National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation

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National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation
Type National
Category Indian Cinema
Description The best feature film focusing environmental concerns
Instituted 1989
First awarded 1989
Last awarded 2013
Total awarded 16
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Cash award ₹50,000 (US$740)
Medal Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
First awardee(s) Bonani
Last awardee(s) Perariyathavar

The National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1989 at 37th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

List of films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) Citation
1989
(37th)		 Bonani[1] Assamese Purbanchal Film Jahnu Barua <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its delicate and nuanced description of a forest official's struggle against mercenary and bureaucratic despoilation of forests.
1990
(38th)		 No Award[2]
1991
(39th)		 No Award[3]
1992
(40th)		 Cheluvi[4] Kannada Sadir Media Girish Karnad <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its direct and effective communication of a threatening problem – deforestation.
1993
(41st)		 Devara Kadu[5] Kannada Pattabhirami Reddy Productions Pattabhirami Reddy Tikkavarapu <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For presenting the two themes of "Back to Village" and "Preservation of Nature" by an imaginative use of myths and legends.
1994
(42nd)		 Nirbachana[6] Oriya  • NFDC
 • Doordarshan		 Biplab Ray Chowdhury <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a stunningly controlled and uniquely cinematic metaphor of rural India and impending environment catastrophe shown with compassion and satire.
1995
(43rd)		 Rape in the Virgin Forest[7] Bodo Jwngdao Bodosa Jwngdao Bodosa <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For effectively handling the problem of deforestation, through the life and struggle of a tribal community and exposing the real culprits behind this crime.
1996
(44th)		 No Award[8]
1997
(45th)		 Bhoomigeetha[9] Kannada R. Mahadev Gowda Kesari Harvoo <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its sincere statement the need for a balanced approach towards environment and tribal cultures that get displaced in the course of development.
1998
(46th)		 Malli[10] Tamil N'CYP Santosh Sivan <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its lucid and lyrical depiction of nature and the need to save the environmental assets which have made life on tris earth possible and beautiful.
1999
(47th)		 Jalamarmaram[11] Malayalam  • Latha Kurien Rajeev
 • Radhika Suresh Gopi		 T. K. Rajeev Kumar <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For handling a theme of great concern in the increasingly polluted environs of our industrial towns and cities, through the imaginative touch of a fairly tale.
2000
(48th)		 Oru Cheru Punchiri[12] Malayalam Jisha John M. T. Vasudevan Nair <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For telling the simple and moving story of an elderly couple and their relationship with the world around them. In depicting the couple's love for the trees and plants in their garden, the film spreads the message of environmental conservation in the broadest sense in a gentle, unobtrusive way.
2001
(49th)		 No Award[13]
2002
(50th)		 No Award[14]
2003
(51st)		 Juye Poora Xoon[15] Assamese Sanjib Sabhapandit Sanjib Sabhapandit <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its representation of large-scale migration and the erosion of a way of life by floods and industrialisation.
2004
(52nd)		 Devrai[16] Marathi Y. N. Oak  • Sumitra Bhave
 • Sunil Sukthankar		 <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
In this chaotic world, when every body talks about the importance of environment, conservation and preservation but no body cares to learn from the wisdom of myth created by our forefathers and create a space for every mind to realise its potential without judging, discriminating or condemning.
2005
(53rd)		 Thutturi[17] Kannada Jaimala Ramchandra P. Sheshadri <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its imaginative portrayal of a group of young children who fight to preserve a healthy urban environment.
2006
(54th)		 No Award[18]
2007
(55th)		 No Award[19]
2008
(56th)		 Jianta Bhoota[20] Odia Akshay Kumar Parija Prashanta Nanda <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For sensitive portrayal of exploitation of innocence in the name of development.
2009
(57th)		 No Award[21]
2010
(58th)		 Bettada Jeeva[22] Kannada Basanta Kumar Patil P. Sheshadri <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
An old couple steeped in the soil of their environment yearn for the return of their son while nurturing the growth of their young plantation against all odds.
2011
(59th)		 No Award[23]
2012
(60th)		 Black Forest[24] Malayalam Joshy Mathew Baby Mathew Somatheeram <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
Set in a tribal backdrop the movie effectively advocates the urgent need for environmental protection. The protagonists in the form of three children make the film all the more acceptable to the impressionable minds!
2013
(61st)		 Perariyathavar[25] Malayalam Ambalakkara Global Films Dr Biju <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For telling the story of those nameless, faceless marginalized people through the life of a widowed father who works as a scavenger and his eight year old son. It depicts the real lives of the poor who live in the margin of civilized society with an unusual power and artistic honesty.

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