National Film Award for Best Child Artist

The National Film Award for Best Child Artist is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal).

National Film Award for Best Child Artist
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema Instituted in 1968
Awarded for	Best performance by a child artist in a year
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹2,00,000
First award	1968
Final award	2023
Highlights
Most wins	Mysore Seshaiah Suresh Babu Naidu
Total awarded	80
First winner	Baby Rani
Website	dff.gov.in/Archive.aspx?ID=6

The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the Best Child Artist Award for the year 2005 to Master Sai Kumar for his role in Telugu film “Bommalata – A Bellyful Of Dreams”, at the 53rd National Film Awards function, in New Delhi on September 14, 2007.

The award was instituted in 1968, at 16th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. The actors whose performances have won awards have worked in eleven major languages. Hindi (24 awards), Marathi (16 awards), Tamil (14 awards), Malayalam (14 awards), Kannada (7 awards), Bengali (6 awards), Telugu (4 awards), Meitei (1 award), Konkani (1 award), Assamese (1 award), Odia (1 award).

Winners

Indicates a joint award for that year

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

List of award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s) and language(s)
Year	Recipient(s)	Role(s)	Film(s)	Language	Refs.
1968 (16th)	Baby Rani	Geetha	Kuzhanthaikkaga	Tamil	[1]
1969 (17th)	No Award				[2]
1970 (18th)	Rishi Kapoor	Young Raju	Mera Naam Joker	Hindi	[3]
1971 (19th)	Sachin Pilgaonkar		Ajab Tujhe Sarkar	Marathi	[4]
1972 (20th)	Neera Malia		Ranur Pratham Bhag	Bengali	[5]
1973 (21st)	G. S. Nataraj	Kitty	Kaadu	Kannada	[6]
1974 (22nd)	Kushal Chakraborty	Mukul Dhar	Sonar Kella	Bengali	[7]
1975 (23rd)	No Award				[8]
1976 (24th)	Raju Shrestha	Deepak Kumar Agnihotri (Deepu)	Chitchor	Hindi	[4]
1977 (25th)	Ajith Kumar	Naani	Ghatashraddha	Kannada	[9]
1978 (26th)	Kanchan De Biswas		Ganadevata	Bengali	[10]
1979 (27th)	Geeta Khanna	Bhavana	Aangan Ki Kali	Hindi
1980 (28th)	Aravind	Appu	Oppol	Malayalam	[11]
1981 (29th)	Leikhendra Singh	Thoithoi	Imagi Ningthem	Meitei	[12]
1982 (30th)	Vimal	Rajesh (Unni)	Aaroodam	Malayalam	[13]
1983 (31st)	Suresh	Kayama (Younger Ramachandran)	Malamukalile Daivam	Malayalam	[14]
1984 (32nd)	Aravind	Vinod	My Dear Kuttichathan	Malayalam	[15]
	Suresh	Vijay
	Mukesh
	Sonia	Lakshmi
1985 (33rd)	Puneeth Rajkumar	Ramu	Bettada Hoovu	Kannada	[16]
1986 (34th)	Aniket Sengupta	Kanu	Phera	Bengali	[17]
1987 (35th)	Manjunath	Swamy	Swamy	Hindi	[18]
1988 (36th)	Shafiq Syed	Krishna (Chipau)	Salaam Bombay!	Hindi	[19]
1989 (37th)	Mrinmayee Chandorkar	Chhakuli	Kalat Nakalat	Marathi	[20]
1990 (38th)	Shamili	Anjali	Anjali	Tamil	[21]
	Tarun	Arjun
	Shruthi	Anu
1991 (39th)	Santhosh Reddy		Bhadram Koduko	Telugu	[22]
1992 (40th)	Amit Phalke		Mujhse Dosti Karoge	Hindi	[23]
1993 (41st)	Tarasankar Misra		Lavanya Preethi	Oriya	[24]
