National Film Award for Best Children's Film

The National Film Award for Best Children's Film 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 Golden Lotus (Swarna Kamal).

National Film Award for Best Children's Film
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly called	Prime Minister's Gold Medal for the Best Children's Film
Reward(s)	Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) ₹3,00,000
First award	1954
Final award	2022
Most recent winner	Naal 2
Highlights
Total awarded	59
First winner	Khela Ghar

The award was instituted in 1954, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for children's films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (28 Awards), Bengali and Kannada (7 Awards), Malayalam (6 each), English (5 Awards), Marathi (4 Awards), Tamil, Telugu, Odia and Assamese (1 each).

Winners

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

Awards legends
*	Swarna Kamal (Gold Medal) for the Best Children's Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Children's Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Children's Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Best Children's Film
*	Indicates a joint award for that year

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s)
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Refs.
1953 (1st)	Khela Ghar	Bengali	Aurora Films	–	[1]
1954 (2nd)	No Award				[2]
1955 (3rd)	No Award				[3]
1956 (4th)	Jaldeep	Bengali	Children's Film Society	Kidar Sharma	[4]
1957 (5th)	Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke	Hindi	AVM Productions	P. L. Santoshi	[5]
	Janmatithi	Bengali	R. B. Films	Dilip Mukherjee
1958 (6th)	Virsa and the Magic Doll	English	Little Cinema Pvt Ltd.	Santi P. Chowdhury	[6]
1959 (7th)	Banyan Deer	English	Films Division	• Ahmed Lateef  • Shanti Verma  • G. G. Saraiya	[7]
1960 (8th)	Phool Aur Kaliyan	Hindi	Rajkamal Kalamandir	Ram Gabale	[8]
	Idd Mubarak	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
	Delhi Ki Kahani	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Rajendra Kumar
1961 (9th)	Hattogol Vijay	Hindi	Hari S. Dasgupta Productions	• Buju Das Gupta  • Raghunath Goswami	[9]
	Savitri	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Phani Majumdar
	Nanhe Munne Sitare	Hindi	Ajay Kumar Chakravarty	Ajay Kumar Chakravarty
1962 (10th)	Raju Aur Gangaram	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Ezra Mir	[10]
1963 (11th)	Panch Puthliyan	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Amit Bose	[11]
1964 (12th)
1965 (13th)	The Adventure of A Sugar Doll	English	Children's Film Society	Kantilal Rathod	[12]
	As You Like It	English	Children's Film Society	S. Shankar
1966 (14th)
1967 (15th)	No Award				[13]
1968 (16th)	Heerer Prajapati	Bengali	Children's Film Society	Shanti P. Chowdhury	[14]
1969 (17th)	No Award				[15]
1970 (18th)	No Award				[16]
1971 (19th)	Wings of Fire	English	–	–
1972 (20th)	No Award				[17]
1973 (21st)	No Award				[18]
1974 (22nd)	No Award				[19]
1975 (23rd)	No Award				[20]
1976 (24th)
1977 (25th)	Safed Haathi	Hindi	• R. A. Jalan  • Pratap Agarwal	Tapan Sinha	[21]
1978 (26th)	Joi Baba Felunath	Bengali	R. D. Bansal	Satyajit Ray	[22]
1979 (27th)	Dangeyedda Makkalu	Kannada	• T. N. Narasimhan  • B. S. Somasundar	U. S. Vadiraj
1980 (28th)	No Award				[23]
1981 (29th)	No Award				[24]
1982 (30th)	No Award				[25]
1983 (31st)	Bhombal Sardar	Bengali	Government of West Bengal	Nripen Ganguly	[26]
