|