National Film Award for Best Production Design

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

National Film Award for Best Production Design
National award for contributions to Indian Cinema
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly called	National Film Award for Best Art Direction (1979–2010)
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹2,00,000
First award	1979
Final award	2023
Most recent winner	Mohandas, 2018
Highlights
Total awarded	45
First winner	Jayoo Patwardhan

The award was instituted in 1979, at the 27th National Film Awards as National Film Award for Best Art Direction, and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (18 awards), Tamil (6 awards), Malayalam (6 awards), Bengali (4 awards), Kannada, Urdu, English, Marathi (two each), Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Konkani (one Each).

The award renamed as "National Film Award for Best Production Design" from the 57th National Film Awards in 2011.^[1][2]

Multiple winners

• 4 Wins: Nitin Chandrakant Desai, Samir Chanda & Sabu Cyril
• 3 Wins: Nitish Roy & P. Krishnamoorthy
• 2 Wins: Jayoo Patwardhan, Thota Tharani & Indranil Ghosh

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(s)	Film(s)	Language(s)	Refs.
1979 (27th)	Jayoo Patwardhan	22 June 1897	Marathi	[3]
1980 (28th)	Meera Lakhia	Bhavni Bhavai	Gujarati	[4]
1981 (29th)	Manzur	Umrao Jaan	Urdu	[5]
1982 (30th)	Nitish Roy	Kharij	Bengali	[6]
1983 (31st)	Nitish Roy	Mandi	Hindi	[7]
1984 (32nd)	Nachiket Patwardhan	Utsav	Hindi	[8]
	Jayoo Patwardhan
1985 (33rd)	Sham Bhutker	Rao Saheb	Hindi	[9]
1986 (34th)	P. Krishnamoorthy	Madhvacharya	Kannada	[10]
1987 (35th)	Thota Tharani	Nayakan	Tamil	[11]
1988 (36th)	T. Vaikundam	Daasi	Telugu	[12]
1989 (37th)	P. Krishnamoorthy	Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha	Malayalam	[13]
1990 (38th)	Nitish Roy	Lekin...	Hindi	[14]
1991 (39th)	Samir Chanda	Rukmavati Ki Haveli	Hindi	[15]
1992 (40th)	Samir Chanda	Rudaali	Hindi	[16]
1993 (41st)	Suresh Sawant	Muhafiz	• Hindi  • Urdu	[17]
1994 (42nd)	Sabu Cyril	Thenmavin Kombath	Malayalam	[18]
1995 (43rd)	Sabu Cyril	Kalapani	Malayalam	[19]
1996 (44th)	Thota Tharani	Indian	Tamil	[20]
1997 (45th)	Ramesh Desai	Thaayi Saheba	Kannada	[21]
1998 (46th)	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar	English	[22]
1999 (47th)	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam	Hindi	[23]
2000 (48th)	P. Krishnamoorthy	Bharati	Tamil	[24]
2001 (49th)	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	Lagaan	Hindi	[25]
2002 (50th)	Nitin Chandrakant Desai	Devdas	Hindi	[26]
2003 (51st)	Indranil Ghosh	Chokher Bali	Bengali	[27]
	Sharmishta Roy	Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities	Hindi
2004 (52nd)	Samir Chanda	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero	• English  • Hindi	[28]
2005 (53rd)	C. B. More	Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story	Hindi	[29]
2006 (54th)	Rashid Rangrez	Waris Shah: Ishq Daa Waaris	Punjabi	[30]
2007 (55th)	Sabu Cyril	Om Shanti Om	Hindi	[31]
2008 (56th)	Gautam Sen	Firaaq	Hindi	[1]
2009 (57th)	Samir Chanda	Delhi-6	Hindi	[2]
2010 (58th)	Sabu Cyril	Enthiran	Tamil	[32]
2011 (59th)	Indranil Ghosh	Noukadubi	Bengali	[33]
2012 (60th)	Boontawee 'Thor' Taweepasas	Vishwaroopam	Tamil	[34]
	Lalgudi N. Ilayaraja
2013 (61st)	Ashim Ahluwalia	Miss Lovely	Hindi	[35]
	Tabasheer Zutshi
	Parichit Paralkar
2014 (62nd)	Aparna Raina	Nachom-ia Kumpasar	Konkani	[36]
2015 (63rd)	Shriram Iyengar	Bajirao Mastani	Hindi	[37]
	Saloni Dhatrak
	Sujeet Sawant
2016 (64th)	Subrata Chakraborthy	24	Tamil	[38]
	Shreyas Khedekar
	Amit Ray
2017 (65th)	Santhosh Raman	Take Off	Malayalam
2018 (66th)	Vinesh Banglan	Kammara Sambhavam	Malayalam	[39]
2019 (67th)	Nilesh Wagh	Anandi Gopal	Marathi	[40]
	Sunil Nigwekar
2020 (68th)	Anees Nadodi	Kappela	Malayalam	[41]
2021 (69th)	Dmitri Malich-Konkov	Sardar Udham	Hindi	[42]
	Mansi Dhruv Mehta
2022 (70th)	Ananda Addhya	Aparajito	Bengali	[43]
2023 (71st)	Mohandas	2018	Malayalam	[44]