National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography

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National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography
Type National
Category Short films
Instituted 1990
First awarded 1990
Last awarded 2013
Total awarded  • 28 (Cameraman)
 • 22 (Laboratory Processing)
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Cash award 50,000 (US$740)
Medal Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
First awardee(s)  • Santosh Sivan (Cameraman)
 • Prasad Film Laboratories (Laboratory Processing)
Recent awardee(s)  • Kavin Jagtiani (Cameraman)
 • Reliance MediaWorks (Laboratory Processing)

The National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film Cinematography 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 non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1990, at 38th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short 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:

Indicates a joint award for that year
List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s), language(s) and citation
Year Cameraman(s) Laboratory Processing Film(s) Language(s) Citation
1990
(38th)
Santosh Sivan[1] Prasad Film Laboratories Mohiniyattam English <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For evocative, lyrical beauty with which the camera has painted the dancer and her milieu.
1990
(38th)
Victor Banerjee[1] Prasad Film Laboratories Where No Journeys End English <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For the dramatic manner in which the Indian landscape unfolds, seducing the viewer with timeless beauty of India.
1991
(39th)
Shekar Dattari[2] Prasad Film Laboratories Silent Valley: An Indian Rain forest English <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For the arduous and patient coverage of the flora and fauna of the Silent Valley in Kerala over a period of one-and-a-half years and for giving an intimate portrait of the environment, recorded under difficult conditions.
1992
(40th)
Soumendu Roy[3] Adlabs Sucitra Mitra Bengali <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For capturing on celluloid the many moods of the Bengal landscape and picturisation of the famous singer Suchitra Mitra.
1993
(41st)
Piyush Shah[4]  – Moksha Bengali <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For documenting a tragic reality with all its moods and emotions.
1994
(42nd)
Anoop Jotwani[5] Vijay Color Lab Rasayatra  • Hindi
 • English
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For his fastidious interpretation through lighting, and the fluidity of his camera operation.
1995
(43rd)
Rafey Mehmood[6] Adlabs Tarana Hindi <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For the beautiful images achieved through fascinating camera movements, excellent lighting, composition in tandem with music.
1996
(44th)
Hari Nair[7] Prasad Film Laboratories Sham's Vision English <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For his brilliant use of light and shade, to bring to life even inanimate objects in the film.
1997
(45th)
Ashok Dasgupta[8]  – The Trail English <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
This experimental film deals with the decolonisation of the mind through its strong and artistic visual images.
1998
(46th)
Ranjan Palit[9] Prasad Film Laboratories In The Forest Hangs a Bridge English <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For his perception of images to define a style that illustrates the harmony in the film.
1999
(47th)
Mankada Ravi Varma[10] Prasad Film Laboratories Kalamandalam Gopi Malayalam <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For the imaginative and excellent visual quality rendered with consistency.
2000
(48th)
Prasann Jain[11] Adlabs Rasikpriya  • Hindi
 • English
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For capturing images that speak in tones of light and shade, thereby giving life to the lyrical form of the film.
2001
(49th)
Nilotpal Sarkar[12] Prasad Film Laboratory Jorasanko Thakurbari English <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For imaginatively capturing images in light and shade, through smooth movements to bring life to the historical house of the Tagores'.
2001
(49th)
Irom Maikpak[12] Prasad Kalinga Lab The Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh English <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For his fascinating style of framing under uncontrolled situations.
2002
(50th)
No Award[13]
2003
(51st)
Ranjan Palit[14] Prasad Film Laboratory Kaya Poochhe Maya Se Hindi <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a cinematic observation of myriad shades of humanity and breathtaking chiaroscuro of light and shade.
2003
(51st)
K. G. Jayan[14] Prasad Film Laboratory The 18 Elephants: 3 Monologues Malayalam <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For sound design which evokes a vision of a world far, far away from the madding crowd, which oscillates between the silences and nature's pristine sounds.
2004
(52nd)
Manoj Raymond Lobo[15] Adlabs Girni Marathi <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a short film which is highly enriched through excellent visual choreography.
2005
(53rd)
Paramvir Singh[16] Adlabs Parsiwada, Tarapore Present Day  • English
 • Gujarati
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For its visually poetic depiction of the decadent Parsi community, with imaginative use of great lighting and compositions.
2006
(54th)
 • Rajendra Janglay[17]
 • Sanjay V.
 – Raga of River Narmada  – <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For stretching the technical possibilities of videography and capturing the varying moods of river Narmada.
2007
(55th)
Savita Singh[18]  – Kramasha Hindi <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For her arresting use of lenses and lighting in the creation of a strange and magical world, full of a certain atmospheric dampness and mistiness, further enhanced by a consistent exhibition of striking cinematic compositions.
2008
(56th)
Shariqva Badar Khan[19] Filmlab Three of Us  – <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For providing with amazing discipline and sensitivity, an intimate insight into the lives of a small family, living in a confined space, with exquisite use of composition, rhythm, lensing and lighting.
2008
(56th)
Jayakrishna Gummadi[19] Adlabs When This Man Dies  • Hindi
 • English
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For using highly sophisticated texture and tonal work, with deep anticipation into the flow and narrative of the film, the cinematography strives to redefine ways of image making and experience.
2009
(57th)
Deepu S. Unni[20] Adlabs Gaarud  • Hindi
 • Marathi
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For brilliant craftsmanship, intelligent lensing in aesthetically recreating the ambience and the diverse pulsating life in a semi-urban lodge.
2010
(58th)
Murali G.[21] Filmlab Shyam Raat Seher  • Hindi
 • English
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For imaginative yet minimal, a balanced and evocative cinematography creates a character out of a city night atmosphere, setting the space and mood for the living characters in their journey beyond the real, nearing mythical.
2011
(59th)
S. Nallamuthu[22]  – Tiger Dynasty English <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For photographing with stunning images tigers and other wildlife animals in their natural habitat and giving us visuals which are both unique and poetic.
2012
(60th)
Abhimanyu Dange[23] Reliance MediaWorks Kaatal Marathi <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For meticulous and confident image making that immensely augment the story telling.
2012
(60th)
Raja Shabir Khan[23]  – Shepherds of Paradise Gojri and Urdu <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For simple, stark and sometimes breathtaking cinematography under the most difficult weather conditions, where some images linger on long after the film is over.
2013
(61st)
Kavin Jagtiani[24] Reliance MediaWorks Mandrake !Mandrake ! Hindi <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For exhibiting a wide spectrum of hues, both colour and black and white, while picturising the action in a dark warehouse full of unlikely light sources as also for the simulation of a silent era film with amusing trick photography.

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