National Film Award for Best Editing (non-feature film)

The National Film Award for Best Editing 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 non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

National Film Award for Best Editing
National award for contributions to non-feature films
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹2,00,000
First award	1990
Final award	2023
Most recent winner	Niladri Roy
Highlights
Total awarded	31
First winner	Rajasekharan

The award was instituted in 1990 at the 38th National Film Awards and awarded annually for short 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 award recipients, showing the year (award ceremony), film(s) and language(s)
Year	Recipient(s)	Film(s)	Language(s)	Refs.
1990 (38th)	Rajasekharan	Mohiniyattam	English	[1]
1991 (39th)	Rajesh Parmar	Sanchari	English	[2]
1992 (40th)	K. R. Bose	Kalarippayat	English	[3]
1993 (41st)	Rajesh Parmar	Colors of Absence	English	[4]
1994 (42nd)	Paresh Kamdar	Rasayatra	• Hindi  • English	[5]
1995 (43rd)	B. Lenin	Kutravali	Tamil	[6]
	V. T. Vijayan	Oodaha
1996 (44th)	A. Sreekar Prasad	Nauka Charitramu	English	[7]
1997 (45th)	Ujjal Nandy	Jataner Jami	Bengali	[8]
1998 (46th)	Reena Mohan	In The Forest Hangs a Bridge	English	[9]
1999 (47th)	Ajit Kumar	Of Confucius, S-Spots and Toy guns	• English  • Hindi  • Marathi  • Tamil	[10]
2000 (48th)	Sankalp Meshram	Lokpriya	Hindi	[11]
2001 (49th)	Ajith	Athman	Universal	[12]
2002 (50th)	Prathapan P.	00:00	English	[13]
2003 (51st)	Beena Paul	Unni	Malayalam	[14]
2004 (52nd)	Prashant Naik	Harvest of Hunger	• English  • Oriya	[15]
2005 (53rd)	Vibuti Nathjha	Naina Jogin	• Hindi  • Maithili	[16]
2006 (54th)	Amitabh Chakraborty	Bishar Blues	Bengali	[17]
2006 (54th)	Amit Debnath
2007 (55th)	Saikat Ray	Hope Dies Last in War	• English  • Hindi	[18]
2008 (56th)	Manoj Kannoth	Stations	• Hindi  • Marathi  • English	[19]
2009 (57th)	Tarun Bhartiya	In Camera	English	[20]
2010 (58th)	Tinni Mitra	Germ	Hindi	[21]
2011 (59th)	Iram Ghufran	There is Something in the Air	• Hindi  • Urdu  • English	[22]
2012 (60th)	Irene Dhar Malik	Celluloid Man	• English  • Hindi  • Kannada  • Bengali	[23]
2013 (61st)	Arjun Gaurisaria	Gulabi Gang	• Hindi  • Bundelkhandi	[24]
2014 (62nd)	Andi Campbell Waite	Tigress Blood	English	[25]
2015 (63rd)	Parvin Angre	Breaking Free	English	[26]
2015 (63rd)	Sridhar Rangayan
2016 (64th)	Jishnu Sen	Gudh		[27]
2017 (65th)	Sanjiv Monga	Mrityubhoj: The Death Feast
2017 (65th)	Tenzin Kunchok
2018 (66th)	Hemanti Sarkar	Son Rise
2019 (67th)	Arjun Gourisaria	Shut Up Sona	• Hindi  • English	[28]
2020 (68th)	Anadi Athaley	Borderlands	• Bengali  • Nepali  • Manipuri  • Hindi  • Punjabi	[29]
2021 (69th)	Abhro Banerjee	If Memory Serves Me Right	English	[30]
2022 (70th)	Suresh Urs	Madhyantara	Kannada	[31]
2023 (71st)	Niladri Roy	Moving Focus	English	[32]