National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation

National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Type	National
Category	Indian Cinema
Description
Description	The best feature film focusing environmental concerns
Medal	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
Statistics
Instituted	1989
First awarded	1989
Last awarded	2015
Total awarded	18
Cash award	₹50,000 (US$740)
First awardee(s)	Bonani
Last awardee(s)	Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal

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	Refs.
1989 (37th)	Bonani	Assamese	Purbanchal Film	Jahnu Barua	For its delicate and nuanced description of a forest official's struggle against mercenary and bureaucratic despoilation of forests.	[1]
1990 (38th)	No Award					[2]
1991 (39th)	No Award					[3]
1992 (40th)	Cheluvi	Kannada	Sadir Media	Girish Karnad	For its direct and effective communication of a threatening problem – deforestation.	[4]
1993 (41st)	Devara Kadu	Kannada	Pattabhirami Reddy Productions	Pattabhirami Reddy Tikkavarapu	For presenting the two themes of "Back to Village" and "Preservation of Nature" by an imaginative use of myths and legends.	[5]
1994 (42nd)	Nirbachana	Oriya	• NFDC  • Doordarshan	Biplab Ray Chowdhury	For a stunningly controlled and uniquely cinematic metaphor of rural India and impending environment catastrophe shown with compassion and satire.	[6]
1995 (43rd)	Rape in the Virgin Forest	Bodo	Jwngdao Bodosa	Jwngdao Bodosa	For effectively handling the problem of deforestation, through the life and struggle of a tribal community and exposing the real culprits behind this crime.	[7]
1996 (44th)	No Award					[8]
1997 (45th)	Bhoomi Geetha	Kannada	R. Mahadev Gowda	Kesari Harvoo	For its sincere statement the need for a balanced approach towards environment and tribal cultures that get displaced in the course of development.	[9]
1998 (46th)	Malli	Tamil	N'CYP	Santosh Sivan	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.	[10]
1999 (47th)	Jalamarmaram	Malayalam	• Latha Kurien Rajeev  • Radhika Suresh Gopi	T. K. Rajeev Kumar	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.	[11]
2000 (48th)	Oru Cheru Punchiri	Malayalam	Jisha John	M. T. Vasudevan Nair	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.	[12]
2001 (49th)	No Award					[13]
2002 (50th)	No Award					[14]
2003 (51st)	Juye Poora Xoon	Assamese	Sanjib Sabhapandit	Sanjib Sabhapandit	For its representation of large-scale migration and the erosion of a way of life by floods and industrialisation.	[15]
2004 (52nd)	Devrai	Marathi	Y. N. Oak	• Sumitra Bhave  • Sunil Sukthankar	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.	[16]
2005 (53rd)	Thutturi	Kannada	Jaimala Ramchandra	P. Sheshadri	For its imaginative portrayal of a group of young children who fight to preserve a healthy urban environment.	[17]
2006 (54th)	No Award					[18]
2007 (55th)	No Award					[19]
2008 (56th)	Jianta Bhoota	Odia	Akshay Kumar Parija	Prashanta Nanda	For sensitive portrayal of exploitation of innocence in the name of development.	[20]
2009 (57th)	No Award					[21]
2010 (58th)	Bettada Jeeva	Kannada	Basanta Kumar Patil	P. Sheshadri	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.	[22]
2011 (59th)	No Award					[23]
2012 (60th)	Black Forest	Malayalam	Joshy Mathew	Baby Mathew Somatheeram	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!	[24]
2013 (61st)	Perariyathavar	Malayalam	Ambalakkara Global Films	Dr Biju	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.	[25]
2014 (62nd)	Ottaal	Malayalam	Director Cutz Film Company	Jayaraj	Ottal, a visual poem, expresses the beauty and serenity of the protagonist’s rural environment and a way of life whose value is measured by the poignancy of its loss.	[26]
2015 (63rd)	Valiya Chirakulla Pakshikal	Malayalam	A. K. Pillai	Dr. Biju	For a dramatically disturbing exposition of the ill effects of pesticides in North Kerala.	[27]

References

1. "37th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
2. "38th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
3. "39th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
4. "40th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
5. "41st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
6. "42nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
7. "43rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
8. "44th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
9. "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
10. "46th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
11. "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
12. "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
13. "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
14. "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
15. "51st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
16. "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
17. "53rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
18. "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 24 March 2012.
19. "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
20. "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
21. "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
22. "58th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
23. "59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced". Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
24. "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
25. "61st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
26. "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
27. "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.

External links

• Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
• National Film Awards Archives
• National Film Awards at IMDB