National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film

The National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature 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 Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name was changed to "Best Bengali Feature Film".^[1]

National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature Film
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Awarded for	Best Bengali Feature Film(s) of the year
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly called	President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film in Bengali (1954–1968) National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali (1969–2021)
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹2,00,000
First award	1954
Final award	2023
Most recent winner	Deep Fridge
Highlights
Total awarded	87
First winner	Chheley Kaar

The National Film Awards, established in 1954, are the most prominent film awards in India that merit the best of the Indian cinema. The ceremony also presents awards for films in various regional languages.

Awards for films in seven regional language (Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu) started from 2nd National Film Awards which were presented on 21 December 1955. Three awards of "President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film", "Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film" and "Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film" were instituted. The later two certificate awards were discontinued from 15th National Film Awards (1967).

Directed by Chitta Bose, the 1954 film Chheley Kaar was honoured with the first president's silver medal for Best Feature Film in Bengali. Certificate of Merit for Second and Third Best Feature Films in Bengali were received by Jadubhatta and Annapurnar Mandir respectively. Following is the list of Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal) recipient films produced in Bengali language.

Winners

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

Awards legends
*	President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Best Feature Film
*	Indicates a joint award for that year

List of award films, showing the year (award ceremony), producer(s) and director(s)
Year	Film(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Refs.
1954 (2nd)	Chheley Kaar	Charan Chitra	Chitta Bose	[2]
	Jadu Bhatta	Sunrise Film Distributors	Niren Lahiri
	Annapurnar Mandir	Chitra Mandir	Naresh Mitra
1955 (3rd)	Pather Panchali	Government of West Bengal	Satyajit Ray	[3]
	Rani Rashmoni	Chalachitra Pratishthan	Kali Prasad Ghosh
	Rai Kamal	Aurora Film Corporation	Subodh Mitra
1956 (4th)	Kabuliwala	Charuchitra	Tapan Sinha	[4]
	Mahakavi Girishchandra	Emkeji Productions	Madhu Bose
	Ek Din Ratre	R. K. Films	• Sombhu Mitra  • Amit Maitra
1957 (5th)	Andhare Alo	Sreemati Pictures	Haridas Bhattacharya	[5]
	Louha-Kapat	L. B. Films International	Tapan Sinha
	Harano Sur	Alochaya Productions	Ajoy Kar
1958 (6th)	Sagar Sangamey	De Luxe Film Distributors Ltd.	Debaki Bose	[6]
	Jalsaghar	Aurora Film Corporation	Satyajit Ray
	Daak Harkara	Agragami Productions	Agragami
1959 (7th)	Bicharak	Arundhati Mukherjee	Prabhat Mukherjee	[7]
1960 (8th)	Devi	Satyajit Ray	Satyajit Ray	[8]
	Ganga	Cine Art Production Pvt Ltd.	Rajen Tarafdar
1961 (9th)	Samapti	Satyajit Ray	Satyajit Ray	[9]
	Saptapadi	Uttam Kumar	Ajoy Kar
	Punascha	Mrinal Sen	Mrinal Sen
1962 (10th)	Kancher Swarga	Prokash Chandra Nan	Yatrik	[10]
	Nishithe	Agragami Productions	Agragami
1963 (11th)	Uttar Falguni	Uttam Kumar	Asit Sen	[11]
	Saat Paake Bandha	R. D. Bansal	Ajoy Kar
	Jatu Griha	Uttam Kumar	Tapan Sinha
1964 (12th)	Aarohi	Asim Pal	Tapan Sinha	[12]
	Anustup Chhanda	B. K. Productions	Pijush Bose
1965 (13th)	Akash Kusum	Ranjit Basu	Mrinal Sen	[13]
	Subarnarekha	Radheshyam	Ritwik Ghatak
	Raja Rammohun	Aurora Film Corporation	Bijoy Basu
1966 (14th)	Nayak	• R. D. Banshal  • Sharankumari Bansal	Satyajit Ray
