National Film Award for Best Make-up

The National Film Award for Best Make-up 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).

National Film Award for Best Make-up
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly called	National Film Award for Best Make-up Artist (2006–2021)
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹2,00,000
First award	2006
Final award	2023
Most recent winner	Shrikant Desai, Sam Bahadur
Highlights
Total awarded	18
First winner	Anil Motiram Palande

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. Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name was changed to "National Film Award for Best Make-up".^[1]

Multiple winners

• 3 wins : Vikram Gaikwad

Recipients

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	Film(s)	Language(s)	Refs.
2006 (54th)	Anil Motiram Palande	Traffic Signal	Hindi	[2]
2007 (55th)	Pattanam Rasheed	Paradesi	Malayalam	[3]
2008 (56th)	U. K. Sasi	Naan Kadavul	Tamil	[4]
2009 (57th)	Christien Tinsley	Paa	Hindi	[5]
	Dominie Till
2010 (58th)	Vikram Gaikwad	Moner Manush	Bengali	[6]
2011 (59th)	Vikram Gaikwad	• Balgandharva  • The Dirty Picture	• Marathi  • Hindi	[7]
2012 (60th)	Raja	Vazhakku Enn 18/9	Tamil	[8]
2013 (61st)	Vikram Gaikwad	Jaatishwar	Bengali	[9]
2014 (62nd)	Raju	Naanu Avanalla...Avalu	Kannada	[10]
	Nagaraj
2015 (63rd)	Preetisheel Singh	Nanak Shah Fakir	Punjabi	[11]
	Clover Wootton
2016 (64th)	N. K. Ramakrishna	Allama	Kannada	[12]
2017 (65th)	Ram Rajjak	Nagarkirtan	Bengali	[13]
2018 (66th)	Ranjith	Awe	Telugu	[14]
2019 (67th)	Ranjith Ambady	Helen	Malayalam	[15]
2020 (68th)	T. V. Ram Babu	Natyam	Telugu	[16]
2021 (69th)	Preetisheel Singh	Gangubai Kathiawadi	Hindi	[17][18]
2022 (70th)	Somnath Kundu	Aparajito	Bengali	[19]
2023 (71st)	Shrikant Desai	Sam Bahadur	Hindi	[20]