1984 (32nd)	My Dear Kuttichathan	Malayalam	M. C. Punnoose	Jijo Punnoose	[27]
1985 (33rd)	Aazadi Ki Ore	Hindi	Sangeethalaya	P. S. Prakash	[28]
1986 (34th)	No Award				[29]
1987 (35th)	Swamy	Hindi	T. S. Narasimhan	Shankar Nag	[30]
1988 (36th)	Manu Uncle	Malayalam	Joy Thomas	Dennis Joseph	[31]
1989 (37th)	Ankur Maina Aur Kabootar	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Madan Bawaria	[32]
	Jamboo Savari	Kannada	K. S. L. Swame (Lalitha Ravee)	K. S. L. Swame (Lalitha Ravee)
1990 (38th)	No Award				[33]
1991 (39th)	Abhayam	Malayalam	Children's Film Society	Sivan	[34]
1992 (40th)	Mujhse Dosti Karoge	Hindi	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Gopi Desai	[35]
1993 (41st)	Lavanya Preeti	Oriya	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Apurba Kishore Bir	[36]
1994 (42nd)	Kochaniyan	Malayalam	Bushura Shahudeen	Satheesh Vengannoor	[37]
	Abhay	Hindi	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Annu Kapoor
1995 (43rd)	Halo	Hindi	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Santosh Sivan	[38]
1996 (44th)	Damu	Bengali	Art Films	Raja Sen	[39]
1997 (45th)	Ramayanam	Telugu	M. S. Reddy	Gunasekhar	[40]
1998 (46th)	Kabhi Pass Kabhi Fail	Hindi	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Virendra Saini	[41]
1999 (47th)	Goal	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Gul Bahar Singh	[42]
2000 (48th)	Gharaksharangal	Malayalam	Salim Padiyath	Salim Padiyath	[43]
2001 (49th)	No Award				[44]
2002 (50th)	Baaja	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Apurba Kishore Bir	[45]
2003 (51st)	Tora	Assamese	Children's Film Society	Jahnu Barua	[46]
2004 (52nd)	Chutkan Ki Mahabharat	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Sankalp Meshram	[47]
2005 (53rd)	The Blue Umbrella	Hindi	UTV Motion Pictures	Vishal Bhardwaj	[48]
2006 (54th)	Care of Footpath	Kannada	Shylaja Shrikanth	Kishan Shrikanth	[49]
2007 (55th)	Photo	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Virendra Saini	[50]
2008 (56th)	Gubbachigalu	Kannada	Media House Studio	Abhaya Simha	[51]
2009 (57th)	Putaani Party	Kannada	Children's Film Society	Ramchandra P. N.	[52]
	Keshu	Malayalam	Children's Film Society	Sivan
2010 (58th)	Hejjegalu	Kannada	Basanta Kumar Patil	P. R. Ramadas Naidu	[53]
2011 (59th)	Chillar Party	Hindi	• UTV Software Communications  • Salman Khan	• Vikas Bahl  • Nitesh Tiwari	[54]
2012 (60th)	Dekh Indian Circus	Hindi	Mahaveer Jain	Mangesh Hadawale	[55]
2013 (61st)	Kaphal	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Batul Mukhtiar	[56]
2014 (62nd)	Kaaka Muttai	Tamil	Grass Root Film Company	M. Manikandan	[57]
	Elizabeth Ekadashi	Marathi	Essel Vision Productions Ltd.	Paresh Mokashi
2015 (63rd)	Budhia Singh – Born to Run	Hindi	Code Red Films	Soumendra Padhi	[58]
2016 (64th)	Dhanak	Hindi	Drishyam Films	Nagesh Kukunoor	[59]
2017 (65th)	Mhorkya	Marathi	Kalyan Rajmogli Padal	Amar Bharat Deokar
2018 (66th)	Sarkari Hi. Pra. Shaale, Kasaragodu, Koduge: Ramanna Rai	Kannada	Rishab Shetty Films	Rishab Shetty	[60]
2019 (67th)	Kastoori	Hindi	Insight Films	Vinod Uttreshwar Kamble	[61]
2020 (68th)	Sumi	Marathi	Harshall Kamat Entertainment & Golden Mouse Productions	Amol Vasant Gole	[62]
2021 (69th)	Gandhi & Co.	Gujarati		Manish Saini	[63]
2022 (70th)	No Award				[64]
2023 (71st)	Naal 2	Marathi	Nagraj Manjule Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti	Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti	[65]