1967 (15th)	Arogya Niketan	Aurora Film Corporation	Bijoy Bose	[14]
1968 (16th)	Apanjan	• R. N. Malhotra  • R. K. Kapur  • T. M. Shah	Tapan Sinha	[15]
1969 (17th)	Natun Pata	M/s Gora Pictures	Dinen Gupta	[16]
1970 (18th)	Malyadan	• Ajoy Kar  • Bimal Dey	Ajoy Kar	[17]
1971 (19th)	Nimantran		Tarun Majumdar
1972 (20th)	Strir Patra	Dhrupadi	Purnendu Patri	[18]
1973 (21st)	Ashani Sanket	Sarbeni Bhattacharya	Satyajit Ray	[19]
1974 (22nd)	Sonar Kella	Information and Public Relations Department, Government of West Bengal	Satyajit Ray	[20]
1975 (23rd)	Palanka	M/s. Filmarts, Calcutta	Rajen Tarafdar	[21]
1976 (24th)	Ek Je Chillo Desh	–	Tapan Sinha	[22][23]
1977 (25th)	No Award			[24]
1978 (26th)	Dooratwa	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	[25]
1979 (27th)	Ek Din Pratidin	Amalendu Chakraborty	Mrinal Sen	[26][27]
1980 (28th)	Hirak Rajar Deshe	• Information & Cultural Affairs Department  • Government of West Bengal	Satyajit Ray	[28]
1981 (29th)	Adalat o Ekti Meye	Dhiresh Kumar Chakraborty	Tapan Sinha	[29]
1982 (30th)	Nagmoti	Sibaprasad Sen	Gautam Chattopadhyay	[30]
1983 (31st)	Vasundhra	Sanjukta Films	Sekhar Chatterjee	[31]
1984 (32nd)	Ghare Baire	NFDC	Satyajit Ray	[32]
1985 (33rd)	Paroma	• Nirmal Kumar Guha  • Niharendu Guha  • Sukhendu Guha  • Sarojendu Guha	Aparna Sen	[33]
1986 (34th)	Phera	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	[34]
1987 (35th)	Antarjali Jatra	NFDC	Gautam Ghose	[35]
1988 (36th)	No Award			[36]
1989 (37th)	Ganashatru	NFDC	Satyajit Ray	[37]
1990 (38th)	Atmaja	Raj Kumar Jain	Nabyendu Chatterjee	[38]
1991 (39th)	Antardhan	• Nabakumar Chandra  • Swapan Kumar Mitra  • Sucheta Mitra	Tapan Sinha	[39]
1992 (40th)	Tahader Katha	NFDC	Buddhadeb Dasgupta	[40]
1993 (41st)	Antareen	• NFDC  • Doordarshan	Mrinal Sen	[41]
1994 (42nd)	Amodini	• NFDC  • Doordarshan	Chidananda Dasgupta	[42]
1995 (43rd)	Yugant	NFDC	Aparna Sen	[43]
1996 (44th)	Sanghat	Pinaki Chaudhuri	Pinaki Chaudhuri	[44]
1997 (45th)	Dahan	• Bijay Agarwal  • Kalpana Agarwal	Rituparno Ghosh	[45]
1998 (46th)	Asukh	D. Ramanaidu	Rituparno Ghosh	[46]
1999 (47th)	Paromitar Ek Din	Rajesh Agarwal	Aparna Sen	[47]
2000 (48th)	Dekha	Ramesh Gandhi	Gautam Ghose	[48]
2001 (49th)	Hemanter Pakhi	NFDC	Urmi Chakraborty	[49]
2002 (50th)	Shubho Mahurat	Jagannath Productions	Rituparno Ghosh	[50]
2003 (51st)	Chokher Bali	• Shrikant Mohta  • Mahendra Soni	Rituparno Ghosh	[51]
2004 (52nd)	Krantikaal	Shampa Bhattacharjee	Shekhar Das	[52]
2005 (53rd)	Herbert	• Kajal Bhattacharjee  • Abanti Chakraborty	Suman Mukhopadhyay	[53]
2006 (54th)	Anuranan	• Jeet Banerjee  • Indrani Mukerjee  • Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury	Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury	[54]
	Podokkhep	Nitesh Sharma	Suman Ghosh
2007 (55th)	Ballygunge Court	Ganesh Kumar Bagaria	Pinaki Chaudhuri	[55]
2008 (56th)	Shob Charitro Kalponik	Reliance Entertainment	Rituparno Ghosh	[56]
2009 (57th)	Abohomaan	Reliance Entertainment	Rituparno Ghosh	[57]
2010 (58th)	Ami Aadu	New Theatres Pvt. Ltd	Somnath Gupta	[58]
2011 (59th)	Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona	Rana Sarkar	Anjan Dutt	[59]
2012 (60th)	Shabdo	Brand Value Communications Ltd.	Kaushik Ganguly	[60]
2013 (61st)	Bakita Byaktigato	Tripod Entertainment Pvt Ltd.	Pradipta Bhattacharyya	[61]
2014 (62nd)	Nirbashito	Kaushik Ganguly Productions	Churni Ganguly	[62]
2015 (63rd)	Shankhachil	Nideas Creations & Productions	Goutam Ghose	[63]
2016 (64th)	Bishorjan	M/s Opera	Kaushik Ganguly	[64]
2017 (65th)	Mayurakshi	• Firdausul Hasan  • Prabal Halder	Atanu Ghosh
2018 (66th)	Ek Je Chhilo Raja	Shree Venkatesh Films	Srijit Mukherji	[65][66]
2019 (67th)	Gumnaami	Shree Venkatesh Films	Srijit Mukherji	[67]
2020 (68th)	Avijatrik	GMB Films Pvt.Ltd	Subhrajit Mitra	[68]
2021 (69th)	Kalkokkho	Aurora Film Corporation	• Sarmistha Maiti  • Rajdeep Paul	[69]
2022 (70th)	Kaberi Antardhan	Surinder Films	Kaushik Ganguly	[70]
2023 (71st)	Deep Fridge	Colors of Dream Entertainment	Arjunn Dutta	[71]