1994 (42nd)	Vijay Raghavendra	Kotresha	Kotreshi Kanasu	Kannada	[25]
1995 (43rd)	Vishwas	Murthy	Kraurya	Kannada	[26]
1996 (44th)	Annapareddy Kavya	Bunny	Little Soldiers	Telugu	[27]
	Kumar	Parameswaran (Pachu)	Desadanam	Malayalam
1997 (45th)	Dhanraj		Dhanna	Hindi	[28]
1998 (46th)	P. Shwetha	Malli	Malli	Tamil	[29]
1999 (47th)	Aswin Thampy		Jalamarmaram	Malayalam	[30]
2000 (48th)	Udayaraj	Balasubramaniam (Pulli)	Nila Kaalam	Tamil	[31]
2001 (49th)	P. Shwetha	Kannamma (Kutty)	Kutty	Tamil	[32]
2002 (50th)	Shweta Prasad	• Chunni  • Munni	Makdee	Hindi	[33]
	P. S. Keerthana	Amudha	Kannathil Muthamittal	Tamil
2003 (51st)	Ashwin Chitale	Parashuram Vichare	Shwaas	Marathi	[34]
	Kalidas Jayaram	Vasudev	Ente Veedu Appoontem	Malayalam
2004 (52nd)	Om Bhutkar		Chhota Sipahi	Hindi	[35]
2005 (53rd)	Sai Kumar		Bommalata	Telugu	[36]
2006 (54th)	Divya Chaphadkar		Antarnad	Konkani	[37]
2007 (55th)	Sharad Goekar		Tingya	Marathi	[38]
2008 (56th)	Shams Patel	Municipality	Thanks Maa	Hindi	[39]
2009 (57th)	Kishore	Anbukkarasu	Pasanga	Tamil	[40]
	Sree Raam	Jeeva Nithyanandham
2010 (58th)	Harsh Mayar	Chotu (Kalam)	I Am Kalam	Hindi	[41]
	Shantanu Ranganekar		Champions	Marathi
	Machindra Gadkar
	Vivek Chabukswar		Baboo Band Baaja	Marathi
2011 (59th)	Partho Gupte	Stanley Fernandes	Stanley Ka Dabba	Hindi	[42]
	Irrfan Khan	Fatka	Chillar Party	Hindi
	Sanath Menon	Arjun / Encyclopedia
	Rohan Grover	Rishabh / Ronny / Ramashanker Iyer / Akram
	Naman Jain	Balwan / Jhangiya
	Aarav Khanna	Aflatoon
	Vishesh Tiwari	Lakshman / Second Hand
	Chinmai Chandranshuh	Lucky / Panauti
	Vedant Desai	Silencer
	Divij Handa	Shaolin
	Shriya Sharma	Toothpaste
2012 (60th)	Virendra Pratap	Ghumroo	Dekh Indian Circus	Hindi	[43]
	Minon	Anilkumar Bokaro	101 Chodyangal	Malayalam
2013 (61st)	Somnath Awghade	Jambuvant Kachru Mane (Jabya)	Fandry	Marathi	[44]
	Sadhana	Chellamma	Thanga Meenkal	Tamil
2014 (62nd)	J. Vignesh	Periya Kaaka Muttai	Kaaka Muttai	Tamil	[45]
	Ramesh	Chinna Kaaka Muttai
2015 (63rd)	Gourav Menon	Ben	Ben	Malayalam	[46]
2016 (64th)	Adish Praveen	Joseph / Ousepachan	Kunju Daivam	Malayalam	[47]
	Noor Islam	Chhotu	Sahaj Paather Gappo	Bengali
	Samiul Alam	Gopal
	Manohara K.	Jollu	Railway Children	Kannada
2017 (65th)	Bhanita Das	Dhunu	Village Rockstars	Assamese
2018 (66th)	P. V. Rohith	Sameera	Ondalla Eradalla	Kannada	[48]
	Sameep Singh	Young Harjeet Singh	Harjeeta	Punjabi
	Talha Ahmed Reshi	Hamid	Hamid	Urdu
	Shrinivas Pokale	Chaitanya Bhosale (Chaitya)	Naal	Marathi
2019 (67th)	Naga Vishal	Kutty	Karuppudurai	Tamil	[49]
2020 (68th)	Akanksha Pingle		Sumi	Marathi	[50]
	Divyesh Indulkar
	Anish Mangesh Gosavi		Tak-Tak
2021 (69th)	Bhavin Rabari	Samay	Last Film Show	Gujarati
2022 (70th)	Sreepath Yan	Piyush Unni	Malikappuram	Malayalam	[51]
2023 (71st)	Sukriti Veni Bandreddi	Gandhi	Gandhi Tatha Chettu	Telugu
	Kabir Khandare		Gypsy	Marathi
	Treesha Thosar	Chimi aka Revati	Naal 2	Marathi
	Shrinivas Pokale	Chaitanya "Chaitya" Bhosale
	Bhargav Jagtap	Mani