National Film Award for Best Animated Film

This article is about former award for feature-length animated films. For the award for non-feature films, see National Film Award for Best Animation Film.

The National Film Award for Best Animated Film was 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 was one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with a Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal). At the 70th National Film Awards, the category was discontinued and combined with Best Special Effects. The new award is named as National Film Award for Best Film in AVGC ( Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming & Comic) with two categories, one for the producer and director, and the other one for visual effects supervisor.^[1]

National Film Award for Best Animated Film
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)	Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) ₹1,00,000
First award	2006
Final award	2016
Most recent winner	Mahayoddha Rama
Highlights
Total awarded	5
First winner	Kittu

The award was instituted in 2006, at 54th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (3 awards), Tamil and Telugu (1 each).

The award includes a cash prize of ₹1,00,000.

Winners

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s), director(s) and animator(s)
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Animator(s)	Refs.
2006 (54th)	Kittu	Telugu	Bhargava Kodavanti	B. Sathya	–	[2]
2007 (55th)	Inimey Nangathan	Tamil	S. Sridevi	S. Venky Baboo	Mayabimbham Media P Ltd	[3]
2008 (56th)	Roadside Romeo	Hindi	Aditya Chopra	Jugal Hansraj	Tata Elxsi/VCL	[4]
2009 (57th)	No Award					[5]
2010 (58th)	No Award					[6]
2011 (59th)	No Award					[7]
2012 (60th)	Delhi Safari	Hindi	• Anupama Patil  • Kishor Patil	Nikhil Advani	Rafique Shaikh	[8]
2013 (61st)	No Award					[9]
2014 (62nd)	No Award					[10]
2015 (63rd)	No Award					[11]
2016 (64th)	Mahayoddha Rama	Hindi	Contiloe Pictures Pvt. Ltd.	Rohit Vaid	Deepak S.V	[12]