Live updates for the 69th National Film Awards in 2023: At the National Film Awards, which were revealed on Thursday, Pushpa The Rise, Sardar Udham, Chhelo Show, RRR, The Kashmir Files, and Gangubai Kathiawadi were among the winners.
Announcement of the 69th National Film Awards: At 5:00 pm on Thursday, the 69th National Film Awards winners were revealed. While Alia Bhatt and Kriti Sanon shared the Best Actress prize for the films Gangubai Kathiawadi and Mimi, respectively, Allu Arjun won the Best Actor prize for the movie Pushpa: The Rise. The Nambi Effect earned the prize for best feature film in rocketry. At the 69th National Film Awards, The Kashmir Files took home the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Film on National Integration.
The historical biopic Sardar Udham by Shoojit Sircar took home multiple honours at the 69th National Film Awards. It won Best Hindi Film, Best Cinematography (Avik Mukhopadhyay), Best Audiography (Sinoy Joseph), and Best Production Design (Dmitrii Malich and Mansi Dhruv Mehta) and Best Costume Design (Veera Kapur Ee) in addition to those awards.
The most prestigious prizes, the National Film prizes, are presented yearly to recognise the best filmmakers in the nation. The National Film Awards “aim to encourage the production of films of aesthetic and technical excellence and social relevance,” according to the Directorate of Film Festivals of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
The prizes, originally called as “State Awards,” were presented for the first time in 1954. Only the best films in various regional languages were recognised and honoured at the time. The inaugural acting and technical achievement awards were presented in 1967. For her work in Raat Aur Din, Nargis became the first actor to receive Best Actress. For Antony Firingee and Chiriyakhana , Uttam Kumar got the Best Actor prize in the same year.
The Tamil movie Soorarai Pottru took home five awards at the 68th National Film Awards: Best Feature Film, Best Actor for Suriya, Best Actress for Aparna Balamurali, Best Music Direction (Score) for G V Prakash Kumar, and Best Original Screenplay for Sudha Kongara, who also directed the movie. Ajay Devgn, who won the honours for Tanhaji, also shared the Best Actor award with Suriya. In 2022, Asha Parekh received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
